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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 15, 15 April 1867, Page 87

Fruit. —A choice lot of apples and quinces, we observe, are for sale on board the cutter * Agnes/ at the wharf. ’ The Atlantic ; Telegraph. —The Atlantic telegraph was silent from Monday, the 21st, till Saturday, the 28th January. The Spectator, in noticing the matter, says:—“The Atlantic Telegraph has been silent since Monday in consequence of a great snow-storm which broke a land cable on the. American side, but the Atlantic Cable' itself is uninjured. We wish that its silence were less unimportant. People who thirst to know the last price of gold and Five-Twenties are in suspense; but as regards political news or what stands for it, the silence has been a change for the better A see-saw of baseless rumors about the progress of the inquiry into the reasons for impeachment is the less objectionable the longer it is detained in New York.”

Tattranga.—Another Fight at EotoETTA. —The correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, under.date March 30, writes as follows:—News arrived lust evening that our forces'under Major M‘Douncli had, on Thursday, attacked a strong pa nearilotorua camp,.and bad taken it—the Hau-hau» being beaten out of it with great loss. Many were killed and more wounded; nine bodies were picked'up and interred; they were recognised as being from the Waikato. Oar people fame out of the affair scatheless Those inside the pa, on its being approached by the Arawas and Volunteers, and challenged,' said they were friends, and had come from Waikato.to assist against.tiie Hau-haus. On this the Europeans rushed in witk the result above stated-