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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 970, 17 March 1871, Page 3

We understand from a Nelson paper that the General Government has recently given an order to Messrs. Webley and Co., of Nelson, for an additional 5,000 yards of Kelson cloth, making a totalof 8,000 yards ordered by them during the past few months.

A short time ago a longboat was decked-in and rigged at Rarotonga like a minatui e schooner. Since her launch she has made several trips round this group under the guidance of a native, who can neither read nor write; as the distances are from 120 to 160 miles, .and the winds very uncertain, it seems to be rather a triumph. His wife accompanies him in the capacity of mate, crew and cook.

The Mariposa Gazette, in a recent issue, says : —We learn that the Hon. Mrs Yelverton met with a serious mis fortune on Sunday last, in attempting to leave Yosemite Valley unattended. Mrs Yelverton had been spending several months at the valley, and started alone on horseback from Hutching's Hotel to come out to Clarke & Moore's, expecting to overtake on the trail an English party which left an hour or so before. Nothing more was known of her journey until Frederick Leidig and Hugh Davanay took the trail to come to Mariposa. About a quarter of a mile below the Hermitage they noticed a woman's track in the snow on the lower side of the trail, and wandering away from it; and knowing that Mrs Yelverton had attempted to pass out the day before, were satisfied the tracks were hers, and immediately began a search for her. The tracks led round among the trees, bushes and rocks —a circle of more than a mile; and Mrs Yelverton was finally found, wet,chilled, bewildered and exhausted, about a quarter of a mile from where she had left the trail. She had been out through the storm all night, and would probably soon have perished but for a fortunate .chance. It is supposed that Mrs Yelverton became so bewildered in the snowstorm that she could no longer manage her and dismounted and tried to walk, but lost h.t way. Considering that she was rive miles from any house, and the other circumstances detailed, it is very fortunate that the mishap did not prove worse in its consequences.

At Eavenna, Ohio, the other day, a remarkable marriage ceremony was performed. The bridegroom's name was Walter Pierce, and in a paper drawn up he bad agreed to accord to the woman equal "rights, socially, re ligiou.sly, and politically," with himself. In return, the lady said, " I take "Walter Pierce, whom I now hold by the hand, and whom I intelligently, religiously, and spiritually love, to be my companion through life; and I agree not to usurp over or transcend him in any particular." Then they both said, " By this voluntary and premeditated act, in your presence, we declare ourselves religiously, philosophically, and scientifically married." And then the Mayor declared them married.

A remarkable instance of early acquaintance with the properties of tobacco has been brought under the notice of the Pathological Society by Dr. Dickinson, in a boy three years of age, an in-patient of the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond-street. The boy wa.s admitted with marked symptoms of that form of patalysis known as locomoter ataxy, which is extremely rare at an early age. and the peculiarity of his antecedents wa« that he was an habitual smoker It appears that he early evinced a remarkable objection to female society, and preferred marching about with his father, who was a gamekeeper, and sharing his comforts, including a short pipe and strong tobacco. When admitted into the hospital, an inquiry ioto the history of the case elicited the fact of his being a smoker; and on testing his predilection in this respect "when in the hospital, he exhibited a proficiency in the art which could have only been acquired by some practice; and he preferred smoking that pai ticular vegetable product which 13 known to the initiated by the name of " shag."