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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1501, 9 December 1872, Page 2

The Wellington Independent, 6fch December, says :—The Government has received a communication from Mr Commissioner Parris, stating that Te Kooti had been disturbing the minds of the natives at Mokau by taking to his old habit ot attering prophecies of evil against the Government. Judging from his former performances in this business, it may be suspected that when he assumes the prophet's mantle there is a possibility of his taking step! to ensure the fulfilment of his own predictions. The natives at Mokau appear to regard Te Kooli's utterances in this light and are uncomfortable. He has not made a good start this time, for one of his prophecies was that one of the frontier outposts of the Government would be destroyed in November, but nothing his happened to it yet. Wo do not suppose that there is the slightest chance of Te Kooti ever again becoming a formidable enemy, but of course he may do a good deal of mischief by unsettling the minds of the natives in his assumed chaiacter of a prophet. He is not likely to obtain any considerable personal following, and the probability is that when the contemplated amnesty is proclaimed he will gradually die out of recollection ami cease to be a person of importance. Meantime his movements are well watched.

Whilst Mr R. Genge, of Puddetown, Dorsetshire, was at dinner partaking of broad beans, one of the beans stuck in the windpipe. A violent fit of coughing ensued, and in a few moments tho unfortunate man died of suffocation* The deceased was 82 years of age, and was one of the foremost agriculturists in the south of England. An English paper states that the duty on dogs for the financial year ending 31st March amounted to £279,425. Ic i< stated that Mr Stanley has been offered, and has accepted, the sum of XI 0,000, to deliver a course of leetures in the United States, describing his discovery of Dr. Livingstone. The income of Commodore Vanderbilt, the American railway king, is said to be $12,000 dollars pin- day. Jerusalem has been lighted with ga% and it is proposed to run street cars up the slopes of Mount /Aou. A vepoi ier of the New York Tribune had himself incarcerated in the Bloomingdale Fiim-uio Asylum, in order to b» able to observe and write up the management of tho institution. The movement in Glasgow to erect ft monumeut to Burns by means of shilling subscriptions has made good progress. Upwards of 11,000 individuals* have contributed their shillings. Most of the labor performed in the raising of vegetables for the large canning factories in Nc-w York is done by German A-onien, who receive one dollar per day, and are very efficient woi kers. Judge Barnard, the notorious minion *' Judge" of the Erie King, has been ignominiously dismissed from the New York bench for his corrupt and infamous administration of the law. Thirty Chinese students lately arrived in San Francisco. They were sent by their Government to the United States as an experiment toward* improving education in Cluua.