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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1461, 22 October 1872, Page 3

At Sandhurst the other day an enterprising individual salted a claim by firing a pistol loaded with gold into the wash-dish.

The oldest artesian well in Europe is at LilUers, in the Pits de Calais, and from its mouth water has flowed uninterrupiedly for 746 years. It is rumored that Prince Arthur of England is about to contribute to one of the English magazines a series of arlicles on certain customs in the British army. Mr Gladstone and Mr Lowe were lately amusing themselves in the back yard like a couple of naughty boys, with trying experiments with guncotton, when an explosion took place, and Britain nearly lost two Minister*, in addition to a few hundred paues o! Government glass. The London Telegraph says that "Lord Canteibury will soon retire from his post, at Melbourne, and he is not likely after this act to be reappointed elsewhere."

Formerly Daylesford (Victoria) was noted for mud and P.B. Now, thanks mi the energy of a Wesleyau minister, the Rev. Mr O'Donnel, it is the headquarters of a Rechabite revival. The public-houses are almost empty, even of a Saturday night, the people preferring to attend temperance meetings. The innkeepers ha\ e taken the affair so much to heart that they have with scarcely an exception ret bed from this woild of »in and toetotalism, leaving Hiuir esrtab]inhm«itH to be kept by their disconsolate widows, who scarcely know what to make of their position. The Vienna daily papers hereafter are to give up their Monday morning issue, for the purpose of allowing their employes to rest on the Sabbath. On Sunday morning they will appear as heretofore.