MISCELLANEA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 71, 6 November 1862, Page 3

MISCELLANEA.

In yesterday's Summary we pave several extracts from the Taranaki Herald, showing the temper and attitude of the natives in that province, but wo have since learned, on very good authority, that matters have gone further than oven stopping and robbing carts or resisting the road commissioners in their lawful action by flourishing of shovels, and vehement oratory. The renewal of actual hostilities is imminent, the southern natives are bent on dashing themselves against the flame, and are persuaded that they have actually made a conquest of the European land beyond the AVaireka. They intend, as far as wo can get at the particulars of the matter, to attack the working party, within a mile of the stockade, and at last it is decided on our part that concession must go no further. AA e are sorry to have no more definite information to give our readers, but the imminence of a fresh collision may be relied upon.— Nelson E x avainer, Cct. 11. lu the Australian colonics subscriptions have been made in aid of the Lancashire operatives, and ATctoria and i’cw South AValcs contribute together £25,000. Auckland is stirring, a public meeting has been held there to start the subscription. AA o trust that, before our next publication, some cflorfc may have been made in Xelson to shew that wc arc not in name only a part of the British nation. Acvcr, as far as all accounts go, was a case worthier of our brotherly sympathies, than these patient loyal sufferers, and the smallest community of the Empire living in case will not bo contented without contributing its mite.—Nelson Examiner , Oct. 11. Ext’Loiiixo Exrrnmoy.—The Emerald Isle Captain Dixon, put into this harbour yesterday morning, for the purpose of obtaining medical assistance for a seaman who had been suddenly taken ill. The Emerald Isle has been chartered by a party of gentlemen from Canterbury, who intend to explore the Coast of the Middle Island.

Onoof the gentlemen connected with the expedition ns a Mr. M’Killop, who has been for twenty-three years a resident in Victoria, and whose experience in exploration and its attending difficulties^are highly spoken of. The vessel, we understand, leaves here to-day. The Daily Times, of,the 13tlr instant, has the following remarks upon this matter ; —“The voyage will be made in the Emerald Isle, a small but very fine sea going vessel. The chief purpose of the party is to ascertain whether there be any available grazing country between the West Cape andthe extreme North end of the island on the western side. It is expected that good country will be found inland from Milford Bay going north. It is the intention of Mr. M’Killop and his friends, on landing, to cross over the first range, where between it and the Alps, it is thought very fino-and accessible grazing laud will be discovered. The party go well equipped, they are expericncd bushmen, and excellent judges of what may bo made out of a new tract nf country. Although the research for pastoral country is the main object of the expedition, attention as far as may be will bo devoted to the search for mineral wealth. The captain of the Emerald Isle, a fine intelligent energetic man, who has been a great deal on the West Coast, tells us that he knows a spot within the Province of Otago where coal and copper can be obtained apparently in great abundance. The valuable green stone, so much in favour with the natives of the North Island for earings and other articles of personal adornment, is to be found there.” Ax Oustin'.vTk Ougax.