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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 93, 12 October 1868, Page 246

Pox<mcAL teo-mcetings appear -to he in vogue in Yictorin; ' v \' v '

A Simple Question.-—Aunt: “ You’ll grow up ugly if you make faces.” . Little girl (reflectively) : “ Did you make much faces when you was a girl,-Aunt?”—Judy. Aw&wAßp Clients.—A celebrated lawyer once said that the three most troublesome clients he ever had were a young lady who wanted to be married, a married woman who wanted a divorce, and an old maid who didn’t know what she wanted. - AvFEßOCioirs Dog-.—A few. days ago (says the West Coast Times) as a child six years old, belonging’ to Capt. Thompson of the harbor department, was proceeding on an errand, a large dog, who is said to be very ferocious, and is known by the cognomen of Wolf, started up from its crouching position, and, without any provocation whatever from the child, flew at him, seizing him. by the scalp, and tore a wound from the scalp of the head to the ear. The dog, then let go its . hold and seized the -child by the shoulder, biting him through. He then seized by the knee, and it is difficult to say to what extent the ferocity of the animal might have continued nad not a lady, who was passing at the moment, dragged the child away. The poor little fellow contrived to stagger home, and, falling down as he did so, oried out, to his mother, “Oh, mother, I aui dying; a dog has killed me.” Captain Thompson immediately carried the child to Dr. McDermott, who sewed up his. wound's and administered such relief as the serious nature of the case admitted. The poor child now lies iu a precarious condition.

The Bebel Chiee Titokowaru. —We extract the following remarks from a late nuraher of the Wanganui Chronicle:—- “ There seems no possibility of doubting that Titokowaru possesses a subtle knowledge of the character of his own race. By some persons it was supposed he made a mistake when, before he struck the first blow and boldly declared it was for the recovery of the confiscated land, he enacted a series of thefts. These persons will see by this that they have formed a wrong estimate of Maori character, while his counr trymen will feel convinced that Tito can carry to a successful issue all that he has. undertaken. But not only so: he has ample experience, during the last ' eight years, of our mode of warfare, which, whatever may have been its failings, was at one time conducted with a large and well-disciplined force, complete iu its organisation, even to the minutest detail,, while three months’s experience bast-aught him how much, or rather how little, he has to fear from hastily raised and ill-disciplined levies taken into action without plan or purpose. No doubt all his future movements will be based upon this laiter ex* perience;”

A Native Account, of the Late. Earthquake Wave.— The following native account of the earthquake wave at Torere, a settlement about 12 miles westward of Opotiki, is published in the DailySouthern Cross, and will be of interest toour readers:—“Torere, August 15, 1868. This is a proclamation that ail men of this island of New Zealand may know of a great sign from God which appeared at Torere, at Tokaputa. That place is a rocky promontory, which is hidden when the tide is in, but when the tide is out it is. visible. On the 15th of August, 1868, at. ten o’clock in the morning, the whole people—the men, the women, and. tho children, also the Europeans^—saw,, that thetide had ebbed, and that all the rocks, of that point of Tokaputa was visible. In two minutes the tide was full, on a level with the cliffs. Two minutes, and it had ebbed again, and all the rocks of. the sea wereseen. Two minutes, it was full again, and not a rock of the sea could be seen. Thetide ebbed and flowed twelve times in the one day, till the night. The day was .very fine, with a south wind, and the sea waa perfectly calm. Enough : this great sign must be pondered over by us [by the per--sons to whom the' letter comes, as well as. those who saw the wave at Torero, j — HeNABE EaBAKA.”

Melbourne in 1835 and 1868.—An old Victorian colonist, the hon. J. P. Eawkner, or better known as plain “Johnny Fawkner,” writes to the Argus on Tuesday, Ist September j—“ Melbourne completed its 33rd year on Saturday last. On the 29th pf August, 1835, the first lauding took place, on a small rising ground on which our tent was pitched on .the eyeuing of - August the , 29th. Our liorsea were then landed, and set to graze. Early in 1835 I resolved to attempt to settle in Port Philip, having been one of those who lauded on Point .Nepean, from the Calcutta, under Governor David. Collins, to. colonize at Port Philip.., This was on the 19th October, 1833. /Governor .Collina declared the place unfit for settlemeut,- and took the whole of the people to the Derwent. I sought out some friends to come with me in 1835, and five persons agreed to help me found the new colony. . Their names were, Bobert Hay Marr, William Jackson, Captaiu Jplin Lanoey, and'. Geo.. Evans. They , desertedme. Some went away, and the.others took to sheepfarming,. and I; alone remained ' to.found the famous .city of Melbourne.: ,'I purchased a schooner, the to bring my horses, cattle; and household /goods, and in. six days, after landing; had five acres of land ploughed: and; sowed with wheat. This, produced. IQO./bushels: iu January, 1836.- : ;,Itwas sown where Langland’s and Fulton’s foundries/were quently-built. . 1n,1836 I sowed- 80. acres On the flat , near Emerald-. Hill. l : ; Tbia private . enterprise: succeeded where . the Home, Government’s -.- experiments-.. had failed in ; 1803r4i., A . .wildernessri in; :J;835; a fine flqimahing colonyjdn r only thirty*three*year&