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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1093, 19 October 1869, Page 2

Fire Insurance. — A meeting is con- , vened, for Wednesday evening next, in connection with the all-important question of fire insurance. The Napier Brass Band will, weather permitting, play in front of the Herald office on Friday next at 7 p.m. The programme will appear in our next. jVIr. Edward Ltndon will sell this day, furniture &c. at the late residence of Mr. M„ Fitzgerald, and to-morrow, land on Western side of the harbour. The Porangahau River has been considerably flooded by late rains, but no other river, so far as we can learn, has been affected much. The Late Rainjpa_l has been a great boon both to the grazier and agriculturist. The country, after the first warm weather, will look as well as ever it did. The Mimtart Critic, whose article in Thursday's Times, so brimful of egotism and palpable misrepresentation, gave rise to some indignation as well as amusement, has, we perceive, repeated the dose in yesterday's issue of our contemporary, only in a very much mil Jer form than before. We will not follow the author through his elaborate regrets that something is now being done by somebody else — for that is the gist of his argument, but will simply remark that if this; style of composition does the writer any good, it is very harmless in its effects so far- as any one else is concerned. Napier Athen2eum. — On Friday last, a lecture was delivered in the hall of the Inßl;itute, by Mr. William Marshall, upon the subject of phrenology. Notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather, there was a very good attendance. The chair was taken by Mr. Scaly. Mr. Marshall then entered upon his subject, which he treated in a popular and attractive manner, and illustrated by diagrams, Maori skulls, &c. The lecture, the first of a series, was concluded at 9 o'clock ; the second is announced to be delivered on Friday next. The Weather from Friday till yesterday was colder and more boisterous than anything experienced during the winter. A heavy southerly gale, with very low temperature and occasional showers and heavy squalls, has raged with the utmost fierceness — thorough equinoctial weather. Yesterday, the sea in the Bay was heavier than it has been for a length of time. The barometer, however, was rising all day, and the mercury now stands an inch higher than it did ; last week, so a return of fine weather may reasonably be anticipated.