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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 63, 16 March 1868, Page 68

New-South Wales.—-The Late Bailway Accident at /Newtown;—We observe from our Sydney files that two men, Sutton : and Dixon, charged with manslaughter in connection with-the-Into mil, way accident, have ; been acquitted.' Home Stealing.— . James Hughes;ahd . Qampblelt it will be; recollected, • x ;«ecampj^ ; -from v Napier ajfew,,.weeks price couple; of .horses, .whichthey . had and passed .thr.pugh' to were, /brought. back, /yesteydriy, he sentto.Hawke’s * tri^*_r '^v e hing ‘Post, 2nd Mar ch. 1 line two men referred to arrived in ' ‘ ■ a P2 er . by the b.bl Taranaki: on/Tuesday • • rii ..-I. f rto'-v-'-i

Croup , Cured by Sulphuil—The Medical Gazette, of Paris, states . that.M. Langanteric of Pans, after observing the effect of ■ sulphur • on the oidium of grape vines, Was led to administer it’ in: several cases of croup. , He • mixes B teaspoonful of.sulphur in a glass, of water and gives‘a teaspoonful every hour, effect is described as’wonderful. The disease is Cured in* two days; the only symptom'remaining being a cough arising from the .presence of loose. pieces of false membrane in the trachea. Mr L. says he has followed this plan in seven cases/all being severe, especially the last, in which the child was cyanotic, with protruded rolling eyes and noisy respiration. . The Gold in the General Grant.— The Wellington Independent, of the 25th ult., saysAn effort is about being made by Messrs Spence Brothes, of Melbourne, to recover the gold which is supstill to be on the wreck, of the ..General Grant. For this purpose, Mr Tier, and a party armed with a diving apparatus, .were despatched to the Bluff by the Bxngitoto. As ■ the ill-fated vessel lies submerged in about eighteen fathoms of water, an experienced diver accompanies the expedition, which, when'the .Baugitoto sailed from the Bluff last week, but was about'to start in the steamer Southland for the scene of its labors. It is supposed that ' ip addition to the 3,000 ounces of gold known to have been shipped on board the General Grant, at 'Melbourne, there are other quantities for which duty had not been paid, and it is hoped that some of the 1 wool may also be recovered. In order that no obstacles may stand in the way of the success of the party, Mr Tier has taken down-with him to the Auckland Islands a considerable quantity of blastingpowder with which to blow up the wreck if necessary. Messrs Spence Brothers ‘are sanguine of the result of the expedition, 1 as one which it is thought will amply repay the expense it has entailed.”

Paper Boats.—lt begins to be evident; according to the Dublin Evening Mail, that paper has been put to few of the uses of whish it is capable. The principal demand may continue to be for printing, writing, wrapping, and paper collars, but experiments now in .progress show that papermakers will soon find extensiye uses for their product outside of the present principal sources of'consumption. It has already been found that paper can be used advantageously ’ for making ’ Water pipes and tanks, and in the construction of fireproof buildings ;, it is almost' certain that cam be made to take the place of leather for machinery belting, and George A. Waters, of Troy, New York, has demonstrated that paper makes the best material for shell boats, by constructing one thirtyfeet long, which weighs only forty pounds, and is in every respi ct superior to boats made of wood. It is quite thin, lighter than a wooden boat, is rendered, impervious to water by ’ a coating' of <il and other compounds, and it is asserted that it is more durable, and that it will stand shocks which, would' destroy a wooden shell.

The Fenian Prisoners on Board the Hougoumont.—The Perth Gazette says : “The voyage of the Hougoumont is stated to have been a very, quiet' one, the Fenian prisoners, of whom .there' are fiftyseven, having especially well-behaVe'd and amenable to the regulations of the/ship! A newspaper, conducted by two of the political prisoners, was well .'got up, and contributed greatly’ towards ameliorating the monotony of the voyage,” The Ohableston 'FenlaNs.—The Grey Biver Argus, of the 14th February, says : —“ Wc -are informed, by a recWnt ' arrival from Charleston, that the'result of the late Fenian funeral procession in that town has been a determination, on the /art of its promoters to hold a grand demonstration in Grey mouth, on ft. Patrick’s, Day, At which several thousand men are'expected to be present. . Fortunately;-the, Greymouth race, meeting takes place on the same day, and-perhaps the Charleston head-centre (if there be such an individual) intends to ‘ kill two birds with one stone.’ ” -

Benefits derived from the Bush to Queensland. — : If the Maryborough ‘rush takes away from New Zealand some valuable members "of the 1 industrial class,jit is likely, we see, to rid the colony of some whose room will be better than their company. At Westport, the authorities have promoted emigration of this class by paying, Ibst week, the passage-money in the'Escort, bound to Queensland, of “two of the greatest 1 scoundrels. xii 'existence.”

Very Sad.—The Lancet report speaks of an old man who has ' brought up five children on 15s a week as one of the gardeners to the Queen, dying as an “ old work-T,” in other word’s, as a pauper ser vant to other paupers—in‘a drekry ward of Windsor workhouse; And of’another, in the same house, who has heen thirty years in the employ of the-Th'ariies'Cbinmission-ers, and brought up nine children on similar wages!. . “ Every rap. should . have a ring,” as the shopman said when he tried to Bound a bad shilling. A quaere lady r.eceritly explained to her new domestic that wash-day came every Second Day. The girl left in high dudgeon- * She didn’t, go to be washing every other day—-hot she t • 1

“Why don’t you tradq with me ? ” said a close-fisted tradesman to a friend the otheir day* , /Ycimhhye never askeiijne,sir. L'haVe looked all through thepape'rs for an imitation in the Bhape of: an- advertisehieht, and found none. I never go :V tohere lam noMrivitecl ” f ' V 1.-... --