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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1142, 8 April 1870, Page 2

Mb. Edward Lyndon will sell to-mor-row, at his stores, clothing, drapery &c. The Hon. the Defence Minister left Auckland for Opotiki on the night of the 2nd inst. Township op Gisborne. — The sale of the Township of Gisborne will take place on Wednesday next, the 13th inst., at 11 a.m. Outward English Mail. — The mail via Suez and Marseilles will be made up in Napier on or about Sunday next, for transmission to Wellington by the s.s. Wellington. The Messrs Leotard took their departure for Auckland in the Star of the South. Their performances were generally appreciated in Napier, although, of course, in so small a place, it could not be expected that j they would command bumper houses to the j last. They shewed great skill and wonderful agility in the feats they exhibited, but there was a spice of danger in them which may have deterred nervous persons from being present. Mr. Morgan sang numerous popular songs of the day, but be sang under many disadvantages. The Messrs Leotard, in their gymnastic performances, were really the chief attraction, and were well worth seeing. Postal Rates. — The following is a tabulated statement of the progressive scale of postal rates, mentioned in our last as having come into force on the Ist April : —

Billiards. — Billiard players will be surprised to learn that according to the JUiiropean Mail an alteration in the size of the pockets of billiard tables, and the distance from the spot to the top cushion, has been agreed on at a meeting of the leading professional players. The match for the championship between lioberts and Cook is fixed for the 11th of February. Cook is the favorite. Auckland Isles. — The Dunedin Star has been informed tiiat an expedition to these islands is now being fitted out at Invercargill. Tho party forming it have engaged the schooner Daphne, well known in connection with the recent kidnapping at the South Sea Islands, and intend instituting a search for tho gold lost in the General Grant. Experienced divers will accompany the expedition, which will sail early next month. Mr. David Ashwortli, one of the survivors of the General Graut, is one of the expedition, and will act as guide. Sib Charles Darling. — A private letter received by the mail from Lady Darling states that Sir Charles Darling expired on tho night of the 25th January, at his residence, 7 Lansdoirne-terrace, Cheltenham. The immediate cause of his death was an attack of paralysis, the second which he had suffered, which visited him on the 22ud January. The first attack, from which ho had partially recovered, occurred on the 15th Dec. Eccentric Addhess. — We take the following address to the electors of the Caversham (Provincial) District from the Otago Daily Times of March 2Sth : — " Gentlemen — I intend to solicit your suffrages at the coming election. I am op- j posed to the Hundreds Act, will not get drunk, nor sell my constituents for a place in the Yogel Mitistiy. — 'I am, gentlemen, yours, &c, John Graham." The Melbourne Argus of a recent date says : — An illustration of the lack which some people show of a capacity for making use of the opportunities of advancement thrown in their ' way by fortune, was afforded at the City Court, recently, when a man with a wooden leg, named Alexander; Munroe, was fined for drunkenness. This man many years ago discovered a goldfield, which was called " Pegleg Gully," in memory of the finder's wooden limb, and out of a hole which ho sunk he obtained £11,000 worth of gold. The money, however, was not long in disappearing, for he failed to invest it profitably, as he might have done, and is now poorer than ever, not-being able to pay the line of a few shillings. It is said that when all his money had gone his wife left him, and having succeeded in amassing some property, obtained a protection order to prevent her husband from spending her savings as he had his own earniugs.

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