HAWKES' BAY.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1515, 19 April 1861, Page 5

HAWKES' BAY.

By ihc Dove, we have rocoived a cupy of the Herald, of the 6th hist., from, which we have i made the following 1 extracts — i The Provincial Council, pursuant to the summons of the Speaker, will meet on Monday next, At noon, for the purpose of electing a Superintendent. .This being done, another adjournment i will of necessity take place— not only to give the Superintendent, the members, of the Executive, and probably the Treasurer, an opportunity of going before their constituencies ; but afford the Superintendent elect the necessary time for , drawing out Estimates, and otherwise preparing for the business of the session. I A fortnight will probably be required--for this purpose, more especially as it is not improbable i that one of the inland constituencies will supply a seat in the Executive. And even that period

• \Vtl! be fdiind ahort rfrintgli by the irentleina 1 Upon whmri tt'il l devolve tlici diity of opening i the next session. . It will he seen that lh\ tfitzGei'ald, upon i relinquishing the Superuitendency, has taken . the straightforward course of placing his seat • far Napier at the disposal of the electors. We shall consequently have no loss than five elec- . tions during the recess. The newly constituted Land Board— which i. has boen so long called for by the public, but with reference to which, now that wo have 'it, i public opinion seems greatly divided — is placed - i.n a vety curious predicament. From the fact of ihe Superintendent's resignation having been - accepted on the 7th, and the appointments not having been made till the Ifith— coupled with the stout asservation of tLe Superintendent t himself that his powers ceased upon the day when his resignation wasaceepted — the legality 3 of the constitution of the Board has been greatly questioned ; the Chief Commissioner refuses to - recognise it or give it office room ; and it remains in a state of abeyance pending a reference to the Geueral Government upon the knotty poiuls that have been raised. The extent of the embrogtio will be better understood when it j is remembered that Mr. FitaGetald, by a prior • proclamation, divested tie Chief C munissioner of the powers he kas hitherto held ; so that, so long as the Board continues of doubtful legality, the business of the Laud Department will beat I an approximation to dead lock. The legal question involved hinges upon two t points ; the first whether the Governor's delegation of powers is held by Mr. FitzGerald, in his - public or private capacity? It is expressed as .. to T. 11. FitzGerald, Superintendent; but tha| r gentleman maintains that his acts under such deicgaiinn are different from those in the character > of Superintendent. The second is, whether the f functions of Superintendent became null upon , 7ih, when bis resignation was accepted by the Governor? These are "nuts" for lawyers to crack. The difficulty, so far as we are concerned will be solved in a week or two by the Geueral Government ; but the sooner the better. Fatal Occurrence. — Te the Editor of the i Hawke's Bay Herald. Sir, I hasten to give a few particulars of a melancholy occurrence which has taken place here in the course of the , past week. A man who came from Ahuriri last week by the Henry, and described himself as ; Dr. Knowles King, of Ahuriri, made his appearance at the house of one of the settlers at this I plnee, on Friday, the 16th March, about 7 o'dock in the evening, asking for a night's | lodging. After a very disturbed night, he left ■ the house early in the morning, and spent the greater pait of the following day at a Maori kaaianga close by; and, accoiding to the des- | cription given of him by the natives, ho appears to have acted as though he were more or less t, insane. They missed him that evening, and nobody seems to have heard or seen anything . more of him till this morning, when his body was found in the river, a short distance from [ the kauinga where he spent last Saturday, anrl where, as ftiv as we can make out, he was last . seen alive. There being no coroner in the district, we got together as many of the English t residents in the neighbourhood as the circuin- [ stances would admit of, and held an enquiry, j in the course of which the above particulars I were elicited. The poor man seems to have ; received a severe bruise on the forehead and > upper part of his face before death, and his > jaw is fractured; but the medical man who examined the body states as his opinion that death was caused by drowning. There is no evidence to show how the bruises weie received, , but the bank of the vivev where he was found is very high and almost perpendicular, and r a fall from a height of 20 feet or more maj f account for many bruises and broken bones. He had shoes or boots on when last seen alire, 1 but when the corpse was found the feet. were naked.— l remain &c, W. L. Williams, Tauranjja, Poverty Bay. Wksleyan Denomination.— We have to chronicle the arrival, per Wonga, of a minister in connection with this body — the Rev. Mr. Shaw, who has been for the past 18 months labouring in the Friendly Islands, and who has latterly been appointed to this district. It will be seen from our advertising columns that "the Rev. gentleman takes one of the services on Sunday next. HollowaVs Pills. — Should be taken > for the cure of Dropsy.— Females at a certain period of life become liable to this complaint, which first makes its appearance, by the swelling ' of the feet, legs and hands, and thus making strong inroads on the constitution ; numbers of dropsical patients, even when their cases were 1 pronounced hopeless, have been cured by taking t-lolloway's Pills; and this medicine having stood the test of years as a certain remedy for this malady, no one so afflicted should delay 1 giving it a trial. A time of life called the critical ' cal period is common to both sexes, when ibis '■ is safely passed hale old age invariably follows. 1 These admirable Pills are expressly adapted for that period.