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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1141, 9 October 1871, Page 2

Under the heading of ""Future Mar* riage in High Life," a correspondent of the Auckland Evening Star, writes:— Sir,— Reflecting by the five side upon his Excellency Sir George Bowen's prophecy on the amalgamation of the races in this Island, and the ennobling properties of Maori blood. I suddenly felt my.self wrapt in his mantle, whicfl fell upon me from the native heaven into which his language had transported me, and in the columns of the future Morning Post I read, by the same

gpirit of divination, the following advertisement: —"On Monday morning, fcy the Right Rev. the Bishop of the diocese, the Hon. George Bowen, great grandson of His Excellency the former Governor, to Mari Victoria Kurw, direct lineal descendant of the celebrated chieftainess Mere Kuril. The interesting ceremony was afterwards performed by the chaplain of his Hau Hau Majesty King Rewi Knmera, as* the fair bride was of the Hau Hau faith, The illus trious bridegroom was arrayed in the native kilt." Yours, &c, Mika.

A most amusing instance of speaking in church occurred some forty years ago, in a Scottish parish. The minister, in preaching upon the story of Jonah, uttered a piece of declamatory rhetoric, to something like the following effect: —" And what sort of fish was it, my brethren, that God bad appointed thus <o execute His holy will? Was it a shark, my brethren? No—it could not be a shark ; for God could never have ventured the person of His beloved Proihet amongst the deadly teeth of that ravenous fish ! What fish was it, then, my brethren ? Was it a salmon, think ye? Ah, no, that were too narrow a lodging. There's no ae salmon i' the deepest pule o' a' Tweed could swallow a man. Besides, ye ken, it's mair natural for men to swallow salmon, than for salmon to swallow men. What then was it 1 Was it a sea lion, or a sea horse, or a sea dog, or the great rhinoceros ? Oh, no! These are not Scripter beasts ava. Ye're as far aff't as ever. Which of the monsters of the great deep was it, can ye tell me ? " Here an old spectacled dame, who had *m eleemosynary seat on the pulpit stair, thinking that the minister was in real perplexity about the name of the fish, interrupted him with —*>Hoot, sir !it was a whale, ye ken " —" Out upon ye, you graceless wife that ye are ! " cried the orator, so enraged as almost to fly out of the pulpit at her; " thus to take the word out of the mouth of God's minister 1"

The Marlboroiigb Express savs : An inquest was held at Kekerangu by Di Williams, coroner, and a respectable jury of whom F. W. Trolove, Esq., was foreman, upon the body of Mary Eliza beth, daughter of Mr Lovegrove. The evidence, which was very brief, was to the following efftct: —Mr Lovegrove was engaged in erecting a fence on the previous Monday evening, and about five p.m. deceased, who had been with him, left to goV home, having her younger brother with her. Some quarter-hour after they had left, talking together, he heard the boy scream, and saw him run along the fence, but thinking that his sister had run away from him, and that he was running after, he took no notice, but finished his work for the evening, and returned towards home. His actention was then called to something being wrong, and seeing persons running towards the river, and healing rounds of distress he immediately ran down also, in company with David West, and J. Lyford, to the Bluff, whence the boy's screams proceeded. There he found deceased, and picked her up quite dead, and carried her to the bouse, where on undressing her, he found the body much bruiser!, and her neck broken. She had lallen from the top of the cliff, about thirty feet high, whilst collecting flax-stalks for her brother and sister to play with, one of which was found with the body. Jt is supposed that her dress had caught the fence, which is near to the edge of the cliff, and it had caused her to fall over. The verdict was that she came to her death by accident.