MISCELLANEA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 198, 28 October 1864, Page 2 (Supplement)

MISCELLANEA.

The Defence Force. —The ,V. Z. Herald says: —“We learn that the Colonial Government have taken steps for the reduction of that useful corps the Defence Force, ami that for the present the number retained will be only seventy-five—viz., twenty-five in the three provinces of Auckland, Wellington, and Hawke’s Bay. We'also, learn that, for the same reason, to decrease the colonial expenditure, the issue of militia pay at Taranaki will be discontinued.

A Dreadful Threat.— (Local J.P. to obstinate citizen) “ I tell you what, sir!! if you don’t do what I order you in this case, I'll swear you in as a special cotistable in the name of God ! /”

A Bight View of New Zealand Affairs.— Amongst the crowd of writers for the Press in England who just now are lending themselves to mislead the public on the state of affairs in New Zealand, it is pleasant to meet with men who, from a better knowledge, take a sounder and more correct view of the condition of the colony. Temple Bar , a magazine with a very largo circulation and conducted with groat ability, hud lately an article on “New Zealand, Past, Present, ami Future,” which concludes with the following passage : —“ Our narrative having brought us down to present times, we find England at war with tins Maoris again. Land, land, the perpetual cause of quarrel; the absurd treaty of Waitangi. How much better for all concerned, had we, that is to say our Government, claimed scignorial right over the land, at once confirming every individual, native or colonial, in the title of such as he mmht have reclaimed ! We, for our part, cordially uphold the policy recently initiated of confiscating the land of all the natives who have risen in rebellion ; and establishing frontier military colonies. In respect to the confiscation, lot the fact be borne in mind that the Maoris are not, like the North-Ameriean Indians, a hunting race—there being no game to hunt. They are, or ought to be, an agricultural race ; and their sincercst friends could desire for them no better eventuality than that the pressure of colonization should force upon them the alternative of working honestly side by side with Europeans, or else dying out.”

Native Atmr.—The Otago Witness states that Mr. Leggat, of Moeraki, has kindly forwarded a sample of native alum, procured by him from the interior of a cave, on the property of Mr. Mitchell, near Pleasant river, Waikouaiti. It is said to exist there in considerable quantity. “ llawfuj. ’ Language in a N ewseaueu ScuntAtAGE. —A “leader” from licit s Life in Sydney, will bear reproduction. Here it is : —“Our puerile contemporary, with a periphrastic virility only equalled-by his septugesimal iconociasm will no doubt in his next abdominal issue endeavor to overturn our arguments with his usual convivial superciliousness, but let him do his worst— we uefv lint! and as for his best, as the Swan of Erin, Robert Burns, remarks in Ids ‘ Youim”. Night Thoughts,’•—‘There is no such things That he knows nothing we compute (o his ignorance, and while we inculcate his allegations, we shed tears for the alligator, and though we preternaturally declaim from the sardonic evacuation of personalities, wo would venture to insert hydrostatically, that if ho would dye his whiskers, live cleanly, and give the old woman her 9d. ho would be a bettor and a wiser man. Our readers may not be aware that four beans do not make five, unless one be added to them, under which circumstances, they do ; and wo defy any ‘ calculating boy,’ let him be ever so eageu to do nothing for his country’s good, to say no. him beware what he says, or, if lie does so, he will hnve an opportunity of trembling in his shoes for the nominal charge of fid.” Two countrymen visiting'the menagerie 'of the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, and .'coming to the elephant, one of them exclaimed, “ What is that ?” “Why that is the elephant, to be sure,” said a person standing by. “Ob ! that’s the elephant,” said the countryman ; then turning''to his companion he added, in an undertone, “but how stupid these people are, they feed him by the tail.” Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Co. announce as succeeding vessels—For Auckland, the Victory, Anne Wood, and Matoaka; for Canterbury, the Eastern Empire, the favourite ship Zealandm, and the new clipper Glenmark ; for Otago, the Celaeno and Gloriosa; for Wellington the regular traders Wild Duck and John Bunyan. The Ai-dbeg, Messrs. Boulder’s packet for Auckland, sails to-day. She carries out a considerable number of passengers, and will be followed by the Viscount Canning. Messrs. Wilson, Bilborongh and Co. have sent away the Albert William, for Auckland, and’ the W. 11. Ilaseldcn, for Canterbuy. The officers in command of the fith company of Royal Engineers, at present in New Zealand, having sent an urgent request for an additional number of men, a detachment of 40 lias been selected from the depot companies, at Chatham, and will shortly embark.

“I’m afraid of the lightning,” murmured a pretty young woman during a storm. “ Well, you may be,” sighed her despairing lover, “ when your heart is steel.”

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