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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1177, 21 November 1871, Page 2

The recent explorations in Jerusalem (says the Athenaeum) have excited great interest among the fraternity of Freemasons throughout the world, on account of the discovery of what are believed to he " Masons'" marks on a considerable number of immense foundation stones recently uncovered under the debris of one of the ancient temples of that city. The Melbourne Argus reports a strange theft :--About as strange a theft as any we ha\e noticed for some time i* referred to in the Police Gazette. Somebody stole from the Lenta Hotel, Camperdown, a despatch bag containing a lot of writs of fieri facias. What can he want with them 1 As a result of the protectionist tariff in the United States, a San Francisco paper says that a suit of ordinary cloihes costs fifty dollars in gold in that city, while a better suit may be got in London for fifteen dollars, The position now held by New land flax in the home market inay, to. $ certain extent, be inferred from the fact that the leading Dundee newspaper considers it necessary to obtain daily quotations of prices, by telegram, from, London. An article which, appeared in the Ly Melton limes some month* ago, on the desirability of the Canterbury Flax Association employing an agent in Grea Britain, is quoted by the journal referred to above in its issue of September 14.

The Nelson Examiner concludes an article on native affairs in the following ■words :—The story is the often repeated on e. A.s the mil itary service became more distasteful to the degenerate citizens of the Roman Empire, the employment of Barbarians : " became more universal, more necessary, and more fatal." They learned to despise and -overthrow the Empire. o'ir auxiliaries are less formidable —they do not learn to overthrow us, but only to throw dirt .over us in plenty. The gentlemanly Kemp begins to seek the reward of valor, withheld by us, from his peaceful Maori neighbors. The rougher tribe of the East will give us more trouble nearer home and prove moie costly—whenever we are unable to continue the present donation to the natives. Light and ornamental iron telegraph posts are coming into use in Germany. 47| tons of unwholesome fish were seized in London during the month of The annual value of the Irish salmon fisheries is estimated at over .£400,000. The quantity of land under flax in Ireland this year is less than for 20 years past. Two girls at Sunderland have been n'ned 10s and costs each for profane swearing. Mrs J. G. Hoadly, sheriff in Montana, fulfils the duties of the office to the full satisfaction of her cons:ituents, and at the same time takes proper care of a family of tive children. She is ready to hang all the rogues in her bailiwick, and do all the other work appertaining jo the position, except turning poor women with drunken husbands out in the cold for the non-payment of rent.