Untitled

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1063, 8 July 1871, Page 2

There were no cases at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. We are informed that the Tongoio lake, which broke through the beach during the late heavy rains, is still open, and that it cannot be crossed without swimming. The Petane river has also forced a passage, and is at present impassable at its mouth. Travellers, therefore, have to go some distance up the valley to find a crossing. " Shot through the heart" is a com. mem expression, vet out of 87,822 cases of gunshot wounds reported during the late war it is said that in only four cases the bullet wounded the heart,

A telegram of Auckland news, re* ceived this morning by way of Wanga* nui, appears in another column. We believe it arrived there by the s.s. St. Kilda. The news, such as it is, has all been anticipated by the Star of the South, which, in fact, brings dates one day later. At a meeting held in Auckland 014 the 30th June, a resolution was passed affirming the desirability of forming a Highland Volunteer Brigade in Auckland. A curious story appears in the Otagq Daily Times, which shows that sheep in that Province are attacked, and sometimes pretty severely wounded, by native parrots. For the last three years the sheep belonging to MrHenr/ Campbell, of the Wanaka Station,, have often shown a patch of raw flesh on their loins, The cause of this was ; at last discovered by a shepherd to b,e ; the attacks of the parrots. The New Zealand Herald, 3rd July* says:—His Excellency Earl of Belraore,, accompanied by his countess, arrived from Sydney by the Hero on Saturday afternoon, on a visit to Sir George and Lady Bo wen. A salute was fired by the Volunteer Artillery on the enibaiv. kation of the vice-regal party at Syd-. ney. Lord Belmore's visit will not, it is said, extend over a week. A fatal accident occurred at theThames on June 30. The dingy of tho schooner Clio, which had arrived fvona Russell, was going ashore and capsized.. Two of the men were lescued, and a third drowned. An inquest which was held on the body terminated in a verdict of ' accidentally drowned" being returned. One house in New York is inhabited by 1,218 persons— is a village under one roof," The New York Tribune remarks that the Presidential campaign of 1872 will be " the most infuriated contest we have ever had," owing to feuds existing in the Republican ranks. It has been ascertained that, out of 1,500 salmon eggs, in the ordinary course of nature only one produces a mature salmon. If all the eggs laid were to produce salmon, the ocean in, half a century would be a moving mass of salmon. Three musicians have been knighted by Queen Victoria. They are Jules Benedict, who visited America with Jenny Lind; Sterndale Bennett, also widely known as a composer of orchestral and vocal music; and Dr Elvey, who i* chiefly noted as a church musician, and as the organist of St, George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The system of employing ladies in. the British Government offices is extending. The Glasgow Weekly Mail says ; —We understand it is in con-, templatiou to introduce a staff of female clerks into the Telegraph Department of the Post office here. As our readers are aware, large numbers of female clerks are employed in the General Post office, London, and elsewhere throughout the country; and the resolution to extend their employment has. been forced upon the Post office au-r thoi ities by the enormous increase in the work of the Telegraph Department. We believe that, as soon as a sufficient number of applicants present themselves, a class for female clerks will be formed in Glasgow. The work is light, and admirably calculated to afford a suitable field for bhe employment of women. Applicants .should be well educated and respectably connected, and between the ages of 14 and 1(5 years. The salary they would receive during the period of instruction would be at the rate of 8s per week. At a neighbor's house was a very bright little girl. It chanced one day that they had for a guest a minister, and an esteemed friend. Little Annie watched him very closely, and finally sat down beside Him and began to draw 011 her slate. '< What are you doing, Anuie 1 " said the clergyman. " I'a making your picture," said the child. jSo the gentleman sat very still, and she worked away earnestly for a while,, Then she stopped and compared herwork with the original, and shook herlittle head. " 1 can't like it much," she said. '' 'Taint a great deal like you. I dess I'll put a tail to it an<4 call it a dorgt" Fancy his feelings !| What a likeness there must have been, (