HOKITIKA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 951, 23 February 1871, Page 3

HOKITIKA.

Thursdav Feb. 23. The s.s. Rangitoto arrived in the roadstead at 7.30 a.m. She brings the Suez English mail, 70 tons of cargo, and 20 passengers for Hokitika and Greymouth, In reply to the signal "What news?" she signalled to the shore, "Nothing decisive yet." Private telegrams per pigeon ex press : The siege continues, and a successful sortie was reported on the night of the 21st January. The head-quarters of the German army are at Yitry. The Prussians are in the neighbourhood of Abbeville. On the 21st December the French made a desperate but unsuccessful attack on the Prussian line before Paris, and firing re commenced from the forts, but without success. On the day following ten thousand unwounded prisoners were captured by the Prussian army. Many French officers imprisoned in Germany have been removed from the Rhine to the Russian frontier. [We have received the greater part of the English summary, but will not further delay our paper to-day, as many of the items have been anticipated by the San JYancisco raail.l

Lord Westbury.— : The late Lord Westbuiy, while practising at the Bar, on one occasion, after having stated his case, addressed the learned Judge on the Bench in the following terms: —• '- Perhaps your lordship will now turn these facts over in the thing you please to call your mind." —Joe Miller.