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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 22, 17 June 1867, Page 142

Significant. —lt will be in the recollection of the public that some time ago—perhaps three - months back—a party of three men (old diggers, we believe,), left Napier in a northerly direction, with the idea of prospecting for gold. Since that time one of the trio has, on different occasions, visited Napier, and left again heavily laden with the good things of this life. That same person arrived in town, as near as we can remember, about a month ago ; and took up his abode in a respectable lodging-house in Shakespcare-road,—evi-dently bent on resting from Ins labours. Ou the Bth insb., however, after duly paying his score, he very quietly “sloped,” without informing any one, not even his landlady, as to where he was bound. The departure on Monday last of another party on a prospecting tour, also in a northerly direction, seems, however, iu a measure to account for what, under other circumstances, might be considered the mysterious disappearance of the “ old digger,” inasmuch as it is shrewdly suspected by some that, having heard another party was about to start out, he had gone to apprise his two mates of the fact. The impression generally in town is that the trio have been doing a good stroke of business, wherever they are.

' Revision CotjrT. —Wednesday, the lSfch inst., is the day fixed for the sitting of the Revision Court for the electoral district of Napier,—it being postponed from Wednesday last, sth inst., in consequence of the hooded state of the country.

Petty Larceny. —At the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Saturday a man named J oseph Brophoy was charged with stealing from his employer, William Campbell, a door lock, a Crimean shirt, a. hair brush, a comb, and a piece of soap. A search warrant having been obtained, the articles were found in prisoner’s possession. He was found guilty and sentenced to three months’ -mprisonment.

Supposed Case op Drowning. —A gentleman who arrived in town a day or two ago, has furnished us with the following : —On Saturday, June Bth, a young man □anted Arthur Lambert, employed on Mr J. N. Williams’s station at Koreru, had - to cross the Ngaruroro river on his way home, and that he was swept off his horse and carried away by the current. Every search had been made for the body, but without avail. The deceased was highly respected by all who knew him.