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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 17, 13 May 1867, Page 109

Centralism and Provincialism. —The Lyttelton Times, April 23, has the following : —“ Circumstances have lately arisen whieh may tend to fetter the action of the Provincialist party, and which may possibly be made use of to compromise their position. But if they refuse to be led away by any causes of local er personal irritation, their numbers and influence must predominate. The course indicated for them seems to be that of insisting on non-interference -with existing institutions. The effective and economical working of those institu - tions, and a determined opposition to ail at constitution mongering, are objects which will commend teemselves to the majority of the members of the Assembly as well as to the public out of doors. It is very clear that the proviucialists are not to be taken unawares and at a disadvantage, and it is to be hoped that the Stafford Ministry will be content with originating and carrying through the measures which they deem essential for the right government of the eountry, without unsettling the public mind and perilling their own position by trying to effeot organic changes in the constitution/ The general wish ot the country assuredly is to leave the present Government undisturbed, and to give the colony breathing time to recover from •he evil effects produced by the war expenditure and the political changes of the past few years.”

Swallowing aCentifede. —A rr usician belonging to one of the French regiments has just met with an extraordinary death at Vera Cruz. He was engaged to play at a ball, and being very thirsty went out into the garden and finding a wator bottle on the terrace he took it up and drauk freely. Suddenly he raised cries of agony, aud upon - assistance arriving it was found that tin eiiormous centipede had fixed his mandibles in his throat. The animal had taken up its abode in the neck of the bottle, and was washed into hia mouth in- the act of drinking. A surgeon who was called was obliged to cut it to pieces, but the poison from the bite caused death.in a few hours.

Electoral. — Mr Patrick Dignan ha 9 been elected, without opposition, a member of the House of Representatives for the City of Auckland West, in lieu of Mr Jas. Williamson, resigned Mr L. ' Walker, writing from London, on February 1, intimates to the of the. Ashley district,' in the province of Canterbury, the resignation of his seat in the General Assembly,