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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 262, 8 May 1865, Page 4

Bushhinging in Queensland. —The Queens land Guardian, of April 8, says:—News arrived liero yesterday, tliat a new gang have started in the hushrangiug business, in the neighborhood of l)ulby, Darling Downs. Eipirt says that a party of twenty-five persons were stuck-up in the neighborhood of Dj;lby, by two bushrangers, mounted and armed in the true style, with patent revolvers and rifles, and after being eased of all their portable valuables by the gentlemen of the road, they were allowed to proceed on their way ; the bushrangers also niaki- g their escape or rather riding quietly off with their booty. They have not yet been apprehended. A.Sc’bxeerinean Population.—A recent report of Captain Lord, of the sanitary police of New Aork, stales that in that city, with not more than a .million of people, upwards 0f22,000 live in cellars —a subterranean population large enough for a small city in itself. An irritable man lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles. An ancient sage uttered the following apothegm “The goodness of gold is tried by fire, the goodness of women by gold, and the goodness of men by the ordeal of women.’' Winding-up.—Moral reflections by a policeman: “It seems to me that with many young men the most approved method of winding up the night is reeling it home.”