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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 701, 19 July 1869, Page 3

A Bank Offence. —Tho purchase ays tern in the army. Value of Land at the Thames.—As an instance of the value of building allotments in Graham's Town.. Thames goldfields, we may mention the result of the sale of two sections on the 3'Jth June. The sections each have a frontage of 33 feet by a depth of 99 feet, and were sold together, realising £350. Veiiy Probable.—The Paris correspondent of the " Tall Mall Gazette " is re sponsible for the following anecdote:— Among the excuses put forward lately by the Imperialist writers for the massacres of December, during the coup d'etat, one is " that it was all a mistake." General St. Amaud had a very bad cold at the time, and when the aide de camp dashed up to him for instructions, "the boulevards were up." St. Arnaud, who could scarcely speak for coughing, exclaimed, Ma sacree toux! (toy confounded cough)—which the aide de camp interpreted Massacrez tons! (tall them all.) Hence the blood which stains the Imperial purple ! The Goodison Family.—ln the House of lieptvsentatives, on the Ist July, Mr Travers asked the lion, the Native Minister, Whether any steps will betaken by tho Government to procure the restoration to the Goodison family, of the stock and goods seized by the natives in consequence of fe lonies alleged to have been committed by members of that family ? The circurn stances of the case were shortly these : Some members of the Goodison family were supposed by certain natives to have committed a felony at Tavva. A party wa* thereupon organized, the whole of the property of the family was taken possession ot by the natives, anJ, notwithstanding that the men had been tried and acquitted of the charge brought against them, the natives retused to'deliver up tho property. The men were reduced to extreme poverty, difficulty, and distress, in consequence ol 'this action of thenatives j and he had been 'requested by the men to ask whether it was the intention of the Government to take any steps to remedy the gross injustice to which they were subjected Mr M'Lean said that his predecessor in office had given instructions for a full enquiry into the whole of the facts con uectt'd with this matter, and it was the intention of tho present Government to , follow up that enquiry, with a view to juibipe being done,