Local Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 91, 18 June 1859, Page 3

Local Intelligence.

DiSGitACEFUL CJondxtct. — It has latterly been a favorite pastime wWi some person or persons to remove the gates from various enclosure. 0 , in the neighbourhood of the school-voom — thus leaving gardens open to the Tavages of horses, cattle, or goats, and causing, it may be, an irreparable injury by the destruction of trees and shrubs. During the past night or two, several gardens have been actually entered, and plants wantonly torn up by the foots. We regret for the credit of Nopier, having to record those wanton outrages,; but do so in the hope that some clue may be found to the discovery of the perpetrator. iNLAifX) Mails. — Under the temporary arrangements ' of the Provincial Government, the mail messenger started on Wednesday, at 4 £>. m. for Petane, Waikari, Mohaka, and the Wairoa. And on Monday afternoon next, the mails, under the same arrangement, will be despatched to Waipureku, Te.Aute, Waipawa, Patangata, Waipukurau, and Porangahau. The first mentioned service will be .continued fortnightly ; and the second, •weekly, -pending steps on the part of the General Government to make the service a permanent one. Divine Seeyice. — On Sabbath last,, Divine Service was; conducted in the school house, by 'the Rev. P. Barclay. The room wag well filled — the auditory including persons of all (Christian denominations. It will be perceived that an evening service is announced for Sabbath next, in addition t ) that in the morning. ; . . ' .The Peotinciai. Council is intended to meet again between Christmas next and 18G0, with the view, should nothing of instant importance demand attention, of merely passing the estimates, and of then adjourning till March or the beginning of April, when tbe busy season will be over.