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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 995, 18 April 1871, Page 3

Mr Dargaville of the firm of Must iind Co. has been appointed Consular Agent for the United States under circular of date 1871 In view of the prospective benefit which it is probable this Colony «ill derive from the connection recently opened by the San Francisco Mail Service, there is no doubt that the appointment of a con sular agent for the States will be of material benefit to the merchants of Auckland.—N. Z. Herald, April 11. A correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, replying to a desire expressed to discover some sure and effectual mode for preserving butter, whereby it may be fitted for a distant market, sends the following, which he says is a "perfect cure'': —Take a quarter of a pound of loaf-sugar, and one pound of salt. Pound well together, and use at the rate of one ounce to the pound of butter when petting down. Butter so treated, says the correspondent, will keep sweet and fresh for twelve months.

A child, while walking through an art gallery with her mother, was attracted by a statue of Minerva. " Who is that?" said she. "My child, that is Minerva, the goddess of wisdom." " Why didn't they make her husband, too ?" " Because she had none, my child." "That was because she was wise, wasn't it, mamma 1 " It has recently been decided in the English Bail Court (Mr Justice Mellor and Mr Baron Pigott sitting) that a baker must - not only sell his bread by weight, but lhat the act of weighing must take place when it is sold, and not when it is made. Tt came out, in the course of the proceedings, that the appellant, a baker of Davpntry, was in the habit of weighing the dough and making an allowance for evaporation ; but the Court declared any such practice insufficient and illegal. Within the last fifteen months the foundation stones have been laid of three new churches on the Marquis of Westminster's London estate, in all of which rhe seats are to be permanently fvee, and unappropriated, so as to be equally accessible to poor and rich. The churches are those of St John the Baptist, Grosvenor row, Pimlico ; St. Saviour, Oxford street, intended for the deaf and dumb, and also for a general congregation; and All Saints, Gros- \ ernor-road, Pimlico. The first stone of St. Saviour's, Oxford street, was recently laid by the Prince of Wales, and Lord Westminster himself laid the first stones of the other two. A very curious circumstance has brought to light a burglary in Ballarat East. A lot of jewellery was stolen from a house in the Melbourne road some time since, and some days afterwards a woman, now in custody for the offence, while in a state of drunkenness offered one of the articles for sale at the \ery house from which it was taken. Such a circumstance does not often occur.