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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1099, 9 November 1869, Page 2

& Locke, Esq., R.M., has left Napier for Taupo, upon some special mission. Fine Weather and high barometer are indicated at all the southern stations. Mb. Obmond, we understand, intends in a day or two to leave Napier for Taupo. Mr. Edward Lyndon will sell, this doy, bacon, a crop of rye grass and clover, &c. Pound Sales will take place this day atMeanee and Havelock, if the impounded stock .has not been claimed. Debating Club. — The Napier Debating Club announce a meeting for Thursday next. Henaee and Renata, with their people, now on their way from Taupo, will probably arrive in Napier to-day. Tenders. — Mr. Abbot invites tenders for ploughing 50 to 100 acres of land, and for supplying 2000 totara posts. The Late Fibe. — The official inquiry into the cause of the late fire in Hastingsstreet will, we believe, take place this day. Provident Society. — A meeting of the Hawke's Bay Provident, Land, and Building Society, is announced for Wednesday evening next, in the Masonic Chamber. Napier Athen^um. — It will be seen that Mr. Sealy's promised lecture on the interesting subject of "gold," will be delivered on Friday evening. The Weather since our last has been remarkably fine. The roads have again dried up, and the country looks gorgeous in its green canopy. The tides have been I rather high, but the additional rise, if any, is unimportant. Anniversary of the Prince op Wales. ■—This day being the anniversary of the Prince of Wale 9, it will, according to rumour, be observed as a holiday at the offices of the General Government, but it does not seem to have been thought necessary to give the public any intimation of the fact. The Rifle Match. — The Napier Club have again got the worst of it, the Wellington men having, on Saturday, scored 491 points, being 60 more than were scored by the Club. Wellington, however, is admitted to have had the advantage of weather, and Napier may be more fortunate on another occasion. English Mail. — The letter portion of the English mail left Wellington on Friday last, by the overland mail, and may be expected to reach here on the afternoon of Wednesday next, nine days after its arrival in Wellington. The newspapers will follow by the Rangatira, to leave Wellington on Friday next. Awfully Sudden Death. — At an early hour on Sunday morning, Mr. Henry Burston, blacksmith, Meanee, died with appalling suddenness. He got up about sin the morning to get a drink ; he had no sooner done so than he called his wife, and she got to his assistance just as he was falling down. On being raised he was alive, but death ensued in a few minutes. The cause is supposed to have been sanguinous apoplexy.