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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 985, 5 April 1871, Page 2

A large order for Henry breech-loaders Las been.received in England from the Government of New South Wales. Every now and then, says the writer " Under the Verandah," there is a perfect furore in favor of the Australian dialect. " What a prerlily sounding word Eureka is,'' said one official to another shortly after the Ballarat riots, ?' I never knew that the native names were so soft; it sounds almost like Italian." "I• do not think it is a native name at all," was the reply ; " I have heard of shirts that were called Eureka, and I think it is derived from them." Of course, the real origin of the cognomen given to the lead was some classically read miner who had found a nugget, and recollected the ejaclaution made by the philosopher of Syracuse more than two thousand years before. Many of the so-called aboriginal ?ames arise from the attempts of blackfellovvs to speak English. Thus Wooiloomooloo, near Sydney, was originally Wull u-Mullu, the nearest ap proach to wind-mill that the sable kongije "'uild attain.