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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1251, 17 February 1872, Page 2

We believe QoloDel Harington is expected to arrive at Wairoa on Wednes day next, 21st hist. Colonel Gorton returned to Napier from his tour of inspection in the Taupo district yesterday, and was to have left for Wairoa this afternoon. The brigantine Amherst, Capt. Hair, 15 days from Newcastle, arrived in port at noon to day, bringing a cargo of coal for Mr LeQuesne. "Bus,' 1 in the Melbourne Weekly Times wriies as follows :—ls there is a tap in the bark yard of your premises, and does it run water? If so, may I lie under it for four hours a day and be a I rest ? My soul is weary for water. For five long days I have seen none. I have seen tender infants washed in beer, and a gin-bath has been all that I could get for myself. It is like water to look at. but it is not nice to bathe in. Iu the days of my miregeneracy I scorned the ' ; limpid fluid of the brook:" now I long for it. Let me but have a draught of Yan Yean, and I will eschew Guinness's stout for a year —I will indeed ; and if this sort of thing is to go on, I shall be compelled to sham dead in the streets in the hope that the charitably-disposed may pour water over- me. I will not write on a card- as did the vagrant of old — "I am subject to fit?; give me brandy ;" but I vail write, " I am dying; give me Yan Yean" It is water 1 want, not alcohol. 1 cannot bear to look around me. The streets are deserts, my bath is empty, and the demon drought is dancing on my water forsaken body. And all the while I pay my water-rates in advance. But a time will come, and though there be no water there will be blood ! Q'Grady, beware ! A man who has bathed in gin and lived on alcohol for a fortnight is dangerous. A London resident, whose name has not transpired, but who is said to be the renowned Professor Holloway, has offered to give half-a million for the benefit of the poor in that city when he can see a mode of satisfactorily effecting this without fear of pauperising the classes he seeks to benefit. A juror summoned to attend an inquest at the Yarra Bend Asylum, cut his throat, and became the subject of an inquest himself. A piece of solid rock has been found embedded in the heart of a tree on Mount Macedon A resident at Meredith, Victoria, has been fined nine times for refusing to Jiave his child vaccinated.

St. Louis has direct trade with 10,000 miles of navigable rivers. Most of the writers of the " bloodletting" stories iu America are women A family has- been poisoned at Ogden by eating highly-colored cheese. A Hartford paper regretfully records the death of a 48 years' subscriber. A single woollen mill, at Lawrence, Massachusetts, employs 4,200 hands. A California!! Court has decided that a lady is not obliged to tell her age whilst being cross-examined. The damage dune annually to Cincinnati by burning smoky coal is calculated at 3,000,000 dollars. A. single establishment at Albany turns out sixty thousand pairs of paper collars and cuffs a (lay. Sewing machines are soon to be introduced into the public schools in North Carolina. Discoveries of diamonds and other precious stones in Arizona are attracting attention. Ten thousand dollars' worth of retorted gold was, lately obtained from a Nevada mine in a single week. An enterprising story writer has begun a novel based on the lise and fall of the Tammany ring. One-half of San Francisco, comprising 75,000 souls, has only one Englishspeaking place of worship. The dearest daily newspaper in the world is the Montana Herald, Its cost is 52 dollars per annum. Two Californian boys, aged 12 and 14 respectively, lately captured a grizzly bear with a. lasso alone. A carrier pigeon lately flew from a steamer at sea to Montolair, iS.J, at the rate of 180 miles per hour. Adult convict labor is let out b) the authorities at San Francisco at from 40 to 50 cents per man. A Western editor, lately married, says he finds the rule of one, far harder than he ever found the rule of three at school, The coal-fields at Western Virginia cover an area of 15,000 square miles, or about three times the coal area of Great Britain. A. coroner's jury at La Crosse returned a verdict of " probable murder " in the caj<e of a body found with seven stabs in the back. A 3ft. 6in. guage railway has been opened in Canada, and is doing a sue cessful business in carrying both goods and passengers. Mr George Bancroft, the historian, and at present United States Minister at Vienna, is an honorary member of 31 learned societies in Europe. At a *'Burglars' Convention" held lately at Vermont, it was resolved, after some debate, " that it is expedient to use chloroform on victims/' The San Francisco Chronicle calls a defaulting subscriber to account by publishing the following advertisement : " The Eev. Dillon Eagan is requested to call at this office immediately and settle his bill.'* All children in New Jersey must be educated, and may be educated free. None of tender years can work in manufactories unless they have been to school one year. High schools are to be established in every congi essional district, and there are to be scholarships,