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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1238, 2 February 1872, Page 2

Between Opotiki and the East Cape the produce of maize for this season, will be about 15,000 bushels.

A general removal of all stores and* a number of the buildings from Fort Britomart, Auckland, to Albert Barracks, is abou. to be made, in anticipation of a larsje portion of the Point being cut down, for the purpose of forming a terminus for the. Waikatorailway.

The Thames Advertiser, January 29, contains the following :—Our Ohinemuri correspondent informs us that Mr Floyd arrived at the Paeroa, from the new telegraph station at Katikati, on Friday, "and intimated that the line would be completed from Tauranga to that place on the following day, and communication opened to day (Monday), The line from thence, via aho progressing rapidly. Te JJira and Mere Kuru, with a number of their followers, are at Tuitahi, the fishing grounds near Shortland. With the opening of the Katikati station, telegraphic communication between the Thames and the South is brought within an eight hours' journey, and in another month or so we hope to find the link and through communication opened.

Captain Sergent of the ship A.rtist s which arrived at Calcutta from Liverpool, has published a statement which, will go far to show how the destruction of many a noble ship, accompanied with, loss of life, is attributable to the mutinous conduct of some of the crew. Capt. Sergent states that:— On the voyageout from Liverpool to Calcutta, and when in lat. 41 deg. 6 min. S., long. 57 deg. 15 min. E., on the 29th April, the chief officer repotted that the fore, upper, and lower topsail braces and the cross-jack braces had been cut. I offered a reward ot ,£lO to anyone who would give me information on the subject, but without eifect. Had the mischief not been discovered in good in good time, it is probable we should, have lost some of our spars and our crew over board. On going up the mizzen rigging a few days previous to inspect some of the carpenters' work in. the top, I afterwards went on the mizzen topsail yard, where I found the footsteps cut through, evidently by a knife. ' Although it bore my weight, that of any additional man would, I feel confident, have been sufficient to break it. About ten days aftei wards, from information obtained from the crew, I had three men--James Murphy, Dennis Sweeney, and another—put in irons, and afterwards the two former voluntarily confessed in the presence of several witnesses their shipmates, stating that they had done the mischief. On arriving at Calcutta I handed them, over to the police and the case was tried. The two men named were sentenced to only eight weeks' imprisonment and a fine of £l. I may mention that the man Murphy boasted that when on board the ship Candahar and Zuleika he had caused considerable damage to the rigging."

Flow to make a slow horse fast.— Tie hi in to a post.

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