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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 26, 26 December 1861, Page 6 (Supplement)

The reasoning power is the corner-stone of the intellectual building, gives grace and strength to -j the whole structure. A

Jones tried very hard to obtain forty winks, but failed, in consequence of an irritating fly. Why was that fly Jones’ deadliest enemy ? Because it was his bit o’rest foe.

The Usurer's Fate. —in recounting the strange story of the avaricious family of the Flwes, Sir Bernard interposes a remark which, for moral significance, is perhaps unequalled. “ Warriors, statesmen, merchants, and lawyers,” says lie, “ all have orginated great and flourishing house ; but misers are rarely the patriarchs of families of enduring prosperity. The same remark may bo made in reference to those who gathered gain bv the slave’trade ; they never flourished. It has* been ascertained, as a positive fact, that no two generations of a slave dealer’s race ever continued resident on the estate acquired by the unholy pursuit of their founder ; and a similar observation applies, to a certain extent, to the profits of the usurer. A very learned friend of mine, deeply versed in the vicissitudes of genealogy, assures me that ho never knew four generations of a usurer’s family to endure in regular unbroken succession.” —Burkes Vicissitudes of Families. Two Officers Murdered At Prestox. —A fearful event took place on the forenoon of Saturday September 14, at the Fulwood Barracks, Preston. There are at present at Fulwood Barracks the depots of several regiments, constituting a provisional battalion, which is under the command of Colonel Crofton. Captain Hanham is the adjutant of the battalion. It appears that on Saturday morning a private soldier of the 32nd Regiment named M‘Caffcray, having been guilty of some neglect of duty, was brought before the officers and sentenced to 16 days’ confinement within the barracks. After going to his own room, M'Cafferay made no observation as to his sentence but he took down his rifle, and asked a comrade for a piece of greased rag, which was given to him. He then cleaned the weapon, and afterward retired to a private passage, where it is supposed he took the opportunity of loading the rifle. About II o’clock in the forenoon Colonel Crofton and Captain Hanhara were crossing the barrack square in company, when the report of firearms was heard, and immediately both gentlemen were wounded. Several officers who were walking in the square (or parade ground) hastened to their assistance. Colonel Croftcn was so severaly hurt that he had to be helped to his quarters, but Captain Hanham was able to walk without aid It would appear that after loading his rifle MUafleray watched from his own room the approach of two officers across the square, and when they were opposite to his quarters, and about 60 yards distant from him, he went into a lobby, where he was seen to kneel, fake a deliberate aim, anc fire at the officers. Medical aid was at once had for the wounded gentlemen, and on examination it was found that the ball had first struck Colonel Crofton on his left side, passed through the left lung, and gone out at his right side. It had then struck Captain Hanham on the upper part of the left arm and lodged near the spine. The ball was extracted about an hour afterwards. M'Caficray was at once taken into custody, and merely remarked to the soldier who apprehended him, “ Take my rifle.” Both Colonel Crofton and Capt. Hanham died soon afterwards from the effects of their wounds. The former lingered till the evening of Sunday, the 15th ; the latter, who was at first expected to recover, lived only till the forenoon of Monday the 16th.