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John Lewis, charged with larceny, appeared at the Besident Magistrate's Court yesterday, but, there being no evidence against him, he was discharged, A telegraph station has been opened at Opunaki, in the province of Taranaki, for which place telegraphic messages are now receivable at the Spit and Napier offices. As the opening of this station places Hawke's Buy in closer communication than hitherto with New Plymouth, all messages received for transmission to New Plymouth will be forwarded \ia Opunaki. The Taranaki Herald, of June 23 a says : —We regret to have to record the rather sudden death of Mrs P. Wilson, a lady who was much respected in this town, and who was one of our earliest settlers. Mrs Wilson had been troubled with a severe cold at the beginning of the winter, but had somowhat recovered from it, and was out on Friday last. She went to bed on that evening at her usual hour, and at about two o'clock the next morning woke up with a fit of coughing. The usual remedies were applied, but without effect, so her medical attendant was sent for. She however, gradually sank and died at about four o'clock on Saturday morning. Mrs Peter Wilson was the daughter of a Mr James Simpson, and was born at Gibraltar in 1849; consequently she was seventy-seven years of age at her death. Her father, shortly alter her birth, was appointed by General Washington American Consul at Tafi*

giers, where, we have heard, Mrs Wilson •states she remembered hearing the guns at the battle of Trafalgar. After her fathers death she returned to Gibraltar, where she married the late Dr Peter Wilson. The late Dr and Mrs Wilson .<same to the Colony in the Staines Castle, arriving in New Zealand in January, J. 841. The late Dr Wilson (who was till his death Colonial Surgeon here), died on the 18th December, ,186.3, aged 72 Mrs Wilson survived her husband therefore eight years. A great loss will be felt by her death, as she was most charitable, and, notwithstanding her age, exceedingly active in promoting the social welfare of those around her. She was buried yesterday, in the cemetery, a very large number of settlers attending the funeral. The New Zealand Herald, July 11, says: —During the most part of Saturday, the whole of Sunday, and yesterday, the barometer has been varying between 29-20 and 29-25, and the weather generally, has been extremely wild. Heavy banks of clouds accumulating in the south and west, aud presenting all the appearance of snow-clouds, have burst at intervals in heavy squalls of wind, with rain, hail, and sleet, and occasional thunder and lightning. It is many seasons since we remember experiencing such wild weather. About 8.30 yesterday morning a. most vivid flash of lightning, accompanied by a tremendous thunder clap, startled the city, and at the same instant a meteoric body fell into the harbor between the wharf and the breakwater with a hideous din, sending \ p into the air clouds of steam and spray. This is not the first phenomenon of the kind that has lately been observed in the neighborhood; and our readers will remember something similar as having lately occurred iu the Hauraki Gulf, and reported by the master of a coasting steamer. The Daily Southern Cross, of date 7th July, says:—An accident, resulting in the death of four natives, occurred on the 27th ult. at Maaratapu, a settlement halfway between Raglan township and Port Waikato. The launching of a new canoe is an important event in Maori life, and numbers of natives bad assembled at the above named village to take part in a ceremony of that description. After the launch, which was made on the open sea beach, four natives---Reihaua te Kahukoti, Te Wikiriwhi, Hetaraka, and Keupene te Pohau—embarked in the vessel on a fishing excursion, but they had not proceeded far before their craft was capsized. Hetaraka, being a weakly man, lashed himself to the canoe, but the others were confident in their swimming powers too confident, as the result proved. Time after time the uufortunate men fetched well in-shore, only to be swept to seaward again by the drawback, until at last, thoroughly exhausted, they ; bade farewell to their horrified friends on shore, and sank before their eyes. Wild riwhi's wife, when she heard her husbands farewell, was only restrained by main force from throwing herself off a cliff into the sea,. Hetaraka, in the meantime, was on the canoe, but when it was drifted ashore some time afterwards it was broken in pieces, and the man was not to be seen. None of the bodies have been re covered. Reupene was a Hauhau, on a visit to his tribe. The other three were friendlies. Wikiriwhi (Wiekhffe) especially was well known to travellers along the coast-road as a very civil and obliging native. The Maoris ridicule the idea of the drawback and the tide having drowned the men, and refer the matter to a supernatural cause. They call it an " aitua " (omen). The Saturday Review declares that a reform in the dress of " lower-class females/' and maid-servants in particular, can only be brought about in one way. The reaction in favor of a neat and simple style must come from above, and not from below ; in the way of example, not precept. When " ladies of position and fortune " cease to lavish their thousands on millinery, their copies in the nursery and kitchen will cease to spend their wages on a similar object. The chief incentive to showy dress among the " lower order of females" is unquestionably a .desire to ape the extravagance of their betters. Remove that incentive, and the evil which a " Clergyman's Wife" so forcibly deplores will soon cure itself. It is to be hoped that she may be induced to turn her reforming zeal into another direction. Instead of indulging iu childish

projects for putting the Sunday school, and the church singers and maid-servants, and the lower order of females generally, into uniforms, let her attack the mischief at its root, and persuade the fine ladies of the earth to curtail their monstrous prodigality and immodest vagaries in dress. Let her add her warning voice to that of the head of Latin Christianity, who has recently denounced this scandal of the age with the same perennial vigour that characterises his anathemas on the Subalpine

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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1069, 15 July 1871, Page 2

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Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1069, 15 July 1871, Page 2

Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1069, 15 July 1871, Page 2

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