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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1492, 28 November 1872, Page 2

The Editor of the Auckland Evening Star, in a footnote to a letter published in his paper, says :—"The public conscience hero, ie., Auckland, toleiates mining swindles in any fmm, o<»usequenUy the arm of the law is paralysed." A recent Dunedin telegram staled thai a man named Gallagher, a prisoner in the jnil, had received thirty lashes for insubordination We now learn that he has again been sentenced, this time to fifty lashes, for the same offence. Alluding to native matters, the Wai kato Times truthfully observes that ouv greatest enemv is, and always has been, the Pakeha-Maori. A very narrow escape from a dreadful death took place on the occasion of the recent fire in Auckland. It appears that Capt. Lynch, clerk in the Resident Magistrate's Court, was, with other's, endeavoring to save papers, maps, «fec, from the office of the Waste Lands Commissioner, and while in the building the roof fell in nearly covering Mm with the burning mass. He was knocked down but managed to crawl out on his hands and knees, with his back and neck covered with, molten lead from the loot". His right knee also was severely injured with the hot lead. His escape from a dreadful death was miraculous. On making his appearance in the street hi* coat looked as if it had covered with tinsel. The percentage of lambs this season on Mr Maitland's station, Eweburn, Qtago, is slated to haye been 91. A genuine Marine Store for the purchase of tags, bones, bottles, old metal &v. t has been opened in Auckland. The Star says:—"Old John Richardsou, of Wandsworth, made .£IO,OOO by this antiquated calling; and the miserable father of the convict William I Pcoupell, accumulate! a fortune of I £60,000, by rags, bones, brass and I copper," -

Two men, named Barclay and Anderson, have been committed for trial at the Supreme Court for a robbery of quicksilver at Coromandel, the particulars of which appeared in these columns a few days ago. The Coromandel Mail says:—Public curiosity has been not a little excited during the post few days by the circulation of a report that a rush had taken place to some locality half a dozen miles from the township—some said in one direction, some in another. The facts of the case are as follow : —Some persons strangers to the neighborhood, have been of late prospecting in a northwesterly direction along the range, some four miles further than the Tokatea claim, and have discovered a reef about one foot in thickness running in an easterly direction, and yielding to the tests made between two and three ounces to the ton. These parties have taken up thirty men's ground, extending over each face of the range, had it surveyed, and a plan prepared by Mr Henry Graham, and will apply for a license to-day. We need scarcely say that the find is an important one, and that we wish these enterprising prospectors every success. Under the heading "Big Ben," the Poverty Bay Standard, November 23, wivm :—An old but very useless friend, as*far as hostilities are concerned, left us by the p.s. Luna the other day. The "big gun which has been doing sentry go over the Block House for some time, after an inglorious career of marches and counter marches, has at last received orders to proceed to headquarters. This harmless piece of military furniture might have been left to us with good grace by the Government, as a souvenir of the past; and let it end its days in the only work for which it i s fit—to waste a little loyal gunpowder now and then in our holiday making and public observances. The total rate for educational purposes throughout the province of Wellington, as made up by the valuers, and subject to reduction by appeals, is ,£6,072 10s 9d. Over 120,000 feet of timber have been imported into West port during the past two months, and the demand is only temporarily supplied. Referring to the late fire in Auckland, the "Herald, Nov. 23, says : During the whole of yesterday the debris in the old Post-office buildings, and among the ruins of Webb's buildings, in Fort-street, were still smouldering. In the evening the debris in both places bur«t into actual, flames, and for several hours dense volumes of smoke were driving up Queen street. Should any accident take place through this non-extingui>;hmenfc of fire, we shall certainly hold the City Fire Inspector accountable. The Timaru Artillery Company must be in funds. They have just completed the purchase of a stone frtore for a drill shed at £750. Referring to some alterations about to be made by the company to the hall, the Herald says; erection of a gallery, flooring the room, plastering sides and ceiling, and erecting a gun shed and ante-rooms in the re«a». When completed the hall will be the largest public room in Timaru, the measurement of the main hall being 73ft by 35ft, and the height inside about 20ft in the clear." The Wairarapa Standard, speaking of the establishment in the district of* second soda-water manufactory, say 3 that it affords " a convincing proof of *v great change having taken place in the habits of the people." A rather suggestive admission. The manager of the Ohristchurch Gas Company reports the attendance during one week, of 21L children suffering from whooping cough or incipient diphtheria, to make trial of the curative properties of the gas arising from the purifiers. The object of the New Zealand Tablet Company, announced, is the issue of a weekly paper to be called the New Zealand Tablet, in which tho events of the Catholic world are to »» placed in their true colors, the current new* of the day faithfully reported, &°« The capital proposed is £1,500, in \ % W shares of £1 each..