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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 76, 15 June 1868, Page 143

Messes Napier and Sons, ofthe Clyde, are building for the Dutch Government a steam ram, of about .3,000 tons, and a turret ship of 2,000 tons, . ' As a result of the several descriptions of ammunition for breech-loading rifles which had been accepted for - competition, the comraitteeby whom they were conducted have reported the ammunition submitted by- Mr Daw has so far fuLfilled- the conditions of the advertisement 'as to justify I them in recommending that the prize of | £4OO be awarded to him. StrPEEME Couet, Welxingtox.-— The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court at Wellington commended on Monday, Ist June, before his Honor Mr, Justicojohnston. ~ John Burke, once a private dn the Chatham Guard, was sentenced to' 12 moiiths imprisonment with bard labor,' for stealing a wateh and knife from the dwelling house of John Eitzgerald, a Government Messenger.' : John Reynolds, who is described as “ a very oldacid decre-pit-looking 1 . ;mah;” was broughtdip on two separate ; charges; of forgery, and found guilfyf was ppstp'oned 'ahtii':tbe-sittings of the court of fore the Court, the 3 ury were disrharged, ~his Honbr obbernnig ’ that' these sittings wef e thai shortest v he vhadj ever -presided over in‘Wellington.

- : : • fg^Ebtr cation. —The Marlborough Presa thus discourses on the effect of the present “let alone” policy,' pursued by the the Government on the isnatter of Education :—“ To ’deny ourTchildren education would be a lasting disgrace to them and to ourselves, and would be an injustice to the State. We should have growing up around us a ‘noble army of idiots/ who would in their conduct, be nothing better than crossing —‘cheeky little beggars.’ In alter years this would be a glorious class from which to pick our representatives—our Poxes, our Monroes, our Welds, our Staffords, &c.”

The G-sand Jtxby and Flogging. —lt will be Been from our report of the proceedings at the Supreme Court yesterday that the Grand Jury made a presentment stating, as their opinion, that corporeal punishment should be added to the ordinary punishment of criminals guilty of personal violence. This had special reference to the prisoners who brutally attacked Mr Caley, and afterwards Warder Dunn. We called attention to this matter some time ago, and to the New Zealand Act, which authorises not less than fifty lashes to be administered in such cases. We are glad to see that the Grand Jury have adopted our views, and we trust the Judge will act upon the presentment, and order' Messrs Henry Kerting and Joseph Bryant each to have fifty lashes administered to them. It is imperatively called for. Crime is notably increased, and more repressive measures must be taken to make the law a terror to evildoers.—New Zealand Herald, sth June.

FeABFOX SUFFERINGS IK THE! BtTSH.— A Man Compelled to Dbink his Horse’s Blood.—The Dubbo Dispatch contains the following account of a terrible suffering, supplied bj a Bourke correspondent, who writes:—“The report I to-day send you will serve to show what a man may endure in these sterile regions. I have had many cases of hardship to lecord; but this of Mr W. B. Bradley’s, of the firm of Cobb and Co., is certainly one the most fearful I have ever known. Men have wrestled with the agony and died, but since T havejoeen on the river, no.one has gone through' as much and lived to relate the event. I shall nothing extenuate or set down, but as near as possible tell the tale as I have gleatfed it from the poors sufferer himself. He says:—l started from Yaiida, on the Darling, about the 9th of April last, with a buggy and two horses, for Glydagabambo, back country belonging to us south of the Darling, a distance eighty miles without water. I had horses I depended on, but after going thirty miles through the bush one of them knocked up and I had to camp. When I started I hud only two bottles of water, which were now consumed. This camp I considered about thirty miles south of Toorak; I say south, but having no compass cannot be certain. I started next morning, one horse still very well, and went about seven miles, when I believed myself to much to the East. Changed my course due South, or what I supposed South, and travelled forty or fifty miles, and found myself among mountains. These mountains or high ridges iu all sorts of forms and directions, caused me to admit that I was in an unknown country; and no water. The day had been very warm, and a painful sensation in the throat and tongue was felt ; the horse was completely done ; here I camped. By daybreak I was after the horses, and found they had.left me in the night; found their tracks and with much toil (for 1 had eaten nothing since X started), in fact hunger-X never felt, followed them for ten miles in a N.W, direction." About ten o’clock I came up to my best horse,,the other nowhere to be seen ; and being tin a fainting state from thirst, opened with my knife the neck vein, and drank more than a quart of blood. This horrible draught gave me mush relief, but it was voided almost, as soon as taken, il here rested being quite exhausted, my poor horse never leaving me ; iu fact, whenlever I lay down, which I did towards the end of the journey every mile or so he would stop, come-back and neigh. When I again started I led him JST.W-, the course he was going when I recovered him j this point X felt, sure was the nearest to the river. About 3 o’clook-1 found a kurragong tree, and as well as I was able—for my knees trembled and my arms felt-power-less.I—stripped 1 —stripped away some of its bark, which I chewed, and found the sweet; moisture of much beaefit in clearing my throat and tongue ; and I felt convinced should any one be iu the like strait and have strength to procure plenty of this bark, it would preserve, life for a day or two., At 4 p.m. I again drank blood with exactly the same result; my poor horse Sydney, a TAS., was-now •literally staggering. All dayit had-been, very hot, but at night -it became quite cool;, and ;I resolved to long-hobble my horse and follow him ; the reason of my hobbling him was that, weak as he was, lie couldoutwalkme, and even then I had to follow, the sound of the nVim'na. After going about six miles thus, he Btarted into a reeling canter and stopped in a dry. creek called Mulranya y, here I' knew I was, and followed him to Marrandina a,nd lay downwhenl again started the horse was gone; .Ten miles had now to be got over,. which took me; aboutsevenhours, when ! reached oue of my own iianks. at NulLtrania; fifteen,miles from the Darling, where I ? had sheep. The horse,; Sydney,; likewise found .the tank* drank, rolled, and ’died ; the other horse [got in the next day, and plunging headilong into the water, was drowned.