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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1144, 12 October 1871, Page 2

The members of the Good Intent Lodge of Oddfellovs inaugurated the opening of their new hall, Cook-street, Auckland, on the evening of the 26th Sept., by a eold collation and ball,. The Thames Advertiser reports : The remains of a lad, Francis North wood, who was drowned by the capsizing of a boat laden with gum, in May 'ast were found on Sunday, 24th Sept., on the banks of the Wairoa, J£ajpara, about a mile below the spot \* here the accident occurred. An inquest was held on the following day.—William Paton deposed that he found the remains on the previous day, on the hanks of the Wairoa, about high-water mark, a little below Tokaloka. There were some articles of clothing, which the jury had seem attached to the body. Jabez Fitness identified, the remains as those of Francis North wood from the coat, boot, and buckle of the belt. The verdict was in accordance with the evidence. The remains were interred the same evening, the funeral service of the Church of England being impressively read by the Re^v. Mr Breach. The Thames Star, October 5, says : A serious occurrence took place in ShorJand this morning, at tin* place well known as Butt's Corner. A mob of cattle, amongst which weie two very refractory bullocks, were being driyen along Grey-street, on their way to the slaughter-yards of the Messrs Banks having been landed this morning from the steamer Star of the South. At Butt's Corner several persons were standing, and as the cattle got there the stock-driver's hat was blqwn off. A bystander known sis " Scotty," an elderly man, went to pj r k up liis hat, when one qf the bullqcks which had previously given considerable trouble, rushed him, and tossed him to a considerable height. The infuriated beast made a second rush at the unfortunate man, and was with difficulty driven off. Immediate assistance was rendered, and surgical examination disclosed that the man's thigh was broken and his body was severely bruised, beside* which the bullocks horns had penetrated the poor man's body and inflicted serious wounds. The injurned man, who followed ihe palling of a fisherman, was immediately conyeyed to the Hospital b}' his mate. M. Michael pheyalier has just called attention to the condition of the Bank of France, wliicj} jie describes as perilpus, qwing to the large amount of notes it has, issued in expels of its capital. M. Chevalier admits at £he same time that the notes have been of great utjlity to the country, and f hap there js no present sign of their depreciation.

English and German schools are opening in Japan. Tl?e cholera and famine in Persia "are mitigated. A fresh seizure of Fenian arms was lately made in Liverpool. A great huiricane and earthquake has occurred at the island of St. Thomas, killing and injuring 150 persons. In a recent case (Ferguson v. McGormick) in the Supreme Court in Auckland, before Sir G. A. A racy, a definition of the terra " Yankee Grab " was given, yhiefe caused some amusement. The following is an extract from the report:—The plaint iff, in cross-examination, said that himself, the defendant, and another man were origiginal holders of the ground called the "Clyde," for which each one got thirty three shares in the Alhurnia Gold Mining Company. —In answer to what was to be done with the 100th share, the plaintiff said that Mr Hannaford told them they were to have " Yankee grab" for it/—His Honor: '* Yankee grab!" (laughter). What is that?— Mr Hesketh : I do not know, your Honor. 1 believe it is shaking something in the hat. (Loud laughter.) Practically he knew nothing whatever of -" Yankee grab," but he had been informed upon reliable authority that it was a speculative pastime, invented to arrive at a result —as for instance, where two persons were in doubt as to which of them should pay for a bottle of wine, or the like ; or, as in the matter before the Court, to determine who should become the owner of the odd share. Some persons had opined that this method of deciding things had not a moral tendency; but this he (Mr Hesketh) could not *ay of his own knowledge.— Mr Rees stated in respect of his belief, but not of his experience, that the game referred to would be known in after years as " rattling the bones." It was an appeal to decide certain issues hy ascertaining the aggi egate number of spots upon dice thrown in triplicate in an agreed-upon succession of throws or casts. —His Honor bowed his acknowledgment for the information, and resumed taking notes. The Daily Southern Cross, Oct. 7, says ; —" A man named Samuel Atkinson, who had been staying at the Manukau Hotel, Onehunga, for a few days, waiting for a steamer to proceed South, attempted suicide on Friday morning, by discharging the contents of a fowlingpiece into his side, inflicting a serious, and most probably fatal, wound. The man was suffering from the effects of drink, and appears to have procured the gun from another person's bedroom, which, it is supposed, he loaded witlj di.ck-shct, and apparently used, as wadding, a£ 10 and a ,£1 note, burnt and mutilated poitions of which were picked up in the room. Bfe was visited by Dr $. K. Nicholson, who advised his removal to the Hospital, where he was at once taken."—The Star, says :—•" The gun was loaded with small shot, which he discharged into his left side, the charge passing entirely through his clothing, and inflicting a ragged wound about eight inches long aud Iwo and a-half broad. The coveting of the intestines was exposed but not wounded. It appears he was suffering from delirium tiemens when he arrived at the hotel, on Saturday last, and which appears to have been the of the rash act " The excitement of the great Tichborne case is being fanned into a blaze in Australia by anecdotes and discoveries of all kinds and degrees Everybody who knew anything of the claimant during his sojourn in the colony rushes into print to furnish everybody else with the information ; and if it be true that the legal agents of the litigating parties have been, sent tq this colony to collect further information, there is no fear of their going back empty handed. The last piece of intelligence came from Wagga. The very identical pocket-book of Castro, Sir Roger Tiehborne, has been brought upon the scene lor the. delectation of the curious. The news was hardly made public before there was a scramble for the book between the agents of the contestants. One of these offers a reward for the book, if \t proves valuable as evidence \ whilst other threatens an action if the book is not given up.

