HAWEKA and NOKMANBY

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 509, 17 April 1880, Page 2

HAWEKA and NOKMANBY

The Hawera Times will be published next Saturday, April 24. It will be issued three times a week, Tuesday, Thursday,and Saturday,price threepence ; and arrangements are being completed for printing it with new type, on a splendid fast machine, and of a size somewhat larger than any newspaper in this part of the colony. The Times will have a special feature which will make it preferably acceptable to the public of Hawera and Normanby. It will contain late and full reports of events taking place in every town and district in the County of Patea. The Times, therefore, will be found much more interesting to residents in Hawera and Normanby than if its reporting arrangements were confined to the immediate neighborhood. In the extent and completeness of its nows reports from a very wide district, the Times will supersede any local rivalry attempted on a smaller scale. All important meetings in Hawera and Normanby will be reported verbatim, and the interests of these districts will be promoted by a full and intelligent record in the Times. The Editor of the Times will devote his exclusive attention to 'matters calculated to assist the growing importance of Hawera and Normanby. There will be an office at Hawera and an office at Normanby. One other feature of (lie Times will emhanee its value to intelligent readers. It will contain the latest and fullest reports by telegraph from all parts of the colony; and Renter's telegraph agency will furnish the latest cablegrams from all parts of the world. The Times aims at being a full, fresh, and impartial record of local, district, colonial, European, and general news. Party politics will not be advocated, but a broad and intelligent view of colonial interests will be expressed with freedom and impartiality.

Eucalyptus Extract. —Gower & Co. have just received a stock of Eucalyptus Extract.— Advt. The Kelly Gang of Australian bushrangers, who stick-up banks and shoot right and left, are still at large ; and if they hold out three months longer the Victorian Government will then withdraw the rewards so long offered in vain. The Artificial Diamonds made by a Glasgow experimentalist will not affect the market values, as tho process is too costly to be remunerative. This is a victory for tho genuine diamond. The Princess Louise was injured recently by the upsetting of a sleigh, while driving with her husband in Canada. The concussion to her head has necessitated absolute repose, but the Princess is now recovering. South Africa. —Sir M ichael Hicks Beach has written a despatch to Sir Bartle in favor of local self-government in Natal, and the Transvaal when settled as a loyal colony. Burning down St. Petersburg. —To show how the Nihilists are fighting tho Czar, a portion of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (in consequence of representations made by the Russian Embassy), was held ready during March 6th, to proceed to St. Petersburg. Transportation was arranged for engines, horses, and, at an hour’s notice, and the Russian Ambassador only waited for instruction by cable as to the progress of a suspected plot. Monsignor Capel, well known in London society as a suave and clever agent in making converts to the Catholic Church, has been suspended from his functions for two years on account of grave charges, the nature of which is not reported. Dean Stanley, of Westminster Abbey, provoked a storm of angry discussion by consenting to the erection of a bust within tho abbey to the memory of the unfortunate son of Napoleon who fell in an ambuscade in the Zulu war. We learn by the last mail that the liberal-minded Dean has refused to revoke that permission, and the bust will be placed among the illustrious dead. A Rupture between France and Russia has been anticipated by the London Times from the demand made by Russia for the surrender of Hartman, the escaped Nihilist, who says he was deputed by the Nihilist Committee to assassinate the Czar, and also that he was connected with the attempt at Moscow. He has now left France for America, Drainage Works at Christchurch has been mismanaged to a shameful extent. The surveyor has made what are called peculiar disclosures affecting the Drainage Board office, and a public meeting has expressed strong dissatisfaction.