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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1184, 29 November 1871, Page 2

A commission of enquiry into matters connected with the police department in Christchnrch is now sitting. A boat has been picked up on the between Otoronga and Ohan, near Wellington, which, it is suggested, may be the one in which the brothers Judd started on their ill-fated fishing excursion.

Mr Brogden (railway contractor) was a passenger from Wellington by the s.s. Pheebe for the Manukau on Sunday last.

Private Phil potts has won the Pic ton Volunteer Company's Challenge Cup, with a score of 51 points. According to the Evening Post, a neat little swindle, which it is as well the authorities should be informed of, is being perpetrated with regard to the postage stamps, the -recent changes in the colors giving every facility to those who would stoop to such tricks. Thus the old penny and the present sixpenny stamps being the same color, the ?' one penny" at the bottom of the new stamp is torn off, and the stamp used for an old sixpenny one, detection being impossible. In the same way the old twopenny stamp can be made available tor the present sixpenny, and the old penny for the new twopenny stamp. We might. suggest that the obvious way to prevent such practices would be to have the value of the stamps, not in letters at the bottom, but in large figures over the whole stamp, a custom which is adopted in many countries, and whiph, with a little ingenuity, might be managed so as not to interfere with the tastefulness of the design. A new racing gig, ordered for the Wellington crew to compete at the Canterbury Inter-Colonial regatla, is a four oared outrigger, forty feet long and twenty inches wide, and will be the first of the kind, we (Post) believe, that has been seen in Wellington harbor. Pat can see no reason why women cannot become medical men.