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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1138, 5 October 1871, Page 3

It is reported that a photographer who took several photographs of a dead *biid at Eall River, Massachusetts, one day last found clearly defined on the sixth negative, the face of the child'* mother, who has been dead for • s °me .time. There is a sensation in fall River in consequence.

The nucleus of a golf club has been formed in Dunedin. 'The first game has been played. It is expected that soon golf will become, as it is in Scotland, a favorite source of recreation. A contemporary, contrasting the present bankruptcy law with the customs which pievailed in olden times, writes :—" The law of debtor and creditor, even now, is in a far from satisfactory condition ; but a bankrupt has at least some chance left him to begin the world afresh, and retrieve his past misfortunes. Our forefathers would seem, however, to have treated the defaulting bankrupt in a -very summary fashion, when we read that 'Alexander Thompson, embroiderer, was executed at Tyburn for not surrendering himself pursuant to notice gi\en in the Gazette, after being declared a bankrupt.'" The Evening '.News, 23rd September, says :—lt is passing strange that nothing has yet turned up about what- has become of the £1,200,000 Mr Vogel borrowed when in England, and how much of it is yet left. But that will have to come out shortly, and we should not be at all surprised at finding that much of this has melted away as snow before the sun, just as large sums did in Otago when Mr Vogel was Treasurer of that province. But let us not further anticipate. To our dismay, we shall know the truth in time. At the Academy.—Young Lady (indignantly—" Now I told you, papa, this wasn't the fashionable hour. We'll, have nothing but these horrid pictures to look at until the people come j"