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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1631, 24 November 1874, Page 439

2,300 ouDces of gold were taken from Hokitika to Melbourne by the Omeo on her last trip. It is reported that all the immigrants recently arrived at Hokitika, have found remunerative employment. The Minister for Immigration and the Minister for Public Works have called upon the Superintendent of Wellington and urged that it was unwise to sell the Thorndon foreshore. Mr Fitzherbert said the land was the property of the Provincial Government, and declined to postpone the sale. A meeting of the unemployed was called for in Cathedral-square, Christchurch, on Thursday afternoon; only about forty laboring men attended, and nothing at all was done. The meeting originated from the City Council having recently discharged a large gang of men employed on Btreet improvements subsidized by the Provincial Government. Plenty of work is said to be up the country. A man has been found drowned at St. George's Bay, Auckland, on the beach. The body has been identified as that of Charles Prior, an Indian Officer during the mutiny, and a Bon of General Prior. He was of intemperate habits. At the time of his death he was proceeding to take charge of a country store, so as to get beyond the temptation to drink offered in town, and it is supposed that he fell overboard accidentally from the cutter Diamond.