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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 218, 25 January 1865, Page 3

It is said that Tapper’s popularity is mainly based upon a line he wrote to the effect that “ a babe in a house is a well-spring," or hydrant, or watering-pot, or some aquatic performance of that sort “ of pleasure.” Some days ago a child was rescued from the flooded waters of the Teviot by a laborer. Tl;o brave fellow, of course, lost some time in the performance of the gallant act and in changing his wet clothes afterwards, and his employer in paying him his wages deducted the value of the hour’s work, 3£d., from his hardly won earnings. As a girl, aged 14, was eating a Chelsea bun for breakfast in a hop garden at Copton, she bit a wasp that was nestled in the sugar, and swallowed the insect. At dinner time her body commenced to swell all over, and a surgeon was sent for, but she died shortly afterwards.

The Chief Justice. —The Wellington corres* pondent of the Otago Daily Times says:—l hear that Chief Justice Arney will very shortly take his two years’ leave of absence, and that his duties will meanwhile be performed by Mr. Justice Chapman. lam not quite certain that this is fact, but I am told that it is reliable.” -