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In the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day one drunkard was fined five shillings.

The Bazaar in aid of the manse fund of Sc Paul's Chinch was continued last evening, and was as successful a-* ever. Being the last night, it was kept open Inter than on the previous evening-*, and the proceedings were kept up with spirit till close upon midnight. The total proceeds amount to between .£350 and £4OO.

Another has now to be added to the laurels already gained by the Napier Rifle Club. In the contest which has just terminated between that association and No. 1 Company Dunedin City Guards, the local team were the victors by no fewer than 103 points. The total numbers were—Napier Rifle Club, 411 ; Dunedin City Guards, 308. We are indebted to Mr F. W. Garner, Secretary of the Napier Club, for furnisliinf us with the above lesult, as al-o for the scores made by the local team, as published in our last. Dr Hector lately paid a vi-it to the Coll ins; wood coal-mine (Nelson Province and expressed himself greatly pleased with the mineral prospects of the di-tf i ict, and more particularly with the fine ironstone which exists there in abundance in close proximity to the coal. The Coal Company are pushing on their drive, which is to cut the coal at a low level, with all convenient speed, and Br Hector expressed himself generally with the progress of the work.

On Thursday afternoon, Bee. 5, nays the Coromandel Mai], the John Bull mine, with its extensive and expensively timbered working*, was submitted to auction I>y Mr Henry Suioxhin. There was a moderately large attendance, which the eloquence of the auctioneer \vh«, however, entirely unable to whip up into a state of enthtiNiaain. Jt would have been for George KobillH himwelf to have tried to cotw a *pirited bid out of the audience present, and it was not until Mr Halosliin had been tolerably well chaffed as to the exact line of the Green Harp leader the two claims join—and had stood sponsor to an alarming extent on behalf of the John Bull's good behavioui' to its next proprietary, that a voice, half doubtful of the wiviJom of the lad, lieaid offering Jcl. Will yon 1 and yo« I and you 1, was beard from a welb known legal malinger to three or four around him, and then after a nod from each a bid of M 8 was made, and the mine, which might at one time have been *f>]d for as many thoitennda/was • knocked doM n to Mr I*. as oil j behalf ©£ himself and. h.i& friend*,,

NEW ZEALAND CURED FISH. (New Zealand Herald.) We understand-, that Messrs Ferston and M'Leod's enterprise, in establishing fisheries and fish-curing stations on the East Coast of Auckland, is likely to be rewarded with the success it merits Already a "considerable industry has sprung up" at their stations of Tutukaka and Whaugarei, as many as one hundred men, with twenty-one fishing vessels, being" Constantly' employed in the fisheries. Four new fishing crafts are being built for the same stations. In addition to the men engaged in fishing and curing, Messrs Perston and M'LeoJ employ two coopers, four sawyers, and four stave splitters, and have manufactured from heart of kauri staves a large number of casks, besides having staves in stock for several thousand more. Kauri makes excellent staves ; and an experiment is being made with New Zealand timber for hoops, which are now imported at considerable expense. New Zealand rope is also used, and has been found by experiment to be equal to the best imported. Sixteen coils of flax rope, made at Wangarei, have been in use for some time, and give great satisfaction. Nets, as tl'.ey may be needed, are woven from twine made of New Zealand flax. Indeed, it may almost be said that everything required at the fishing station <, is made of New Zealand products. The filling vessels are built in the province out of native timber, and the packing boxes are likewise made on the spot, from timber grown in the district. The entire of the labor employed is supplied by settlers residing at 01 near the fishing stations.

Already about twenty tons of cured fish have been exported from the province, of which about fifteen tons have tons have been sent, in small parcels, 10 Mel bom ne, Sydney, Adelaide, Tahiti, New Caledonia, and Fiji; and about fifty tons are ready for shipment to Mauritius and Batavia, or other port offering in the Eastern Archipelago. Freight for this qimtity cannot be obtained until about March, this being the hurricane .season in those seas. In addition, a considerable quantity of cured fish has been shipped 10 the West Coast (»>f New Zealand and other Southern provinces.

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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1514, 21 December 1872, Page 2

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Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1514, 21 December 1872, Page 2

Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1514, 21 December 1872, Page 2