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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1131, 27 September 1871, Page 2

The "VV'anganui Chronicle that a traveller on his way from Waitotara to Wanganui, along the breach came upon an upturned coffin on the sand. It was empty and lidless, but iu a good state of preservation. The fortifications of have cost £70,000 a year for 20 years past, are not finished, and are now pronounced unnecessary.

The New York Times says Florence Nightingale, writing to a friend in Brooklyn in acknowledgment of a certificate of honorary membership in a missionary society, speaks in very feeling terms of the generous contributions made in England and the United States to alleviate the sufferings caused by the late war between Germany and France. 3he says —" lam sure it will please your society to learn (for are we not all brothers and sisters in the United States and in all England—of one family and of one tongue ?) how their English relations, the subjects of our Queen, in all climates and in all longitudes -not by any means only the rich, but the whole ma*s of hard-working, honest, frugal people having contributed every penny they could so ill spare. Women have given the veryshoes off their feet, the very suppen out ot their children's mouths, to the poor sufferers in rhjs awful war—not of their own creed —not of their own thinking or way of living at all—but in the freest ppirit of Christian all have given, every man, woman, and child above pauperism. So general a collection among the ' working classes' never has been, not even for our own patriotic fund. Poor congregations of all kinds—' Puritan ' chapels in my own dear hills ot Derbyshire, national schools, factories, poor negro congregations in the "West Indies, in London, ragged school children, who. having nothing to give, gave up their only feast in the year, that the money might be applied to the orphans in the war, * who want it more than we/ London dissenting congregations, without a single rich member, who sent their large coir lections ; poor working women's parties, who made up warm clothing for the sufferers in that frightful winter campaign and refused to be paid for it ; and then the children, making their little birthday presents for the Lord Christ, for Him to give to the children made homeless and well nigh hopeless by the. war,"

A co-respondent writes, to an English paper denying that the length of the. Tichborne ca>e will be iinexampled. He mentions that few hundred years ago there arose a dispute regarding a hear: ing in the coat-of-arms of the Rutland family, and the right of another great house to its adoption. On this trial Chaucer gave evidence. It lasted through one whole century and the tatter part of the preceding and former, part of the succeeding que. A rather ingenious device was resorted to for settling conscientious scruples, by the Adelaide coroner, recently at an inquest on a man named Patrick M'Tnerney, who died from an accident on the road. Having sworn the wife of the unfortunate man, wliq was a Roman Catholic, upon a Protestant Bible, he asked her if she con-, sidered the path binding upon her conscience. She replying in the negative, Mr Hare obtained a piece of tape, which he tied round the Bible in the form of a cross. He then administered the oath, and directed her to kiss the book, remarking that that would have to be binding.

Thus writes a correspondent from the Ahaura : The new Court House at this place is nearly completed. It is a little structure, in the " West-coaster-esque " style of architecture, and lopfe for all the world like a cross between an Ebenezer meeting-house and a HigT land shooting-lodge. However, as 'I represents nearly all the money the Government has expended here for thj last two years, we must look upQ? 1 * with thankfulness and reverence.

A notable instance of longevity mtf not be unworthy of a notice. A maty named Murray, died at Moa Otago, on the 15th ultimo, who <&■ tinctly remembered some of the leading events of the American War of Ind 6" pendence, and who was a man wjf Louis XVI. expiated the sins of W ancestors on the revolutionary seaft#

The greatest amount of gold .ever produced in one year in California was *£l 1,466,205, in 1853. The annual value now is about half of that amount. The largest yield ever realised in Victoria in one year was in 1856, when the value was £11,953,964. So that Victoria has produced the largest amount in one year. The present yield in Victoria amounts to about the same as in California. The total yield of California, since the first discovery of <rold there in 1848, is somewhat less*than the amount which has been realised in the Australian colonies since f the discovery of gold there in 1851. A young English traveller contracted in Valencia a love affair with a pieity "ipsy g"*k fle motaor wished that he should marry her at once ; but the Englishman declared that he vas not rich enough to keep a wife. " What! " aaid the gipsy, laughing, u not rich enough in the land of guineas % With so renowned a thief as my daughter, you will in a year be a millionaire.*' Water your horses from a hole or stream rather than from a spring or .well, because the latter is generally hard and cold, while the former is soft and Icomparalively warm. The horse prefers soft, muddy water to hard water, .though ever so clear.