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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1489, 25 November 1872, Page 3

search for biui, the sooner such indulgences are curtailed the better for the man himself and for the conuuunity he lives amongst. The Sydney correspondent of the Southern Cross writes :—" On Friday evening 18th Oct., at a few minutes to 7 o'clock, an earthquake was distinctly felt simultaneously over an area, aa far as we can ascertain, of 48,000 square miles. In Svdney the sensation wa* peculiarly novei, and although some people ,wm out of their houses in alarm, no serious consequence of any kind have occurred, and in many instances people did not take particular notice of the disturbance. There is a general agreement in the telegrams received oh the occasion, that the eanh quake had a direction from east to west, and this has led some to speculate as to whether it was an off-shoot from New Zealand, the hot-bed it is popularly believed, of all such convulsions in these parts. So persuaded are some people that New Zealand is the only focus of subterranean disorder in the Australian world that whenever we feel an earthquake in New South Wales (which certainly we rarely do) they cannot help exclaiming, * There's chat New Zealand again I ' " The Nelson Examiner says :—-The pious reliance of the German Emperor in religion continues to be touching and wonderful. With the annexed provinces in a fervour of execration against everything German and of pathetic loyalty to France, a ukase is issued, that from and after the 30th September, prayers for the Emperor are compulsory in all Alsatian places of worship. The efficacy of such prayers is of course unquestionable. The idea of making your irreconcilable captives pray for you by word of command is very Pi us^ian.