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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1508, 14 December 1872, Page 2

An agency in connection with the Bank of New Zealand, and also of the Trust and Mercantile Agency Company, is about to be established in Grey town. Reports from South Australia speak promisingly of the crops, and there will still be a heavy yield even if the locusts eat two bushels an acre. Another attempt to induce the Government to remit the remainder of the term of imprisonment dealt out to Francis Innes, the defaulting commissariat officer in Auckland, has failed, a number of memorialists in Wanganui having, a few days ago, been informed that Ministers see no reason for recommending his Excellency the Governor so to exercise his prerogative. The proposal to give the Mayor of Christchurch a honorarium of £3OO per annum, was negatived a few evenings ago by his own casting vote. It is mentioned by a contemporary that at the annual exhibition of the Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association lately held at Timaru, the exhibits of draught horses could scarcely be surpassed, in the colony. The total number of men who rushed the Charters Towers is said to have been 2000, while the auriferous patches were not sufficiently large to allow of more than one-fifth of that number working. Among colonial industries in Victoria hat manufactories take a prominent position. Jt is stated that more than 40,000 hats are annually manufactured in Melbourne,