—The following story of an obstinate organ has been sent to us in MS. Wo do not know whether our correspondent manufactured it himself, but it is a good story in any ease. It runs thus:—“ln a small church at a little village near Brighton, where the congregation could not a fiord to pay an organist, they recently bought a self-acting organ, a compact instrument, well suited to the purpose, and constructed to play forty different tunes. The sexton had instructions how to sot it agoing and how to stop it, but, unfortunately, he forgot the latter part of in’s business, and after singing the first four verses of a hymn before the sermon the organ could not be stopped, and it continued playing two verses more; then just as the clergyman completed the words, “ Let us pray,” the organ clicked and started a fresh tune. The minister sat it out patiently, and (hen renewed his introductory words, “Let us pray,” when click went the organ again, and started otf with another tunc. The sexton and others continued their exertions to find out the spring, but no man could put a stop to it, so they got four of the stoutest men in the church to shoulder the perverse instrument, and they carried it down the centre aisle of the church playing away. into tlie church-yard, whore it continued clicking and playing until the whole forty tunes were finished.— (J-reeille Ldvocale, If th October. KiiYK.XTt.iciT.— -A Yankee riding up to a Dutchman, exclaimed, “ Well, stranger, for acquaintance sake, what might be your name ?” “ Vy, my name is iiaunch Iloilenliotienliifienhoflengradensteincr.” “By Cape Cod, if that ain’t as long as pumpkin vine. Well, 1 han’t no time to lose—l’m on a speculation! Tell me the way to Harrisburg.” “To Harrisburg? Veil, you see dat roat upon do lull?” pointing m the direction. “Oh, yes, i see it.” “ Veil, den, you musiit not dako dat roat. Vou see dis roat by the coal bank “ Yes.” “ Veil, dat is not the roat too ; but you must go roglar slivight py (le parn here, and ven you see von roat crooks jnslit so, (bending his elbows, and describing it at the same time).“and ven you get dere, keep right along (ill you gets further. Yell, den, you will turn the potato paths round the pridge over de river up stream, and de hill up, and directly you will see mine prouder lutz’s parn, shingled mit straw, dat’s de house where mine plodder lives, lie'll tell you so petter as I can. And must go little pit further, you sec two roats —vou niusht not take both of’em.” The Yankee rode oil' at the top of his speed. Southland, — The proprietor of the New Papers to which we alluded in our last issue, arrived in Ivercavgill ou 'Thursday by the p.s. Aphrasia—bringing with them the necessary plant. The name of the paper we hear, is to be the Invercargill Times. What are to be its politics, the prospectus, we doubt not will disclose.— News. The Yeoman says that during the Champion meeting Mr. Ja=. Henderson made Mr. Do Mcstre an offer of £1,500 for Camden. The offer was refused, and in reply to the question whether £-,000 would buy fhe horse the answer was, the horse is not for sale during the present racing season. — Argus. Novlt, W agkr.—A bet, says i\\o Albury Eanne.r lias been made between (wo local celebrities, the coming off of which will excite no small amount of interest in Albury. Mr, Basil Gray, of Welaregang, undertakes to give Mr. Mitchell one hundred yards start from a cattle yard, on any horse he may select and he on the other horse of his own choosing, is within two hours to turn and drive Mr. Mitchell into the yard, Mr. Mitchell turning whenever he is crossed by Mr. Gray and in fact being yarded like a head of cattle in (ho ordinary way. Of course it is possible that Mr. Mitchell, at the start, may make straight running away from the yard, and, if he is well mounted with the one hundred yards advantage, may never be overtaken in the time ; so that it will be a matter of the best horse and the best rider. The slakes are £IOO, and wo hear that the event is to be decided on ground to bo selected, and to come olf the day before the Albury races, in November next. Tjik Makkiage of the Phince of Walks.— Wc are enabled to state that the marriage of the Prince of Wales will take place some tune next year. xVt the present moment no positive arrangements have been made, and we are aware that nothing will be positively made known in regard to the Prince’s choice until his return to England from Germany. The probability is, that the Princess Alexandrina of Denmark will be the future Princess of V\ ales. The Princess Alexandrina (is in her ISth year, having been born in December ISM. She is the eldest daughter of In’s Royal Highness Christian, Prince of Denmark, who" is the son of the Duke of Schlcswig-Holstoin-Sond-ergurg-Gluksbngo, successor to the throne of Denmark on the death of the present king, Frederick VII.— Court Journal.

