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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 November 1868, Page 281

We learn that tbe.Wairarapa Lake Hotel; near. Eeathcrston, was. totally, destroyed by fi e on. Tuesday, 3rd November. We underatahd-that the owner, Mr Douglass, was not insured. The cause of the-fire is, as yet, unknown.

ALibebal Government. —A braveman has. fallendn fierce fight. Tho reputation of hero. has been. gained, by many ■a. one who did less to deserve it than gallant Von Tempsky. He fell with his back to the field and his feet to the foe, and in consideration of liis long ' services; his tried courage, his-gallant leadership, the Executive of a grateful generous. country has transmitted to hjs sorrowing widow a splendid solatium of twenty p&unds ! Let that widow dry her eyes ah'd cease'troubling. If'she:.be not-'consoled she' ; 'ought to be—Brisbane Courier, Oct. 12. .

Want of Side Abms.— The following incident, is told by the Wanganui .Chronicle r —rX>unng the retirement ’ of* the force. at Okutuku, it is relatedthat a : Hauhaii fanatic, .'fully armed. and slinging about his tomahawk, boldly charged A.C. As it happened . they had just- delivered a : volley and : checked -the; rebels..... They were powerless to stop this naked savage ! Many of them instinctively felt. , for j'their beyonet or their b’ht been given them: -- The Hauhau 'safely through outlines; ™ -v," •-

Chinese at Hokitika.— Yesterday, about'- ninety Chinese were landed from the b.b. Bangitotd. These- eeleßtials -havh bepu sbrought here as it were to* order, having been sent for by a- small number qftheirbonntry’menwho some months Binoej' end- wh6 appear4o: be doing so f wdl; thstetheylhaVe -dnduoed 1 more -of their to;-enjoy fat of f the land. - Although - neighb'dre, they aria a most industrious suoeeed 'Jin ferreting ; but va : r gOod deal* 6f gold'Whiohhas.'-passedsunobservediby'th'e the' European miner. ■ After, having • -re-1 freshedtheniaelyes^with gihgs7"one jKirtlbh; ‘to tho Hiauhaus; and another another to the Waimea distriot'. —West Coast Times, Not. 7. ; '