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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1217, 9 January 1872, Page 2

The favorite steamer Napier, Capt. Bendall, will steam for Poverty Bay this (Tuesday) evening. We learn that there is a probability of Young Austin, the celebrated long distance runner, and Edwards, a noted walker, paying a visit to Napier on an early date. Austin's great feat consists in running a distance of ten miles within the hour, Edwards walking about seven miles in the same time They are, we believe, at present in Wellington. Southern papers speak very highly of their performances.

"The Irish Citizen" is the name of a weekly journal which has just made its appearance in Sydney. It is intended " for Irishmen of all creeds throughout the colonies."

The steamship Nevada, which left Auckland on the 30th ult., with the outward mails for Europe, &c, via San Francisco, took a consignment of 2,927 ounces of gold, shipped by the Bank of New Zealand. Thi« is said to be the first parcel of gold sent to London by the Californiaii route.

The Otago Daily Times says that seventy two of the . young .sea trout, reared at the ponds at Palmerston, which, are under the care of Mr. W. A. Young, were recently liberated in the Shag .River by that gentlemen. A number of those fish stiii remain, however, in the ponds, and it is expected that these will breed during the ensuing winter. The brown trout in the same stream are reported to be domg remarkably well. The fish originally turned adrift, it is believed, now weigh some four or five pounds, and numbers of young trout are visible in certain parts of the river, representing the spawnings of 1370 and of the past winter.

Mr James Grant, in the Newspaper Press just issued, gi\es his opinion as to the circulation at present of the leading London and New York daily newspapers, as follows : -Daily Telegraph, 170,000; Standard, 140,000; Dailv News, 90,000; The Times, 70,000, Morning Advertiser, 6,000; Morning Post, 3,500; New York lieiald, 100,000; New York Sun, 90,000; Tribune, 50,000.

A Dunedin landlord, v itb a tenant unwilling to go, has hit upon a now mode of ejectment. He takes the front door off the hinges. "When 1 his is done, the unwilling tenant usually departs an hour after this exposure of his or her petty domestic details. Mr Simon Hani on, who has been some years resident in Dunedin, proposes to utilise the seaweed that grows so plentifully in the hays and around the coast, and has addressed his Honor the Superintendent, asking if the Government can assist him in developing this new form of industry. The utility of the product* of kelp in a variety of manufacturing processes is too well known to repetition. It is stated that Terra del Fuego has been traversed by Lieut. Masters, 11. X., who has discovered that the natives believe in devils, and that they are departed spirits of members of the medical profession. The main object of their religious ceremonies is to keep these devils at a clis'.ance from them.

In a recent number of the Melbourne Leader, a paper which represents *Jie element of settlement and progress as opposed to land monopoly and pastoral privileges, we are told that it is beginning to be felt that the land .question in Victoria has not jet reached a satisfactory settlement. ".Numbers of those, says our contemporary, who have taken up land for bond fide cultivation under the liberal enactments of late years, find themselves seriously fettered by the want of capital, and the Minister of Lands has been appealed to for a relaxation of the provisions which prevent them from mortgaging their holdings. He is understood to have promised his assistance.

The Otago Daily Times, of Dec. 21, says :--We are happy to notice another branch of native industry, which lias been established at Port Chalmers. We alluded, some time ago, to Mr Inne's fish-curing establishment,- and to the smoked fish sent from the works. We have now to record an extension of Mr Tune's productions—viz., the manufacture of cod-liver oil—a sample of which we have received. The oil has already restored a number of persons to health when other medicines had proved unsuccessful. In one case in" a neighboring province, in which the doctors had given up hope, this oil was recommended by a friend, and was taken by the patient, who is now quite recovpred. The oil is free from the unpalatable taste of the imported oil, and when the new appliances which Mr lnnes is erecting are in operation, it may become an important article of export. As it is, orders have been received for more than can be made with present appliances. The manufac lure was recently brought under the notice of his Honor the Superintendent, who communicated with Dr. Hector on the subject. The doctor's reply was as follows : —"Colonial Museum, Wellington. December 4, 1871. Sir—l have the honor to inform you that the oil prepared by Mr lnnes, of Port Chalmers, from fish livers, has been further examined in compliancd v. ith your request of the 4th ult. lodine exists in both samples of the oil in rather higher proportion than in Lang ton's and Scott's oil, which is a favorite brand. The usual amount of iodine in cod-liver oil is l-20th per cent., but as it is readily soluble in oil, it may be added in any proportion that is required. Very little in excess of the i above, however, imparts a color to the oil. The cod-liver oil in the market varies in density from 915 to 929. Mr Jnnes's steamed oil is 928, and boiled oil, 927. Both samples appear to be thoroughly sound and free from matter that misfht in time render it rancid. I am not aware of any test that can be applied in the laboratory that will con vince purchasers that the oil ought to be preferred to imported oil. If it is found to agree with invalids, and can be sold cheap enough, druggists will soon prefer it. (Signed) —James Hector."

