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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 998, 21 April 1871, Page 3

District Court, Napier.— Tt is notified in the Gazette that the bi-monthly sessions of the District Court of Hawke's Bay at Napier will in future commence respectively on the first and on the sixteenth day of each month, and will end respectively on the fifteenth and on the la>t day of the same. The first and last days of every bi-monthly session >h all be inclusive.

The Wanganui Herald says : A gentleman gives an excellent suggestion ;anent the question of removing the bar of the Wanganui liver. The bar of the Danube was at one time similar to that, of the Wanganui. The Turks invented a harrow which each vessel leaving the river had to drag after her, buoying it outside, and each vessel that entered the river had to drag the harrow in. The harrow was much like an ordinary agricultural one. It operated by the teeth loosening the particle* of sand, which the force of the water carried out, and the result was that the bar had the same depth of water as existed in the river and outside the mouth. During the Crimean war, when the Russians put a stop to all Turkish commerce, the regulation was set aside, and the conse was that the bar filled up, and vessels of large draught were unable +o enter. This appears a very simple plan for deepening the bar, and as soon as the harbor comes under local control, it ought to be tried. The expense of the experiment would be small, and we believe it would be successful.

A gentleman travelling in Ireland said to a very importunate beggar : %t You have lost all your teeth." The beggar quietly answered, " An' its time 1 parted with um' when I'd nothing for um' to do. ; '