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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1153, 23 October 1871, Page 2

New York bpqtblacks have reduced sheh* tariff tp £ a shine. The Liverpool Courier has? a stoiy that a gentleman, formerly a commercial traveller in Australia, and souie ypars ago Ip.st in sie. wppds, found shelter in a herdsman's hut. The herdsman, in course of conversation, declared fliat he was the son pf a Baronet. The gentleman subsequently returned to England, and when the Tien borne case was tsiug heard he recognised the claimant as thp herdsman of Australia. Afterward hp has an. interview with Tiph t>prne, and \t i« sai<i he will be ?i witness for him when the case is resumed. &*W. S'.t 4 41*1 '"l.'- At i- *-. -?. ■-• i -' . .-. ■ .*-*

The postal card system, has been adopted in France. A Jjon<Jon telegram, Sept. 7, states that the Queen is convalescent. It is stated that the Czar? of Russia has informed. Qeneral Le Mo that there is no secret treaty between Qermany and Russia. Of the 700 students of the Berlin University who served in the Prussian army during the late war, 28 were killedMr Gladstone, in a speech at Whitby on the 2nd Sept., rejoiced that England can now loolf upon the 4m e P cans * s Mends, and indulged iu the hope that all controversies were settled. At the Liverpool Police Court on the 14th August, David Tosh, master of the ship Neva, was fined .£2O and costs for having brought coolies into Greenock, and left them there without means of proceeding to their native country. The London Echo, August 23, has despatches from Vienna, stating that Bismarck's overtures aim at more than the Roumanian Railway-difficulty, and that the English Foreign Office has been warned to watch the proceedings at Gastein. The New York Herald records that a man in Covington made a bet the other day that he could drink a pint and a half of Cincinnati whisky in 12 hours. He won the bet, and his vidow remarked at the funeral the next day that it was the first money he had earned by hard work in ten years. The Anglo-Canadian boat race, rowed on the ]SLennebecass|s River, New Brunswick, on August 21, had a very melancholy termination. During the race, James Renforth, the stroke of the English crew, was seized with apoplexy, and died within little more than an hour, He was a native of Newcastle, and was the champion oarsman of the world. He is stated to have been subject to fits, though they do not appear to have been such as to excite any alarm. The Canadian crew rowed over the remainder of the course alone, and took the stakes. The seizure is stated to have occurred three-quarters of a mile from the starting point, at which time the Canadian boaj. was leading three lengths. The course v\as six miles. The Manchester Cpuiier, July 27, say? :—On Tuesday evening, July 25, a fight took place at Blackburn between two women of ill-fame, which ended in sie death of one of tlie combatants, a sjugle woman, aged 30, named Caroline Campbell. She and Maty Jane Marsjand, and two other women, were think ing in the vaults of the Clifton Arms Hotel, Queen-street, when a quarrel arose, and Marsden and the deceased Struck each other on the tape and had a scuffle. The landlord ejected Marsden from the house, but on the deceased leaving the fight was renewed in the street. The women were separated by a man named Stones, who took the deceased in an exhausted condition into the house of a woman named Philips, with whom the deceased had been drinkjng. An hour and a half afterwards deceased was found to have been dead some time. She bore several scratches upon her face, women are in custody. We (Lancet) ha/"e seen with regret the attacks on the Queen, based on her Majesty's absence from evening entertainments, and. on, her brief residence in London. Now, the fact is,—and the more widely this fact is and the more plainly it is stated, the better, — her Majesty is not physically capable of bearing the effects of crowded or overheated rooms, or of prolonged residence in London. The effort of entertaining in the evening produces great and immediate discomfort, followed by sleeplessness or disturbed rest and severe headache, and her Majesty rarely visits jfyckingham Palace without suffering in a similar manner. The profession will readily, without entering more fully into, sp delicate a subject, understand the necessity for her Majesty's medical advisers exercising the greatest diligence to prevent the recurrence of these symptoms,. It would appear as if some persons must forget that the Queen is a lady nearly 03 years of age; for they talk as if they expected her to possess the same remarkable physical vigor and nerve-.power j?he exhibited twenty years ago.

