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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 95, 6 March 1863, Page 4

The Maohies in Melboukxe. —Awaking from the visions of the night to find a tatooed Maori peering through one’s curtains at the small hours is an experience not likely to be desired, even by those in search after new sensations. A female resident of Latrobe street received a terrible fright on Tuesday morning. Awaking between 2 and 3 o’clock, she found what appeared to her excited imagination to be a hideous monster, peering at her over the bed curtains. It turned out, however, only to be one of our New [Zealand visitors upon whose face the limner’s art appeared almost to have been exhausted, and who having got on “ the spree,” had broken into the house with some vague notion of finding a resting place. A candlestick was found in his hand, and ho was given in charge to the police as soon ns the affrighted woman, who rushed out into the street in night attire, succeeded in attracting the attention of a guardian of the night to her peculiarly perplexing predicament. The Maori was still a little “ spirituous,” as Mrs. Malaprop would say and it was sworn in the City Court on Tuesday that it took throe policemen to hold him. The name adopted in court by the defendant was the rather English one of Smith, and the bench, taking a lenient view of the case, informed him he must pay 20s for his present offence, or go to gaol for seven days. Mr. Smith signified his willingness to comply with the order of the court, and at the same time his satisfaction at getting out of the scrape so easily, by an emphatic grunt of acquiescence.—Leader, Feb. Id. A man named O'Neill, in Boston, has done a good tiling with a recruit. First he got him to enlist, receiving a bounty of 200 dollars. Then he induced him to desert, shaved off his whiskers, enlisted him in another company, and got 200 dols. more. Got him to desert again, and put a wig on him, and received 200 dollars more. The fourth time, as he was re-wigging him, the sharper was caught. —American Paper. The Semnine Uniterselle represents the Chancellor of the Exchequer as having delivered his well-known speech at Newgate instead of Newcastle !