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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 72, 13 November 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

“ Speaking of bathing,” said Mrs Partington from behind the steam that arose from her tea as a veil to her blushes when touching on so delicate a subject,“some can bathe with perfect impurity in water ns cold a? Greenland’s icy mountains and India’s coral strands, but, for my part, I prefer to have the water a little torpid.” A missionary in the Chinese waters having distributed several copies of the Ten Commandments on shore, they were sent back the next day with the request that, they be distributed among the French and English ; “ for,” said the Chinese, “ the tracts contain admirable doctrines, and these people evidently much need them.” Gah ah alt) i. — The Sydney Empire, says : ‘M hen the mail and passengers arrived at Cairo, on their way to join the Madras, on the Red Sea, it was stated that the telegram received at Alexandria, and announcing, os indicated last week in the daily papers of Sydney, that Garibaldi had been defeated, wounded and taken prisoner, was a more fabrication. It yet remains to be explained why Renter’s latest telegram did not convey the contradiction. But it is positively stated that a telegram denying the truth of his capture was received at Cairo.