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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1172, 15 November 1871, Page 2

The Teviot correspondent of the Tuapeka Time* states that the survey of the now celebrated 50,000 block has now been commenced. Tlie surveyors engaged by Mr Clarke are performing the work for 6d an acre, so that he makes a profit in this item, alone of .£3,250. This is the all engrossing topic of conversation in the Mount Benger district, and a monster peiilion is in course of signature. A child, three years old, the daughter of Mr Bonar, Lower Harbor, Otago, has been so seriously burnt by her clothes catching fire at the fire-place that she is not expected to recover. The House of Representatives had a good laugh the other day in discussing the vote for "Volunteers. Mr D. M.'Lean, in defending the sum proposed, said T.hat not only did the Volunteers devote a large amount of time to drill, so as to render themselves efficient, but danger arose they turned out to a man without a murder. The Defence Minister could not for a moment understand the shout of laughter with which his speech was greeted; when it was pointed out to him he joined heartily in the laugh. v There are ten thousand colored voters in Pennsylvania. Pool players are worse than highwaymen. Tlie latter only ask io: your money or life; the former take belli.