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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1356, 22 June 1872, Page 2

The Mail reports that owing to the " rapid influx of new coiners " at Coromandel, it is very difficult to. obtain sleeping accommodation there. The demand for New Zealand hemp is reported by the Southern Cross to be increasing in Australia. One or two large .shipments of the fibre have lately been forwarded from Auckland to Sydney. The Bay of Islands coal mines are unable to keep pace with the demand for coal at Auckland and the Thames. The native title has been extinguished over the Parae Karetu block, in the Province of Wellington. The area of the block is 46,875 acres. A coi respondent writes to the Colonist urging the people of Nelson to get up a petition praying for the repeal of the " Twopenny Stamp Act." A new Club is about to be established in Christchurch. It is proposed to make it a joint-stock concern, the amount of rhe shares to be £5 each. We (Otago Daily Times) ha/e of late had occasion, more than once, to mention ihe exportation of sheep from this province to the United States of Ame rica. This week twenty Leicester lambs have arrived in town, en route per mail steamer to San Francisco, thence to Oregon— and perhaps a better or purer lot never left the colony. They were selected from the New Zealand Land Company's nock, on the Clydevale Station, by Allen Cameron, who has been manager on that station for the past four years, but who has now left and goes to America, where he intends to commence sheep-breeding. The Sydney Mail gives a lengthy account of the burning, early on the 17th ult, of Messrs Barker and Co.'s tweed manufactory, near the corner of Bathurst and Sussex-street, together with the greater part of its contents, comprising a large quantity of valuable machinery and some undressed cloth. The factory consisted of a large and substantial stone building of four storeys, about 100 ft long, and 50ft wide. The insurances on the factory and machinery amount to ,£13,000, and upon the other portion of the stock to £l,6oo—a total of £14,600. A risk of .£1,500 on cloths in the Imperial Olnce lapsed in March last, when the stock was removed from the factory to the manufacturers' premises in xorkstreet. The Hour mill, which so nar rowly escaped destruction, is insured in various offices to the amount of £12,500. The loss is variously estimated at from £25,000 to £30,000. The Mail, commenting on the accident, says :—" Sydney has been visited by a calamitous five —calamitous not mereiy because ot the value of the property de stroyed, but because a valuable industrial establishment is in ruins, and many workpeople are thrown out of employment. The cloth mill, belonging formerly to the late Mr Ebsworth, was the best in this colony. The cloth it turned out was in good repute and demand. Samples were shown at the late Exhibition, and were much admired. The amount for which the property was insured was not sufficient to replace it,"

The dead body of a man named Charles Manson was found on the 10th. inst., in the sea near Pipitea Point, Wellington. The deceased was last seen alive on the Bth inst., at the» Thorndon end of the city. It is supposed that he fell over the small breastwork near Brown's wharf. He wasknown as a sober industrious man, and had been for the last six or seven yearsin the colony, and was in the employment of Mr Gsmnaway. We take following from ihe Daily Times, Jane 13 :—Sharp frost,, high and biting winds, and occasional fierce hail squalls,, have been the weather with which we have been? favored during, the last twenty-four hours. We heard yesterday of some? persons looking out their skates, with the view of turning to-day's holiday to account, by getting, some amusement of a very rare character in New Zealand. At Invereargill it has been snowiag for three days, the tall of snow being theheaviest kuown there for fifteen years.

I The writer of " Casual Notes," in> the Otago Daily Times, jn allusion to a statement by the Tarauaki correspondent of that journal, that the Maoris, are rapidly dying out, and that in tea years or so they will be annihilated,, says : —He does not state what is thespecial cause of this mortality, but from* the recently published remarks of thePi ovincial Secretary and of the Resident Magistrate at JSTew Plymouth, drink isin all probability at the bottom- of it. Every one knows what a powerful exterminator of savage- people drink baa proved, and the Government of New Zealand, recognizing, this fact, passed an* Act prohibiting the sale of drink, to the Maoris, But, like so many more of our laws,, this one has been allowed to> become a dead letter, v and thus the amounc of drink procurable by the natives has only been limited by. their - own means. The two : officials named above of course know this, yet they, take no. steps, to check the practice by instituting proceedings against, thosewho supply ihe natives with Even the fact that the streets of thetown are rendered 2 unsafe by Maoris brawlers, who insult the august/ person' of the Magistrate himself,,does not spurthem up to action They only complain,, and the publicans read their complaints in the papers, and continue to sell asmuch, drink to, the- Maoris as the latterare able and willing to- buy. Such apathy as this on the part of the authorities certainly seems as though—to usea Gallicism—the Maoris were "encouraged " to die.

