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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1513, 20 December 1872, Page 2

The following is from the New Zea land Herald, 9th inst. Four articles forming the raw material of important, if not the most important, manufactures of civilization left our port yesterday afternoon. These were—wool, flax, iron-sand, and cotton, Doubtless we felt very proud in being able to ship such valuable products from our pro vince; but we trust the lime will arrive when we shall feel thoroughly ashamed that we have had to do anything so suicidal. "Look at our exports,” said an enthusiast as the ship City of Auckland sailed out of the harbor on Saturday last; but he never gave a thought of the imports which came the self-same moment by the Gladiateur. The City of Auckland conveyed 165,078 pounds of wool, whilst, large quantities of textile goods made from wool of a precisely similar quality as that we were sending away, were coming to hand by an English arrival. , The cotton we had received from Fiji we were despatching across the equator j ro another hemisphere to be converted , into manufactures such as the Gfladia- j tour held in her hold. The same with ■ onr flax, our iron sand, and our tallow, j When we come to see our folly, instead i of exporting our flax to be converted t into sacks, matting, and other such hempen manufactured articles as are to 5 he found in manifests like that of the ‘ GJadiateur, we shall, it is to Ire hoped, j make some greater effort than we are t now doing to work up such raw mate- j rials to their rightful uses inside of | our own province. So, too, the day v will come when onr litaniferous sand c will bo converted into pig iron, wrought t iron, and steel- when, in tine, what [ we are now bringing into the Province y will form some of our staple articles of |- export, _

A number of cattle in the Ballarai district (Victoria) have died form pi euro-pneumonia. At Little River, between Melbourne and Geelong, tlie disea.se lias been completely stamped out by inoculating the cattle. It is stated that Messrs S trail an & Co. will shortly publish a volume of poetry by Mr Tennyson, containing tho concluding portion of the Arthurian legend,