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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1378, 18 July 1872, Page 2

A meat preserving company is to be started in Wanganui. The quarantine buildings to-be erected at Auckland are to cost about .£2,500. Scarlet fever has broken o»t.again in Chris^church. The establishment of a ConvaiesCeni Hos])ital in Greymouth is strongly advocated by the Grey River Argus. A Wanganui paper says thai Messrs Armstrong and Son have purchased the Wesleyan Chapel and schoolroom together with the ground on whiclk they stand, for the sum of .£6OO, possession to be given in six months. The Wevleyan Methodist congregation are about to take step* to have a new placeof worship arreted on- the land belonging to that body, situate in Yictoria Avenue. The Newcastle Chronicle suggests that New South Wales should go in fora Californian line exclusively its own v and trusts that the present session* of." Parliament will not close without a« handsome sum having been placed on* the estimates as a subsidy to some efficient company as an inducement to* them to undertake this service. J't thinks that ,£I,OOO- a week would< not be a faithing too much to devote to> such a service. The Episcopalians,, Wesleyans* and' Presbyterians of Christchurch haveeach a periodical devoted to their special interests, and the Congregationalists in the city are also to have an advocatewhich is to be edited by the Rev. W. J.. Ha bens. A Chinese doctor has commenced; practice in the Chinese camp at Tuapeka. He advertises himself as being " licensed as a duly qualified surgeons by the British authorities of Houg; Kong."

The sum of £BSO has been >ubseribedl in Victoria, and forwarded home Uh the Agent-General of that Colony, as a contribution towards* the relief of the sufferers by the famine in Persia. In his address to the Grand Jury at Wellington, on the occasion of the* recent sittings of the Supreme Court there, Air J ustice Johnston made- thefollowing remarks respecting the infrequency of steam communication between the different ports of the eolony :: —He wished to say something as to. irregular communication which existed between different parts of the colony,, as ho conceived that nothing would tend to the thorough administration, of justice and advance of the colony generally more than communication between various parts of the colony of a regular and certain character. As an instance of the inconvenience which irregular communication caused, he would mention that he had been compelled to postpone a sitting of the Court in Wanganui, because he could not arri\e there in time to hold it Three judges of the Court of Appeal had been compelled to postpone sittings of the Courts in their own districts, because of lack of communication, and for a similar reason he had postponed the sittings, of the Court in Napier, after the jury had been three times summoned. It would be evident, therefore* to them that the greatest inconvenience was caused in the administration of justice, and he had no doubt in other matters likewise, by the present irregular and uncertain communication, and he hoped the time would come when the cause of that inconvenience would be removed.