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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 November 1868, Page 282

. liOED. Stanley.— -This; riphleman, ..ire learn, intends to pay a yisiti.to, ;?ITow. Zea* • land next summeis—private-letters having been Received iri'Canterhnry to that effect. Diphtheria.— lt. has been-proyedbe-y.ohd doubt that people living _irii seaport towns, or in close proximity the sea, are more subject to 'diphtheria than those who reside in country places. . - : ......... Treason-Felony Adi.—The Govern* ment ofNew South-Wales, it appears, has declined-to modify the Treason-Felhn&r Act as-recommended by the Secretary "of State for the. Colonies, and the probability. is that, in consequence, the. Queen 7 will be. advised to disallow the measure altogether. An Impudent Bobbery.— A fashionably dressed man accosted a young lady on Streatham Common, and threatened 7 that if she did riot give him the gold earrings she was wearing he would kill her. The young.lady handed him the earriugs, and the ruffian immediately, decamped.—English Paper. A. Dbiest’s Authority.— A Boman Catholic priest, the Bev. M. O’Beilly, has been fined 5s at Castletown-Ber' sessions for assaulting a girl named Kelly. Hemet the girl in company with.a polioeman, whose acquaintance he .had forbidden her to keep, arid, assuming a paternal as well as priestly authority, chastised herewith his umbrella.

What Beeb, Pobteb, &c., is Adudtebated with.- —Those who are fond of lavishing their praises on the, salutary effects of English malt liquors; will be.astonished at an exposition made in the.Xionclon Scientific Review of the injurious compounds detected in the various English porters; ales, and beers submitted to. investigation. It found such ingredients as cream of tartar, alum, green vitriol, smaU quantities of copper, sometimes lead, nitric acid, oocculus mdicus, grains of paradise, coloring matter of various descriptions, quassia wood, and other cheaper and more hurtful bitters,, together with the harmless, but stfll needless, compounds, liquorice, molasses, capsicum, coriander, carraway seeds, ginger, salt, malted horsebeans, &c., are freely used.

The Govebnob’s Yisit to Wanganui. —His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by the Hon. E. W. Stafford, Capt. A M. Smith (Secretary and Aide-de-camp), ind Majors Edwards and Nixon, left town shortly after eight yesterday morning-in Cobb’s coach, en route for Wanganui. They would reach Otaki yesterday; afternoon, and then proceed according to the programme which we have already published. The date of his Excellency’s return is. uncertain, but no doubt -it ; will be Hastened in consequence of the disastrous state' of affairs in the Hawke’s Bay Province.—New Zealand Advertiser, 13th November.’ [The district which has been the seene of the late murderous outrages the Haubaus is in the Province of Auckland, not Hawke’s Bay.— Ed. H.B.T.j

Death of. Mb .James Hamlin. —We regret to learn that a telegram was yesterday forwarded from the Waikato announcing of Mr'James Hamlin, eldest sou of-the late ,Rev. J. Hamlin, of the.Tamaki. Mr Hamlin has- been for some years attached to his;, professional duties in the Province of Wellington. At the,time of his death the deceased gentleman was engaged as interpreter in the Native Lands. Court, now being held in Waikato. Messrs Quick & Co. received, orders yesterday. to forward a vehicle to the Waikato for) the purpose of conveying his remains to Auckland, in the neighborhood of , which city his very numerous family connections reside.—New Zealand Herald, '7th November.

Wreck/ of the Schooneb Fancy.— Foub Lives Lost.— Froin the West Coast Times, of tho 6th November/we learn that the Fancy left Lyttelton, for Greymouth on the 28th September,, and Was detained by baffling winds for fourteen days. At ten p.m. on the 12th Octdber, the vessel struck' oh some breakers/ and soon became a total wreck. The captain and three seamen were drowned—oiily one man escaping' to tell.the tale., r This man was on the cliffs for sue days, without'fopd of any. kind, and with* nothing on but his shirt.; YThife iu this positibri lie was happily discovered by Capt. Falconer, of the schooner Jane Anderson, and brought to Hokitika. .The survivor’s name is Michael Walters. The names of the drowried are hot given. The captain of . the Fancy leaves: a wife and* three’ children, who - are residing 1 in Nelson.

The Late : Railway Aocident in Wales. — The charred and scanty remains of the ( men; ’wo men, and children, -killed , by the 1 railway accident in North Walba were interred’on - Tuesday morning in the little churchyard 1 at Abergele. There'were 32 coffins (bne containing what were supposed 1 to /he‘the ’reinaihs' of ‘ two 'personsL arid aU: were -placed' in bhe^liarge; 1 grave, adjoining the spot where' lay 1 ' buried, many of the ;passbngers>by the - ill-fated ;i Qcean Monaroh. Speaking of-the fiscerie* in-the ohurchyard/ia-repprtersays-“Thelevel-lin'g ■ power-of ; death ) ever received a 1 more strikirig Jillußtaratibri/'/ 5 - There, de--poßited ih'i-the' sairie ’ grave, ’’were .the remains/ pftvtbetfi/npMest -the /land and of tlioße bprri 'fiu ; huihbler ■ stations —?the -pebr of the/rjealm i lsud Bidbi by Bide, of )persoris a bf high firarik' : miniglin^gi : their, tears , Weepingbver/>he/Mme^v^fbr : thefibsa of intended tbjereot on the place of interment a table&im fihem ory of; the - victims 1 of the ‘ V