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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 521, 28 October 1867, Page 2

The tale of the wanderings of three children ot a family named Duff, while lost in the bush in the western district, in 1865, excited great interest in the eolo y at the time, and a strong feeling of admiration was evoked by the heroic behaviour of the eide-t of the chil Iren. Jcannie Duff, by whose care and selfsacrifice tile younger ones were preserved ! he interest caused by the story was not confined to the colony, and we learned some time afle wards, from a paragraph in the Home News, that a gentleman in I,on don, Mr R P Dat.iell, of a firm in New Bond-street, in (he ceramic trade, pleased with the noble behaviour of the little girl, was about to send her a present in recognition. The present s-dccted was a very pretty cast in parian of the “Babes in tinWood,” which together with a letter and a carte de-cisite of the sender, was enclosed ia a box and forwarded to this colony i; the latter part of 18t ! 5. By some mischance the box got astray, and was only found a few days amongst the “ lost luggage” at the Hobson’s Bay Railway siaiion, where it had all the meanwli le been lying unnoticed. Steps were at once taken the long-delayed present on to its destination.—Argus.

The “Moobhouse Tiwxel” —We earn from our Canterbury files that the Christchurch tunnel will be open in November for ordinary and regular traffic. Only about 50 yards of the very hardest tarchyte rock now require to be removed in order to reach the true and perminent bottom of the railway hue. The railway works on the Lyttelton side arc in progress ; and turntables, etc-, are being laid preparatory to the erection of terminus.