The adoption of a Colonial system of police is urged by (she Wellington. Independent in the following; terms : " We are glad to learn from our Christchurch telegrams that the Provincial! Council of Canterbury has passed a? resolution affirming the desirability of placing the police foice under the control of the General Government. The Provinces of Canterbury and Otago* have recently shown how much Provincial administration is worth in respect to police management. In Otago thewhole force 'struck' like so many bricklayers, because the Council would not increase their pay. In Canterbury there have been squabbles between theSuperintendent and his executive regarding the conduct of the Commit-

sioner of Police, and the time of- theCouncil has been occupied by acrimonious discussion, and public meetings have been held, upon the question ©£ police pay. In Otago, as in Canterbury, ihe Piovincial Government fix what they consider propel remuneration—in, each case it is much higher than the Armed Constabulaiy get—the policecurry favor with mayors or other public persons and raise a popular cry intheir favor. If these things are to prevail there is an end to all discipline,, and a danger that the police will become active politicians and seekers of mobpopularity. The evils of the disjointed system of police which Provincial administration occasions are already bad enough. Each Province appears to treat its neighbor as a foreign .state in this particular, and drives its criminals out of its own borders into those of the nearest Province with the greatest composure, and no doubt thinks it has done a very clever thing. Why can'twe have a uniform police sy§te.ni the same as in Victoria ? "

The introduction of pheasants into Canterbury has been attended with much success. Not only on the plains have they bred and increased, but they have spread into the Peninsula, several broody having been seen on Mr Fleming's estate, Port Levy, and also at Pigeon Bay. From the Australasian, of May 25, it would appear that practical steps have at length been taken in Melbourne to secure the visit of another All England Eleven to Australia. This time, however, the eleven is to be formed entirely of " gentlemen players," except in the event of professional bowlers being expressly stipulated for by those who elect to come out, and it is made a sine qua non that the great batsman, Mr W. G. Grace, shall be one of the eleven. In order to meet the expenses incidental to the visit, a guarantee system has been adopted, and such is the favor with which the project is viewed that fifteen or sixteen members of Melbourne clubs have put down their names for about whilst the East Melbourne Club guarantees ,£750, and the South Melbourne Club £I,OOO, making a total of ,£3,750. It is to be hoped that the Eleven will be in Melbourne by Boxing Day, and that they will remain in the colony about 100 days, during which time, instead of being hurried about the country like the last Eleven, they will only be asked to play ten matches. A committee has been appointed to communicate with England, and seeing that it is about 9 years since Pair's team came out to the Antipodes, it is not only expected that the visit will excite a great deal of interest, but that as the Australian cricketers have considerably improved, they will be able to cope with the Eleven with a creditable result. Dr E. Dingier has tested an alloy for soldering iron to steel, or either of these to biass. This alloy consists of 3 parts of tin, 39 J of copper, and 7| zinc. When applied in a molten state, it will firmly unite these metals. In taking down a beautiful painted canvass ceiling at All Souls' College, Oxford, England, recently, fifteen ancient paintings were discovered attached to the roof, where they had been, unknown to any one, tor two centuries. The mud at the outlet of the Mississippi river advances seaward 338 feet every year, and the work of keeping the channels open constantly increases in difficulty. An Irishman, being annoyed by a howling dog in the night, jumped out of bed to dislodge the offender. It was in the month of January, when the snow was three feet deep. He not returning, his wife ran out to see what was the matter. There she found her husband in his night suit, his teeth chattering and his whole body almost paralysed with cold, holding the struggling dog by the tail. " Holy mother! Pat," says *he, " what wud ye be afther doin' % " " Hush 1" said he. " Don't ye »ee? I'm tryin' to froze the basic!"