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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1222, 15 January 1872, Page 2

A Paris paper says that a gentleman purchasing a number of photographs purporting to be likenesses of some of the female Communists lately in custodywas surprised to find among them the portrait of his mother-in-law. Having discovered the uame of photographer, the gentleman, accompanied by two police agents, called upon him, and extracted from him an avowal that he had availed himself of the negatives of some of his former patrons least remarkable for personal attractions in order to. form a collection of portraits representing ihe inmates of the Versailles prisons and the Brest hulks,

It is said that the ivy will not cling to a poisonous substance. What a pity that the tendrils of a woman's heart have not the same wholesome and salutary instinct.

An American paper says;—Thousands offaims in France and Germany are divided one from another only by a narrow path ; in this country the cost of fences is estimated at $300,000,000, The Oamaru Times says : —" An insect of a greenish color, somewhat resembling a beetle is committing great depredations among the fruit trees in the northern part of die district, strip*, ping otf leaves and fruit in the most indiscriminate fashion. Near Marewhenua they are to be found by million^.