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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 828, 29 September 1870, Page 2

The Duke of Edinburgh is expected to arrive in Auckland in December next. A Mr Stewart has been convicted of sly* grog-selling at JNgaruawahia, and fined £2O. At Adelaide a sum of £IO,OOO has been placed ou the estimates for increasing the do* fences of that colony. J. T. Hardie, a commission agent of Leith» has been sentenced at Edinburgh to 25 years' penal servitude for forging bills of lading to the amount of £32,596. Earmers in the United States say that horn dust is one of the most valuable manures they know of, and worth SBO a ton. The horns (mostly imported from South America) are ground by machine, after having been subject ted to steam pressure, and then dried to make them brittle. " If you want to hear the political news of the colony," said Mr Vogel in a recent debate in the House of Representatives, " Wellington is the best place to come to. If you go to Utago, you hear at every dinner table, sheep and gold discussed j in Canterbury, you hear of sheep and flax j in Nelson, you hear of sheep, gold, and flax ; in Auckland, you hear of flax and gold ; in Hawke's Bay, you come to sheep again ; but if you want to hear politics discussed, you must come to Wellington." The tight little island of Great Britain is wearing away at the rate of three feet in a century. The stealthy inroads of the remorseless water cannot be arrested except by the action of volcanic forces over which man has no control. There will, therefore, come a time when the white cliffs of Albion will be strewn over the floor of the ocean, and the island of which they form a part will be no more. But even then the flag which will have braved for many thousands of years the battle and the breeze may float over the British people as the occupants and owners of other lands.

A cure for toothache has been discovered at last. A writer in Cassell's Magazine states that the following recipe, which ia copied from the Lancet, and which ought to be made as widely known as possible, " will really cure the most maddening toothache: —One drachm of collodion, added to two drachms of Calvert's carbolic acid : a gelatinous mass will precipi* tate, a small portion of which, inserted in the cavity of an aching tooth, invariably gives immediate relief." Coming from such a reliable source as the columns of the leading medical journal in Britain, the remedy given above is certainly well worth trying. A correspondent of the Daily Southern Cross, under date 19th inst., gives the following account of a hail and rain storm at Makau and Patumahoe: —This neighbourhood was visited by the most terrific hail and rain storm on record on Saturday afternoon at about 2 o'clock, which lasted continuously for nearly three hours, and appeared more like a rush of water than a rain storm. All ditches, drains, and gutters were immediately flooded, and many parts of the road were instantly covered with sheets of water j gardens were for a time covered with water; and bridges and low parts of the road were impassable. The Mauku stream near the church suddenly rose six feet. The went to the high land, or they would have been been drowned. It was parade day at Patumahoe, but the parade ground was a lake j and the members of the corps sought shelter in the adjoining cottages, and were seen ever and anon peep« ing out rifle in hand to see if there was any muster. A heavy mass of dense cloud was seen almost the shape of a large balloon, but more elongated at, the lower part, and this must have been a "waterspout, and the flood the effect of it, as the rain and hail were confined to a small district—two miles off there not being any. It subsided as quickly as it began, but many parts were covered with cartloads of hailstones the next morning. It was while it lasted the most violent storm of the kind ever seen by 20 years settlers in New Zealand. Fortunately at present no great damage is heard of as arising from it, except to the bloom of peach and other trees ia flower. Many curious scones were observed during the siorm, as it gave no time to prepare for it. And here and there a workman on his road home might be observed wending his way up to the middle in water.