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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1623, 27 October 1874, Page 407

The latest Australian telegrams, (17th October) contain very little news of importance. Mr Vogel is still in Victoria. The ex-Governor.of New Caledonia is in Sydney, having received peremtory orders to return home. A temporary successor has been appointed. Messrs T. Eusssll and Samuels are still negociating the Californian mail arrangements, and the matter is now almost closed. Both the representative have resolved to continue joint action regarding the mail service. The Taranaki Herald says :—A significant illustration of the costliness of law will be found in our report of the proceedings at the R.M. Court on Monday last. Mr Hall was sued for Town and Education Bates, amounting together to £2 3s 9d. This sum was the amount of the rates on 16 sections; but, as there were two different rates sought to be recovered, it necessitated the laying of thirty-two complaints, and the result was, that the defendant was condemned in the amount sued for, and was adjudged to pay £l6 costs. The Government have received, per Tararua, a telegram from the AgentGeneral, dated October 7, which advises the following immigrant vessels as having sailed for New Zealand during the month of September:—Cospatrick, with 420 souls, for Auckland; Geraldine Paget, 390, for Canterbury ; Clarence, with 340) for Napier; Carnatic, with 290, for Marlborough ; Crusader, with 370, for Canterbury ; Dilharee, with 470, for Auckland ; Margaret Galbraith, with 130, for Otago; and the Nelson, with 320, for Otago. A smart constable of the London police chased a burglar up and along three flights of scaffolding, and had finally brought him to bay on the house top, showed him considerable ingenuity in securing his man. The prisoner tried to escape down a chimney, but was caught as he got his legs in. Ho then said that the constable was too tough for him, and he must give in. The officer, to better secure the prisoner, pulled off the chimney pot and set the fellow down on the roof with his legs fast in it. Eventually assistance came, and the man was got down. The magistrate before whom the burglar was brought complimented the officer on his activity and resource. "Observer" writes the North Otago Times as follows;—A rather novel and interesting pugilistic encounter took place at a certain boarding-house in Oamaru a day or two ago. The house in question is principally patronized by men working on the railway, one of whom, on receiving his wages, went to the landlady and paid half the amount which he owed, declaring that this was all the money of which he was possessed. A day or two afterwards it reached the ears of the hostess that the defaulter was spending money freely, and "forgetting dull care" in his cups. Irate at his duplicity, she immediately sought him out, and demanded payment in fullHer just demand not meeting with a suitable response, more energetic measures were resorted to. Casting aside her hat, and rolling up her sleeves, the angry woman commenced an attack, vietarnis, declaring that she " would shake it out of him." And she did. Displaying a good deal of science, she blackened both eyes, and after a few rounds he surrendered and paid his debt. If every landlady would follow this example, there would be few defaulters. We should'nt think there would be any.