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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 93, 12 October 1868, Page 245

Jett d’Eppeit by G£Qi^-Ejui.NiaNG.— The following lines by Canimig -are com-parativejy-but little, known, anctwere oriigHally written by him in k belonging to his friend Mrs were addressed to her a short time after having l|er a present of material for a pair of, sh.pb.ting breeches :—1

While all tothis auspicious flay, Well pleaseditkeir grateful homage pay, And sweetljErSinile, and softly say A hundred'ciVil speeches— ' My Muse shall'itrike her tuneful strings, Nor scorn the gift her tribute brings, Though humble blithe theme she sings— A pair of shootfag-breeches. Soon shall the tailor’s subtle art Have made them tight, and spruce, and. smart, And fastened well in every part With twenty thousand stitches, Mark well the moral of- my song— O may your loves,but prove as strong, And wear as well, and last as long As these my shooting-breeches! Add when to ease the load of life, Of private care, and public strife, Kind Fate shall give to me a wife, I ask not rank nor riches— For worth like thine I only pray; Temper like thine serene and gay; And formed like thee to give away— Not wear herself the breeches l .

Fashion and Science.— Fashion, afcer exhausting all the world of nature and art, has now called upon science to supply her with new charms. ' For ornament, electricity is coming into use! You may see, at a fashionable ball in Paris, a lady,, on the top of whose head sits a butterfly ora humming-bird. The fly and the bird flutter their wings in the mbit natural way possible. How is it managed ? why; within the chignon are concealed a small.battery and a minute 'Bhumkorf coil. On the hojsom of another-lady may be a brooch, with a head upon it, the eyes of which turn in all directions. This, to, is accomplished by the use of a:battery and'a coil bo : minute as tobe concealed within the'brooch itself. The small . batteries, . easily carried about the person, are. of zine, excited by'a solution of sulphate of mercury, ' enclosed' in 'vulcanite cells,- so that the exciting‘ solution cannot 'escape to the damage of the wearer.' A little' more, ahd.the of Beauty will be like a laboratory, with chemicals in place of washes andsweet waters, and induction coils supplanting . hair-pins. What next/- and next ?. Shall we. not have elebtrio telegraph " wires for ; confidbntiai messages; and gentle shocks : admukistered in* place of Nature’s telegraphy .of a tender, of‘hands'? - y--**; • r. Whitmore iop of .tins House’ that ip7the;eyent.of: a tfie jm^riaX.TrpopSJfor seryiceihitlns" CqV lonyv. jfeps‘aKfrji^ ment/tbohtaini.avßimllar;jdeooratibnforthe sup-,. IstOctober. . .

; The Sergeant-at-Arms,' at . Melbourne, lias an unfortunate, namedßoughtman, tinder the big: padlock pf Parliament. .

■ Disooveet of a New : Goto - fieeo.— Recent advices state- that gold ; has been discovered at ; -ißapa ; (sdmetirries ' called Opard)j : ’one of'the Aiistral Islands, befcween3oo and 400 miles‘south, of Tahiti.

‘ Middee Island ‘Volttnteers.j— We see by a paragraph ’ in' the Wellington Independent that the attempt made to secure the services of volunteers from the volun-teer-corps of the Middle Island, for active service at the Front, has-been unsuccessful.

The Panama. Steamers. —The Sydney Morning Herald, Septex her 14, confirms a statement, already. circulated in Hew. Zealand.that a demand has been made by the Government of Hew. South "Wales that the Panama steamers should call at the Bay of Islands instead pf at Wellington.

The Wellington correspondent of the Daily Southern Cross mentions the following in. a recent letterOn dit: In well informed circles it is. hinted ■ that four millions of Poverty Bay luids are to he transferred to Hawke’s Bay if Mr Fox goes in. Political jobbery and log-rolling are now tho order of day.”

The We.atheb in Aubteaeia. —From our Sydney files we learn that heavy rains Had fallen in Victoria and South Australia, much to the benefit of the- country, which had been suffering from drought bo as to create serious apprehension for the forthcoming harvest. • These fears are-now in a measure allayed.- : r

Ceevee Thick.— The Hew Zealand Herald says that a baker conductingliyusineas in Queen-street was, a short ti^4f 'ago, served a - clever trick by a respectably dressed female. 1 It appears that she went into his shop and asked for a bottle ,of gingerbeer abd®! penny cake, giving in payment a£l note. The baker was in the act of handing the lady the change (19s TOd) when a lad—probably-A .friend oif hers—rushed hurriedly into anil asked lor a loaf of bread.; j;TSd 4 baker, without waiting to take upthe'pouiddiote ran into the bakehouse for a loaf, and, on returning, found to his great surprise and mortification that his lady visitor had. disappeared: the change and the pound note had also vanished. v . The Mubdeb ..Confession at CantebjßUet.—Our issue.df the 16th March last contained an account from the Canterbury Times of a confession' of .murder made in that Province by ayoiiug woman/named. Hester "who stated in The most circumstantial manner that, in March, 1867, before leaving for the Colony, she had murdered a young man named William James Thomas, with whom she liad been keeping company. Evidence was given by persons who had known her in England to the effect that several members of her family were insane, and that, though living . in the neighborhood at the time, they had known nothing of the disappearance of the young man she mentioned. The case was remanded till the English authoi*ities had been communicated with, and it has now been ascertained that ttxe statement is false, the man who had kept company with Per being still alive. She had been convicted for setting fire to a dwelling-house at Breage, and the Judge made an order for her retention during her Majesty’s pleasure, on the ground of insauity, but she was liberated and handed over to her friends in February of last year. Had the tdets been known to the Emigration Commissioner, her passage out here would have oeeu refused, and great blume rests somewhere.

Curious Funebai. Superstition.—An incident took place here.a few days ago which fully exhibits that some of the. oid superstitious opinions regarding the intermediate state of the dead lingers among the peasantry. A few mornings since) two funeral processions came within view of the churchyard, and, as both .were approaching from opposite directions, an immediate excitement seemed to spring, up amongst the parlies. One corpse was borne upon the shoulders of four men to its last resting place, whilst the other, was drawn in a hearse; consequently, the probability was that the latter would reach the burialground first. The; other procession commenced to march in a double quick step which soon changed to a smart trot; and this .manoeuvre being observed by the. opposite party, the driver . of. the hearse whipped his horses, and oame to the, gate with great, speed. . The scene at once became ; very exciting—loud exclamations burst j: from the : pedestrians, sticks, were brandished, . and, hats, pressed down :on foreheads, and a strong party, rushed forward,, caught the. horses,, and declared emphatically that they, should not pass until the other funeral had entered the .grave yard. This determination was strongly resisted by the other procession, and a serious m(Me was about to ensue, when a young woman ,rushed over.,.to the driver_ of the hearse, with whom she seemed.to.be. acquainted, and appealed to him in the most irnpassionedmannertoßtop,.andlettheother.party| in first, as it was the, remains ofher mother, “ and sure he;wouldn't be' the.means *of leaving her out .aU night;!’’ ; The appeal jliad the, desired effect, and the . parties separated,.andthe. two bodies were interred —that of ; the young -woman's, mother first. The .cause! of dispute, as!, to-precedence. of burial arose from a belief that still prevails among: i the -people ;of the.;.rural,;dißtricts, that'when two funerals reaqha jgrayeyard, mgether;.thelaßt;cbrpae,m->Vm u ßfc-watch the 'otherthlmdrning.—Louth-Correspon-deht of the BeUast Newsletter, :