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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 385, 14 June 1866, Page 1

A Wild Beast Fight. —ln two compartments, one above the other, of a caravan at Manners’ menagerie, a leopard aud a hvtenu were recentlv conlined —the former in the lower and the latter in the upper compartment. During (he night of Thursday the hyaena tore up the floor of its cage go as to be able to get his head through, it would then appear that the leopard beneath seized it by the throat, aud a terrific struggle ensued. The noise alarmed the watchman, and Mr Manders and others came to the spot. It was then found that the leopard had pulled the hyama through the floor, and eo tenacious was its hold that, although Mr Manders freely used a heavily loaded riding whip on its head and shoulder, the hysena was quite dead before they could beat the lepoard off. A HuMDiiizD Flats .Ago.— ln 1765 George 111. was in the fifth year of his reign, and the twenty-eighth of his age. Two subjects agitated Parliament, and finally overthrew the Grenville Ministry, which was succeeded by that of Lord Hockmgham; the one now long forgotten was the question of the Urgency; the other—not at that time thought more important—was the attempted introduction of the stamp Act into the American colonies, the small end of a wedge, the effects of which America is to this day experiencing for good or for evil. The great Chatham, then William Pitt, detected the danger, “ tho little rift within the lute.” Ho rose from a sick bed to make his powerlul voice heard for the last time as a commoner in favor of repealing the hated tax ; and ir was remarked that on the same occasion the House for the first time heard the eloquent young irishman, ICdmund Burke. One small circumstance is mentioned casually this year, with regard to America, which Jins a emious interest-in cur own day ;it is tho notice of an order by his Mqjmty’s Government to divide the colonies into a northern and southern district, tho boundary to be the river Potomac, and a lino drawn westward from it.— Leisure Hour. Aheeicam Advice.—A jockey furnishes so'me hints as to how to sell a horse I—“ 1 toil you it’s all fcy comparison ; have the critter for sale ‘long sido of a scrub—ain’t one in fifty bi t what’l getfooled. They look Hist at the sciub aid then at the other, and they think it’s a ’straordinary critter.”

Two Good Reasons. — Sir S. Qrath, physician to George 1., •was one day reminded by Steele, at the Kit Kat club, that fifteen patients were being neglected through their medico's absence and dissipation j to which the doctor replied, “ Never mind ; nine of them Imve such bad constitutions that no physician in the world could cure them.” “And what about the other six?” said S’eele. Ihey,” was the answer, “ have such good constitutions that no physician in the world could hill them.”