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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1351, 17 June 1872, Page 2

The Tauranga correspondent' of the New Zealand Herald telegraphs the following under date 11th hist. : —"A letter has been received here try mi the prospecting party near Mataora, five miles from Waihi, stating that they have found payable gold there —three grains to the dish." The Sydney Empire of the 6th inst., says ; —The condemned prisoners, George Robert Nichols and Alfred Lestt-r, have been made acquainted that the date of their execution is fixed for Tuesday, the 18th instant On reeeipt of die dreadful intelligence, both prisoneis were calm and composed, and Nichols his sense of the justice of the sentence. Lester con tinned in his nana! mood, penitent and resigned. We understand that both the condemned prisouers are attentive to Ihe earnest ministrations of the Rev. Canon Kich, v ho is assiduous in his endeavors to bring them to a proper state of mind in view of '..heir approach ing death. The Melbourne Argus of the Ist inst. understands that it is the intention of the Bank of New Zealand, shortly to open a branch in Melbourne for transaction of busine.-.s connected with New Zealand and for the sale and purchase of London exchange. We are informed that Mr T. M. Stewart, at present manager at the head office of the bank in Auckland, is to represent the institution in this city.

The following telegram from Alex

andra (Waikatoj, dated 11th June, appears in the New Zealand Herald : Mr M'Lean lias not met the King or Rewi. They wish him to go to the Kuiti, but he declines doing so. It is said that Te Kooii is still with the King paity.

A. heavy gale, veering from S.W. to W., prevailed hi Auckland and Thames on the 11 th and 12th inst M resulting, fortunately, in bat slight damage. The funeral ot the lute Bishop Viard took place at Wellington on the 9th inat. Nearly 2000 persons of all denominations took part in the procession. The Independent of the 10th instant states that no Protestant clergymen were present at the funeral. A copper lode, believed to be payable, has been discovered at Waikouaiti, Utago. The New Zealand Herald, Juno 12, pays ;._We hear of a slice of unwonted good fortune ha\ iug befallen an Auckland settler, such as doe> not often fall to the lot of colonists. Ibis lucky individual, who has been living at the Bay of Islands, has just received notice from England that he i* the possessor of £300,000. This, it seems, is the accumulation of a sum of money which fov a length of time has been locked up in the Court of Chancery, and which now, with the interest of years, in once more, [o see the ligkt of day,