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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1131, 1 March 1870, Page 3

Victorian Diamonds. — The Argus says that the Australian Diamond Company are still finding largo quantities of diamonds. Last evening a telegram was received from the manager at Mudgee, stating that the yield from one of Hunt's machines for the last six days was 119 diamonds, and 7oz 9dwt of gold for eight days. Postal. — The Secretary of the General Post Office, London, has issued the following circular : — Many persons are in the habit of addressing letters for well-known firms and individuals to " London" only ; but this practice not un frequently occasions delay in such letters reaching their rightful owners. In all cases, however well the firm or individual for whom a letter is intended may be known, it is most essential, to ensure its correct delivery, that the street or locality in which they reside, and the number of the house, should form a part of the address. The Flax Manufactube. — A Hokitika paper of Feb. 8 says : — Mr. Herman Mey or i s making preparations to com inence the manufacture and cultivation of flax on a large scale. He has leased a large block of laud, has purchased another, and has bought the machinery of the Gold Land steamer. He proceeds to Christchurch by this morning's coach, for the purpose of obtaining other machinery, and as he never does anything by halves, he intends to visit Otago and Auckland, to be certain that he has all the latest improvements at his command. Depression. — At a recent public meeting in Nelson, with reference to the Wangapeka sales, Mr. Luckie said : — " All here will admit that trade is paralysed; and from certain enquiry which a friend of mine has made, T am informed that there are now in Nelson from 220 to 240 houses and shops at present unoccupied." The statement presents a curious contrast between Nelson and Dunedin, inasmuch as, in the latter, house accommodation of any kind is exceedingly scarce,