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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 813, 15 August 1870, Page 2

Heavy Rain prevailed through* out yesterday, and still continues.

The English Mail via Suez arrived at Hokitika on Friday morning. That via San Francisco (due at Auckland on the 7th) had not arrived up to the afternoon of the 11th inst. The outward mail from this Province, via the latter route, hence per Lord Ashley, was just in time to catch the mail steamer, which left Auckland on the 7th inst. " The Day Star,"—We have received the third number of a publication bearing the above title. It is published in Dunedin, and is the recognized organ of the spiritualists, who have been making, some noise there for some time past. It contains, besides local notices, an account of the progress of the movement in America, and a rather lengthy essay on " necromancy " and the " black art." We recognize in this movement a rebound of the human intellect from one extreme to another. Dissatisfied with the paradoxes which Divine truth has been overlaid by so many of its human teachers, it rejects that truth itself, and founds a system of its own upon no better ground than the dictates of " lying spirits." The only refuge for minds such as these irf to be found in a system of rational theology, founded upon the real teachings of the Holy Word — the inspiration of which, we are sorry to find, is already rejected by the spiritualists of Otago.

" The Tomahawk." —We have received a copy of the Auckland production bearing the above title —a very dull kind of "satirical'' journal, got up in rather a slovenly wanner. The cartoon represents the Finance Minister with a bulky white elephant (marked 'Four Million Loan'} at the door of the stock exchange, .seeking admittance, which is refused by John Bull —the latter gentleaian having a most disreputable aspect. There is one other sketch, better executed—a caricature of prevailing fashions.

"The Christian Times," —"We have received the fourth number of this monthly paper, which, still maintains its high character. Professor Dorney, the "Wizard of the West," gave a successful performance on Saturday evening in the Oddfellowe' Hall to a good house. As may be seen by advertisement, he performs on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at Waipawa.