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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1629, 17 November 1874, Page 430

A little girl named Brown, two years of age, was run over by a train and killed on the Auckland and Mercer railway, near Drury, on the 31sc ultimo. No blame is said to have attached to the driver.

The Christchurch papers are full of the reports of the Metropolitan Agricultural Exhibition on the 12th iust., which is reported to have been a great success. The weather was glorious, and there was an immense attendance, nearly £6OO being taken in shillings at the gate. There were 224 exhibitors of sheep, 94 of cattle, 114 of horses, 15 of pigs, 19 of poultry, 14 of dogs, 47 of implements, 27 of dairy produce, 51 of local manufactures. The sheep, cattle, horses, and implements were of splendid quality, and there was close competition in every class. Messrs Sutton Bros., of Southland, took the champion medal for Lincoln rams.

" Guy Fawkes' Day" has been celebrated in the usual pyrotechnical manner by the juveniles in various parts of the Colony, Commenting on the circumstance, the Grahamstown Evening Star says:—lt is curious to note how the anniversary of that memorable day is almost exclusively interesting to the rising generation. With boys it is a season of amusement, when it is proper to expend all the pocket money in masks and fireworks; one of the many seasons which make up the short life of boyhood. Guido Fawkes and the circumstances of his life are never dreamt of, but supposing they were it would only be as a benefactor who had been generous enough to make a sacrifice for the benefit of generations of small boys and big for ever and a day.

The Australasian says:—The Dublin fishwoman who collapsed when O'Conneli called her " a hypothenuse," and the housemaid who came home from the ball indignantly becauseher swain asked her after supper if her programme was full, have their parallel in Sandhurst. One of those agreeable young persons whose duty it is to dispense sherry and be flirted with had replaced for an hour the regular practitioner at a particular bar. The temporary occupant,'seeing the relief coming, was about retiring, when a gentleman who had been in conversation with her suggested her re* maining for a little. "Oh," said the friend, " She can't. She's only a locum tenens." At which the lady looked gers, and suggested if he couldn't say anything agreeable he might just as well keep silent.

Mr Steward, M.H.R. for Waitaki, met his constituents on the 12th November. About 250 persous were present. He spoke for two hours, and reviewed the legislation of the session, and the proposed constitutional changes. He said the members of the Assembly, with the exception of those connected with provincial institutions, were convinced that the abolition of the North Island provihce ß was necessary to the progress of the Colony. He believed if satisfactory machinery for local government were substituted for provincialism, the time would soon arrive when Canterbury and Otago would ask for its extension to the Middle Island. Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland were already ripe for a change* A resolution of thanks and confidence in Mr Steward was passed, as was also the following :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the time has arrived for the abolition of provincialism in the North Island, and the substitution therefore of a less costly system of Government, securing the expenditure of the local revenue (after de* ducting colonial charges) in the districts iu which it is raised ; and is further of opinion that the abolition of the provinces and the substitution of local Government, with local expenditure of local revenues, should be extended to the Middle Island as soon as practicable.",