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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 902, 21 December 1867, Page 3

New Settlement. — The schooner Tauranga which recently sailed from Auckland for Ilussell, Bay of Islands, took a party of special settlers, who are intending to settle on a block of land near Waimate, Bay of Islands. The settlers number eighteen families, and are the pioneers of a party of Canadian immigrants who propose to occupy this land. The party are under the guidance of Captain Burley, also a settler from Canada. The above party arrived in Auckland by the ships Siam and Water Nymph. ' ■ Dreadful Accident at Westpoet. — The Westpprt Times,' of the 27th ult., gives the following .r—" The clangers attendant upon mining life received a fearful illus-, tration yesterday. It appears that between one and two o'clock on Tuesday morning, two miners, named Thomas Farrell and Samuel Alexander, working on the Caledonian Lead, heard a roaring noise as if a land slip was taking place. They immediately rushed out of their tent, and went towards the place where the prospectors' tent stood, which they found driven down the hill several feet, completely ruined. There were six men in the tent, out of which three escaped, while the other three were buried in the mass of earth. As soon as the news spread, the whole of the miners on the lead commenced to clear away the debris, and one of them was got out alive, but the other two were quite dead. The bodies are now lying at Mr. Trimble's Nelson Hotel, where an inquest will be held to-day." Colonial Prizes for Eifle Shooting. — A New Zealand Gazette, published on the 7th inst., contains a list of the prizes that will be offered, and the regulations under which they are to be competed for, at the next annual meeting, which is to take place at Wellington, during the visit of His Eoyal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, if possible, on a day to be named by the Government. The colonial prizes will be — (1) tho Champion Prize, consisting of a gold medal, " a purse of 75 sovereigns, and the champion belt ; (2), the silver medal of the National Rifle Association arid £50 ; (3), a medal and £30 ; (4), a medal and £20 ; three £15 and two £10 prizes; a Green's' patent breech or muzzle loading Hay pattern rifle ; and a Green's patent breech or muzzle loading cavalry carbine. The cadets are offered a £10 prize with a medal, and a £5 prize. There will also be district prizes. The regulations are considerably different from those of last year. The colonial prizes are divided into five sets, and each set will be competed for in a different manner. The/ cna^pjon prize will' be fired for at ranges offLOO, 500, arid GOOyards ; „ibhree; : shots Wfeach range. One' set of , prizes will be fired for by the competitors whHe.;Mining;' fl and B another set wjth breewfeading carfrffiesW 1 ?'" '„' ,;.!iJLk :^ m