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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1087, 28 September 1869, Page 2

English Mail. — The Sfc. Kilda, carrying an English mail, will leave for Wellington at 10 this morning. The mail will close at past 9. Messrs Routledge, Kennedy & Co., will sell, this day, a quantity of Government stores ; and to-morrow, at Havelock, ! cattle, pigs, poultry, &c. | Rain. — There was a rainfall of some I hours duration on Saturday night, but its refreshing influence, as we lsarn, was confined chiefly to the town and suburbs of Napier. Cheistchurch.— We learn by telegram that David Mackay, Immigration officer at Christchurch, has. been brought before the police court there on a charge of embezzlement, and remanded for eight days. Centenaky op Cook's Landing in NewZealand.— Wednesday next, the 6th October, will, we believe, be the centenary of Capt. Cook's first landing in New Zealand. The Canterbury Press suggests that some public notice should be taken of the day. A Sunday School Tea Meeting — at which 120 persons, including children, were present— was held in the school-room, Waipawa, on the evening of Wednesday last. It was, we believe, a success, but no particulars have been forwarded us. FiiAx.--Tenders are invited for cutting and delivering flax, at Paki Paki, to supply the new flax mill which is being erected by Messrs. Russell and Price. This is a healthy sign, and may fairly be accepted ss an intimation that the new industry of flax manufacture has at length gained a solid footing in this province, The Nomination of a member to reptesens Porangahau in the Provincial Council, consequent on Mr, Ormond's election as Superintendent, will take place on Friday next, and the poll, if necessary, on Saturday. Mr. Ormond'fl re-election, however, may fairly be assumed as a certainty, and the probability is he will be enabled to take his seat in the Council on Saturday. The Kaimanawa Slock. — Now-a-days we seldom fail to learn from the Wellington papers what we did not know before. Fop example, the Post of Saturday announces that the terms arranged with the natives for the right to mine in the Kaimanawa ranges, are one-half of the amount received by the Government for miners' rights, and a small cash bonus of £50 or £60 as earnest money. The Approaching High Tide. — Dr. Hector thus replies to an inquiry sent him by telegraph.—" Saxby has good reason for predicting unusually high spring tides with next new moon, no extraordinary waves, like those in August 1868, can be predicted, as they arise from earthquakes and have nothing to do with tides."— An* other authority, the Rev. A. Stock of Wellington, thus says :—" There will be new moon here at 2 a.m. on the 6th Octbber \ the highest tide may be expected 36 hours after. Land not much above spring tide may be flooded. , Should a S.E. gale be blowing at the time, the tide may be very high." It will be seen that those gentlemen anticipate nothing more than Napiei has already, on more than one occasion, ex« perienc^.; ; „