Telegraphic Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1497, 4 December 1872, Page 2

Telegraphic Intelligence.

[FROM THE ANQLO-AtrSTRALfAN PRESS TELEGRAM AOENCr.]

WELLINGTON.

Tli3 City of Newcastle's Missing Passengers picked up.

Great Itejoicings in Wellington.

Wednesday, Dec. 4. The boat containing the missing pas sengers of the barque City of Newcastle has been picked up, and the passengers safely landed in Sydney. Great demon straitens of joy took place heie on receipt of the news. Bands paraded the town.

It is rumored here that the authorities intend to prosecute Captain Bain, late master of the City of Newcastle.

AUCKLAND. Wednesday, Dec. 4. John Diddakus has been found dead with his throat cut. He is supposed to have committed suicide during tem-

porary insanity. The ship Norham Castle has arrived from Loudon. She brings two heifers and eight prize sheep for Napier. They are in splendid condition.

DUNE DIN.

Wednesday, Dec. 4. Three house, the property of Captain Baldwin, Lave been burned down. They were insured for «£l5O,

The Pall Mall Gazette says :- -A consideration of the family of Mrs Peppin, of Winooski, Veimont, assists us to comprehend the marvellous fact, that while the population of the United Slates at the time of ihe Declaration of Independence was a tiiflo over two millions and a half, the nation at the pre sent time, with in four years off its century, numbers upwards of thirty-eight millions. Mr*. "Peppin, nee Albert, was born on the 10th October, 1773, in the French village of Contrecolour, on the St. Lawrence. At the age of seventeen she married Francois Peppin, who was three years older than herself. The result of the union was a family of twenty-three children, all of whom \Xved to know and bless their father,

who died at the age of eighty three, surrounded by as many of his children aw could conyeniently obtain admittance to the bed-chamber. The Peppins junior getting married in due course, added to the original! married slock ninety-nine Peppius, and theye in their turn, as they have grown up to the marriageable age, have made themselves responsible for ninety-eight mote, making a grand total of 220 pet sons who own the maternity of Mrs Peppin net Albert. How many more there might have been had Francois, the first-bom, followed in his parent's footsteps, it i% impossible to say. But Francois, probably growing alarmed at the proportions the family was assuming, appears to have resolutely eschewed matrimony, and is now, at the age of seventy-nine, living a bachelor in Es«ex county, Vermont The oiiginal Mrs Peppin, who is over ninety-nine years, is said to be strong and healthy, and hopes to see her hundredth birthday and an infant of the fifth generation. She is said to have a perfect recollection of the names of her children and grandchildren, but is less at home among the nomenclature of her ninety-eight great grandchildren —wherein she is not greatly to blame, for the Hue must be drawn somewhere, and it appears to be reached after the christening of the first dozen or so of great grandchildren. A correspondent of the Spectator gives the following description of M. Thiers :—lf the term "dwarf" did not usually suggest defoimity as well as littleness, the popular epithet Naingeant would perfectly apply to M. Thiers,; but he is a symmetrical mite, neat, dapper, though, like Sim Tapperitit's legs, "stupendously little." I hardly knew how little until, afterwards, 1 chanced to notice that Louis Blanc standing beside him looked tall in comparison. With his dark withered face, his bright spectacles, his tiny figure, his steep head, thickly covered with hair like white spun-glass, and his tidgetty little bauds —which, when he contradicted the speakers flatly and frequently he pushed up and out before him, reminding us of Miss Mowcher—M. Thiers enthralled our attention. Even with the assistance of his hair and his complexion it is impossible to believe in his age, his vitality is so real, his sprightliness is so remarkable. Ho gets lost in a crowd, he climbs into his seat like a small child; he *queaks like Punch feebly represented by a tired performer; his most impressive remonstrances against the facts and figures of commerce and the deductions of its Chambers were delivered like the utterances of a penny trumpet in trouble, his gestures lesemble those of a refractory child refusing to be "dipped;" and yet he is an impressive little man, and though he did not believe in railroads in 1840, and never cojild speak a word of English, and seems tb English people hopelessly in error in his protectionist policy, his very obstinacy vi interesting. He, at least, is painfully and desperately iu earnest. He talks a great deal, and there is a perpetual coming and going about him, until the seance .formally commences, and gradually the whole of the Salle is filled. In the Australian Medical Journal for this month, just published, Dr Paterson's interesting paper "Ou the Entry History of Vaccination " is concluded. Speaking of tho alleged risks of vaccination, he says :—" lis risk* are infinitesimal. Granting the worst proved, they are the in the ratio of sav in round numbers 300 accidents to hundreds of millions of cases. Why, there is more risk in the most ordinary actions of every-day life than there i* in this. Walking in the street, travelling in railway cat riages, riding, driving* even eating a meal is more dangerous. I have known men to be choked whilst eating their food, but J have never heard this as an argument why they should not dine ; vet I believe that if we had the statistics of dining for t lie last 74 years, the time during wltich vaccination has been in existence, H would be found that dining is a utueb more perilous business than vaccina* tion."

The Liverpool shopkeepers are join* ing in the moEe-time-for-ptay movement. A general concurrence has been secured in a proposal to close fch<t shops at * pan. on the first fi\<* tlajf* of tte,vcek