SHIPPING.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7194, 20 June 1885, Page 2

SHIPPING.

Our Hastings correspondent's letter will be found on the fourth page. The auction and otlier announcements of Mr B. Lyndon, Mr M. R. Miller, Messrs Brooking and St. Clair, Messrs. Banner and Liddle, Mr R. Well wood, Mr W. B. Harding, and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company are inserted to-day on our fourth page. Mr H. 0. Wilson desires us to state that he will be in Waipawa on Tuesday and Wednesday next. We hear that Me J. H. Vautier has i sold his coal business, together with his premises and vessels, to Mr John Orr I and Company, Port Ahuriri. I We are informed that Mr Natt. I Kettle, late of Messrs Murray, Roberts I and Co., is about to enter into partner- I ship with Mr F. W. Williams at the I Spit. The committee of the Volunteer ball I will not be at a loss for evergreens, &0., I to decorate the ballroom with, Mr H. S. I Tiflien having offered to supply all that I may be needed. I There was a large attendance at the I gale of work in St. John's schoolroom I last evening. The sale will be continued I this day, commencing at three o'clock I in the afternoon. I The headmaster of a Government I school in New Plymouth has sent a I letter to the Board of Education asking i for an increase of salary on the score of I his duties being very honorous. I Messrs Murphy and Oarmoody have I signed the contract for the construction | of the sea-wall in connection with the I , new harbor works. It is expected that I work will be started .early next week. I The monkey used for driving the I piles in connection with the new bridge I ! at the Spit got adrift at noon yesterday, I ' and came down with a run from the top { ! of the framework. Luckily no one was I ' hurt. I The Napier Volunteer Naval Artil- I * lery paraded for company drill last I t evening at the Spit, Lieutenant Setter! i in command. The men were put I j through various evolutions by Drill In- 1 c structor Nelson. . « The subject of the Eev. J. Gv t Paterson's sermon to-morrow will be B "Obedience better than sacrifice." The ti subject of the evening ledtußewill be v " Young mea of. society— the. idler and 1<