An imperial decree abolishes the Customs frontier between Alsace and Germany. Professor Palmieri, of Naples, announces .that Mount Vesuvius has again commenced sending out flames, sand, and othej? burning matters from the central crater, but without the accompaniment of much lava. The trial and condemnation of a monk for the murder of a lay brother of the order has just taken place at Rome. Much interest attached to the trial, as it was the first in which a monk had been brought before an ordinary criminal court, the clergy being now on the same footing before the law as their fellow-citizens. The aGcised, a mason before entering the monastery, had borne a bad character, and had three times been in the hands of justice. He succeeded, however, in gaining the favor of the Superior, and was soon made treasurer- of the establishment. His violent character afterwards began to manifest itself, and he more than once threatened to kill somebody. Ultimately he had an altercation with the lay brother, and stabbed him three times, so that death endued on the following day. For the defence drunkenness was urged ; but the court sentenced the prisoner to twenty years' hard labor, The Daily Southern Cross, October 18, says :—One of those very sudden deaths which have so frequently occured in this city, forcibly illustrating the uncertainty of life, occuned last evening., The deceased was Mr A. E. Cohen, formerly engaged as an auc tioneer and commission agent, but whose affairs are now in process of liquidation in the bankruptcy court. So far as we have been able to learn the circumstances attending his death, they are as follow :—Yesterday evening Mr Cohen had complained to his wife of being very veary, and went to lie down on his bed, intending, with Mrs Cohen, to go out to a friend's to tea later in the evening. Mrs Cohen in the meantime went out for a walk in company with a friend. On her return, in little more than an hour afterwards, she was startled to find her husband dead, and the body getting cold. Deceased was lying on his back di-essed, the arms bent at the elbows, and the hands brought over the front part of the chest. There were no marks of violence to be seen, and only a slightly discolored mark on the centre of the under lip, as if it had been bitten by the teeth. Dv Hooper was called in, but could render no assistance, life being extinct, and we understand that the doctor expressed no ophyion as to the probable cause of death. On the matter becoming known to the police, ihe body was viewed in the usual manner, and the Coroner communicated with; and there is every probability that an incjuest will be held to inquire into the cause of death to day. We undeivtand the deceased was about 27 or 28 years of age, and has been married o\ er two year-;. The Sydney horning Herald says: —" One of the Magazines very properly calls attention tq the wanton destruction of small hircls, which is still tolerated in many parts of this country. These birds are among the be>t friends the farmer can have, and J r et it is thought no harm to massacre them indiscriminately. In Massachusetts a measure has passed the Legislature encouraging the destruction of gulls and terns—birds which as the writer says, are very valuable to the fishermen * for the important indications they give of the presence of certain kinds of fish, as also to the sailoi, whom they warn in thick weather of the dangerous reef or the treacherous shoal.' The same foolish and barbarous spirit is too often shown in other States, Small birds are blessings, and not a plague to kind. Since we have had the sparrows in this city no one has been annoyed by that old nuisance —the constant shower of worms from the trees in the streets, The sparrows have kept the trees almost bare of our troublesome visitors. It is said that the cats in the parks are in turn fast thinning out the sparrows. Puss finds a preserve in every quarter of the city. If that be so, the bouses erected for the birds will not be of much use, for soon they will all be driven out into the wide world.."

