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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 927, 26 January 1871, Page 3

A Fiji paper, under the head " severe," aa y S : —They say that when a merchant in Auckland dons a new suit of clothes and a bell-topper, the question is immediately asked, " how much he'll pay in the pound ? " The Auckland Acclimatisation Society are turning their attention to sericulture. We had hoped (says the New Zealand Herald) that they would give some attention to this important branch of industry, and we now hear that a house is being erected to contain the worms from the eggs forwarded from Japan. A charming story is told by a foreign correspondent of the Crown Prince of Prussia. After the battle of Weissenburg several hundred prisoners filed in with high heads and stern looks, poor fellows! General Von Bittenfield and bis staff looked at them coldly. Suddenly the Prince of Prussia rode up, and when he saw tbe prisoners he took off his hat with serious respect and bowed to them; then, turning to Von Bittenfield and the others, said—" Salute courage, gentlemen ; never in my life have I seen anything so brave as these soldiers, whom ill luck has played falsely." The grave of Dickens, in Westminster Abbey, is now in the condition in which it will remain. The faded wreaths and chaplets have been removed. On one of them was inscribed the words: —" 1 have left a monument more enduring than brass." And to strictly carry out the injunctions in the great novelist's will, the the tomb now bears, in letters of brass, sunk in the stone, the words-—" Charles Dickens, born February 7, 1812; died June 9,1870."