Some short time since, a number of Freemasons met at Levuka for the purpose of taking into consideration the desirability, and the best course to adopt in the interest of (he Order of establishing a Masonic Lodge at Levuka, when, after due deliberation, it was resolved that a Masonic Lodge should be formed at Levuka, to be named " Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, Polynesia"; and that an old member of the craft in Sydney should be advised on the subject, and requested to obtain all the necessary requirements for carrying out the wishes of the brethren. By a recent arrival, everything required having been received, it was resolved, at a second meeting, to open the Lodge on St. John's Day, the 27th December.

Mr Taylor, sub-inspector of schools, lately visited somewhat unexpectedly the Clyde (Otago) school. The Times remarks in reference thereto :—" The accommodation for school purposes is in every respect miserably deficient —a dis grace to our much vaunted Education system. The schoolhouse is an unwholesome den, and the functions of the master debased to those of a public beadle, doomed to the daily task of keeping a huddled-up crowd of uncomfortable youngsters in decent order". Complimentary, \ery-.

The schooner Petiel, of Sydney, is supposed to have foundered with all on. board at the New Hebrides. The folr lowing abridged account is from a New Caledonian journal j—Our informant, Capt Bowden, of the W. S. Fox, arrived here (Noumea) en route to Sydney, states that Capt. Reece, of the Petrel, arrived at Ha van ah harbor on the 15th Nov. y in his whaleboat, and reports that he left his vessel at noon on the 10th of that month, about half-amile off tha north-west point of A pee, to go ashore to bring oif four natives engaged as la borers from that island, having with him his native boat's crew. He had got the natives in the boat, when it came on to rain very heavily. He, pulled up his boat, and went under a tree for shelter. He had not been there many minutes before a violent squall of wind from the eastwaid passed over the island, blowing down the trees in all directions, The wjixd and rain lasted about half an-hour, when it cleared. His vessel could not then ba seen. He went with the boat to the. place where he left the vessel, but could see nothing of her. He then, returned to the island, and went up a high hill, but still no sign of the ship. The natives, seeing him in trouble, hunted him off the island, firing showers of poisonous arrows at him, and doing their utmost to get possession of his boat. He then pulled round the island, and searched Cook's Beef, without success, and arriyed at Havanah harbor greatly exhausted on the 15th. inst., having been in his boat five days, without provisions. It is his intention, to get a vessel in Havanah harbor to go and search the island, and the reef at the east side of Malicolo, where it is possible the vessel, if not foundered, has been blown on to. When he left his vessel it was calm, and all the canvas was set. There were on board his wife, the Government agent, first and second mate, a native crew, and about 40 natives, engaged as laborets forQueensland.

Com meriting on Mr Gavan Duffy as Premier of Victoria, the Spectator of a recent da' e nays : Ft is so. everywhere except in Ireland. Tn Australia, in New - Zealand, in Canada, in the, United States, in India, in Spain, in Austria, the first quality an Irishman displays is a capacity for soldiership, the second an aptitude for government of the hard, personal, practical kind, the very aptitude, that is, which we suppose him never to possess. Whether. D'Arcy M'Gee, General Sheridan, or Mr Duffy, or .even Mr Sweeney, of New York, the Irishman abroad is always a stern clear man, not unlikely to be unscrupulous, and almost invariably hard; but inventive, resourceful, far-seeing, and brave, a man who can, per fas aut make other men accept his ideas and obey his will. An Irish Civil Service, composed of such men, picked for the work, trained for it, and encouraged to be independent, would govern the country as it has never been governed yet, with a force, directness, and honesty which in very few years would suppress opposition,and make the law what it has become under much more difficult circumstances in India, the final arbiter. And that we may rely on, it is the kind of government which suits the national genius, is the only one which in Ireland will ever reconcile freedom with the order that the bayonet, wielded by men of a different race, has in vain tried 10 maintain.

The Nelson Kesident Magistrate recently decided that a person has no right to destroy poultry trespassing on his land, notwithstanding that he may have previously given notice of his intention in a newspaper. It is stated that the cricketers of Auckland have it in contemplation to challenge a Sydney team to a game of cricket in the former city. This, says the Evening Star, -hows great pluck and confidence, for the cricketer.-, o>f New South Wales have long been famous, and held their own with great credit against the professionals who came from the old country some years ago with the intention of carrying all before them. We hope the match will be arranged, for it will give our citizens a better, idea of what cricket ought to, be than many at present appear to realize.