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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1145, 19 April 1870, Page 2

Napier Rifle Volunteeks. — A parade of the company will be held iv the drill room at 7 this evening. Education Rate. — The Inspector of Police will begin, this day, to collect the rate in country districts. Sealed Tenders are invited for the erection of an hotel and stables at Gisborne, Poverty Hay. The English Mail, via Suez, is due in this colony on Wednesday next (tomorrow). Messrs. Routledge, Kennedy, and Co. will, to-morrow, at the Meanee yards, bold a large sale of cattle, horses, and sheep. — See advertisements. Epabaima Bush. — A Provincial Government Gazette, issued on Saturday last, contains a proclamation that a sale of rural sections in the Eparaitna Bush shall take place on Wednesday, the 18th May. Provincial Council. — A Provincial Government . Gazette. ,was issued yesterday, containing a proclamation that the Provincial Council shall meet for the despatch of business on Wednesday, the 18th May, The Outward English Mail as would be observed by post office notice in our last, leaves Napier on Friday next, 22nd inst., by the s.s. Airedale. It will leave Auckland on the 4th of May,^ by the' s.s. City of Melbourne. The Weather continued showery, with occasional heavy falls of rain, from Wednesday last till yesterday morning, making the rivers pretty full and reducing some of the roads to a frightful condition. -The rainfall, as recorded iv Napier during«,the last' 'five days, was close upon three inches, but it is supposed that much more fell up the country, the rain having been more continuous there. Resident Magistrates' Court. — -During the last few days no cases have been brought before the Resident Magistrate's Court. Great inconvenience arises from the want of a Resident Magistrate, owing to the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace being limited to £20. A number of cases above the £20 jurisdiction have necessarily been adjourned, pending the decision of the Government regarding Captain Curling, and we have been informed these cases are daily accumulating, and suitors justly complain of the delay. Waipawa Sabbath School. — In consequence of the rains which have fallen during the last few days, thereby causing a slight fresh in the rivers, the children attending the above school were prevented | from enjoying a treat that has been for some weeks past in contemplation, and intended to have taken place on Friday last (Good Friday), in the paddocks of John Harding, Esq., Woodlands. The disappointment was, however, obviated in a great measure, through the united efforts of Messrs. Collins, Phillips, and Cowper, who formed a .committee, and, assisted by the townsfolk, procured a large supply of buns, cakes, lollies, &c. The children repaired to the paddocks of E. Collins, Esq., to enjoy themselves, and after dark adjourned, with their : teachers, to Good-fellows' Hall, when after a few Sunday School hymus weresung, the party broke up. — From a Correspondent. I