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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 262, 8 May 1865, Page 3

Professor Goesling, a German chemist in Cincinnati, has discovered a process of-making tliefinest sugar from Indian corn. The rate is three and a half gallons of beautiful whjte syrup to a: bushel of corn. The process is so simple that it j can he carried on with the ordinary utensils in.a j farmer's kitchen. This discovery is likely to add | immensely to the wealth of the north-west. A New York company, it is said, have purchased the right for 100,000 dollars, arid.purpbkp going into tho bus : n-ss immediately,

Abduction of a Giel fhou Otago.—The police received information the other day to the effect that a man named Joe Gibson, .a farm laborer, had abducted a girl under 16 years of age from her pareijfe_at Otago, and a warrant was forwarded for his apprehension. 'The Wellington police made- inquiries, which resulted in their apprehending a couple answering, the description .given, living as a man and wife in a lodging-house on Lambton-Quay.* 'The girl, whose name is Ada Winton, is little over fourteen years of age, and from what I can learn it appears that Gibson had been living in her fat tier’s employment at Otago, and was paid off the day prior to the elopement. The gay Lothario has been forwarded to Dunedin by the police, but as there is no charge against the girl, she remains m Wellington. , . Tu E WAITOTAra Natives.—Our readers will remember the fuss that was made about the promised surrender of .the rebels occupying the Weraroa pa. The occupation of I’ipiriki on the Wanganui river by Onr friendly unlive allies and militia, was to .produce great wonders, and his Excellency the Governor, it is said, deferred bis departure from Wanganui in anxious expectation of the success of this plot, which was of his own oVigiiiatibu, and was much disapointed when he left that it had not been accomplished. Shortly after his Excellency's "departure intelligence was received that about one hundred of the rebels were prepared to surrender, and either the local or a Wellington paper-spoke of it as a preliminary to the termination of the war. It appears however, by the news received yesterday from Wanganui, that the Waitotara natives have considered that Second thoughts are best. Th s Wanganui Chronicle very properly suggests that a knowledge that the operations of the troops have ceased fur the season may have caused'this change of feeling. Truly the campaign on the West Coa*t is assuming a more farcical aspect every day: —Southern Cross. Man Drowned;—On Sunday afternoon, as the boat used, by the persons employed at the lighthouse on Mana was proceeding from Porirua to the lighthoifte. by some unfortunate accident, it. was upset in Porirua harbor, and a young man named John-Smithrrs was drowned. The bod;--was discovered on Monday morning, and an in. quest was held before Dr. Knox, Coroner of the district, in the evening, when the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence adduced

A sailor once had a friend who read Shakespeare’s plays for him. He criticised them all pretty freely, but when he came to the passage id the “ Midsummer Night’s Dream,” in which the mertnaid is made to ride upon the dolphin's, back* hs pronounced it an unqualified humbug; “for,” said he, “a dolphin’s back is as sharp as a .razor,' and no mermaid could possibly ride iho beast unless she had first saddled him.'’ The crinoline is fast disappearing in Parisian : circles. At the watering-places abroad it is quite abandoned, 4 and it is said that in another twelve months the crinoline will be unknown in Paris.— Court Journal.