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Hawke's Bay Times, 10 August 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

A Fortnightly Mail from EuROPE.-Tbe Daily Telegraph of 24th inst. Say'S :—“ Out readers will perceive from the items of home news which appear in another column, that the proposals made by New South Wales and this Colony to establish a Mail Service via Panama have been positively declined by the Imperial Government. As a species of souffredouleur, we imagine, for this disappointment, it is announced that the English Government have entered into arrangements with the Peninsular and Oriental Company, to run a fortnightly mail, from London via Point de Galle. Ths subsidy to be paid is £IO,OOO per annum less than was originally proposed by the Company.

Improvement in Telegraphs. —Professor Wheatstone has just perfected a most extraordinary and valuable improvement in telegraphs—a private letter-printing apparatus working by itself, so that no clerk or attendant is required. A merchant can now lock up his counting house, and on his return find every message faithfully recorded in legible type during his absence bv this beautiful little machine.— Record.

A G-ame of Patience. —An ingenious arithmetician has 'made the following calculations, in virtue of which he proposes to call the year 1853 the year of nines. Add the two first figures of the year, 1 and 8, and you have the total" 5 9 ; tho two last figures, 6 and 3, gives the same result. Place the two figures, 1 and 8, under 6 and 3 and addi when you will have 81, which two figl ures united give 9. Subtract, on the other hand 18 from 62, there remains 15, the union of which makes 9. Multiply tho four figures 1,8, 6,3, ono by the other, and the result is 144, which numbers together make 9. Add the figures 1,8, 6 3 together, when you will get 18, which cyphers together make 9. Divide 1863 by 9, the quotient is 207, which three figures equal 9. The combinations are infinite, and tho author considers that this year is essentially one of revolutions,-«• Ibid.