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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 305, 11 September 1865, Page 3

Armstrong Guns. —A return lias been sent to Porliament by llie Marquis of Hartington, shove, ing that the expenses incurred on all clasees of Armstrong guns, their fittings, projectiles, &c., including the 100-jsounder smooth-bore guns, since the date of the return furnished to Mr Mansell’s committee in May, 1863, amounted to £285,410 Os Bd. The fchanges and alterations in the same period have cost £15,527 2s 4d, while the extra cost in providing projectiles, &c., .in consequence of alterations has been £5032 4s 2d. Tlie return is made up to the date of the last balance sheet (March 31,1864.) The expenses incurred during the present year cannot bo accurately shown until the next balance sheet) up to March 31,1865, is ready. This may be expected to be completed about July.

The Month.—Yeeterday, in. theold country,, was the annual red-letter day of all lovers of the gun. The Ist of September is dedicated to the honor of Saint Partridge. In the woods of “Merrio England” many a pleasant party met -like Samson to slay their thousands, and their tens of thousands (only with a more efficient and noisy weapon). The time may not be so far distant when such a day will also be marked one iu the kalends of this colony. Game of all kinds is being rapidly and safely imported, so that there is a chance that oup woods will yet ring with the shot of sportsmen whose cry will be, not Pai Marire, but partridges and pheasants.—lndependent, September 2. Of all the remarkable objects (says the Athenmum) ever exhibited at a scientific soiree, tho most remarkable is surely the one described in a list of articles recently exhibited in a re anion at Sheffield, a copy of which has been sent to us. It is—“ Photograph of a pannikin found by the Corpse of a Man who lost his way in Central Australia ” If, instead of a picture, the exhibitors had only shown the corpse that found the pannikin when it had lost its way, the company at the conversazione would have enjoyed a sensation.