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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 49, 5 June 1862, Page 3

The Fiji Islands Past oral, Agricultural, and Commercial Company have- pm-chased the island of Kioa, which has three good harbours and 15,000 square miles ofiand. It produces cotton nearly equal to good American, arrowroot, cocoanut, tobacco, ami handing wood. There are oulv sixty natives on the island, whoso labour will be useful to the company. Portions of several of the Fiji Islands are all occupied by Europeans, find preparations are making by them for stocking their settlements with sheep, and to undertake cotton-growing. — Wuivhma.i, January 1. A Vfiuic iloov;;i, by ax Axchoh.—Tlio following is an extract of a letter addressed by Mr. T. J. lic-idy, Superintendent of Alanaar Ferrv to the Immigration Commissioners, of Colombo, Ceylon, and published in the Ovfrlaiul Ohxcreer of Sept. UO —“ i have the honor to inform you I leftDevipatamou the doth hist., with two schooners having on board ~10 coolies. Me arrived here (Taleiuauaar) on Saturday, the 2(lh hist., I p.m. leaving the wiml directly against us on coming opposite to liamisseram pagoda, we anchored there at 7 o'clock p.m. intending to start during ths night for Taleiuauaar, when the wind would change. About 8 o'clock p.m. I was sitting on the small poop, when suddenly the how of the vessel was pulled on a level with the sea ; then came a slight shod;, and a large shower of spray ail over the vessel, after which wo shot oil at railway speed. I was very much alarmed at first by the shock and spray, thinking we might have drifted on some of the coral reefs. In about a minute, a whale some -10 or 50 feet long, made his appearance forward at cables length from the vessel ; then for the first tune 1 knew how matters were. Very -xt "aordiuavy. indeed, the whale had swallowed our anchor, and was n,-miy h,a iked. "When the whale hooked himself we were in six fathoms the evening was very calm, and the moon just appearing above ihe horizon. All the coolies were very much alarmed, and indeed so were we all. I was going twice to cut the anchor and cable ; but having only another cable on board, I did not like to do so, as, if I had, I should stop the vessel, as I would not risk her in this weather depending on one cable. I think the way the whale must have got entangl’d must have been when ho was feeding, running with mouth fully extended, when coming w itii his under jaw against the 11 uke of the anchor he seized it up, and, having turned it in his mouth, was unable to extricate himself. Ido not otherwise see how it could have pecured. The whale got hooked at 8 p.m. lie then went oil at full speed a head, then stopped and whirled us rapidly; then went on forward again, fully at fifteen miles an hour ; again whirling ns about and pulling ns right and left, and showing himself, and spouting every minute : and this continued mild 1 o'clock a.m. From his size I do not think ho could have been a grampus as 1 feel certain lie must have been -lO feet in lengl.i. Te took us A. by A.E. over fifty miles. At 1 o clock a.m. on Saturday morning the vessel stopped running, and the whale lifted up his head out of the water about 10 feet, and went off, leaving the anchor drilling to the vessel, lie was hooked five hours, and w„-is nearly dead when the anchor got loose. Vv c then turned the vessel, set sails, and stood in for Paumbonlight; which we made by daylight, and continued on our way the following morning to Talcmanaar.” Mi-. .Jones called upon the gentleman who advertizes to restore oil paintings, and requested him to restore a valuable landscape which was stolen from him two, years ago, “ Get nut of the way, boy, get out of the way,” said a gentleman on horseback to a boy in the road. “My horse don’t like donkeys.”—“ Doan’t ho P” said the boy, “then why doau’t he kick you off?” A paper can publish the appointments after the coining in of a new administration, but what, paper in the world is large enough to publish half the disappointments P