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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 852, 27 October 1870, Page 2

In California the Japanese have set out 800,0C0 tea plants at Oalistoga. A New York paper says that not one pound ten of the. honey apld in that city ever knew a bee. Thirty bachelors, in Lansing, lowa, have sworn a solemn oath tbey will marry none but widows. At a premium at last, for the bachelors have all turned sixty-five. The marriage of a popular American author was recently celebrated in New York. His principal gift to bis bride consisted of a casket made of mother of-pearl, ivory, and gold, containing love letters received by him during his career. A New, York paper enabled to state that there were $796! The Opjnipn Nationale tells the following anecdote as appropriate to the time. Whether authentic or not, its. prophecy is in a fair way to be realised: —It was about the end of Aprily a> tb,e tuno when, the Luxembourg affair had assumed a decidedly warlike aspect. A half dozen persons of high, rank, chiefly Generals, were dining at Berlin, at a Princess table. In drinking the champagne, war, was spoken ofj it was considered inevitable. "."Well* said; the Prince, rising, "let us drink to Prussia with this good Ifrench, w\ne. We wanjj ais weeks to mobilise ourarmy and, mass it on the Saar; one month to pass over French bodies, enter Paris, there peape an,d raise the contribution of war, I; The is capital.!, We shall, have returned, by tljq opening of ths hunting, * " ;