NAPIER. 3rd January.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 310, 3 January 1879, Page 2

NAPIER. 3rd January.

It b rumored that Mr. E. H. Bold, the engineer for Hawke's Bay and Waipawa Counties, succeeds Mr. Floyd as chief electrician on the East Coast. A man named Alder was run over by a dray yesterday. The horse bolted, and Alder, in. attempting to jump off the dray, got his legs entangled in the reins. He fell,,aod the whsel passed over his left side and wrist.- Bfe lit* i» a precarious position at the Farndon Hotel; Colonel Whitmore, accompanied by ani engineer, is to-day taking soundings near bisestate at Clive. It is proposed that a company should be formed (Murray, Common, and Co,, with Mr. Miller, are at the head of the movement) to purchase the Grange Estate, to form a township, and erect a breakwater and so make a harbor. It ia supposed that in such an eventr Napier woui&baye great oom petition. The continued drought causes much apprehension in the farming districts. Constable Deals, who apprehended a Maori* in the Waiapu district, who was found guilty of hone-stealing at the last sessions m theSupreme Court, has been awarded £5 fat iha> tact he displayed. The total revenue collected at the Customat Port Ahuriri for the quarter ending 31st December was £9990 13s 3d. The return of births, marriages, and deaths' for the Napier district shows for last y«u :— Births, 440; marriages, 115; deaths, 234.