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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 322, 18 May 1878, Page 4

\ Amongst Parliamentary' papers lately from the Government* Printer,' are two • chronological tables, one of- the general statute lay of New Zealand, distinguishing the extinct from the existing law, complete up to the date.-ofi-the ..last, prorogation•ofParliament, and the oilier of the Provincial laws of New Zealand, as existing at the close of the session of Parliament 1577. The following extract is' from the Hawke’s Pay Herald report of Napier Harbour Board proceedings, being a report from the Harbour Engineer : —“The return of the soundings taken by tbe pilot since the 23rd April gives the satisfactory result of a depth of 12 feet up to the 4th May, and singe then of 11 -feet G inches. The reduction of 6 inches during the last three days appears to be due to poor lidos and to an'oasterly swell. The general soundings show that the bulk of the bar continues to diminish, but this process is necessarily rather slow without assistance from the rivers, which have remained very low. Tbe rainfall since the last icport bus boon less Ilian one half-inch, and the winds have been moderate, generally 'from N.W. to N:E. The shingle has not followed the eastern work, and the’ change in the shore line is imperceptible; the mouth of the Tuki Tuki remaining closed.— Charles Weber, Engineer Harbor Board.”