Local Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 63, 4 December 1858, Page 2

Local Intelligence.

Postal.— -In Wellington — the staff being one postmaster and two- clerks — the English mail, consisting of 34 boxes, besides bags and parcels, landed at 11 p.m., wts assorted a,n& ready for delivery by 10 next morning; • In Napier — the staff being one jpostmas ( ter and : one clerk, the English mail, consisting.' of! one of two bags, laiided at;6h . 15m. p.m.., lay unopened in the Post Office till near 9 next morning.. True, the postmaster gets nothing for his trouble,; and the clerjk gets; but .laborer's wages, but 'that is

their look out, not that of the public, who xegard this state of things as a great grievance. We "Snd.tiiat the. overland mail was - delivered, on. Friday^l^ti, ; .. WAiP^RKvVu.r-— Tii<j cases' "-at .the late sitting Court. were^yery nu-merous,,-o<?cupying , in trial three days. A .report in lour next. ,-■. ..V

--jCorrespondents must really let us have their communications, if of any length, earlier in the weektrron Mondays or Tuesdays, <jjfcherwise we shall be compelled in future to keep them over till the following week.

Awaptjni. — On Thursday, the scrub and grass in this locality caught fire, the flames endangering the safety of the church, and passing . over the graves of some native dead; ' But for the exertions of Mr. Colenso and two soldiers, the damage would have

Ijeen serious. The natives are highly indignant at the carelessness of Europeans, to which they ascribe the accident.