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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 59, 17 February 1868, Page 42

The Duke oe Edinburgh.—We take the following from the Wellington Independent, 6th February:—“ The approaching visit of the Prince is beginning to be much talked about, though little has been done in the way of preparation. ■ The Royal Reception Commission has been entrusted with the disposal of £SOOO voted by the General Assembly for the reception ofhfr’Royal Highness, and have hitherto kept their intentions perfectly secret; so that, from all that appears, any entertainment given to, him in the town will be at the expense of the public. The Town Board, on' Saturday last, voted, subject to the approval of the ratepayers, a sum of £SOO towards the Prince’s reception; but the ratepayers at a meeting held yesterday, annulled the resolution, and the only means left of raising funds appears to be public subscription. His Royal Highness has promised ,to visit OtagO, and also to open the Moorhouse tunnel, * between Lyttelton and Christchurch j and it is pretty generally .understood that he will visit most .if not all of the principal towns of the colpny,”

CARRIAGES AND CONVENANCES.—Lawyers iot unfrequently come to ride in their own carriages from-the clever, way in which they have managed the conveyances of tbrir clients.

Attempted Incendiarism in Wanganui.—The Wanganui Evening Herald, Ist February, says:—“On Thursday night, the foreman printer of the Chronicle, having occasion to go to the office, after all bands had gone, found a candle burning under a wood bench. The candle was surrounded with paper, which had been immersed in kerosene, so that when the candle burned down to the paper, the whole office must have been quickly in a blaze. A lot. of shelves and rotten wood had been chosen to place the combustible materal in. The windows had been blinded that. the light could not be seen outside; and what was more surprising than all, the doors were properly locked, and no evidence existed of anyone having broken in. The place had been carefully locked up an hour or two previously by Mr Hutchison, junr. When the discovery was made, the police were at once communicated with, but no positive clue has been found whereby it is likely to trace out the would-be incendiary. It will be remembered that when the fire occurred some time ago in the Chronicle office, a candle was discovered in the midst of some timber near to where the fire originated. This is the first attempt at incendiarism we have yet heard of in Wanganui. We may add that it is rather singular our contemporary, the Chronicle, in his issue of Saturday last, says nothing of so serious a oircumstance. On the night of the 24th June last, a fire occurred upon the same premises, which, with the adjacent block of buildings, was only rescued by great exertions from total destruction.” The Times, of the 4th says: —'“The agents of Fire Insurance Companies waited on Major Durie, R.M., yesterday, and requested him to instruct the Coroner—H.l. Perham, Esq.—to hold au inquiry this day into the reported attempt to burn the Chronicle office on Thursday night last. The inquiry will take place to-day.”

New Zealand Aeeairs ebom an English Point oe View.—The following will no doubt be read with a degree of satisr faction by the majority of our readers. The London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, under date 25th November, says f—“ The columns of cur press teem with information respecting New Zealand —your increasing population, revenue, and expenditure, imports, and- exports, shipping and postal statistics: all are dwelt upon, and the home interest now taken in your welfare is conspicuous. With regard to Sir George Grey’s recall, however variously the Governor’s conduct may be viewed at home and abroad, there can be no question of his untiring zeal in behalf of the colony, or of the invaluable services he lias rendered for so many years as her Majesty’s representative. You are evidently loth to part with him, and all here must join you in the hope that the Queen will signally testify her high appro-, nation of his Excellency’s long and useful career.” *

. Apprehension oe Campbell. The Southern Cross, of the Bth instant, says:—The man Joseph Campbell, who committed a murderous assault on his wife in Parnell on Friday, the 31st ult., was apprehended by the police late last evening at Shelly Beach, and brought into town at midnight. From information received O’Hara and Ternaham paid a visit to an unoccupied house on the property of Mr John Campbell, at Shelly Beach, where prisoner Campbell was found secreted. He offered no resistance; and on befog apprehended stated that it was his first ‘attempt to secure shelter for the night, as‘he had not slept since committing the assault. On bis person were found one shilling and sixpence half-penny in money, a whistle, and a small phial of oxalic acid. Campbell stated that after leaving the Greyhound Hotel—where he had been traced by the police—he purchased the oxalic acid, and drank a portion of it in a glass of rum at the Eagle Inn, Bince which time he had been suffering greatly. He was, however, tn ach recovered. He said he had purchased the acid at Mr Gundry’s shop. Since then he bad tasted little except some wheat and and wheat and bread he had begged, and bis exceedingly wretched appearance went to confirm the statement. He was in fact so weak that he waß scarcely able to speak, and Mr Commissioner Naughton ordered refreshments to be supplied to him on hia being brought to the police guard-room. Dr Hooper was also called to examine him. He will be brought up at Police Court this morning and remanded. The Herald, of the 10th inst., has the following:—The man Joseph Campbell alias Hutchison, who had been apprehended late on Friday eight was brought up in custody on Saturcay morning, and on the application of Mr Naughton, remanded until Tuesday next, the Commissioner stating that in the meantime he would ascertain what probability therewas of obtaining the woman’s evidence.

.A Conscientious Cobbler.—At the Church Conference at Wolverhampton on Wednesday, the Bishop of Alabama said some few years ago he was brought into contact with a colored working man. He was nothing but a cobbler; he said liimself he was-not a decent shoemaker — (laughter)'—and he (the bishop) could testify to that from some experience of his work.—(Laughter).—But if not elegantly done, it was thoroughly done, and that was the point. ; He ' told ; the speaker that when he became too old and crippled to work in the field and the house; he took to cobbling. He said to him;.“ My friend, after this cobbling on earth 'is done,* how about that other ’ world ?” “Ah,, master,”* said he, “I aim nothing, as I toldvyou, but a poor cobbler; but I feel, as I sit here and work at my stool* that the Good' Master is looking at me,' and when 1 take a Btito^, v it iB. a : stitch,'and when IVutrbfoa heel tap it iAnot paper, but good -