Telegraphic Intelligence

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 982, 1 April 1871, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence

FROM QREVILLE'S TELEGRAM COMPANY ./ Renter's Agents. WELLINGTON. Friday, March 31. In consequence of the great and general pressure brought to beacon the Government, the Registrar-Genera] of Land has been directed to issue circulars.to land brokers. Mr Moorhouse will accordingly visit the chief towns of the colony, by the earliest opportunity. He starts for the Southern Provinces on Monday.

discovered that the house was on. tire. From the pillow the wall had ignited, then the ceiling and the shingless on the roof were about ignited, when the fire whs discovered. Luckily a number of men were at hand at the time, who, v*ir.h the assistance of water and some buckets of niiik, managed to extinguish 'the flames before any serious damage was done.

Letts, Sonj & Co., in their Shippers' Monthly Circular, writes:—The shipment of material for the construction of the first railway in Japan, has commenced. The rai's have been manufactured by the Darlington Iron Com pany, and the sleepers by the And'M'ton Foundiy Company, Glasgow. It- is difficult to over-rate the importance ot this undertaking. It is to be hoped that it mav be the first step towards the general adoption of i ail ways, not .only in Japan, but in the.densely populated Chinese Empire.

An American agriculturist, who has recently travelled in the treeless regions of the " Far West,' 5 mentions facts which tend to weaken, if not to overturn, the theories of those who hold that the great plains can never be made to bear timber. Although the trees that do grow naturally in those parts are so stunted and distorted a- 1 to lead to the conclusion that ihe climate is utterly opposed to the growth of any thing better, yet plantations have been made in Eastern Kansas which areas flourishing as could be desired ; a ten years' growth having produced handsome trees fifty feet in height. The most valuable among these are oak, hickory, and black walnut It is found, too, that iruit trees, including the grape-vine, thrhe and yield abundantly in sheltered situations.

A discovery has ju*t been made within the bounds of the country of Dublin. On the west side of the hill of Ballycorus, where the Mining Company of Ireland are working lead mines, a silver iniae has been Ibuiui.

A fatal accident .occurred on the Hokitika Rher, recently. Mr and MsC.n ), of the Shamrock Hotel, hail ridUen to the Waimea to spend the day. and on ret umi g in the evening, Mr Qonu stayed at the Australasian Hotel, and refused to go on with his wife, who crossed the river and went home. Some time during the night Conn took a small boat ami attended to pull himself across, and must have Iviien overboard into the river or lust the sculls and been swept out to sea. fiis body was washed up on the beach, south of the Waimea track, and the boat missed from the liver, which it is supposed he must have taken, was a1.«%0 found on the beach, opposite the Montezuma Hotel.

On the subject of beetroot sugar, the British Trade Journal reports as follows: —The cultivation of this important article of commerce is being graduall/ ex tended —first on various parts of the Continent, next in Ameiiea, Australia, and our own country, and, lastly, we hear of its being raised in California, recent advices from which place mention that the first ton of perfectly crystallized sugar from bee's grown in that State has just been produced. The machinery, which was home-made, is said to have Worked charmingly, and the various processes were entirely successful. The triumph was so complete that California now counts on this industry as a permanent institution, soon to be multiplied, until in a few year-, it will probably be iudepen-d-ut of foreign supplies, and mty be seeking outlets abroad fur its surplus.

" Pal, where's your brother ?" " Oeh thin, me darlint, he's dead, sir." " Ah ! how did lie die 1 " " Why, sir, yon see he fell off the scaffold one day when the pt'dist was calkin' to him ! " "Why do you oppose giving the ballot to women ) " asked a lady the other evening of a continued bachelor. "Excuse me, madanie," replied he, "hat I have not >uin'eieut confidence in their capacity to conduce Government afifairs." " What evidence can you advance of their mental inferiority to mankind?" queried the lady. "A simple fe-t is enough to satisfy my mind," retorted the bachelor "and that is the frightful way in which tbey do up their fc&ck hair."

A Mrs Bain, who wanted but four years to complete her hun Ireth yea)*, v/as accidentally burnt to death in Edinburgh on New Year's Eve. i j A boy named Andrew, nine years of ng:% who lived at Ashton-under-Lyne', has been killed by a novel accident Oil a Saturday evening the deceased and his brother went to be 1, and took with them for warming purposes, a two-quart bottle full of hot water. Three minute; 1 after the lads got into bed the cork Hew out of the bottle, and the hot water escaped, scalding the lower portion of his body so severely that he died on the following Tuesday. Some women have extraordinary faith in gin, but the fate of baby M'ivenna should sensibly affect their belief in the virtues of this alcohol. The mother being delicate and the child cross, gin was habitually given to the baby to make it sleep. On the night of Jan. 2 an overdose was administered, and the child died in three hours. In throwing the blame on the ignorance of Ihe mother, the coroner's jury ha\e pronounced her conduct \evy ceumuabhs From what Mr Coatine says, it would seem that gin drinking infants are quite common —•* old women are too fond of giving it" After this exposure of the possible fatal results, i* is to be hoped the practice will be less frequent, ? ] that women will find some other iv of quieting their children than tha. of administering poison Liverpool Uourier. Workhouse nurses do not seem to enjoy the best of characters. At an inquest held on January 5, by Dr Lankester, on the body of a woman who died rather suddenly in Cumberland street, the coroner asked Dr Hardinge, who attended her, why he did not order a nurse from the workhouse v\hen he saw she was dying, upon which that gentleman replied. "Modi cal men, a* l a rule, do. not send to the workhouse for nurses, as in my expedience, as well a« in that of moat other medical men, it is equivalent to sending to the house for a drunkard and a thief." There must be a screw loose somewhere in our social organisation to account for the difference which exists between our ordinary women nurses and the Sisters of Charity, who., without hope of reward, do not grudge giving even life itself in this work of benevolence When we compare such clean, quiet, cheerful, attentive nurses with the bloated gin-drinkmg brute, who is a curse instead of a b.essing in the house of sickness, we may well feel ashamed as Protestants that, with all our boasted superiority, we can pro duce nothing in the shape of a nurse to compete in the race of devotion with the»e despised but angelic Sisters of Charity.—rail Mall. Gazette, A few nights aftei the magnificent shower of falling stars which I sawabout two years ago I had to call in Victoria Park, ami returned to town on the top of an omnibus. The night being very cold, 1 tried to distract my attention from the cold bv count-ins: all the spirit and beer shops, of ail sizes, on die way, and I was quite amazed, for they were nearly as difficult to count as the falling stars, being so thickly clustered on each side of the way, especially in the neighborhood of Slmredtj''. 1 no longer wondered at the atrocious criminality of that neighbor h >od. They were nut only, as the Irish song says, "utxt door to the whiskv-shop over the way," but absolutely in some places side b • .side and next door to each other. I thought that the magistrates were very much to blame. —Kx tract from a letter to Sir W. C. Trevelvau.