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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1106, 29 August 1871, Page 2

Lord Lyttelton has written to the London Times to make eight corrections in the half column report of his speech of Monday night. To this letter the Times appends the note, " If our readers could but hear Lard Lyttelton speak, their only wonder would be that he could be reported at all." To this we (Echo) may add that if oui* readers could but see Lord Lyttelcon's writing, their wonder would be that the compositors could ever print his explanation. A good idea has beeu struck by certain farmers in different sections of Canada, who have associated themselves together for the purpose of raising and exchanging choice seed. A letter from Fiji states that several groups of South Sea Islands have assumed the offensive against ali labor vessels Two war canoes attacked the Donald M'Lean, cut the rigging, and drove the vessel oil Some years ago a French writer said, " You will see one day of what a society without God is capable. Paris will burn herself down with her own hands." Those who have visited the Pantheon there in past days will remember Voltaire's marble sarcophagus, with tits sculptured hand thrust through the coffinlid, waving a torch. An English paper says ;—-The last of our Waterloo veterans has passed away from amongst us at the age of 79, Donald Ross, who died at Ballone, on the 23rd April, enlisted in the 79th Highlanders (the Cameron men), at the age of 17. His regiment was shortly after ordered to the Peninsula, and served through all that campaign, being present at eleven engagements. He had two medals for these, and also the Waterloo medal. At Waterloo, he was shot through the leg, and lay all night on the field, On the couclusion of peace, he returned home and settled <]own in his native parish. During his soldier life in the Peninsula he acquired a considerable knowledge of the French language, and his stories of the lines of Torres Vedras and Corunna, were racy and interesting. Of the middle height, and smart and erect in his bearing, he was the beau ideal of the tidy, active and hardy Highlander. His funeral was largely and respectably attended. The Southern Cross, August %S, says • —-The poet Chaucer in bygone days inquired, " Who shall give a lover any law ? " But in these more practical times, that know not romance, the ardent lover finds his amorous advances provided for in statute, and the self complacent swain who fails to see that his attentions are undesired may be enlightened upon the view which the law takes of his advances by an appeal to the Police Court. Such a course, indeed, a very respectable young lady had to pursue yesterday, to restrain a gallant, and secure herself from continued annoyance. In Mr Beckham we have the gentleman Chaucer sought, for he gave a lover law, by ordering sureties for good behaviour to the amount of the penalty to be recoverable at any time during the ensuing twelve mouths, should the annoy-; auce be renewed, The snail has 110 rows of teeth, with ill on each row, 12,310 Ueth in alj.