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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 577, 14 May 1868, Page 3

Five Gold ehom the Thames.—An assay of a sample of gold from (he Kerry Claim, Shortland, recently made at tho Bank of Now Zealand, lias proved to bo one of tile best yet tried. The assayer’s note shows that the samp’e is worth I'd 17s 10id per ounce.—New Zealand Herald. The Misses Trevor, of Tingrith House, Beds, have presented seventy-three acres of land, worth £SOOO, situate at Bidden* liam, to their butler, Mr Maiming, who has been in their service over thirty years, as a reward for his faithful services. A new Methodist monthly has just appeared, devoted to the advocacy of total abstinence from alcoholic drinks. The Methodist Temperance Magazine is well got up. is presented at the price of one penny, and bears on its cover the names of three responsible editors, the Kevs. George Maunder, Charles Ghirrett, and T. Bowman Stephenson. These gentlemen all belong to “ the old body,” but they disclaim for themselves or tiuir magazine any representative character. They do not assume to be the organ of any ot the sections of the great Methodist family, but they hope to have access to all; and the publication appears to be desig icd as a medium of communication for Methodists of every type ou the Temperance question. Extravagance in Dbess.— The Popo has issued a decree against the use of profane language in Home and the extravagant style of dross adopted by the Roman ladies. Ho complains that the Romans seem to forget that a church is the house |of Hou, and says that “ probably the cause iof this evil is to be found in the conduct jof the women who when they go to cnurch I dress as if for a theatre or fashionable promenade.” Ho recommends as a remedy !for this state of things tint a number of rc-swcetable ladies should form themselves into a society with the object of “ counteracting bv their example and iulluenco a luxury uhich produces the ruin oi families, and loads to immorality-” The Cardinal Vicar in. puohshing tois decree announces that women with extravagant head dresses shall in future not be admitted to the communion-table. A Jerseyman gathering mushrooms was told that they were poisonous. “Thanh vou ” he replied. “ but I am not going t o cat them myself: I sell them at the hotel.” AN inventor announces a new kind of paper, which he claims to be waterproof. That would be the paper for lining milkpalls and milk-pans with.