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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1253, 20 February 1872, Page 2

Sin.ce our last evening's issue, the wind has been neai'ly steady from the S.E , blowing in fitful and occasionally fierce, gusts, and accompanied with heavy drizzling rain, with thick hazy Weather. The high sea in the Bay, reported yesterday, still continues. In the Resident Magistrate's Court the following civil cases were disposed of: Hawkins v. Hunt and another.— Ml* Lee for plaintiff; Mr Stedman for defendants --A claim of £l6 16s for "A-agas. The defendants in this case were partners in a Government con tract, and Hunt, having occasion to leave the work, employed plaintiff to work in his place The other partner afterwards delined to recognize the plaintiffs as being in his employment, alleging that the arrangement was a a private one between Hunt and plaintiff. On the other hand it was shown that Hawkins was on a similar footing to the other workmen, and had drawn goods and money to the extent of <£B from Routledge, Kennedy & Co , whioh had been put to the contract account, and had never been disputed by the contractors. —An error in the plaintiff's calculations having been corrected, and the amount already advanced (j£B) haying been deducted, judgment was given for £7 4s, and <£2 Is costs. Barry v. Lord.— A claim of .£l9 6s lid, a portion of which was disputed. The points of objection raised by the defendant proving to be trivial and mistaken, judgment was given for the amount claimed and <£l 15s 5d costs—the latter item including 10s 6d, plaintiff's counsel's fee.

Large numbers of foreign immigrants (principally Germans) are arriving in various parts of Australia,. A touching appeal to cattle-stealers: is thus noticed by a New South Wales paper: —Mr John Hughes, jun., states that between Obeton and the A.bercronibie, in the Bathurst district, there is no protection but the rifle, and apostrophises the local freebooter: — " Gentlemen, —You took as many sheep from me as suited you during four years, and you stole them when you liked; and what you liked; you shot a thoroughbred quiet bull, though I believed you did not know it was mine; you killed my bullocks for their hides; you took my three quiet cows from the run,; and for all this you never had a line of complaint from me. Don't lay it on heavier through the inconsideratenets of a penny-a-liner in stating some of my losses,"

The grub and caterpillar pests have been very prevalent of late in various districts in Tasmania.

The largest quantity of herrings ever landed at Lowestoft, England, was on the 16 th October. The amount was 644 lasts, or a total of 8,500,80.0 herrings.

The "W'anganui Chronicle says :—A new talking machine has been invented. According to the description, you see a highly ornamental table and upon it is a lifeless head, which pronounces all the letters and elementary sounds of the English language, with phrases of six and eight words in English, French, and German. It occurred to us at first that the adoption of one or more of these machines might do the talking in our General Assembly* but we learn (and the public will no doubt be disappointed to hear it) that the contrivance is defective in its sounding of the letter " F." This is fatal (unless it can be improved) to its. use by our Representatives, who would be nothing if not capa;ble of sounding the personal pronoun in a rotund and fortissimo way* Under the heading " Kindness Rewarded " a correspondent of a New York paper relates a touching instance oi instinct, as follows:—"I found a cockroach struggling in a. bowl of water. I took half a peanut shell for a boat ; I put him into it, gave him two wooden toothpicks for oars and left him. The next morning I visited him, and he had put a piece of white cotton thread, on one or the toothpicks and set the toothpick up on end as a. signal of" distress-. He had a hair on the other toothpick, and there that cockroach sat a-tishing. The cockroach, exhausted, had fallen asleep. The sight melted me to tears. I never had to chew leather to get a soul. I was born with one. I took that cockroach out, gave him a spoonful of gruel, and left. That animal never forgot that act of kindness, and now my house is Ghock full of'cockroaches."

The gentlemen most noted for wealth in New York are becoming somewhat conspicuous for age. Wm. B. Astor is 78, A. T. Steward 70, Vanderbiit 78, Daniel Drew 71, Peter Cooper 81, G. Law, 73, W. C. Bryant 77, and James Gordon Bennett 75. All except the last are actively toiling in business harness.

