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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 473, 25 April 1867, Page 3

The Tall Mall Gazette says that the navy estimates of the United Kingdom for 1867 will largely exceed those, for the previous year. Twelve models of British war vessels, prepared on a scale of a quarter of an inch to a foot, were to be forwarded from Portsmouth to Woolwich and despatched thence to France to the Great Exposition in Paris.

Death fhom Inhalation of Chaecoal Fumes. —The following is from a recent number of the Sydney Morning Herald : On the 20th March, a laboring man named Maclntyre, living in Wulls>»ll, retired to rest with his two sons, lighting a charcoal five in the room in which they slept; and on the following morning it was found that the deadly fumes of the burning charcoal had led |to their death, father and sous being discovered lying dead «nle by sale.

Ai:ji tts of Beetles. —The unaccountable migration or flights of beetles which arc occurring in this district, is worthy of the attentions of our sacaus. In a former issue wc described a flight of these insects, titj number of which was so great as to cover a*, least an area of a quarter-of'-a-mile in extent. Lately, another flight was noticed, of much larger dimensions, spectators of which describe the number as wholly beyond calculation. They were first seen iu the vicinity of the municipal dam, fly ing iu a stream that appeared to be about twenty yards broad, and keeping in close and compact order. Notwithstand ing that they flew so thickly as to cast a dark shadow on the ground, they occupied an hour in passing. It is perhaps worthy of observation, that at a certain point the stream of insect life turned off at right angles, as though abruptly changing their course at the instance of a leader. On this occasion the beetles flew comparatively high, although not a few of them fell to the ground over which they passed. The whole could be discerned like a huge waving ribbon against the sky, until they disappeared on the horizon. We may remark that in many of the gardens, and iu various directions in the bush, the eucalypti have been stripped of every particle of foliage.— Ararat Adwertiser, 15th Jan.

Et uni) at Last. —Some important dis* covenes oi Roman remains were made at Sydney in Gloucestershire, not long ago, and involved a very curious incident. Among the remains of a temple dedicated to the god Noden [P], found there, was a brass plate on which was an inscription offering a reward for a ring, and stating that iu tho event of its being found some portion of the money would be dedicated to the god Noden, but that if any person who found it tailed to restore it to the owner the curse of Noden would be upon him. Most singular to say, a ring corresponding with the lost one, *nd bearing tbe name ot the person offci ing the reward, has been found at Silcbester.—Builder.

Destruction of Hawes. —A gentleman, calling at our office yesterday evening, communicated to us a mode of which he has succeeded in killing a large number of hawks. Now that the Acclimatisation (Society has offered one shilling per head for every dead hawk, it may even still more be worth the while of some of our country settlers to try the plan. Gum-diggers, indeed, might do so too while they are engaged at their employment of digging. Set up a pole, as high a one as you can, ■with a small piece of wood on the top, having a hollow in the surface of it, so as to hold an egg steadily. Before placing tbe eerg there, a small hole must be made in theVuell, and a little strychnine introduced. A piece of paper is pasted over the hole iu the shell and the poison soon becomes diffused through the egg. It will not be long before the egg is seen by & Lawk, which swoops down upon it at once, sucks the egg, and drops down d sd at the foot of the pole. A fresh egg is poisoned and placed on the board, another hawk killed, and eo on. —New Zealand Herald,