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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1367, 5 July 1872, Page 2

A.society to assist immigration and settlement, on a basis similar to the English society represented l»y Colonel Fielding, is being formed at Wellington. The required capital will be forthcoming. A Pearl Fishery Company, with a capital of £s*o.oo'in SQO shares of £lO each, has been .formed in Auckland. As a reason why the Auckland town clock has not been lighted up this winter at night, it is asserted that the expense of gas is too heavy a burden on the city. The Auckland Evening Star learns from letters received by the last mail that Capfc. Petherbridge has left the ship Countess of Kin to re, and that Capt. EeynokU, of the Ballarat, and formerly chief officer with Captain Petherbridge, has been appointed to the command of the Countess, We also learn that Capt. Peek, of the Beth Shan, is in command of a new ship te be laid on for the colonies. By the next mail we shall no doubt hear of Capt. Petherbridge having received a. similar appointment. A Rifle Association for the Waikalo district is being formed. Mr John Cruickshank, of Auckland, has been appointed for her Britannic Majesty at Noumea, New Caledonia. He left Auckland on the 27th ult, in the Hero for Sydney, en route for that place to commence his duties. The Otago Daily Times, June 22, says : —The Sons ot Temperance, Anti dote division, No. 7&, held their anniversary soiree in the, Weslevan Hall last evening, the Rev. Thomas Boseby, i\LA., L.L.8., Deputy Most Worthy Patriarch, in the chair. There were about 30 persons present, and the room was decorated in a really tasteful manner. After tea there was an address by the chairman, in which he stated that the first meeting of the society was held on the Bth Feb, 1871, so it had now been over 15 months in existence. The number ol benefit members on the roll was 115, and of honorary members 11, making a total of 126, and the amount of cash in haud r cleat o£ all. liabilities, was £240. The chairman spoke of the peculiar benefits attaching to societies founded on total abstinence principles, illustrating his argument by comparative statistics of the Sons of Temperance and other benefit societies. He attention to the fact that divisions of the order had been organised during the last few months at Chvistchurch, Oaraaru, Waimate, and Pimaru, and urged upon the audience the importance of joining heartily in the present agitation for the passing of the Permissive Bill. We (Lyttelton Times) are informed that Mr. Frederick Chamberlain, a Can terbury runbolder, at present in England, has just sent out a fine collection of coins to the Museum. The whalers at Kaikoura (Mailborough) are doing well this season. One v'erv fat hunchback whale yielded four tuns of.oil. An immense tiger "hark, 1$ feet Jong, was captured a lew days ago at the same place; the girth of its carca.se was as great as that of a horse. It is more easy to extinguish the first, desire than to satisfy those which folHo.w,,

At a recent meeting of the Canterbury Presbytery, we olwerve that a call to the Rev. W. M'Gregor to the. church at Kaiapoi and Rangiora wa* accepted by that gentleman. A local industry of an humble but most useful kind is reported in theAuckland papers as having recently been commenced in that city; Front certain ingredients—chiefly kauri gum;, it is believed —a Mr Williams has manufactured little articles in the form-of bridges, which, being lighted, blaze upwith great force, continuing for about ten minutes, sufficient to set any pile of wood or coal aglow. These little "tire lighters" are done up in packets of a dozen each, A find of splendid coal is reported on some lands belonging to Mr Jame* M'Gregor and some natives at Commander. The. Southern Cross correv pondent says, " Owing to some pending, arrangement, 1 am unable to. give your readers full detail*, but I may confidently assert that if the seam is as good as a sample which I have seen in pos* session of a gentleman here, it will be a great boon to Coromandel,. and tend to. throw open another rich mineral, and add to the wealth of the district/* The proprietors of the Sydney Mail presented their subscribers on June 15with a l( Royal Supplement," containing the portrait* of the Queen and the the Governors of Australasia at the piesent time, The likeness of his Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen was engraved from a photograph taken by. Mr R. H„ Bartlett, of Queen street, Auckland. London, with a population of 4,600,000, has only nine- daily newspapers —five morning and four evening —while Paris has twenty, and NewYork twenty-four. A prisoner in the House of Correc tion, Clerfrenwell, undergoing aseniencoof fourteen days' imprisonment, was working on> the treadmill when ho cried out that his legs were broken. The whole of the prisoners, about 100, wereimmediately stopped. It was found that; either from accident or design, his, legs had got entangled in the machinery, and that both were broken. Amongst the persons brought before Mr New*on at Marlborough-st. Police court recently,'charged with being drunk and incapable was an elderly female, Matilda Jones, residing in Wardouistreet, Soho. A constable said he found the prisoner so drunk that she. was obliged to be conveyed to the station on a stretcher. The prisoner denied being drunk and asserted that her condition arose from being " chemicalised from the sewer ! " —Mr Newton fined her 2s 6d. At a recent meeting of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, the Rev, Mr Kilner, of Chester, exhibited and explained models of his inventon for propelling vessels in calms, lifting life boats from ships' decks, and disengaging them when lowered. - x for veering the cables of ships gradually link by link ; and for riding ships elasucally in, exposed positions, the simplicity of the "grab link" for disengaging- lite-boats when lowered, and as a stopper {or chain cables, heiug much admired. A new scheme is at present under consideration to connect these colonies with some part in Jftriti.-di Columbia, and thence through British America to, the Atlantic seaboard. The Hon. S. \j. Lilley, C. 8., Minister of Marine ami Customs for the Dominion of Cana.la* l;as been deputed to visit the Australian and New Zealand colonies for the purpose- of obtaining information and. statistics respecting their trade and iesouices, with the view of establishing a mail mute to Europe when once the railway now in course of construction through Canada is finished. He will visit; Columbia, in 'the month of September, and will thence proceed to. Australia and New Zealand. The proposed mail route across the continent of America will connect at Halifax with the Cunard line of steamers. We may give advice, but we cannot, give the wisdom to profit by it. Look not mournfully into the past- •*■ it is gone for ever; wisely improve the present—it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future- without fear, *m w,\th a manly l^r^

In the culture of flowers (writes the late Charles Dickers) there cannot, by their very nature, be anything solitary or exclusive. The same wind that blows over the cottage porch, sweeps over the grounds of the nobleman; and as the rain descends over the just and the unjust, so it communicates to all gardeners, both rich and poor, an interchange of pleasure and enjoyment; and the gardener of the rich man, in developing or enhancing a fruitful flavour or a delightful scent, is in some sort the gardener of every body else.