Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1481, 15 November 1872, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence.

[FEOV THE AN&LO'AUSTEALIAN EBESB TELEGBAM AGENCY.] WELLINGTON, Friday, Nov. 15. The Wellington Independent states that Mr. Driver, of Duncdin, was interviewed by members of the Cabinet yesterday. He stated that Mr. W. H. Webb has sold his steamers—Nevada, Nebraska, <fec.,—with all his interests in the New Zealand contract, to a wealthy association, viz., "The Oalifornian, New Zealand, and Australian Mail Steamship Company." Mr Driver also stated that the Company would, without doubt, obtain a subsidy from the United States Congress during its next sessiou. The Company will, as speedily as possible, place the service on such a footing as to secure it a permance against all opposition.. AUCKLAND. Friday, Nov. 15. The body of the man Nelson, shipkeeper of the steamer Gemini, who has been missing since Tuesday, was found in the harbor to-day. An inquest is being held. DUNEDIN. Friday, Nov. 15. The Bishop of Dunedin and party have arrived. Thanksgiving services will be held in St. Paul's Church on Sunday next. The other day in Paris a young creature of sixteen had left the vestry at the close of her marriage with an old man over seventy, when the latter was suddenly seized with an apoplectic fit, and fell down dead by the terror-stricken bride. The carriage in waiting carried his corpse to the bridal home he had furnished in tie most extravagant style. This doting old man, who dreamt that union could be happy between wrinkled old age and early youth, left the widow a dowry of 400,000 francs on her bridal day. A little story is told in the Manchester Guardian by one experienced in butter, a confectioner by trade, who says, " I have used from the highest to the lowest quality of butter, and fully proved that some of the low, yet not lowest, priced butter was nothing more or less than givase from horse's bones out of a knackers yard, colored and tasted by drugs and waste batter mixed in. This is the way I found this out. Using a deal of cheap butter, I thought I would buy this first hand, and by inquiries traced its manufacturer, and after a carouse of glasses, offering to find capital to join in oho manufacture of this article, we had partly drawn up articles of terms. I wished to have some idea of profit returns, when I was informed it was stewed out of horses' and other bones, the cost was 2d per lb, and sold Bd, or 9d per lb Confectioners are oblighed to taste butter before using it to ascertain which article the quality of butter is fitted to be made into, and upon tasting some butter I have heaved at the stomach, anil spit about the place for hours alter. 1 have tested the adulteration of butlers in various ways, also lards, and found them heavily adulterated with farina, flour, also what is called shodda, white India meal boiled, and with mineral substances ; and have found lard most impudently laden with ground rice. Time forbids, or I could further disclose upon this dirty butter traffic." During a recent debate in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, the member for Col ling wood, Mr Yale, was frequently called to order for accusing another member of an act which that member denied having committed. On one occasion, when Mr Yale was repeating the statement which had been contradicted, a member (Mr Bates) called out " Shame ! " whereupon Mr Yale at once retaliated with, "You go home and sell your damaged tea." Six thousand dollars' worth of v iudow glass is to be used in a new hotel at Chicago.

A New South Wales paper, the Clarence Examiner, gives the folio account of a singular launch of a. stranded steamer ; —Doubtless our readers, and more particular? our Rich* mond River friends, will be heartilypleased to hear of the successful launch* of the stranded barque Examiner, an, auxiliary screw of 181 tons register. Huge loss were launched.in under her. c and by means of screws, wedges, and enormous levers, the vessel, 200 touain, weight, was lifted several feet in height,, and laid in a cradle. Launching them sideways was commenced, sixteen bullocks and twenty men hauled alternately at the stem and stern, and after they succeeded in hauling her some 228 feet in this embryonic manner, a change of" tactics was adopted, and on the 6th of' July launching astern commenced. Thirty-two bullocks were yoked to chain tackle, and the men hauled on rope tackle, and that day they succeeded in launching the stranded vessel seven feet. Some delay was then occasioned for the want of stronger gear; it was soon procured—the timber for blocks was sent from Mr Sel man's steam factor}', Grafton, and they which wereof immense calibre, were made on the ground. On the llth a fresh start was made, and the vessel was launched twenty two feet; on the 12th, sixtyfeet; on the 16th, seven feet; but on the 18th, a strong gale set in, with a higli sea running; the ways werewashed from under the vessel, and she again became embedded in the sand. The bullocks, reinforced to fifty, were yoked on. to her, and from that day the time of launching steady progress was made. The 24th of September wan. the day appointed to launch her intoher natural element. The barque was sounded, aud the depth of six inches of" water only found in her well. This being pumped out, the weighs were knocked aside, and she glided gracefullyinto the Clarence River; and up to the 9th of October she only required pumping once—an absolute proof that she sustained no damage in her unmerciful bumping, and in her "overland trip" of' something over a mile, and also an infallible proof that she has been faith* fully put together; A correspondent of "The Cbngregationalist" writes thus:—l can onljaccouut for the extravagant, gaudy,, built-up dress of our times by supposing that people are trying to hide themselves, that they are afraid of themselves, just as they are. They are not sufficiently at home with themselves,.and at ease with others, to trust them without disfiguring trappings. Simple garments, with simple lines, simple simple h*»ad dress,, simple manners,, simple movements —who dares tr« them 1 Who has the courage to believe that they would come soft as the dew on a summer morning to our tired and weary hearts'? The truth is that it

need* strong courage to- be simple. It needs a measure of pure taste y it demands qualities which grow by culture,, and are therefore rare. But how great is the virtue in one line, one fold? I know a church in Lancashire which is nothing but a chancel,, with one long straight line of roof. It is built of the dirty while and btown brick in which Lancashire seems to delight,, with dull red sandstone mull ions to the windows. There is hardly an ornament anywhere —nothing but simple lines, and yet it arrests and masters the eye at once. The lines are so finely so purely drawn, that it is a fairer object to look upon than the most gorgeous public building in the town. I wait not surprised, on inquiring the name of the architect, to hear that of one of the very first in England. It is so simple that none but a master could have drawn it. Nothing is more Mire than that elaborate complexity in dress, in habits, in food, ornaments stuck on,, dishes heaped up in costly profusion, walls, covered with gorgeous gilding, are jtist the devices by which men and women try to hide their feebleness, their want of moral and intellectual form, or of womanly dignity and grace. It is said by those wise in such matters that the t rue test of a figure is the power to make the simplest line of dress, the one fold, effective. The test of a host is the power to make Lis company, ami not his dinner, the attraction to his guests. The test of a householder is the power to make his home sweet and