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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1466, 28 October 1872, Page 2

It is rumored that the sending of anofficer to report on the condition of the British graves in the Crimea is to bo made an excuse for endeavoring to gain accurate information as to what the Russians are doing in the Black Sea and pari 2 adjacent. Russia seems ever to be the active mouse on which the British cat must have a vigi T ant eye.

The Australasian mentions a curious, fact as bearing upon the early days of New Zealand. The workmen engaged in pulling clown the Presbyterian Church which has so Ions; stood at the corner of Russell and Collins streets, our contemporary states,, came upon the " bottled newspapers," the ceremony of laving the foundation stonehaving taken place in the year 1841.. The Port Phillip Herald was fotmd to contain a leading article concerning, the then deplorable state of New Zealand, and " the iniquitous net of Mr Colonial Secretary Shortland in prohibiting the publication of the New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Island* Gazette,"

The Khedive of Turkey lias presented the Sultan with 50,000 MartiniHenry rifles. The band of the Grenadier Guard?, tinder Mr F. Godfrey, have returned from Boston. The Baroness Burdett Coutts has been presented with the freedom of the City of Loudon. There is a rumer of gold having been discovered in Kinsale, in Ireland. The youthful Marchioness of Bute is suffering from fever, A negro witness on a horse trial in New Jersey Court was asked to explain the difference between a box stall and common stall. Straightening himself up, he pointed to the square enclosure in which the judge was seated and said, "Dat ar wot I call a box stall, dar whar dac old hoss is sittin ! " It took a good many raps of the judge's gavel to restore order in that court.