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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 445, 10 December 1866, Page 2

Be wake of Pickles. —We take the following from a recent number of the Alliance News :—At ClerkeawellP,dice-court a respectable man attended before the sitting magistrate to laj befora him a statement of facts in connection with mixed pickles. He stated that his serrant bought from a shop in the neighborhood some mixed pickles. His wife and serrant ale of them, and shortly afterwards were attacked with choleraic diarrhoea, and their mouths were very soro. A surgeon was sent for, who said that was about the ninth or tenth case of the kind he had attended under similar circumstances. It appeared that when pickles went bad, and after they were putrid, they were placed in a tub, mixed with turmerio and mustard, and were then sold as piccalilly. Ha had purchased samples from twelve different shops, and in each instance the pickle was bad, and in ail instances some portion was putrid. From what the surgeon had informed him, there could be no little doubt that the eating of such pickloa was the cause of much of the diarrhosa and cholera now prevailing in the metropolis. The magistrate said he had no doubt but that the press would notice the subject. Half-ckowka are no longer coined at the Mint; so says a recently published Parliamentary paper. Florins have t„ken the place of these pieces in the issue, lu like manner, tho threepenny piece is superseding the silver groat. No such coin as tho latter has been sent out since March, 1865. Hk. Colenso maintains mis Position.— Tho John Bull, a leading London journal, understands, on good authority, that the llev. H. Cox, of St. John’s Church, Hobart Town, wiio was nominated to the proposed new bishopric of Maritsburgh, at Natal, and accepted the appointment, subject to his election by tho local synod, has, by letter addressed to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, formally withdrawn his original consent, on the alleged grounds of tho Tipper House of Convocation refusing, in their last session, to countenance the appointment of a bishop in Dr. Colenso’s room, and the subsequent resolution of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel referring ail authority over tho society’s missionaries at Natal, not to any bishop succeeding to that See, but to the Metropolitan of Cape Town, assisted by his present suffragans. lx appears that although the'Palisser guu has been accepted as tho gun of the day, tho Ordnance Select Committee have not thrown over their old favorite. Sir William Armstrong. Tho Palisser weapon is being manufactured at Elswick. W T hen we remember that it was found some time ogo that the cost of making guns at Elswick was far in excess of the cost of Woolwich this information, which if duly recorded in tho T.raes, is a little startling.to. the British taxpayer. The * Glow-worm ’ says the anfay is to bo supplied with a new shako, to be composed of cork in a framework of zinc. ; It is said to have a Toiar military appearance.