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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 827, 28 September 1870, Page 2

The Sydney papers complain of the large number of fraudulent debtors who succeed in making thsir escape from Australia to the Fijis. The Southern Cross understands, that the. Hon Mr Gisborne will for the present act as Minister of Public Works, under the Immigration and Public Works Act passed in the recent session of the General Assembly. Tension is now regularly received in Melbourne from Tasmania by the steamers. The deer have bred so rapidly in the woods of Tasmania that the gastronomic wants of Melbourne as regards vension can be freely supplied, without thinning too much the wild herds which furnish sport to the hunters. A few days ago (says the Otago Daily Times) while three young men were walking in Green Island Bush, contiguous to the sandhills they observed a lark spring from a grassy plot, merrily singing while soaring aloft. In a short time it descended and stationed itself within a few yards from them. On examining the spot they were no less sur« prised than gratified to find a nest containing three young larks, fully fledged. This circumstance is interesting, as indicating how. early in the season home birds nestle in this country. As no larks have been liberated iu this district by the Acclimatisation Society, the bird muse have migrated from another locality; either from the Taieri or North East Valley. With the progress of manufactures, and science, it is strange what changes are taking place. Appleton's Journal, one of the most instructive publications issued, speaking of what it terms "the paper age," says :—" But if petticoats and table cloths, curtains, &c, can be made of paper • if a material like leather can be produced from this substance, why may we not expect in time to have our coals and trousers made of it ? Why may we not be able to go about ' paper clad '—with paper hat, in paper shoes, with paper coat and trousers, furnished without in paper, and fortified in our pocket-books wbh bncle Spin's, good looking paper money ? The cost, moreover, of such an outfit [without the pocketbook] would be so trilling that luxurious people could have an entire suit every day, and even economical persons adorn themselves., afresh as often as once a week. The .* paper age' p'romises to revolutionize our sooiaX habits in not a few particulars,"