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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 466, 1 April 1867, Page 2

Milixakv. — Dn Weduca.iaj nest, the detachment ol troops stationed, in tins province proceed to Auckland by tho ‘ Lord Ashley,’ provided the cutlers 4 Taj ’ and ‘Dubinin,’ now overdue, have arrived with iho U airoa detachment previous to that date.

Theathb.—The company gavetheir farewell performance on iTiaay night last to a bumper house, miner lae patronage of the Freemasons, Scinde Lodge, No. TIU. The entertainment commenced with Sheridan ■Knoivics’s beautiful comedy of the Hunchback, m winch Air W. ii. Newton very ably sustained the character of Master Walter ; in fact, ic was as good an itupersonetion as we could desire to see, tlie only pity being that it was confined to so small a si. gc. Aiasur Modus was also very ably sustained, by Air id. ii. Swan ; Mr Thomas Clifford by Mr Xemp ; fathom by Mr O. Toole; and Julia was excellently rendered by Airs O. Poole ; while Airs VV. H. Newton as Lhen kept the house in roars of laughter. Airs C. Poole's leaning —When Canale became a AiaSun —followed. The laugiuble farce of Poor Pillie<j,.dy concluded me evening's entertainment —Che whole passing off with eclat.

A iNIiW UsK FOR PKOCOGUArnY.—A new phase of photographic usefulness was seen in the reeent Hrewster Sessions at South Shields. The lawyers supplemented their own descriptive ability, aou endeavoured to convey tophe bcncn a better idea of the appearance ol the houses whose claims they were uuvoeatiug, by product, g photographic views m the preiruses ana tiie neighbourhood.

Life ok a ilKPoKTKii. —The peculiar I habits of a reporter of a daily newspaper j—one ci the ousiest of auiuuds —are worth ! making a iiwte of. Tell tuo reporter that I there is a lire up town in whicn a woman land five smuu children have been consumed alive, and he hurries elf til the highest glee to obtain the fullest account "'•til ail the lau-ti particulars. He'd taae all this down iu a kind of penmanship peculiar to lus cla=s, and \uucn looks like warped, rainbows and spoiled Hushes of lightning. If his hignly respectable father should be hung lor piracy ion the high Se»S, the enterprising reporter would be on the gallows, pencil in hand, and in the intervals of his grief and tears, hand notes of his parent’s last speech and dying confession.—Aew York Paper.