It is officiary announced that cholera has appeared on the German side of the frontier. It is rumoured that the Duke of Sutherland, Mr John Pender, and Mr Fowler, the eminent engineer, are about to purchase the Suez canal for the sum of .£6,000,000. The undertaking cost the French company £22.000,000. The Auckland Evening Star, nays » —A most extraordinary rush of timidity or bash fulness, appears to come over many people when they take their stand in a witness-box, Great hulking fellows, whose voices can be heard a mile off' when swearing at their bullocks, grow all on a sudden modest and sweetspoken as young maidens ,vhen they stand up and face the awful majesty of justice in the Police Court. They whisper their names in a confidential kind of manner to the clerk, and next day bully the reporters for having written them down Brown, instead of Jones or Robinson. If these people would only consider that their evidence is intended to be heard, and deliver-it accordingly ore rotundo, they won 14 save an infinity of trouble and vexation. The Thames Star, Oct. 6, says : A lad of the name of Mackay wa.i brought before the Resident Magistrate yesterday moinjng, charged with being a neglected child under the Destitute and Criminal Children Act, or some such enactment. It appears that there are numbers of boys, of ages varying from ten tp fourteen, wandering about Grahamstown as vagrants, picking up a living no one knows how, and sleep-, in the first hole into which they can creep at night. Boilers, empty tanks, outhouses, stables, are the places in which the*e boys have been found by the police." The Auckland Evening Star, Oct. 5, says s—lt will afford much gratification to learn that at least one of our escaped birds has been captuied. The absconder Bray, who has so unworthily requited the kindness of his friends at the Thames and A uckland, has been stopped in his flight at Tlobart Town, and will in due time be restored to the admiring eyes of his hitheito disconsolate friends. It will be recollected that Bray deluded those on the look or:t for him by placing his boxes on board the San Francisco mail boat, and while his possessions were being carefully attended to, slipped quietly away in the Bellq, Mary, bound for Tasmania. A warrant for his arrest was forwarded forth-, with by the Hero, and Bray is now in the hands of the police on the charge of having forged a cheque on the Bank of New South Wales. Ife is on his way back to Auckland. On the 3rd August, Mr James Nim.7 mo, lately a well-known news agent, residing at Glasgow, poisoned with prussic acid three of his children named respectively Christiana, aged five years j James, aged three and a half; and Harry, aged a year ami a half; and afterwards committed suiolde by swallowing a portion of the same deadly drug. The unhappy parent had alsq attempted to administer a dose of the. poison to Blair, his eldest son, aged 7 years, but only partially succeeded, an 4 the boy is now recovering. "W. Dighy Seymour, Esq., Q.C , the Recorder of Newcastle (England), ia his charge to the Grand Jury at the late Michaelmas Session, made strong reference to the drink traffic. Among other things he said, *' The jury would agree with him that i{ was worth bringing under their attention the extent, effect, and general statistics — guaranteed by being compiled with ft great deal of care—of the extent to which the liquor traffic is life in Eng: land. There are at this time 600,000 habitual drunkards m this country, 1,500,000 occasional drunkards, 500,000 criminals, 100,000 of which numberwere continually in custody—making* total of 2,600,000, a constant standing army of crime, or, it has been pro* perly and forcibly put, <The Devil's Militia of the Line. 1 Tnere was only one way of practically checking the evils arising from this melancholy state of things, o,y rather two ways, the one being to extencj their police establish ments, or to change the licensing system, lie Lett ft to the Grand Jury which would be tjie rnost economic! and cqurse."

A site has been chosen on the Thames .embankment for a statue to Earl Derby. British telegraph officers are preparing to lay the Australian cable in November. The consumption of Australian preserved meat is daily increasing throughout England. A member of the French Assembly has given notice of amotion that the property of the Emperor Napoleon shall ba confiscated, and tho proceeds distributed among the sufferers by the war. The Gaulois tells a story about Tietor Emmanuel, who was exceedingly •unwilling to sleep in the Palace of Ihe <Qnirinal at Rome. H# is said to have troubled by an old prophecy which declared that he would die in his bed at .Quirintil. He tried hard to get off without sleeping there, and when he could not manage it he resolved to sleep in an arm-chair all night, without taking his clothes off. He left Rome hastily next morning.