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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1148, 15 October 1880, Page 2

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*~ [fkoii ouk own oohrespoxdent.] NAPIER. This Day. The session of the Synod of Waiapu closes this evening. WELLINGTON. This Day. The Marine Department is to be amalgamated with the Customs. Captain Johnson, the head of the former department who has been 19 years in the service, is dispensod with, and receives compensation for loss of office. Mr. J. P. Maxwell has been appointed General Manager of New Zealand Railways, and will perform the duties of the Commissioners of Railways for both Islands, those offices being abolished. Mr. "YV. M. Hannay has been appointed Assistant-Manager. The quarter's returns is just complete. The total revenue is £747,337, including Customs £315,378 ; stamps £26,086 ; beer, £9,583 • railways, £202,950 ; postal, £33,921 Telegraph, £17,412 ; Land Sales, £48,684. Hone Paihania has given orders to' the bakers at Normanby and Hawera for supplying two thousand loaves for the meeting at Parihaka next Saturday, in honour of the returned prisoners. The Government have decided to close the following ports of entry : — Whangarei, Tauranga, Foxton, Havelock, and Kaikoura withdrawing the Custom Office and staff, and substituing bonded warehouses, as provided by the twelfth section of the Customs Tariff" Act, passed last session. This will dispense with six officers and save nearly £2000 yearly. Further reductions are being made which dispense with eight other officers, making a total annual saving of nearly £40, 000. AUCKLAND. Tim Day. The police authorities have not yefc obtained a claimant for a quantity of spirits found buried in the sand at Wangamatira. The house built by the Government for Rewi, at Kiliikihi is about completed. A large quantity of furniture has been sent up for the house from Auckland, and workmen have been detailed to lay floor cloths, carpets, etc., and see the place is properly fitted up for the chief.

Rev. J. McAra will conduct Divine Service in the Schoolroom, Ormond, on Sunday next, the 17th instant, as per advertisement. Messrs Bourke and Smith will sell by public auction to-morrow, without reserve, the whole of the stock in trade in the estate of I. C. Taylor, consisting of saddles, cart harness, single and double buggy harness, and many other descriptions of j saddlery. Also some useful hacks. The " Press " thinks it would be as reasonable to place the "Judges" appointed by the ' gricultural and Pastoral Association at their annual Bhows on the bench of the District Court, as it would the "Judges" of the Native Lands Court.