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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1464, 25 October 1872, Page 2

The Wellington Evening Post, Bth October, says :—We have received some verses impugning the statement thatj (lie Maori vat is extinct. >Ye can only find room for the concluding lines? The Maori rat wished to escapa Detection lon,g ago. By adding letters to its name, As quite explained below. The Maori rat, the funny namo Of Pa-rut-a retains : From this deduct the pa and a, * And rat alone remains. A correspondent of the Lyttelton Time'- ghes the following romantic description of an Australian township : A.i Gurueaeha, a pretty little township aniongst the hills, we saw gorse hedges and English oaks, English pheasants, and rabbits and hawthorn fences covered, with berries, and then, mile after mile of getting up hills, and and getting down hills, a country tumbled into ail sorts of queer shape.-?, with little valleys green and warm, and grass covered downs with studded here and there; now little patches of cultivation, and a cluster of houses about a roadside inn, and then mile after mile of wire fences, and boundless stretches of noble sheep country with a shepherd's hut in the distance; parrots of all hues ant| sizes flying screaming across our way, and solemn-look-ino magpies seated on the fence, or whistling merrily from a neighboring tree.

Under the heading " What Mr Bathgate wanted," the Nelson Examiner has the following :—To Mr Bath "ate is committed the mild task of looking after Mr Seed, who looks after her Majesty's Customs. Mr Bathgate was manager of the Bank of Otago, and ha*, since quitting that establish ment, become ,a lawyer. He appeared on the hustings at Dunedin as an opponent of the Fox-Vogel Ministry, and he was for a short time in opposition to them in the House. He is a gentleman of great ambition, acd m/ide a strong impression in debate by the enigmatical statement, " 1 have got all I wanted." The words occurred in a speech on Mr Stafford's resolutions, in which he defended Ministers. Mr Bathgate's previous reputation convinced many that he had a meaning, but his prophetic? insight can now be fully appreciated. Messrs Rothschild, the hankers at Paris and Frankfort, have reeei\ed, in recognition of their services rendered to the Russian Government, the insignia of St. Anne and Stanislaus Orders of the first class. The head of the London Home, Baron Lionel Rothschild, has likewise received a present of a costly malachite vase, value 5,000 loubles