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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 85, 17 August 1868, Page 197

Westport has -the honor oibeingthe birth-, place, of - tw,o,; real :iious. : On Saturday evening, : the. 25th the } lioness., belpnging. ,tb:. iloley’s menagerie,, at; present in; this, town,, waߣdelivered\oftsvo; healthy pub 3, ; aud ;We; belieye;that ;thero; is ...every prpspecfct dfi. .the’>twointeresting: .‘‘ littilp strangers .the. hopes;,;of. .their proprietors, and- proving themselves, an honor totheir hirthplaosv : J

The Trickbr/C ase.— lt appears that the Rangitikei settlers are determined not to-let-this .caseuhst, until something; more definite and "conclusive than has hitherto been done, tak&s' place.'All 'honohr to them. A petiionoftheHo.use qf-Rcpre-sentatives, was signed,' .and forwarded j Mr lox having kindlj .undertaken, to present it. ~ ' Canterbury Railway Tunnel.— lt . appears that the long Btauding difficulty concerning the railway tunnel contract at Christchurch lia9 been amicably settled. The Lyttelton Times of the 4th. says':— “‘Yesterday afternoon the arrangements necessary to enable Messrs Holmes and Company* to hand over the' railway to the Government were signed, sealed, and delivered. We congratulate the parties to the contract on the - amicable manner in which the first stage of this settlement has been accomplished. - As ’we said before, it was for the. ; interest of both parties to avoid litigation.” , The Loss of the General Grant.— Our readers will have a lively recollection of the circumstances of the wreck of the American ship General Grant on the Auckland Islands, on her voyage from . Melbourne to London, with gold and wool. Wo learn that Mr Seward has directed ; General Latham, the. American Consul at Melbourne, to present 250 dollars to Captain Gilroy, of the-whaling brig Amherst, who' discovered and rescued tho survivors of thewrfeck j and a sum of 103 dollars to Mr J. Mjyjpherson, merchant, of Invercargill, who infbrested himself greatly in promoting the search of those islands for traces of the wreck,, and to recover any other survivors’ who might ,bo oh th& islands. • How to to Serve the Natives,-— After making some remarks about the arch-rebel Pehi, the Wanganui Times says “Events show the wisdom-of the Putikj chiefs when they told Colonel^M'Donneil a few weeks ago that it wasl useless to lop off the branches, lie should ’ strike at the root of the tree., .That is what mast yet be'done. If a remnant of: the native race can be saved, it can only-be by the unmistakable assertion of British supremacy over them. Prom something like 100,000 they have now. diminished to 38,000, and still as their numbers diminish their hostility goes on to. increase, and why ? Simply , because a temporising and pusillanimous [policy has led them to believe that they are and always have jjeen. masters of the [position; / In mercy to the remnant of that ! race, and to'the colony at largji, will Sir George Bowen 'assume the, responsible duties entrusted to him as Governor, of this colony ?” Pat’s Excuse.— At the Limerick . Petty Session, on Monday, James MMahr n and Thomas Hogan, two tall, lean, apd hungry-looking fellows were charged with catching eel-fry, in the Lower Shannon, contrary to the law. On being ask(d what they had to say, the defendant M’Mahon said:—“ Why, yer honor, all we has to say is that Torn and I were looking for work all day in the city and we could not get a job at all, and siz I to Toni, * Come, Tom, let us follow the example of the seagulls, and catch a few handfuls of eel-fry for our supper.,. See [how Almighty God—blessed be His name for ever, amen—feeds those vagrants,, of [the air with eel-fry, and There,is no raisen at all why two poor starving vagabonds [of the earth should not. have a meal of them as welL’ Tom then siz to.me, ‘.lf any of the Royal Irish, detect us catching the fry, we’ll be fined, and what will we do then.?’ ‘Never, mind,’ sez.l, ‘they can’t be everywhere; and above all,’ eez I .to.; Tom, ‘no matter about ;the>[law;. see I how God Almighty is not.: afraid of the eel-fry diminishing in the waters of, t.lie mighty Shannon. When he .bas put the idea into the heads and- the taste into the stomachs of the little birds to catch .them and eat them in millions for/ breakfast, dinner, and supper. He did not pass an Act of Parliament to.preserve; the,young of the fish, and particularly, of eels.’ So Tom said,we’d come, and we. went,and we caught a handful or two and /we ate them, ’cause we were hungry.” vMrMoriarty and Mr Pliayer, (die magistrates) here put their heads, together, and the former, addressed the co-partners with the seagulls, and said, “ We -fine you 2s ; and. fid,each; but mind, if you are brought here again, and charged with the same offence, the fine will be a heavy one indeed.” ;;,M\Mahon: .What, fine u will,; you, place on,‘the seaguils that defy the conservators? Well, glory bo to Gpp. . Amen! , There - yyaa eel-fry before there vrere. Apts bf ;Parliament or conservators either, and there; will be eel-fry in the waters, seagufis : in :i tha [air, and hungry men, on land, Acts of Parliament and conservators will ,be forgotten. ;; Will your worships give £ us time to pay these fines? Me , [Connolly said I that lie bad no objection,,to granting the [request. Tithe was granted. : • I'he .Owl, referring ;to. Mr.Reardons ! stifled inotiop on the advisability of, the Queen’s kindly places at that gentleman’s.disposai the-salo by auction,of the .Royal residences. ..The sarcasm l is perhaps a little, cruel; i but Mr Reardon’s impudence,-;to..use a ; ..mild .word, has.exposed’him to it. The Times has, given an advertisement gratis .to Mr Reardon’s new commission, for whioh 'the : -hpn. gentleman will no doubt feel specially grateful. / Tina Taranaki Herald of the 6th instf g a y a : _«’VYe are informed ; ; that Colone McDonnell has written to .the Governor asking him to'station -a detachment of the 18tli regiment at .Pat?* * while he goes to lattaok the natives at the front.