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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 521, 28 October 1867, Page 1

A Fearful Mistake. —The Droit of] Amiens gives (he following accou't of a most unfortunate occurrence that lias recently taken place in tlio Canton of Ilornev : A contractor, who had left home on an üb-ence utulerslooil to he fori gome days, returned unexpectedly at clever] o’clock in the evening of the day after liisj departure. Not being able to make him-1 se f heard by knocking, he made his way into the kitchen, and there he met a man who had apparently just risen from bed. lie rushed upon him, and, after a terrible struggle, struck him senseless, and then summoning his neighbo’s, he told them he had revenged his outraged honor. To hts horror ho learned that his victim was Ills own father, a man of 05 years of age, who had come that miming on a visit, and his wife had given up the house to the old man and gone to spend the nigh' with a sister who resided in the game village. The old man had, as ho supposed, boldly attacked a burglar. He is. howevi r, said to be recovering from ilie fearful n> juries i; dieted by his own son under tinunhappy misapprehension. The Australian Press. —lf large, handsome, and well-edited newspapers, crowded with advertismuents, are any indication of advanced and liberal eividzati m and of material prosperhv. tnc colonies of Australia an 1 New Zealand eauno be very far behind lee parent country in these resp-cts. Tli 'very frst thing w den an English or American colony d- >08, alter getting fairly settled, is to publish a newspaper, be it on ever so small a scale. Even the little settlement of New Englanders at J If.i nas a weekly paper, titough t'nerear. not fifty persons to read if, and its entire contents would scarcely til! a single column, of Tile Times. Put the A usti aliau press is almost metropolitan in impoitance. The daily papers of .Melbou ne and St dney rival those of London and New Fork in size and appearance, and are not wanting

in editorial anility ; an ! though the topics generally di-cas.-ed in their columns possess local interest only, yet it is the interest of a country that is rapidly increasing i. ■wealth, popnl ition, anil iiuernatioual importance. — Ameri an Paper. Maori v. Pattern,.—the following notice of the Karamea Gal 1-fi.elds is from a late issue of the Westport Times ; —At the Karamea there are about 150 miners, and “tucker” at leas: is easily knocked out. SeTernl from (hat part of the coast have recently been to town and returned. They are in great hopes that the track from Nelson will shortly ba completed, and then they expect that a gold Held from the Karamea to the Paton will be opened up. Apropos of the Karamea, we may state that a vast amount of dissatisfaction has been occasioned among the residents through the fact of a Maori having purchased the whole of the township laud at 15s an acre, and he now demands somewhere about a pound a foot rental for it. No advertisement was published, no notification of any description was given to the white settlers, and the sable purchaser now rules as a little king. A deputation

■was recently appoionted to represent mutters to iincr~leT } but nfVi/y travelling GO miles, all the satisfaction they got was to hear that he had nothing to do ■with it, and the deputation was dismissed abruptly. Verily, is better to be born •with a black skin in New Zealand than to bo of a fairer hue. The Ca.se of BeetsawD.—V>~e understand that no steps hare yet been taken by the Executive Conned of this colony with reference to the disposal of the prisoner Louis Bertrand since the arrival of the documents from England relative to his case ; but we are informed that, in view

of the recommendation contained in the judgment of .Lords of (he Judical Committee of the T'rivy Council on the appeal, it is not at all likely that the extreme penalty of the law will be carried into eiiect. Sydney Morning Herald, 17th Sept.