American ingenuity is very fairly exemplified by the curious, weapon described below, and lately patented by by Thomas Garrick, of Providence. It is demominated "An improved household instiument, serving as a hammer, screw-driver, carpet-stretcher, pincers, and for other similar purposes." According to the specification, this invention consists in combining in one implement a number of common tools required in a household; and is so constructed as to be capable of serving, as a hammer, a nail-puller, a stove-cover lifter, a floor-scraper, a screw driver, a carpet stretcher, a tin can-opener, a six-inch rule, and an adjustable wrench, a gasburner, tongs, and a nut-cracker, or cork-compressor. If there were only a small steam-engine and a portable laundry, little more than this remarkable implement would be required for those about to commence house-keeping, as the upholsterers' advertisements say. A correspondent, signing himself " Anglo-Scotus," tells the Echo that at Inverary a few years ago, when a large party was assembled at the autumn holidays at the seat of the Duke of Argyll, the service on Sunday morning was conducted by the late Dean Milman, and Dr Guihrie preached to the company in the after part of the day. Mr Gladstone, who was one of the guests, ac ed as the Dean's cuiate in the morning, reading the prayers, and in the afternoon he assisted the Free Kirk Minister by officiating as the precentor—that is, he led the ringing of the psalms, which were, as usual, selected from the Scotch metrical version. It seems to me that the incident, which has never before been printed, is worth putting on record in connection with what is called " The Glasgow Scandal." The Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Winchester have been simply following in the footsteps of that illustrious ornament to their Church, who is now the Prime Minister of England, and by all, save bigots, their conduct will be heartily approved,

On the afternoon of the 7th insfc., a little boy eight years of age, son of Alex. Macdonald, Esq., fell into deep, water from Brown's wharf, Wellington, and wa3 saved when at the point of drowning by a son of Judge Manning, who pluDged in to his rescue.. At Rangitikei, recently, a child five years of age, named D.alHson, was riding on a bullock dray with three other children, when the dray capsized, and the guard iron caught the little fellow;, on ihe chest, killing him on the spot. The other children narrowly escaped. A. line of large screw steamers is. about to commence running between Glasgow and Rangoon (India). They are six in number, all built at Dumbarton, and about 1,800 tons burthen.

On the 20tjh October last, at about 4 a.m., the Columbus, in ballast, Capt. Gedd.es, master and owner, of Silloth, ran ashore on a dangerous point between Seascale and Sellafjeld.. It ap? pears that at daylight the. ciew, in order to give time!) warning to the inhabitants of ihe perilous position of their vessel, threvr a bottle overboard,, which floated in with. the. tide, containing the name of the distressed vessel, and giving, instructions to telegraph, to, Silloth and Whitehaven as to the position of the vessel. The rocket apparatus was immediately despatched, to thelatter place on receipt of the news, hutL on their arrival the crew had gained the shore under the following circum.stances :-?- About half past 11 a'clock in, the morning a gentleman residing in. the neighborhood was taking his. usual, morning walk, accompanied by his favorite Newfoundland dog, and seeing the perilous position of the crew, he urged the sagacious animal into the water* The dog immediately took to the water, and on nearing* the vessel: the captain threw out a. line, which the dog. seized in his mouth, and returned* to its master. The line was secured, \ and the crew., four in number, weresaved.

An English, contemporary says:— •. The Record is much exercised by a. refractory curate, who complains that he has been fourteen, years in the Oliurch, and yet has no chance of proferment. "Oome what will'(exclaims the Curate), disestablishment or disendowin ent if necessary—away with a state* of things, injurious to religion, and antagonistic to justice." Other curates, the writer says, are of his opinion, believing that if the Church, were disestablished, brains would have a chance against family connections., influence, or purchase* The Record is. horrified at these dreadful sentiments. They " savor more of the Communism, of Paris, or the. International TTniou,. than of Evangelical Christianity." Tt is interesting to note—as perhaps explaining why curates are- allowed, to, languish without preferment—that the Record contains advertisement of; an "advowson" for sale, worth £4OO a year, with forty of glebe, " comfortable- rectory house situate in its own. grounds, with, convenient offices," and—most sugges-. tive. intimation. —" the present incumbent is believed to. be in his 79th year." Thia, we- presume, is, " Evangelical: Christianity ! "

Some extensive earthworks in connection with the new drainage system, of Windsor Castle are now in. progress near Old Windsor. A piece of; land; about 16 acres in extent has been selected for the reception of the sewage. from the Castle, and on this land some fifty men of the 2nd Battalion Cold-, stream Guards and a number of laborers have been employed in raising a lofty bank to restrain the floods from the Thames. While digging, a human skeleton was discovered. It was interred at the depth of about three feet in the ground. Not a vestige of clothing was found, but upon the skull, which was separated fi oin the body, a penny piece> bearing the date *•* 1862," was. found. One of the fingers had a ring, upon it, of a keeper-like shape* Mr Clark, of Dalreoch, whose head; was vastly disproportioned to his body,, met the Rev Mr- Dun lop, of Dumfries, one day. «* Weel, Mr Clark, that's a great head o' yours." "Indeed, it Mr Dunlop ; I could contain yours inside my own." v Juist sae," echoed Mr Dunlop, "I was e'en thinkin' & was geyaivtoom."