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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 November 1868, Page 281

/-.Hutt ;Market.; —There were only ja limited, number of buyers at the . Hutt Market onWednesday, 4th Gome sheep, sold at 4s .head, and cattle ' fetched £2 to £lo,~accbrding jto quality. 1 : The closing up of the north channel, of . the^Hokitika; river is-now complete. At - the south side of, the channel;a bank has been formed the whole width across, and • the crate has been comple.tley sanded up, ■&: splendid high. bank of shingle having been,formed all round it. The north entrance is also silted up, allowing-onlythe . ingress of water that is forced? over its .5 ,the„ : lagooifi now formed ' by;the,;elpsihg up r bf bbth lfot only „ has this had the effect of reclaiming - a large portion of the beach; butduring the : iate. bad. weather has proved of eminent service as a breakwater. . - of Snails ” has ; fallen at JMilbury ' Meath, near- Thornbury. The storm reached along he turnpike road j for: a .‘distance of about 100 or 150' yards, - 1 and. lasted ■■ about ten minutes, covering - - the road with a quantity of small shelled snails, similar to Bea snails. Some persons - an* the neighborhood recollect a similar - occurrence at Tockington, a few miles distant, about; 40 years ago. Another - somewhat remarkable affair has recently bedn noticed near Thornbury. During several days the earth for several*aules adjoining the river Seven, in the neighbor- • hoodof Cowhill; Oldbury, and Shipperdine, • was thickly covered-with insects commonly - called “lady-cows.” * It was impossible to walk along the warth without being covered with them j and persons bathing, "who left their clothes on the warth, on re- ; turning found ;; them' completely covered > withthem. The insects' were/Somewhat finer than 'those of the ' same kind usually ;; 'Seen. : .'' r '’V ' .' •’ : " '.lncipient Gambling-,— -The Melbourne Argus' of the 22nd ult. says.:—The resolu- ; tibn '6f tHe authorities. to put, down the is likely.to be carried out effectively' enough, if we may judge. the etrengthofthatresplutionbytheextentofits operation.; Froniutterly abolishing a well'inatured scheme of property distribution, . they descended to a raid upon the the faro - tables; of.a. suburban inn,; but on Friday ' they the other end, and will, we presume; w;brk upward: ; Certain sharp- ; witted vendors of sweetstuffs, whose habit it has been^tp ; display their wares in the Eastern 1 market, got up a. sortof juvenile bagatelle* board, at whieb their''child cus.tomers . were, expected : to play. The gatue T .wag.a.veryl simple one—thpi child .pulled the handie of a spring, whioh propelled a tube at-the si«le, the said ball , hhdhig its way to tbe bottom.of. thp inclined baize-coYered board th rough amaze of wires wjßtedj'Jihe.-pbsy-. w .ff ?4ded the; pleasing excitement of thp. chance of getting moi^e. successful w that the onguoatpr spon hadi a numlmr ol - i seeing, the • thinglikelyto spread indeffpately; thought '. it; ajppl^^ . iherefMe, brgught the ** original ’linto, the lit appeared foibbable' f -Sjtart- dismissed enotber ; appear;■contrivapce,v aa >-iVS - Bolatestall-keepers*Bat'by = desertedy tables, upohyrhichtheyexhibitedtheir”bitherto /iauch-sought bdnfeotioiu. ;V , ’