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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1066, 12 July 1871, Page 2

During the war, says an American exchange, " France produced no Marshall Murat." And yet she ate cavalry horses enough to have produced even a martial neigh. A reporter thus graphically describes the effect of a storm in the North Sea ; —" While the storm was ai its height the vessel heeled to the larboard, and the captain and another cask of whiskey rolled overboard."

The Evening Post, July 5, says :-- We thought the farce of Maori repre sentation was complete, and that it would be painting the lily to manage a travestie of such an absurdity. It is true wonders ne\er cease, but few were prepared for a rumor circulated about town, and posilively affirmed by Maoris yesterday, to the effect that a whole crowd of them, resident at the Hutt, had been called to the Upper House. Although many people believe the present Ministry would shrink from fewacts that could purchase support, they certainly doubted the evidence of their ears on this matter; but the presence of the Maoris in town, and the possession by them of official documents wrritten in Maori (which of com-se were as Sanskrit to most people), and which they asserted were orders summoning them to the House, were posers it was hard to answer. Alter the Maoris had spent some time in glorification over the affair, some sceptic suggested that they should see Mr Baker, the Clerk to the Bench, and ask him what it meant. Accordingly to the Magistrate's Court the Maoris went, and the "talkee talkee" over the matter was great, but the laughter afterwards was much greater. It turned out that the usual notice infoiming members of the meeting of the. House of Bepresentathes had been translated into Maori for the benefit of the few native representatives. Some copies of this notice had got into the hands of the Hutt Maoris, who understood them to be orders calling them to sit in the Legislative Council.