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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1089, 5 October 1869, Page 2

Napier Schooii Trust. — The names selected for the committees of ladies and gentlemen, in connection' with this trust, will be found in our advertising columns. Napier Militia. — A Provincial Government Gazette, published on Thursday last, contains a notification that J. D. Orinond, Esq., has been appointed the Governor's deputy for calling out the Militia ; and another notification, signed by Mr. Ormond, calling out the militia for training and exercise. The Provincial Council met on Friday, but there was no quorum. On Saturday it met at 3 p.m. Soon after, the Speaker announced the election of Mr. Ormond for P. orangahau, and His Honor then entered the chamber and took his seat. Several additional items of .expenditure were passed, including £500, reward for a payable goldfield; and a like sum for opening a road to any such gold-field. A resolution was also passed, on the motion of Mr. Buchanan, agreeing to indemnify the Superintendent to the extent of £500 for the purchase ot screw, or other suitable, moorings for the harbour, should the existing moorings not be raised. The Ratification of Loan Expenditure Act, and an Appropriation Act were passed through their various stages ; after which the Council was formally prorogued by the Superintendent. Further details will appear in next Herald. A Loyal Maori. — The following incident is related by one pf the prisoners (since escaped) Te Kooti captured on his way through Taupo to visit the King. When Te Kooti and party arrived at Te Hatepe pa, on the shores of Taupo Lake, the people were all absent about three or four miles away at their cultivations, excepting one old man named Hona, who had food sent him daily by his people. On Te Kooti's taking possession of the pa, he sent a message to Hona, requesting him to come to him ; but the old man refused to go, saying as his reason that he and his hapu and children had always been staunch Government men, and therefore he would not obey Kooti's orders. The messenger then told him he had better go, otherwise Te Kooti would shoot him ; but the old man still refused, saying it signified not, he would not obey. On the old man's answer being reported to Te Kooti, the messenger was sent back with instructions that, should Hona refuse to come, he was to be shot. Again the old man refused, saying he preferred death. The messenger then asked him where his people were. He answered, some, perhaps, are at Patehe (about thirty miles away) and some perhaps at Napier. The messenger then shot him through the body, but as that did not kill him at once, he was shot through the head, and then hauled out into the middle of his pah, and the pah was then burnt and destroyed. Stowaways. — Yesterday, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, two men, named respectively Michael Featherston and Peter Shea, were charged by Mr. Moss, Purser ot the s.s. Wellington, with having unlawfully obtained a passage by that vessel without paying for the same. The fact of the two men being stowaways was beyond question, and they were each ordered to pay £4 or to be imprisoned, with hard labor, for three weeks. Both were committed in default. Rain. — Steady rain, with easterly weather, set in last evening. Rain is much wanted all over the country, but it is rather ominous, some will think, to have, the dreaded sth of October ushered in with so great a change of weather. Samuel Locke Esq. left Napier in the Wellington steamer, last evening, for Poverty Bay, in which, as well as the Waiapu district, he will spend some time. He was accompanied by Mr. Munro, surveyor, and it is intended, we understand, among other works of progress, to survey the blocks set apart for military settlers in Poverty Bay, as well as to lay out the new township at Turanganui. Re-election [op «T. D. Ormond, Esq., for the District op Porangahau. — On Friday, the Ist instant, a meeting of the electors for the Porangahau District was held at Messrs. Hunter's woolshed, to supply the vacancy caused in the representation of the district through the late member, J. D. Ormond, Esq., having been elected Superintendent of the Hawke's Bay Province. In consequence of the shortness of the notice and the certainty of no opposition being offered to Mr. Ormond's re-election, there was but a small attendance. It was proposed by J. D. Canning Esq. that J. D. Ormond Esq. should be re-elected as member for the district, which was seconded by Mr. Miles Hudson, and, in the absence of any other candidate, the Returning officer declared J. D. Ormond, Esq., to be duly elected. Election for Wairoa. — According to a notice published by the Returning officer of the Wairoa district, the nomination of a member of the Provincial Council for that ■district will take place on Monday the 11th inst.