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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 39, 30 September 1867, Page 241

Fatal Accident at Waimarama. —-A¥e regret 1 to have to record; the occurrence of another fatal accident, by which a young'man namedGasey is reifioybd from 4 among us. He -had been for’ some tiihe ; ’ past: employed 4 in the survey now going ;dh:at-Te &ndl as we understand/ left 4 the' encampment early on the mornihg!‘ ; bf Saturday/ 'the 14tfr instant/ ondibrseback, to fetch thejmiail: from Mr Har• ■greaye’s station/winch place 7 he reached in safety and left again about midday/; Nothing more was seen or heard ;of him until body ; was discovered in the Te Apiti creek, amongst sppae whioh 'had Collectedtbgether; found hear at right, 0 VDorihg ih^: thnejjpf Ms yiatutoj 'iVlr Hargreaves/the'creek' had'bebome dboded! ;; and^dan^^

pgtore'Crossitinitsawolleristate, v . eamp on Saturday night did not cause , My iineasiness, as it was hardly exto whether he would find the mails at • Mr Hargreaves’,or would haveto go ~s f urther;to Mr AnnabeH’s;.station: for them; so that ho suspicion of any ac-

cident had been entertained until the ' actual'discovery of tlie body. ' An in- ' quest was held oh Friday; 20th Inst., before Dr English, coroner for the district, resulting in a verdict /of

“ Found drowned.” The. body was afterwards inferred in the burying

ground of the natives. Napier Common School.-—The du- , ties of the; above school, held in the n, Odd Fellows’ Hall, Tennyson-street, . will be resumed on Tuesday, (to-mor-row), Ist October. The Mail Service.— Our readers will see by the alteration in’ the advertisements that a new time table has been adopted by the Government. Under the new arrangement we shall cease to receive any portion of our mails by the 24th or 25th of each month, but may look for them with some probability on or ahibut the 30th or 31st, as the case may be, —the re» turn mail leaving on the 2nd of the month' following. As usual, Hawke’s

Bay being weak, is pushed to the wall. ; None but actuaL town residents can avail themselves. of the Panama service.

Government Land Sale.— This sale, advertised in our columns for some time past, came off on Wednesday last.’ The attendance was good, and. considering the present state of trade, the sales effected were more, and the rates better than we could have anticipated. A good many lots were disposed of, and the amount realised by the sale was, we understand, nearlv -,£1,000-