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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 32, 5 August 1867, Page 192

The strong W.N.W. wind was blowing all day yesterday, (Sunday) and continues at the time of our going to press. The weather is flue, , and the Spit, which wss lately flooded, is restored to something like its proper appearance. New J?4PEB ; —We have to acknowledge receipt of a new paper, Galled the “ Tauranga: Record and Bay of Plenty Examiner,” three copies of which have come to hand. A few extracts from it will be found in our present number.

Oveeland Mail ' to, Wrehn&ton.— We learn- thsfc-aT mail for. Wellington by the overland route, will close at the Chief Post Office at 5 p.m.‘this evening. Npaely Time.—We hear tli#t a, petition tQ. the General Government, praying for some alteration in the existing mail service, is now being handed round for signature. This is certainly q step in the right direction.

It is expected that Auckland will be the first place in New Zealand that the Duke pf Edinburgh will visit. The 1 vacancy ,in the House of Representative fipr the Pensioner Settlements, Auckland, caused by CoL De Ouincey’s resignation, will prpbably be filled by Mr filerr, there being ho opposition.

ChiEAp Meat.—We would drqw the attention of our readers to Messrs Baldwin and Riggins’, aud Parker and Hague’s reduced price list. 1 It will he seen that meat pah "be' procured lovrWfJid - per lb At the ettabltohmenta ofth? fir®.