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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1224, 17 January 1872, Page 2

A weeklv parade of ihe Napier P„ifle "Volunteers will lake place in the Band room, Hastings-street, at 7.30 this (Wednesday) evening. Another parade of the same company will take place on Piive Square at 6 o'clock on Friday morning.

Another pleasure excursion to Auckland is offered to the inhabitants of Hawke's Bay. The splendid steamship Phoebe—now Hying the N.Z.S.S. Co.'s flag- -is announced to leave this port for Auckland on Monday next, 22nd insfc. Hot urn tickets are placed at j£<4. The stay in Auckland will be limited to three days.

We hear that the launch of Mr. Syme's new steam launch will probably take place on Saturday next.

Wc observe that the .steamer with the outward European mails via San Francisco is appointed to leave Auckland on Thursday, 25th inst Letters, newspapers, <fec , posted so as to be forwarded by the Phoebe, leaving this port on Monday, 22nd inst., will therefore, if all goes well, be in capital time.

Good hacks were lately sold in the Wairarapa district, Weliinjvton, at 10s to 25s each.

A fire, though fortunately a small one, has been caused in Hokitika by the bursting of a kerosene lamp. Australia, during the first nine months of last yeai, absorbed twentytwo millions pf English-manufactured cotton goods. During the 14 years that responsible Government has existed in South Australia, the average annual cost to the colony for elections has been £4,547.

The Southern Cross, January 4, says: —Our readers will remember a ease tried in the Resident Magistrate's Court some few week's ago when Mr Corcoran, of the Greyhound Hotel, was summoned by a Dunedin firm for .£lO for the passage money of a barmaid, described in the claim as having been shipped to order. Mr Corcoran put in a defence upon affidavit to ihe effect that he only agreed to pay the young woman's passage conditionally upon her remaining in his service for a term of six months, whereas she onl\ stopped one night on the premises, never entered the bar, and the next day took her departure for the Thames. The case was decided at Dunedin against the defendant, with a considerable amount of costs added. Mr Gorcoran's remedy now lies against the barmaid for a breach of her agreement.

In Dunedin it is proposed to ca7-ry Princes-street through the Octagon, and to remove the Cargiii monument, to its new site, on a basement of bluestone, which will be of an average height of twelve feet from the ground; and octagonal in form, with projections on foui sides. In projections there will be four arched recesses for drinking fountains, which will be supplied with spring water. The face of the basement will be axe-dressed, and a richly ornamental band of Hobart-town stone, about four and a half feet from the ground, will tend to relieve the heavy appearance of the bluestone. The basins for the water, which will come through finely carved lions' heads, will also be of Hobarl Town stone, while the pediments of the basins will be of polished bluestone.

We learn from the New Zealand Herald that the commencement of the Goromandel Tunnel was made on the 3rd inst. by Messrs M'Laughlin ami Seal an, the contractors for fifteen hundred feet. The tunnel is being put in from both ends at once, 750 feeson the (Joromandel side of the range, and the same distance on the Kennedy Bay *ide, and the directory are determined to carry it on with great vigor until it be completed. Everyone who has the interest of the province a+ heart, and desires to see a thorough development of our gold fields, must wish great success to this important undertaking. The Dunedin Evening Star, says: —Mrs Partington received from her son, who is somewhere in Otago, a copy of the Lake Wakati-p Mail, which contained an article on " Water supply for gold-fields." She reads :—" The price of water in Boss is £5 per Government head per week tbi eight hours per diem. We certainly cannot overstep the mark if we calculate a Government sluicehead of water worth £2 10s per week of twenty-four hours each day. Thus we have—fifty Government heads, at £2 10* per week, £6,500; less interest and repairs, £2,200; sinking fund, £4,300. We thus provide for redemption of capital in four year-*, and leave our race to benefit the dish-Let free of charge afterwards/' "Well, I'm sure," soliloquized the good old lady, " I always did think them Government heads a parcel o£" scamps, but for them to try and run down one's throat that they have to pay £5 per head per week for water on them gold fields is all a deceit and a lie, and I'll not believe it. In my opinion it's what the French call hos de-ivc that puts their heads out of repair and the sluice is required to sober 'em. Tne brazen-faced monkeys to—to say they would leave their race to benelit the district free of charge after four years J Why, if T. was there I'd flog every slut of a girl out of the place, that 1 would. Leave their race, indeed ! "

The .steamer Lodona, 800 tons, from New York to New Orleans, has been recently wrecked and twenty person* drowned.

Three steamers have lately made the trip from Liverpool to New York in less than nine days. A young man charged with being lazy was asked if he took it from his father. »'T think not," was the reply; "my father's got all the laziness he ever had."

The Spaniards have a pro veil), that "Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debs, nor his wife a widow.*'