Tiie ‘ Maori Nobility”—ln his eloquent appeal on behalf of admitting the Maori “ nobility” to parliamentary privileges, Mr. Fitz Gerald, the member for Ellesmere, spoke highly of the religious feeling of the natives ; ho said they had “ readily grasped the mysteries of a lofty faith, and, to a great degree accommodated their'conduct to the requirements of their new belief.” The Taranaki Herald gives a different version of the natives on this subject; it says, “Js there any one who knows what he is talking of will deny that Christianity, with the mass of the natives, 'is but one superstition taking its place beside the old one, not by any means expelling it ? Can a man bo called a Christian who is still afraid of the taj>a, or who dare not reveal an old Maori incantation lest it should be used against him, and cause his death f If our readers will turn to page 13 of Bir George Grey’s book of Maori songs, they will find one of Rangihaeata’s, in which Jesus Christ and Fumatauengu (their old god of war) hold exactly the same place in two corresponding verses ; and this is not done from any irreverence, but in all simplicity. Again, at the raising of the king’s flag at Mataitawa the other day, as we recorded at the time, the prayers were begun with Maori TcaraHas, or incantations, and finished with part of the Church Service. And how were the Omata murders justified ? They were referred to the old Maori custom of nrnmaranga, or offering up sacrifice by a war party, and the justification was thought to be complete ; not only by the murderers and their Maori friends, bnt'by some amongst ourselves holding high positions in the Colony. And yet these murderers had been baptized, and any one who had denied their Christianity would have had to confront an angry church.” Ax Innocent Amusement.— A court martial hold at Agra on the 21th of April, presents one or two noval points. Lieutenant Glover, desirous of testing the penetrant power of clay bullets, compelled or c Meer Khan to stand target, invested only with a coarse quilt. Of course," Meer Khan came to grief; but the court martial recommended that Licutenont Glover bo dealt with leniently, on the ground of inclescretion and boyish folly. This has given occasion to the Commander-in-Chief to read a sharp lecture to the officers composing the court, refusing their request and winding up characteristically by observing that “His Excellency cannot believe that, if the act had been committed on any friend or relative of any member of the court, they would have come to the same conclusion,” and so the frolicsome lieutenant is consigned for three mouths to the fort of Agra—a punishment which Bir Hugh Rose pronounces by fur 100 lenient.— Homeward Hail, The brig Caroline from Fiji Islands, sailed from Ovalu, September sth ; had fine weather till crossing the tropic ; from thence experienced strong winds and gales for fourteen days from X. W. to 8. W. ; met with very heavy gales from tho eastward in latitude 32 S., about IUO miles from the coast of New South Wales. September 29th spoke the brig Union from Otago to Newcastle out twenty days. The Caroline took from Newcastle to the Island of Mokangia, Fiji, 550 sheep having lost five only during the passage, notwithstanding having experienced heavy gales from south and west for sis days after leaving Newcastle accompanied by heavy rain, during which thoqnar’ ter-bnat was washed away, the weather was so bad,* that for throe clays ail the sheep on dock (2-JO) had to be put below, notwithstanding which not one was lost. The sheep were well and thrivingwlien the Caroline left on her return from Fiji. The day after leaving Newcastle, the Caroline was struck by a whirlwind which split sails and did other damage, some of the sails being whirled round and round, and rent to shivers. Frequent disturbances were oecuring among the native chiefs of Fiji and the Tongese. About, the 20th August a descent was made by the Tongese with a Jleet of canoes on the town of Wyreka on the island of Tavulona Fiji during which, in a general action all the Tongese were killed with tins exception of three who escaped to the canoes. The great Tongese general, Wynangolo who had been alwaps considered invincible, was killed ; but contrary to the old practice of eating their dead the bodies were all buried by tho Fiji natives against whom (ho attack was made. During easterly gale a heavy sea broke on board the vessel which stove the long boat, and washed the galley overboard The schooner Friends , Captain Holmas, was at Ovalu and expectod to sail for Melbourne about tho 10th September; all well.— Sydney Horning Herald , Sept 30. Maori Nobility.— A correspondent of the Hew Zealand Adeerlhcr , writing to (hatjournal, says: —lf your list of Maori nobility is not yet filled up, might 1 ask you to add the following :—Arama Karaka, under the title of tho Lord Namu. Crest —a steamer on a reef of rocks, with the Maori King flag at the peak, and (he English ensign underneath. Motto—-“ Britain may rule tho waves but she does not rule at the Namu.”—AVi King!, under the title of Baron Matakatea. Crest —a stout personage (John Bull), leading a lion with a piece of phormium tenax, and poring tribute to one of (1m lords of the soil at tho King’s gate. Motto ‘‘ Base is the slave who pays.”