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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 253, 17 April 1865, Page 4

AN. ADYENTCKorti Youth.—The Otago Times, March 24, say* An extraordinary exploit undertaken by a youth at Jacob a liiver, is related by some of the passengers who have arrived by file Airedale. It appears that a bay, not more tl>an twelve years ol age, living with his parents at Jacobs’ Hirer, became fascinated by the reports of the West Coast diggings, and having possessed himself of a boat without consulting the owners, he provided himself with sails and oars, and laid in a sea stock, consisting of a bag of flour, two loaves, a tin of water, a bottle of brandy, and other articles. Having also obtained a compass, he set out on his adventurous voyage, and no small consternation was caused to bis friends by his disappearance, they having had previous expovlailoa nC liih Tim /lAoinoa urviwi* • * v vv *'*" |l»tivwv*i/Ma cr|s«asv iui aCi*CutuTO iii some horse lifting transactions which had brought him under notice of the public. Thus provided he made sail for sea, his insane ambition being to round the Gape, and navigate along the coast to the district of the diggings. But the weather proved contrary by coming < n to blow stiffly from the westward, and on the day after his departure the light-keepers and others on Dog island wore surprised and alarmed to witness in the neighborhood of the island a small dingy with one diminutive inmate, while the wind was increasing uni the sea becoming more and more disturbed. They made signals to their strange visitor, and he hailed them to know where he could land with the least danger from the surf, calling to them, when they answered, “ Dont speak all at once, or 1 can t hear you.” He managed to scull into the beach, and there Mr. Douglass and others ran into the surf and hauled her and the young madcap out of danger. When on shore lie astounded them still more by the nonchalance with which he gave instructions for the preservation of las sea stoek, the perfect confidence with which he intimated his intention to pursue his voyage, an t the familiarity With which he produced his brandy bottle and asked the “ boys,” some of whom were old enough to be his grandfather, to “have a nip.” According to his description, lie had intended making his passage “south-about,” but he had felt disappointed by the setting in of westerly weather, as his nautical experience suggested that after the prevalence of easterly weather such a change was to be expected. For the next few days he remained the guest of the residents of Dog Island, and according to the latest Southland papers the police had been despatched to bring home the precocious navigator, whose buccaneering tendencies had not only induced him to risk his life on the open sea in a cockle-shell of a boat, but had tempted him also to render himself amenable to apprehension by appropriating more than one portion of ids outfit without any regard to mine end thine.

The Taranaki Military” Settlers.-— This body of men, brought down by the AhuriH on Wcduesc-ay, remained on board until Tliursday| evening, the lion. Major Atkinson being up the river, and no one lure being able to act in his absence. They then disembarked and pitched their tents in the Market-place, having been two days and nights on deck, the latter part of the time in an almost continuous heavy rain. It is intended that they leave on Monday for the Patea, going overland ; their baggage will bo forwarded by wa ter. This alteruoon filly of them have proceeded to Pariliiuo in the Sandfly.— Wanganui Chronicle, March 25.

Pai M arises in the North. —We regret to fay that (his terrible fanaticism is being allowed by the Government to work its way in the North, and thus corrupt t he hitherto peaceable and supposed-! o-be-Christian natives. The postman letween Matnkanu and Mangawai, on a previous Journey, met two ol the Pai Marire apostles going northward—on his return he met the same uieu, accompanied by some twenty to thirty convert , whom they had succeeded in proselytising. Does the Government feel itself too weak to interfere for the prevention of the spread of these damnable doctrines, or have they themselves a sneaking leaning towards the new creed ? Polii kally speaking, they are Pai Marires themselves. N.Z. Herald, April 3.