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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 59, 17 February 1868, Page 41

;9^ ni:nq o]p the Roman Catholic Chapel at 'Shobtlanh.— The Southern Cross, 11th- February says :—The Roman Catholic chapel at Shortlarid was opened on Sunday; 9th Feb., and was attended by a large congregation. The ceremony was very imposing, and Father Nivard, P.P., merits the approbation of his flock for the exertions he has made to obtain for them a place of worship, . ?

: Bishop, Sexwyn.—Our last English telegrams; announced that the Bishopric. ’ of Lichfield, had - been-, offered; to, and de- ‘ olined by, Bishop. Selwy in The Welling-; ton papers ; now say that'a private, letter has-been; received ,Aom-irHis Lordship, in 1 ■which; he states.-that he : has - accepted the ' Bishopric aforesaid. Regret is Expressed by our Wellington, contemporaries at his : Lordship’s decision, and wish that he 1 could have* seen it his duty to remain in : Neiw Zealand.* ■ Bishop Selwyh will return 1 to the Colony to take part in the next General Synod; to tie Held in Otago. JuEW-- Oat ■ Biig-ht .IK ATTBTUAT.TA-— a Western journal -states that a new and most destructive species of blight has attacked. the oat :crops in the vicinity of Lispower,/ and at the;;farms, situated near the Bald-hills, whence- it is traced as far as Yarram Yarram on the one side, and for' a great distance amongst the farms to the ■^ t ?f' the. latter, place, on the other. The'bhght,-referred to is a description of i insect. Mr Elliot,;who is the largest settlpr in the; neighborhood where it was first observed/states that whole paddocks have been. so completely destroyed that;fchey are no w ; being, mown. down,, or thrown-open for. cattle. .; In, some * instances wh'eat has also suffered-soibadly; that. the. ;scythe is at and the. cattle, admitted. ; f Mr Petri; Jives but. a short'jdistance from the i±opkinß-hdl, ; states, thatihis whole breadth of., prop is completely destroyed. ■ The r ®X®ges,f ofy the insect -give the eat'a preappearance, and.onopening theleayea, myriadsJof thdm are -disturbed AT TAtTEANGAi—-On Jan.;* -Mr ‘Commission^’’Clark paid the natives andther instalment on the Kakate v block. o On'fthe - following' dhy a large number of Maoris, of two hundred, on the beach, for the purpose,it-seems; of having a-“spree;” The -Various settlements'at-Tauranga were viziMaUgatapu,“Matapihi; Sasrini; 'Oponui, Riingawhia/ Mat* . kana; Kaimai; and - others whose' nainbs T cannot 1 how remember;. "Imthe afternoon, with.iihe 5 exception ; of* about a dozeh4 the , whole of; s the Maoris were more or less in £ toxicatsd/jand ‘SoonV commenced "fighting, wheniAAßbene -followed;which' bbggars de- . fists pummelling each- other’s\ hair; to some chiefs, of whom fell-ini ( fpr*; a * w c aa . dusk, eve^yj, all, of .thema? left ' coupes ;§)f }tho opposite , shore. t whidi becaw^mue^jupw^ theiiOommissioheri fwhichi .great heartburnings