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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 63, 11 September 1862, Page 3

Expected Movements of the Troops. —The return of the 75th regiment from India will, in all probability complete the movements of regiments between home and foreign service for the year. The state of affairs in New Zealand no doubt may enable Sir George Grey to dispense with two of the battalions in that colony ; and as the 65th have been away since May, 1846, and the 70th since January, 1849, we may expect the return of these regiments early in 1863. The second battalion of the 14th went out to relieve the 65th, and the 70th will not be relieved, so that no regiment will be sent abroad in their place. The 40th, which went abroad in July, 1852, and the 57th, in February, 1853, will also have a claim to return home next year, and one battalion is likely to be sent to replace them on the Australian station. —Army and Navy Gazette , June 7th. Tiie following story appears in the Jfew York papers On the Bth of this month, E. P. Christy the originial negro mintrel, attempted to commit suicide, by jumping out of the second storv window of his residence, at New York. His history is a singular one He made the first success of the African opera. He was from Buffalo—a rough in that place, with a good voice; ho got up a company of singers. He picked up a boy named George, to whom he gave his name, and he made it famous as George Christy. Succeeding so well in Buffalo, Ned Christy determined to try a larger field, and came to New York. Here ho was almost drowned with success. Crowds thronged his place nightly, and hundreds were turned away because there was no room. He coined money, and was enabled to sport diamond breastpins and rings worth $5,000. Women fell in love with him. Ho was the rage. He bought houses—owned John Brougham’s Theatre—kept race horses—bought heavily in stocks—gave magnificent feeds—and this continued for years. When the war broke out he took into his head that the rebels would land in the city capture it, and deprive him of his property, inconsequence of his endeavours to maka the negro character of consequence. The result has been very distressing. In the midst of affluence, he thought of nothing but his probable poverty, and he who has caused millions to be convulsed with laughter, sat by his own fireside, day after day a picture of the deepest woe. A Secret.— “ How do you do, Mrs. Biggs ? Have you heard the storv about Mrs. Ludfy ?” “Why, no really, Mrs. Gad' what is it—do tell ?” “Oh, I promised not to tell for the world! No. 1 must never tell on’t—l’m afraid it will got out.” “No, I’ll never open my mouth about it —never. Hope I’ll die this minute!” “Well if you’ll believe it, Fuddy told me last night, that Mrs. Trot told her that her sisier’s husband was told by a person who dreamed it, .that Mrs Trouble’s oldest daughter told Mrs. Nichcns that her grandmother heard by a letter, which she got from her sister’s second husband’s oldest step-daughter that it was reported by a captain of a clamboat just arrived from Fecjeo Island, that the mermaids about that section wear crinoline made out of shark skins.”