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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 32, 5 August 1867, Page 193

. The Blight B ted. —Asno little interest, is taken in this bird, as indeed it well may be, we presume that the following particu*lars. respect it and ’ which are. authentic, will be acceptable to many; It is called by-Latham the ‘ zoster ops lateralis, but by" Grould; in his 'birds of Australia, is styled the zoslerops dorsalis. It arrived from Tasmania in the Middle Island about 12.years ago,- and’has ’gradually travelled North. '■ It < is in Tasmania, where it is called the “White Eye.”— New Zealand. Herald. A new seam of coal has been discovered, at Walsend,’New.South Wales, at a depth of 270 feet. The coal raised from the new pit is a splendid sample, and it is believed, that it will turn out to be the best seam in the district.

We . learn that no further intelligence had been received at Auckland up to thetime of the Star of the South leaving— Thursday last respecting the reported murder of four Europeans ’and four Maoris between Napier and Taupo. Corokandel Goi/D; —The Daily Southern Cross, 29th July, says: —The cutter Wanderer .brought-up from "Coromandel yesterday 200 ounces of gold, the result of one month’s crushing of thß Kapanga Company. It seems astonishing' that although thei’e is an open and available goldfield on the Coromandel flat, the diggers who - are making an outcry about the Thames, which is closed by the natives, nave never yet tested it. If the men who attended the meeting on-Saturday really mean business, let them-go 'and test the Kapanga flats. The large body of diggers vvbo were there some years ago did nothing to test the ground.