Major Mair has received a letter from Sir A. Gordon, High Commissioner, stating that the Commodore had seat H.M.S. Cormorant to the New Hebrides, to inves tigate the circutcajinnce of his brother's murder. Owing to dissensions among the officers of the Auckland Rifle Battalion, it will probably be disbanded. Two companies are receding. Thomas Simons, with half a dozen other aliases, has been arrested on a charge of uttering valueless cheques. His career has been a remarkable one.
PORT OF HOKITIKA

||fligh Water (thif day) -1,21 a.m.; 1.40 p.m. PSABEBjJ|P THE) MOON— FEBRDART. Calculateflpp New Zealand, Me'au Time. ». H. M. -New Moon ... 18 2 19"6a.m; First Quarter ... ... 25 9 0-7 p.m~. Apogee, 4th. Perigee, 18th. IMPOSTS. (A special charge is made for consignees' announcements in this column.) Per Zephyr— 2o cases whiskey, 10 do port wine, 92 bags Company's sugar, 150 bags flour, 100 cases kerosene, 40 do brandy, 2 do cocoa, 5 do oysters, 110 bags rice, 15 cases starch, 15 do ale, 5 casks whitening, 3 caßes mußtard, 20 boxes raisins, 10 oases sardines, 5 cases salmon, 86 pkgs, J. Chesnet & Co. EXPEPTED AgBIVALB. Alhambra, from Melbourne, February 23. Charles Edward, from northern ports 23rd February; Martha Reicj, from Timaru, early. Isabella Anderson, from Dunedin and Oamaru, early. PROJECTED DBPABTDRBR Alhambra, for Melbourne, via Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, February 23rd. Cbarles Edward, for northern ports 24th February. VESSELS IN PORT. Waipara, Elibank Castle, and Mahinapua.
