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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1450, 9 October 1872, Page 2

The Port Albeit correspondent of tl o New Zealand Herald, under date Sept. 24, gives tlie following account of a native wedding at that place :—"Tho quiet of our everyday life was pleasantly varied on the 13th ult. by the wedding; of the eldest <*on of our friend Peter, one of the chiefs of the Maori settlement on the opposite side of the rivoiv. The two races have invariably maintained the most coidial relationship since the establishment of this settlement ; and we could not better illustrate the mutual goodwill existing than* by recording Friday's festivities. As the eventful day drew near, preparations were made for a grand party, and a general invitation was issued to all in the neighborhood, brown and white, which was freely responded to by both.. The cake, &c, we were informed, wereprepared by some pakeha lady friend*,, who also set out the table for the wedding dinner. On the morning of tli» 13th the beach put on quite a ho.ulay appearance as friends, brown and- white,, tame journeying in, and seemed to grow* quite enthusiastic as over a score of horsemen came galloping up in a body, amidst the cheering of those already on. the spot. At 11 the ceremony took place, the bride being neatly dressed ia muslin, and the bridegroom and friend* well dressed in cloth suits j and wo could not but remark, after all, la* little difference in the comeliness ot brown and a\ hite men ; really some 01. our Maoii friends were fine handsome fellows. The Rev. W. Gittos, officiated, using rJie English ceremonial, we wei* given to understand, in the M'* () i*

tongue, but without the ring. At 2 o'clock a very substantial dinner was, served in English style; and the true delicacy and politeness with which the Maoris stood back anu allowed their •white guests to take their seats first at the table, which was not large enough to seat all, was vety remarkable. We did not count, but there may have been forty whites present, and perhaps over a hundred Maoris. After dinner some spori/, and the bride's cake and wine ■went round. At 7 p.in dancing commenced, and lasted till—well, we really could not stay to the end. Some of our Maori friends had evidently been taking lessons from an English dancingmaster,anddid him and themselves much credit. Twopakehas sought and obtained the honor ot' dancing with the bride, And all went merry as a marriage bell. Nobody got drunk or quarrelled, for there was no strong drink except the few bottles of champagne drunk to the bride's health, and distributed with a very tine biide's cake. Everybody, in deed, brown and white, seemed highly pleased with everybody c-lse and themselves. And wo wish the happy pair may live long and happily, though we think that the Maoris would do well to lake yet one other lesson from their British neighbors, and not get married quite so young. The biidegroom is about 16,' and the bride 14 years of age. The British Trade Journal says: A novel method of rapidly and economically copying manuscripts and designs, whether produced U hand or photograph v, has been invented by M. Eugenio de Zuccatir. An ordinary letier-eopy-ing press is used for ptinting from the design, which is formed upon a varnished metal plate. This plate, which is of iron, is either coated with a shellac varnish, and the writing or de.-ign to be copied then traced thereon with a metal point, or it may be coated v-iih a solution of a bichromate and gelatin, ami the design produced by means of photography " from a transparent positive. In either case the lines to bo printed are formed on the bare metal, the light* of the copy being produced by the un removed varnish. To the bed of the copying press is connected one wire of an electric battery, and to the upper plate of the instrument the other, so that when the press is screwed down and ihe top and the bottom plates come into contact, an electric current pas-es. The varnished metal plate, upon which a memorandum has been scratched or otherwise produced, is covered with a i'cw sheets of copying paper wetted with an acid solution of prussiate of potash, and then screwed into the press. As before stated, the characters or design upon the varnished plate are formed of bare metal, and in these parts of course an electric current i;? set up; this action permits of the union of the iron with the prus wiate of potash, and the consequence, is, Prussian blue is lormed in lines corresponding to those upon the varnished plate. Copies thus produced in blue ink may be printed at the rate of one hundred per hour. The patent j k the property of Messrs Waterlow | and Sons, j