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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1033, 23 March 1869, Page 2

The Match on Saturday was won with apparent ease by Fenian. Dr. Ormond, we hear, has been appointed native medical officer for Wairoa. Clive. — Divine service will (D.V.) be conducted next Sunday, at 3 p.m., by the Rev. G. Morice. Poverty Bat Relief Fund. — G. M. Gray, Esq., now on a visit to Hawke's Bay, has left at this office a subscription of £5 towards the above fund. Meanbe. — The course taken by the Waipukurau settlers has, we observe, been also followed by those of Mean cc, by whom a public meeting has been convened for Thursday next, at the Meanee Hotel. Whooping Cough is now very prevalent in Auckland, and several children have died from it. We regret to learn that there is a case of this kind on the Meanee Flat, imported from Auckland by last trip of the Star of the South. Imported Sheep. — We are glad to see, notwithstanding the prevailing depression, that some enterprise is yet left among us. Yesterday, 55 sheep were landed from the Ahuriri, consigned to D. M'Lean Esq., and selected, we believe, from choice Australian flocks. The Victories on the West Coast. — The Evening Post of the 17th inst., in remarking upon the "victory" lately reported on the West Coast, says: — "Capturing empty tents and straggling Maori women are scarcely adequate returns for our outlay of £1000 per day, which the colony cannot long afford to maintain." Capt. Buchanan's commission in the Napier Rifle Volunteers has, we understand, been cancelled. The government required him to withdraw certain charges he had made against Major Carlyon, which he refused to do ; at least such is common report. Pending the election of a captain, Lieut. J. Irvine is in command of the company. The Auckland Elections. — At the nomination for Newton on the 18th inst. the following was the result of a show of hands : — Mr. R. J. Creighton, 23 ? Mr. Wrigg, 18. A poll was demanded, and would take place on the next day. Result of the poll for Northern Division for General Assembly : — Mr. Hugh Mcllhone, 160 ; Mr. Henry Warner Farnell, 162. Several Troopers left town yesterday, their destination said to be the 40 mile bush. It is considered doubtful, however, whether they will get beyond Mount Herbert, at which place the demand for mounted orderlies is very great. How different the present wretched system of scouting is from the well-appointed corps of Capt. Weber, and the admirable arrangements made for its being of efficient service. Gazette Notices. — <T. D. Ormond, Esq., and Dillon Bell, Esq., have been appointed arbitrators under the Wellington and Hawke's Bay Public Debt Apportionment Act. G. A. Oliver, Esq., has been re-ap-pointed Revising Officer for Napier and Clive. Lieut.-Colonel Lambert has resigned as Commandant of Armed Consta- i bulary. Major Green's name has been placed on the unattached list. And the resignation of Capt. Saunders, of the Wairoa Rifle Volunteers, has been accepted. The St. Kilda has gone on to Opotiki, most likely with Ngatiporous on board. We hope it is so. They would then be engaged in a legitimate duty — that of freeing their own coast of a bloodthirsty enemy ; a duty which it was foreseen by Mr. M'Lean they would speedily be called upon to perform. Yet the men who so miserably misgovern the country would, if they could, have had Ropata and his men on the West Coast by this time, where their services are not half so much wanted as on the East Coast and the Bay of Plenty, Rifle Shooting. — The firing for the General Government prizes will take place as follows: — Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 11 ' Companies of Militia, the Napier Yeomanry Cavalry, and Napier Rifle Volunteers, at Greenmeadows on Tuesday, the 23rd inst., at 10 o'clock a.m. Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 10 Companies at Waipukurau, at 10 o'clock a.m. on Saturday, the 27th instant. f lhe Wairoa Company of Militia, and Volunteers at Wairoa, at 10 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, the 6th April. The local forces at Poverty Bay, at their usual rifle ground, at 10 o'clock a.m. on Monday, the 11th April. It will be seen from the above that the firing at Greenmeadows will take place ibis day. Serious Accident. — We regret to have to record a very serious accident which befel James Lawrence, Esq., of Homewood station, on Saturday last. Mr. Lawrence, accompanied by Mrs. Lawrence, was descending the hill from the Ivaikora hotel in a buggy, when the horse, a spirited animal, shied very suddenly at a heap of firewood (not at the yell of a Maori) left near the road, giving the vehicle so violent a jerk as to throw the occupants out. Mrs. Lawrence escaped unhurt, but Mr. Lawrence, we are sorry to say, broke one of his legs in the fall. He was carried into the Kaikora hotel, where every attention was paid him; and a messenger was immediately despatched for Dr. Todd. Waipukurau. — We perceive, from an advertisement in another column that a meeting has been convened by a number of inland settlers, to be held at Waipukurau on Thursday next, the 25th inst., for the purpose " of expressing to the Government of the . colony the confidence reposed in Mr. M'Lean by the settlers of this province, and the importance they attach to the conduct of native affairs on the East Coast remaining in his hands at the present time." We have no doubt that similar meetings will be held elsewhere, and that, before long, the province, almost as one man, will give expression to its sense of the insult offered to Mr. M'Lean, and of the utter disregard which has been shewn by the ministry to the interests of this part of the Colony. The Secrets of the Telegraph, if they could be disclosed, would exhibit poor human nature in, at times, a very serious, and, at others, a very ludicrous light. The Napier office would not form an exception. The messages, for instance, which have so incessantly passed between the (supposed) future Government agent and the gallant officer in command, on the one part, and some member of the ministry on the other — the chief theme of which (without of course any ulterior object) has been disparagement, direct or by insinuation, of Mr. M'Lean, would, we are sure, extort a smile were it not that the results are more likely to partake of tragedy than of comedy. We hope some day to hear that they have been produced by command of His Excellency. Found Sales take place this day, at Petane, Napier, and Maraekakaho.