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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1639, 22 December 1874, Page 470

Bishop Selwyn has been on a visit to Canada, where he was warmly received. The value of British exports during October was £21,875,000; imports, £27,750,000. The Town Clerk, says the Wanganui Evening Herald, has taken out summonses claiming rates in some instances dating back to 1865, 'against various absentee ratepayers.

A poor washerwoman, recently admitted into the St. Roch Hospital, Pestli, has proved to be the Princess Ann Miggislaw Woronieczky. She is the widow of a Polish military commandant, and has been reduced to extreme poverty. The following are the latest telegrams from India:—Extensive frauds have been discovered' in the Oriental Bank at Galle. The investigation re Nana Sahib is proceeding. The evidence concerning the Cawnpore massacre is conflicting. Thirty lives were lost at Calcutta during a cyclone. There have been floods in Southorn India, causing loss of life and property. An earthquake at Cabul caused the deaths of 7000 people. The New Zealand Times reports :—- Steam communication completely round the South Island is now accomplished, the s.s. Maori—altered from fore-and-aft to schooner-rig for the work, and subsidized by the General and Provincial Governments—is now on her first voyage in this service. She starts from Dunedin, calls at Timaru, Lyttclton, Picton, and Nelson, goes into Greymouth or Hokitika, or both, and then to Martin's and Jackson's bays, and on to the Bluff and DunedinIt is anticipated that she will make two trips per month, and as settlements of miners and others are now being formed on the seldom-visited south-west coast, the Maori's services will be valuable to them.

The following is from the Builder : Mr Kelk, cashier to the building firm of Withy and Co., Middleton, Hartlepool, has melancholy reasons to deplore the fixing of a spring-lock that opened only outside. Quite recently married, he had invited a party of friends to his house, and his young wife in her anxiety to get rid of the hot air, ventured upstairs, and seeing a small closet with a ventilator, she entered to open it, when the current of air closed the door. In vain she called to the servants, although she could hear the door-bell ring and her visitors enter, and as none suspected that the imprisoned lady was in the roof of the house, all the other parts of the dwelling and grounds were searched. One of the visitors suggested that there might be an old oak chest with a secret spring, and this gave the clue to the closet, and when at last found, Mrs Kelk was seriously ill and hysterical. Violent epileptic fits followed, and the shock being more than the nervous system could sustain, death shortly put an end to the young lady's sufferings The sad affair has not only piostrated the unhappy husband, but cast a'gloom around the whole town.

The operation of the Adulteration Act in New York (says the London Medical Gazette) has given a great impetus to the consumption of milk in that city. According to the Scientific American, many restaurants have been established where the refreshments supplied are confined to a few simple articles of farinaceous food, and to bowls of milk and cream, sold at moderate prices. This idea is said to have originated five years since with the proprietor of a small baker's shop in a humble locality, who had a monopoly of this kind of business for some time and found it very profitable. Other persons attracted by the rumors of his gains, opened large establishments, which have culminated in full-blown restaurants. The more popular of these are said to be largely patronized by all clases. As much as 1200 quarts on a cool day, and half as much more on a hot one, is the quantity of milk said to be consumed in a single establishment, by an average of 2500 persons. Since the penalties imposed by the Adulteration Act in London and the vigilance of our milk analysts have rendered it possible to obtain pure and wholesome milk in the metropolis, it might be worth while to try an experiment of a similar kind. Milk, with the addition of aerated water and ice, forms a delicious and wholesome beverage in hot weather ; and a most nutritious one in cooler weather, without the ice or aerated water. We see, with pleasure, that some shops i Loudon are taking stops in the direction indicated, by selling milk and Apollinaris water by the glass at a low price.