A letter from Italy states that the opening of the Mount Cenis Railway which was to have taken place in Sep,, tember, has been indefinitely postponed for political purposes. A great fire recently occurred on the River Duna, above the Flossbrucke, Russia, when the American barque Millers Bourges, the French schooner Desire, from Bremen, and fifteen other barques, loaded with hemp, hempseecl, and corn, besides twelve unladen barques, were burnt. The Southern Cross, Oct. 18, says ? —The annual meeting of the Auckland Auxiliary of the United Kingdom Alliance was held last night in the long room of the Mechanics' Institute. The proceedings did not terminate until nearly 10 o'clock, and were from timeto time greatly interrupted by a man in the body of the room who would insist that the speakers should advocate, the abolishing of the Government, thedoing away with all distilleries, breweries, publichouses, and the sending to, oblivion all drunkards and disturbers of the peace, and a final break up of everything which made men unpleasant members of society. Intemperance in other than what pertains to strong drinks was here exemplified in a member of the total abstinence cause in a very marked degree.-r-In an articlereferring to the above annual meeting of the New Zealand Auxiliary of the United Kingdom Alliance held in Auckland, the Daily Southern Cross says:—The Alliance has done good, service in keeping the cause of temperance and the evils of drunkenness prominently before the public atten tion; and, in so doing, has deserved the thanks of all friends of morality and law. The past efforts of the Auxiliary have not afforded so much practical result as the members may desire; but, in contributing so much, directly or indirectly, to the recognition of the permissive principle in legislation, they have laid the foundations of a of the liquor traffic that will yet com* mand attention and respeot, A rather uncomfortable position for a detective officer is sketched by a paragraph in the Maryborough Advertiser. After alluding to some recent robberies in the neighborhood, the paper says that—"On the night of the 14th instant, Detective Duncan received in? formation which caused him and Constable Baird to secrete themselves in the bush at some distance from Bristol Hill. After watching for three hours, Detective Duncan saw three men emerge from a hut in the occupation of a man. Earned Bradley, and let loose a dog, which had kept up an incessant barking from the time the police had taken up their position. One of the men urged on the dog, which at once made to the spot where the detective lay crouched, followed by one of the men, who upon coming up to the place pronounced the detective to be % stump, This opinion was shared in by the second man, but the third one seemed; to be in doubt, though he—after standing still a minute—followed the other two, who, with the dog, wei.e making a, circuit round the hut, After §t few minutes' intense straining of the sense of hearing, and fearing lest they should discover Constable Barrel, the detective saw all three again enter the hut, but after two or three minutes the man who appeared to have doubts as to whether the object was a stump that he saw when, first coming out again left the hut, and arming himself with an axe, proceeded to the spot where the detective still lay, and when within sight thus soliloquised 1 Yes, it- is a stump, No, \t isn't. I say, mate, it must be a stump," At this juncture the man had come withintouching distance of the detective, and raised the axe, which he held over the detective, who, remaining immovable,, appeared to satisfy the m,an the object after all was a stump, as he lowered the weapon, and walked away y muttering "itis a stump." He then entered the hut.. Shortly afterwards, the officer arrested one of the men, who had sanie stolen goods in his possession, and turned out to be the man who approached Duncan with the axe. On the way to the lock-up the prisoner stated that Ire mistook the detective for a stump at the time he saw hiu\ in the bushes, because, had it been a, man, he would have been frightened afe sight of fche a.xe o,ver hirn^

The potato disease is said to have appeared in Lancashire, England. Great Britain only lost 27,000 letters out of 940,000,000 posted in 1870. It is said that in America consumption carries off' 100,000 people ,every year. There have been 103 deaths thus far from the Westfield boiler explosion in New Yoi'k. Eighteen towns in Great Britain have populations* exceeding 100,000 ; there being 13 in England, 3 in Scotland, and 2 in Ireland. The steam ears of Nen York State -carried 51,550,753 passengers last year, and the hor<e cars 241,591,171. Only 15 of the number were killed. The .exports from England for the month of August last were of the unprecedented value of .£22,221,245, an increase of 30 per cent, over 18J0, It is said that since the annexation of Strasbnrg to Germany, 23,000 inhabitants have emigrated from French ports to America. A correspondent of an agricultural paper asks : " Where can wool be profitably grown 1 ?" We are of opinion there is no place where it can be more profitably grown than on the back of a sheep. An absurd report that Prof. Agassiz has predicted a tidal wave, to overwhelm the Gulf coast in October, has actually induced some New Orleans house owners to reduce the rents asked for their vacant property.