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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1118, 12 September 1871, Page 2

Tn the Victorian Parliament, on the 15th August, Mr Duffy stated that such arrangements would shortly be made for a fortnightly mail service as would enable the Government to give the requisite notice to the P. and O. Company. The Rev. J. Cunningham Geikie, representing the Palestine Exploration Fund, recently made a public address in London on the subject of explorations in the Holy Land. Jn the course of his remarks Mr Geikie said that in Jerusalem, with seventeen sieges, frequent earthquakes, tumbling of houses, and non-removal of rubbish, not sixteen or twenty feet of rubbish, as in the case of London, but sixty or eighty, or sometimes one hundred and twenty feet of rubbish had to be removed before getting to the cily of David. They had to go down and work as if for coal, or as if making som«i geological investigation. Things had been found out \yith respect to the Temple which could not fail to be interesting. The red paint or chalk marks were still to be found on the stones 80 feet below the surface, and to this day they could see what place the stone was intended for. Instead of the stones being prepared on the spot, they weic prepared at the quarry, and this proved the correctness of the verse in the Bible which spoke of the stones having been made ready in the quarry. Although much had been discovered that was interesting, much still remained to be revealed. The whole of Palestine was like some field that had been overflowed at different times, with one layer on another, until at last, digging from the top, they came on one thing after another wholly different and wholly unexpected. They would find out the Canaanites, the Philistines, and many other people of antiquity, discoveries respecting whom were interesting, not only to students of the Bible, but to intelligent people of every opinion. One thing they wanted was that her Majesty should allow an engineer to be stationed in Palestine, and do for that country what had been so splendidly done for Scotland, He pressed the claims of the society upon the sympathies of all Christians, and hoped that such support would be given as would enable the society to prosecute further investigations. Every person who toils daily at any kind of labor requiring great physical or mental exertion should be extremely careful to practice a regular system of ablution at the of each day's work. Sometimes a person may become so completely exhausted as to render this anything but an inviting performance ; vet by its omission a great deal of refreshment which the hours of repose are designed to impart is lost. To be cleanly is a strictly religious duty, and is absolutely necessary to sound and refreshing slumber; hence the labour of keeping one's person clean is amply re paid by the elasticity which follows nightly anlutionw before retiring. Heed this advice, and the reader will sleep soundly; din egard it— go to bed unwashed —and you will rise in the morning unrefreshed, with feelings of lassitude which the exertions of the day will hardly be able to remove.

Hares are becoming as great a nuisance as rabbits in Victoria. The Russian Government intend holding an industrial exhibition in Moscow next year, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great.

The London press almost without exception, believe that the establishment of a monarchy in France is only a question of time. A Melbourne telegram, of date 22nd August, states that Mr Dutfy, Chief Secretary, and Mr Berry, Treasurer, will represent Victoria at the forthcoming intercolonial conference on the Bolder duties. Numerous bakers in Melbourne are being proceeded against for adulterations. A large collection of dorking", parrots, magpies, pigeons, game fowls, Belgium canaries, Spanish fovls, and lizards were brought to Auckland the other day by the Bella Mary from Ho bart Town. The Pall Mall Gazette says of a certain Irish Court of Law that it is never so sure to be wrong as when the Judges are unanimous. It fa stated that an Italian colony is to be founded on the shores of the Red Sea. An old farmer, in speaking of the value ot wood ashes* as a fertilizer, (SaV!S . —I have Used ashes quite freely for the la«t ten years, and find them to be the cheapest and most trust worthy manure I can use. What a great part of our land needs is potash, and this ashes supply to the soil. Wheat, grass, and fruit trees seem to derive the greatest benefit from the use of ashes; but vegetables of all kinds thrive and are less liable to be troubled by worms than when other manures aie used