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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 163, 26 February 1864, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Maokies in England— On the 3rd the infant son of Mr. H. Pomare, one of the New Zealand chiefs now on a visit to this country, was baptised according to the rites of the Church of England in the district church of St. Paul’s, Tottenham. The incumbent, the Eev. H. M’Sorley, officiated. Prior to the batismal service being performed that for the churching of women was read, Mrs. Pomare kneeling at the communion rails. The sponsors were her Majesty the Queen (represented by Miss Dealty), Mr. William Dealtry (private secretary to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle) and Mr. Arthur N. Birch (of the Colonial Office). The infant was named, by desire of its Eoyal Godmother, Albert Victor. Mrs. Colenso (with whom Mr. and Mrs. Pomare have been staying) acted as interpreter to Mrs. Pomare m both services. A very handsome present to the infant from her Majesty was brought by Mr. Dealtry. The present consists of a richly-chased goblet, a spoon, and a knife and fork, all of pure gold. They were supplied bv Mr. Turner, of Bond-street. The goblet and also the knife bear the following incription To Albert Victor Pomare, from his godmother, Queen Victoria, November 1863. The articles were inclosed an a beautiful case, and were accompanied by a note for £25. On the 4th one of the New Zealand chiefs, named Pomare, now on a visit to this country, accompanied by his wife and infant son, Albert Victor, to whom the Queen has stood sponsor, arrived at Windsor Castle on a visit to her Majesty, in the middle of the day. They are quite a youthful pair, and while waiting an audience of her Majesty partook of refreshments, with which they were served by the attendants of the Eoyal household. After the Queen had received them, the chief and his family, much pleased with the interview which had graciously been accorded them, took their departure from the Castle about four o’clock in the afternoon. They will leave England for their native country in about a month s time. —New Zealand Examiner , Dec. 15. The Maokies in England. —Bristol seems not to have been the only place where, under the patronage of the Mayor, Mr. Jenkins and his itinerant Maoris appear to have partaken freely of champagne, while they plied their visitors with what some persons are not at all shy in stating to be anything but the truth. On Tpesday October 6, having for that purpose adjourned from Bristol, the Maoris exhibited themselves in Birmingham, but not to “ crowded houses.” It surprises us more the more we reflect how any man, well knowing as Mr. Jenkins must, that reports of his proceedings would reach Nelson, could say “ that they did not come there for the purpose of exhibiting themselves, but to see the evil of the land and the good of the land.” It is as notorious here as the sun at noon-day, that Mr. Jenkins visit to England with his dusky troupe was as much a mere speculative attempt to raise the wind as was that of Mr. Barnum with Tom Thumb. At one show, interview, or whatever it may be termed, which was held at Bath, we see that a Maori, named Horomana Te Atua, said “ the Queen had assured them that she would not oppress them, and that they should have equal laws with her British subjects. He had not seen that laws had had the effect of making the English and Maori nations one nation. In his opinion, the best plan to unite them would be that the two races should marry together [laughter and applause]. They might laugh at the°suggestion, but those were his thoughts. That would be the best way to make them keep the laws. It would greatly improve them in every respect [laughter and hear, hear]. Some of the New Zealand women had married English settlers, but the British had not married any of the Maories [laughter]. They were taught in the Word of God that they should do unto each other as they would bo done by, and that they should love one another, and they could not do this in a better manner than by doing as he had recommended [laughter and cheers]. They must not blame him for what he had said, for ho was sure that his countrywomen, had they been present that evening, would have approved of his observations. New Zealanders were anxious to give their females to Europeans, but their example had not been followed by the English [cheers and laughter].” —Nelson Examiner, Jan. 14. Eifee Fiking.— Sergeant Forbes, of the Ellon Eifles, made the following extraordinary scores at Peterhead rifle range .—7OO yards—two sighting shots, 9 bull’s eyes, 1 centre ; 800 yards, Skull’s eyes, 2 centres ; 900 yards, 8 bull’s eyes, 2 centres j 1,000 yards, 6 bull’s eyes, 4 centres. Sergeant Forbes used a Whitworth rifle, flitted with ° perforated sights. —Aberdeen Herald. Otago Sheep Statistics.—A return has been published in Otago of the number of sheep in that province, which are stated to amount to 280,861, of which 820,891 are ewes, and 150,960 are wethers. The sheep brought into the province during the past fifteen months numbered 132,034, of which 54,225 were brought over sea, and the remainder were introduced bv land.. The number of wethers slaughtered in the province during the year 1863, numbered 135,000

Animal Food Annually Required foe London. —It is calculated that the metropolis alone consumes, in the course of a year, no fewer than 270.000 oxen, 30,000 calves, 1,300,000 sheep, and 30.000 pigs, to say nothing of the flocks of fowls, and shoals of fish which find their way into the same channels of consumption, The total value of the flesh imported into London, alive or dead, cannot be much less than £11,000,000 annually. Steange Bedfellows. —A private letter from Auckland, received not long since, gives the following account of the passengers by the TJiosbe on a trip between Wellington and Kelson;—“A Chief Justice, and a Maori on h's way for murder ; a white man about to be put on trial for forgery, and a Bishop ; a person accused of cattle stealing out on bail, and several lunatics, including a member of the Legislaf ive Council; several members of the House of Representatives, a Provincial Superintendent, the Christy Minstrels, and Miss Rye, ‘Bones’ and Bishop were put into the same state room.” —Canterbury Tress. The best sort. —The buxom, bright-eyed, fullbreasted, bouncing lass—who can darn a stocking, mend trowsers, make her own frock, command a regiment of pots and kettles, feed the pigs, milk the cows, and be a lady withal in company—is just the sort of girl for a young man to marry, but you, yo pining, lolling, screwed-up, wasp-waisted, doll-dressed, putty-faced, consumption-mortgaged, novel-devouring daughters of fashion and idleness —you aro no more fit for matrimony than a pullet is to look after a family of fourteen chickens. —American Taper. Stockeidino Extraordinary.—A correspondent sends us the following:—“Many anecdotes have been told and written in proof of the sagacity of the horse, but I question whether Yomut, Stonehenge, or the facetious ‘ Harry Ilieover,’ can adduce such another instance of equine sagacity as the following, which came under my own observation: —On sth March last, a gentleman residing on the Billabong determined to test the capabilities of his favourite stockhorse in cutting out cattle, which as most bushmen know, is the most difficult of all bush equestrianism. Accordingly, he took the bit out of the hnrsc’.s mouth, tied the reins to the saddle, and, folding his arms a tci Hamlet, proceeded to cat out forty head of cattle with as much ease as if he had been guiding him by the reins ; and this, too, in an incredibly short space of time, and without making a single mistake. To an experienced stockrider this may not appear extraordinary, but to the tinnitiated the feat will appear almost incredible, when they know that—merely guided by the motion of his master in the saddle—the little horse walked into the mob, ‘spotted’ the bullock his master wished to draft out, dodged him out of the mob, and ran him into the mob of fat cattle which were standing some 200 yards distant, with as much case as a well trained Coolie dog would single out a sheep, and take it from one flock to another. I should hardly venture to give publicity to this, were it not that six or eight others were present and witnessed the feat as well as m ysclf.”— Tell’s Life in T'icloria.