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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1395, 7 August 1872, Page 2

We extract the following from the Nelson Evening Mail, 26th July:— There is considerable ditference of opinion as to whether we really are having nioie ram this winter than last, but all doubts on this subject will be set at rest by the following return whieh has has been kindly forwarded to us by the Meteorological Registrar: —Rainfall for the month of July, 1871, 5 5 inches; for the 26 days that have elapsed of the corresponding month in the present year 15 6 inches! No wonder the country is suffering from a super-abundance of water. —The Lady Barkly, which arrived from Golden Bay and Motueka this morning, brings bad news of the damage caused by the floods on the other side of the Bay, especially at Takaka, where many of the settlers have sustained most serious losses. The mail bag from this latier place was, we understand, lost when being conveyed across the river in a canoe, but Mr Taylor, who was the bearer of it, fortunately contrived to scramble out safely.

Some facetious rogue, say 3 the Melbourne Argus, before daylight on Wednesday mornings got into the booking office of the North Melbourne railway station, and, after taking about a pound's worth of silver, drew upon a blotting-pad the figure of a man in the act of running. Over the drawing he wrote, " You won't nail me." He. had evidently been deliberate, having first written "us," which he had scratched out and substituted " me." Apparently a futile attempt had been made to open the safe. An entry was gained by the window-latch being forced back. What, after all, is the end of most wars] Nothing but this—that a number of elderly gentlemen meet together, in an official room, and sitting round a table covered with green cloth, quietly arrange all that might just as well have been arranged before the war began.