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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1114, 31 December 1869, Page 2

The Banks, it is. announced, . will be closed on Saturday and Monday next. Tenders are invited for draining 2| miles, more or less, at Poverty Bay. English MAiL.—The Wellington, with the English mail on board, left Port Chalmers yesterday for Lytteltpn. This Day, Messrs Iloutledge, Kennedy, and Co. will sell, at noon, the furniture and household effects of A. Koch Esq., who is leaving the province. The Napier Brass Band will play in front of the Herald office to-night at 12, so a 8 fittingly to celebrate the departure of the old, and the advent of the new, year. Napier Garrick Club. — We remind our readers of the performance, this evening, for the benefit of Mr. Tom Kemp, which, from what we gather, will doubtless be presented to a bumper housei Another Auriferous Boulder is reported as having been discovered at Kereru ! by Mr. McCulloch, who is in charge of the native run of Messrs. Williams and Her- | rick. The spot was some 2or 3 miles further down the same creek on the margin of which the former boulder was discovered by Mr. Lyom The Picnic at Taradalc on Saturday, next, the Ist, of January, will doubtless, should the weather keep fine, attract . large numbers of persons irora'tpwh and other places at a distance. We are in hopes! that the Band, which really, deserves e r ftCQuragenjent, will, make a good thing 1 of it.