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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1240, 5 February 1872, Page 2

The weather continues excessive! y hot during the day, with warm, sultry evenings, and the want of rain is, as a consequence, being felc more and more every day. A slight shower fell dining last night, but not sufficient to be of any service.

A parade of the Rifle Volunteers is fixed' for to-morrow . morning, at 6 o'clock.

In the Resitlent Magistrate's Court this morning, Jas Greenav ay, charged with beating his wife with an axehandle, was bound over to keep the peace for three months. A cheap excursion tiip to Wellington, per Rangatira, will be found advertised in ano/ther column. The New Zealand Herald, January 30, says :—A brighter day than yesterday surely never smiled upon Auckland's anniversary. The town was deserted for the salt sea breezes or the cool and umbrageous retreats of the Domain. '.No business was done, everybody haying cast aside the busy cares of everyday life and relaxed in- favor of the day. The weather was all that' could be wished, and boih juveniles and adults will Jong remember the thirty-second anniversary of Auckland. A party of diggers left the Thames for the " East Coast rush " on Jan. 29. Information was received by the General Government by the la«t mail to the effect that shipments of rails for tJieClutharailway had been arranged for. The Jessie Read man, from London, brings 250 tons; the Margaret Galbraith, from Glasgow, 150 tons; and the Enterpe, from London, 3.00 tons These vessels were to leave in and December.

The Melbourne Age will be the first colonial newspaper printed from a continuous web or roll of paper, the first of two of the yiptory machine:? having been shipped to Australia for its especial use.

NEW ZEALAND HOT SPRINGS.

A correspondent of the Australasian writes as follows :

Observing that excursion steamers are leaving this port for places in New Zealand, more particularly in the Middle Island, and knowing that .the hale and hearty are the usual passengers on such trips, I wish to draw .tlje attention of those who are afflicted in health to the renovating properties of the mineral spring of the Northern Island of New Zealand. These springs range from cold to boiling heat (the natives rooming their food in the latter), and are particularly efficacious in cases of rheumatism, cutaneous erup tioris, scrofula, and indiscretions arising from excess and fa >t living Having derived incalculable benefit from them, I sliould be ungrateful were I not to make known tlieu; blessings to suffering humanity. Hitherto they have been nearly unknown, astheir position in an inaccessible country precluded invalids from visiting them now 4he roads are made, and they are made easy of access. Situate half-way between Auckland and Napier, arrangements could easily be made to visit them from either place; the time occupied will be about 14 days there and back. Twill merely men tion two instances of their virtue that came under my notice. A man engaged in erecting telegraph poles was bent nearly double with rheumatism; as he reached the springs he availed himself of them, and oil passing him a fortnight ago, he was erect and working hard. A young mau from England, with the effects of disease contracted there joined the Constabulary force; in a short time through marching and exposure lie became so bad that he was literally " weary of life ; " he obtained a week's pass, took the baths, and came back a new creature, and is now with the field force, able to do his duty with any of his comrades. An English nobleman wcjl known in these colonies so thoroughly appreciated them that, when pronounced incurable in England, he purchased a yacht and returned to New Zealand, and entirely recovered. 1 have left that part and have no personal interest in the island, but I deem it a duty to draw attention po their marvellous beneuts. The botanist would be lost in admiration at the splendid specimens of ferns; the finest I have seen here are literally trash to those found in the Lake Districts, not here and there one," but gorge after gorge almost impassable with them. Should the steamboat company so arrange that passengers could avail themselves of this part of the country they would reap a rich harvest in ensuing seasons, as invalids would flock there on the results being known,