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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1492, 28 November 1872, Page 3

Large shark* have recently been seen near the walei men's steps in Auckland harbor. The Grey River Aigns says: —The inroad of the Hood and tide necessitated the pulling down of Dr Bruen's tenement in Kennedy-street, among others; and the removal of the roof led to tho discovery by the carpenters, of a roll of notes, in value £3l, which for a long time past bad escaped the doctor's closest search." The Lyttelton Times reports that 7 miles of the Malvern Hills railway are already completed. The United Oiago District, Ancient Order of Foresters, numbers 17 Courts, and about 800 members good on the books, being an increase of above 100 dining the year. The value of the Courts in. the district is about £3,700 and the District Funds about £1,176, making a total value of the United Otago District of £4,876. A notice appears in the Fiji Government Gazette, slating that any employee of the Government becoming in any way an interested party with the labor question, as a speculative business, shall be dismissed the service. We are assured in Paris that the Queen of England has forwarded the Order of the Bath io Mens. Thiers. The Empress of Germany has founded a seminary for the education of the orphan daughters of officers who fell in the Franco-Prussian war. The magnitude of the foreign trade of the United Kingdom may be gatheiedfrom the fact that the value of exports for the month of October last was £22,657,736. Jt is funny that men should back horses when they most want horses to come forward.

COAL! COAL! COAL! EESWriOtS IN PRICES OOK TONS COALS, Cash on delivery at 45s per ton, weight per Government weighbridge. J. H. VAUTIER. Port Ahuriri, Nov. 27, 1872. 439

THE PUKE BRED CLYDESDALE STALLION LITTLE JOHN "W TILL stand for the ensuing season W ai The Farm, Waipukurau. Terms, £4 4s each mare; Groom's fee, ss, payable on the Ist January next. Six* weeks'' grass free; after ward* a charge of 2s 6d per week. For convenience of parties about Meanee and surrounding country, Mares will be received at Mr Russell's Farm, Little Bush, from whence they will be forwarded free of expense, and again delivered after being minted. All care will be taken of mare*, but no responsibility incurred. Waipukurau, 7th August, 1872. PEDIGREE OF LITTLE JOHN. Dam—Nancy, by second prize horse at Baltersea, out of Becky, prize mare bred by Sir William Maxwell Stirling, of Kier, Perthshire; Sire—Cheviot, by Royal Conqueror, awarded first prize at Batlor*ea (and imported to New Zealand by the Hon. William Robinson of Cheviot Hills), ■ out of Betty, winner of many prizes; bred by Sir William Maxwell {Stirling, and imported by the Hon. W. Robinson. The whole family are pure Clydesdale and without a stain. 329 DVERTISEMENTS &c, for the - HAWKE'S BAY TIMES, are now received in Napier at the establishment of the Proprietor, two doors from the Union Bank, Hastingsstreet, where also copies of the paper may be obtained. GABRIEL'S celebrated DENTAL PREPARATIONS on Sale by T. B. HARDING, Hastings-street.