DUNEDIN.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1015, 12 May 1871, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Friday, May 12. There is little change to note in the markets. The mail advices cause no perceptible change. Teas are in good demand. The produce market is active. Wheat is firm at 5s and in good demand. Oats are quieter, but maintain 2s 3d to 2s 4d. Flour firm at XI3, and the millers only caring to supply current customers.

The complimentary dinner to the officers of the Ne vada was a great success. Mr Macandrew, the Superintendent, presided.

Neville's consecration has been postponed to the thirteenth instant. Judgment in the case ReJna v. Strode in re Lemon has been deferred.

During the gale on Monday last the steamer Pretty Jane was driven on a reef at ]£akaiu'i, but did not receive any serious damage.

We have been requested by the Rev. R. Taylor to announce that he will CD. V.J hold Divme service on Sunday next, 14th inst., as follows :—At Kaikora at 11 a m., at Waipawa at 3 p.m., and at AVaipukurau at 6 p.m.

The Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Mail writes as follows :—" An .the, system, of postal cards appears to be answering the- purpose very well in England, I suppose it is only a question of time -about our "introducing thorn here Already, however, they are being adopted in our Lapds Department, where they been substituted for the formal notices of which large numbers were being constantly issued in. the form of circulars. Six different forms of cards have been prepared, and are now in use for calling meetings, acknowledging applications, appointing times for hearing applications and so forth. The cards are three inches square. The address is written on one side under the Royal Arms, and on the other are the printed notices, with, the blanks tilled in, and it is said that the saving in labor in filling up circulars, enclosing and directing envelopes, will be 70 or 80 per cent. The advantages being thus demonstrated, the improvement will not, of course, be allowed to stop here; but for all mere formal notices the cards will probably soon come into in other departments, and ultimately with the outside community,"

In a case tried in the Supreme Court in Victoria recently, it was decided that a person suffering front delirium tremens was a lunatic under the Lunacy Statute.

The "West Coast papers say that the sea is making rapid encroachment again, on the north beach at Westporc, and many are of opinion that the north end of Gladstone street will be washed away this winter.

A short time .*ince, while Mrs Lindsay, 12, Saucel, Paisley, was ironing a muslin dress, which was to be donned the same evening by one of the members of the family for a wedding party, and had it nearly completed, who. should suddenly drop down on the table but Alexander Adam, the chimney sweep, clutching his usual carrying apparatus. Horror and astonishment were the firs* feelings, but unless our hero had " skedaddled " in time, the hot iron would have been brought into* r-equisition. Adam, it appeared, had fallen through the roof. - Glasgow Herald.

The Secretary for "War has determined to abolish forthwith the system of branding deserters and men of bad character in the army. It may be interesting to state that the only veteian naval officer left to commemorate this year the seventyfourth anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent is Capt. Henry King, who was for many years a police magistrate in New Zealand.

The Postmaster-General (London), calls attention to the frequent practice of posting newspapers for abroad with the halfpenny stamp, and of book and and sample packets over weight under the same stamp. The rate of postage is sufficient only for newspapers circulated in the United Kingdom, and for inland book and sample packets weighing nob more than two ounces. A great many newspapers are also posted for foreign parts much beyond the prescribed limit of eight days from the date of publication. Upon the marriage of one of her companions, a little girl about eleven years of age, of the same school, said to her parents, " What do you think ? Amelia is married, and she has not gone through her fractions yet,' In Massachusetts, recently, a wealthy bachelor married, off-hand, a beautiful young lady whom he car.ght inspecting cook stoves at the State lair. Since then you can't get within forty roods of the stove department for the crowd of pretty girls, A shocking occurrence took place at thi barracks at Kniglnsbridge, A young man, about 22 years of age, engaged at the barracks as a bootmaker, was writing to a young girl to whom he was to be married on the following Monday. He was sitting on a chair when he fell back* \vards dead.