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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1469, 31 October 1872, Page 2

The ladies of Wanganui have d*>fermined to cut any of their acquaintances who are seen smoking in the street. So says an exchange. In the Legislative Council, on Oct. 18, the Premier announced that the Government would introduce, next session, an Education Bill. Messrs. A- J. Burns & Co., Dune-din, have icceived orders from India for various kinds of their manufactures. It is probable that a large trade with our Indian possessions may be opened up. A triangular section of land on Lambton Quay, Wellington, was sold on the 23rd inst. The Evening Post believes that upon it will be erected a building for the new National Bank of New Zealand. The Bank ol New Zealand are about to establish an agency at Greytown. Mr Donagher's tender of £3,499 for the construction of a market-place has been accepted by the Auckland City Council. The next highest tender was for only .£1 more.

The Nelson Examiner still has some hopes of Mr Vogol, or rather —now — bus some hope-; of. him, not that he is likely to reform of his own volition, but because he has as chief a political purist like Mr Waterhouse, who, however weak he may be, is not likely to lend a hand in whole-ale political purchases, "The Jine which Mr would like to take," says our contem porary, *' is perhaps a more cautious and purer one than hitherto. Probably he feels like Boswcll, the biographer of Dr Johnson, who after recovering from a drunken fit, wrote, 'I rejoice in the contemplation of the sober and orderly Hie I intend hereafter to lead*"