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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 970, 18 August 1868, Page 2

The Panama Mail^is due in. Wellington,; per steam ship Mataura, on Thursday- ■ next. . .' '• v- 'A/-<-pv--V* v> ■•-:';; : r,-:s.-5j?'i ■ Waipawa, as will be^seeiivfrbmthe letter of our Wellington corresppnde.nt, is to have a telegraph station". >-<■'-' . .A Telegraph Station has. been tablished at Charleston, West Coast, and is now open forbusjnessy v .■ j, >;/ „, v , • •„-: . Petty Sessions have been proclaimed as having been established ;in the Waipawa and Ngaruroro districts, in this province. Arms Were to have been shipped for this port by the s,s. Wellington, but, through neglect or other cause,' they were accidentally left behind. ' ' : - ; ■'■'; MiLiTiA.-r-It will be seen. from, our advertising columns that, the,. militia and, volunteers have been called out for inspection of arms and:exercise. r The English Mail via Suez arrived in Wellington on Sunday per s.s. Taranaki— ■ one day after the departure of the Wellington for Napier. Two Shocks of earthquake were: felfciin Napier about 10 a.m., yesterday, corresponding in point of time' with those felt at Lyttelton, Wellington, and Nelson,, though probably the vibration was not so marked as in those cities. Three Auction Sales will take r place on Thursday next :~At the' brewery, by Routledge, Kennedy and Co., 50 hhids. ale and 12tartks ;" on the*pre'mises,~by v 'Mr E. Lyndon, furniture, .of, A. C. Haymes ; and, by the same, furniture and household effects of Mr Chitham. The Exodus to the Thames gold fields continues, a good many having sailed yesterday by the Wellington. Some of the departures seem strangely . oblivious on the subject of any trifling claims there* may be against them. An instance •occurred yesterday, in which an effort "was made.Vto detain a certainvex-tradesrnan of ;Napier, believed to be on board the Wellington, but without avail^ notwithstanding that an active search, in which. even the coal bunkers were not overlooked, was instituted .by certain anxious creditors. Tidal Disturbances of a very marked character occurred at this port on Saturday last, as well as, according to telegrams received, at the chief ports on the East Coast of both Islands. From ah early hour on Saturday morning till a late hour in< the evening, the tide may be said to have ebbed and flowed every hour — the rise and fall in each case being surprisingly sudden. . At |-past 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., the most marked of these phenomena were observable—the rise and fall, in those instances having probably riot been less than six feet. In one of these the sea' receded so far as to leave the •wreck of the Montmbrency high and dry, while the Saucy Lass,' which was then being piloted into the Iron Fo^-waa washed to a position nearly behind the breast work, and left for a time all but but of water.- - Conjecture is rife as to the cause of phenomena so extraordinary, but the general opinion is that a 'submarine volcano, or some sudden upheaval, must have occurred in the vicinity of these Islands,;