HAWKE'S BAY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3971, 14 May 1870, Page 3

HAWKE'S BAY.

By the 'arrival of the p. s. ' Comerang ' from Napier we have received files of the Itawke's Bay Herald and Times to the lQth. We cull the following items :—: — Telegrams can now be forwarded from the Telegraph Office, Napier, to the province of Taranaki, by wire as far as Patea, and will be posted from thence to their several destinations. In addition to the fees chargeable on such telegrams, the postage of twopence on each telegram must be prepaid in each case. At a meeting held at Meanee on the 9th instant, for the purpose of considering the steps necessary to be taken for preventing the importation of scab and the spread of foot-rot, the following; resolution was passed: — " That the Superintendent be requested to bring in a bill during the ensuing session of the Provincial Council, such bill, in its provisions, to guard against the introduction into the province of scab, and the spread of footrot, or other contagious diseases." The Supreme Court was to open on the 10th instant in its civil and criminal jurisdiction. James Anderson, Esq., J.P., has been appointed to act temporarily as Resident Magistrate for the Napier "restrict. A feeling largely prevails among the Armed Constabulary that Power, the celebrated bushranger in a neighbouring colony, is identical with a man named Powell ; who deserted from the force and made his way to that part of the world.