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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1145, 13 October 1871, Page 2

The New Zealand Herald, Oct. 5, says :—lt is not the fault of the Parnell Highway Board that several lives were not lost yesterday evening. That intelligent body haye been for some time in the act of repairing their roads, and the method adopted is (he obviously excellent one of heaping up vast symmetrical mounds of broken metal, not at the sides of the load as is usually done by stupidly trustees, but right in the track of all vehicles. Amongst other sites selected for these " cairns " is the descent of the road to Mechanics' Bay—at all times rather an awkward declivity,—and an enormous heap of scoria was planted with infinite tact exactly at the turn of the road, where a vehicle could hardly escape running upon it. The other night an accident occurred in consequence, a buggy being capsized, and the occupant being severely bruised and shaken. The Parnell Highway Board will, however, be glad to learn that last night their kind efforts at the achievement of man slaughter were very nearly crowned with success. King's omnibus, full of passengers, chiefly females, was coming down the road about half-past seven o'clock, and on rounding the awkward turn ran right against one of the monuments of engineering skill in question. Of course the consequence was an instant capsize of vehicle and horses, Amongst the passengers were Mr and Mrs D. Siicehan and their family, and we regret to say that Miss A. Sheehan received some severe injuries, although to what extent is unknown. It is believed that some of the small bones of the leg are fractured. The natives of Madras were sub scribing for a statue to the retiring Gorernor —Lord Napier. A good story comes from America of a man *ho, rehearsing Guildenstern, pressed too near Macready, who was playing Hamlet." Rpliionstrauces had no effect, and at length he came so very close that Macready said, " What, Sir, you would not shake hands with. Hamlet, would you 1 " "I don't know," said the qther, ?' T do with my own President."

A case arising out of the Harrow accident has been tried at the Manchester assizes before the Lord Chief Baron. The action was brought on behalf of the mother, widow, and six children &f the late Mr J. 0. Rowley, solicitor, Manchester, who was killed in the collision at Harrow in December. It was proved that Mr Rowley's income from his profession was about <£3,QOQ pep annum, and that he had left little or no property to his family. The jury gave a verdict for <£6j,200, w bich they apportioned thus:—£l,2oo to the mother, £ 1,400 to the widow, §nd £6,OQ to each of the children.. the Pall Mali Qazette, «Herr Bebel, the well-known democrat, addressed a, warning to tin? Assembly which does not appear to have been seriously received, though it was seriously meant. He said :— * The aim of the Paris Commune is neither an impossible nor a pernicious one, as it has been erroneously called by a previous speaker. On the contrary, in all Europe those classes not dead to all feeling of liberty and independence look upon Paris as their staff of hope. Never mind whether the insurrection is suppressed: what is, doing now at the French capital is onlyan outpost skirmish, which will be followed up some day by a great European battle. "War to the palaoes, peace to the cottages, and death to luxurious idleness is, and will ever be, the watchword of the proletariat in all parts of the world.' The speech was received with derisive laughter, and Prince Bis= marck passed ic by with a contemptuous remark that it needed no reply. Prince Bismarck, however, will not prove hinir self the astute states-man he is supposed to be if he neglects these symptoms of the time." An accident occurred at Switzers. recently, wherbv a miner, named White, lost his life, and Ennis, his mate, was severely bruised. It seems that the two men were standing on the edge of a face, consulting as to where to turn water on ? when it gave way without a moment's warning, precipitating them down fully forty feet. On the 24th August the resen e of notes in the Bank of England was £14,687,000, and bullion £25,43.7,000, A brisk correspondence is going on in the Times with regard to the banks sending wqol to England. The banks are defended by the chairman of the Bank of Australasia and Sir I)anie], Cooper. An article on the Budget, in a late Thames Advertiser, thus concludes : We cannot help thinking that if many of the settlers had fixed their minds upon what was for the permanent interest of the country, and what accorded with sober views of the future, we should never have seen the last two. budgets. But there is so great an anxiety to make a " rise," that few men heed the ultimate consequences, of exr pedients for that purpose. The Colonial Treasurer- admits that there is a deficiency on the year's revenue of about £140,000. He does not propose to meet this by increased taxation, by putting an end to costly and useless mail services, or by retrenchment of Qeneral Government departments. He proposes to pay the deficiency out of the loan by instalments. We have been deluged with coin runs upon columns of print tp show that the loan was to be spent upon V reproductive " works only. AH objections on the score of risk were met with the reply that the whole of the ten millions wouuj be " reproductive," and so wquld enorr mou sly enrich the colony. Is this firs.fc essay, of paying off debt with the. hocrowed money, '* reproductive e,xpen: diture"? And we fail to see that precaution is taken agajnst another de : ficiency next yeai, and that also, we presume will have to be satisfied out of borrowed money. The manner in which the deficiency in tlje revenue is accounted for is not at all satisfactory to onr minds. The blame is laid upon the war in Europe, but we cannot see how that has affected the revenue. When so great a proportion of the value of t]mexports is composed of gold, whose value has not been affected one farthing, we cannot see how the purchasing power of the colony should in that way be dimiij; ishing.

typhoon in Formosa Channel, £)bina, resulted in many w,recks and j OSS of life. The Communist prisoners tried at Versailles were sentenced to imprisonr jnent varying from 1 to 21 years. The drainage of the northern division Calcutta is proposed at a cost of £300,000, "War is threatened amongst the Abys..sinian tribes, Enquiries have been instituted at Christchureli respecting the alleged habitual intoxication of employees on the railways, and the Times thus refers to the conduct of the General-Manager in connection with the affair; —When asked whether he went on an engine when the driver was in a drunken state, Mr Marsham replied -that the man was ,"not drunk." Noihing of the sort. He had merely "lost the faculty of speech," and he couldn't " say Hillsborough to save his life." That was all, and the whole affair appeared to the General-Manager so exceedingly funny, that he spoke of it "jocularly " at the government Buildings in the presence .of the Secretary for Public Works. An engine-driver speechlessly drunk while in charge of a special train from Lyttelton to Christchurch, with perhaps, the lives of some thirty or forty passengers in his hand*, vainly struggling to articulate a certain word, was to Mr Mar<hman a joke so very rich, that he must needs repeat it in order' that .others might enjoy its fia\ or. Com nient would be entirely out of place.