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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 81, 23 August 1873, Page 3

We take the following from a contemporary : —Mr. H. St. H—had a capital stud groom who came with him from England. The first foal born in the province of Wellington was from a mare of H. St. H—’s. Some officers and friends were admiring the pretty little creature, and one of the ladies asked the groom what his name would be. “ Harribogene,” answered the groom, pat enough. “ What ? I never heard it before !” Didn’t you now, miss? Well, it’s a wonder, miss ; it’s what they call them Maoris as is borndn the place!” Then we knew that the groom meant Aborigine, but Harribogene w r as the name of his horse to his dying day. Another year a great pet, an Arab mare, had a filly, a plump round little beauty; not so leggy as foals usually are. Miss St. H—asked her brother to name the new filly Hebe ; and accordingly he told Harry the groom the next time they were talking together. “Hebe, sir? It’s a filly!” “Yes, I know it’s a filly. Hebe, you’ll remember the name, Harry ?” “ I ain’t likely to forget that,” was the reply. A year afterwards Camilla dropped a colt foal; and Mr. St. II —said to Harry at the stables, “ What shall we call the colt ?” “ Call him, sir ? Why, call him Shebe, I can’t see naught else for a name. You

w’ent and let miss there call the filly last year He-be, though it wor a filly, and you must call the colt She-be, and that’ll make ’em both right, I reckon.” So Shebe was the name of th© colt, and is now.

The Established Church Presbytery of Edinburgh has decided that Dr. Wallace’s “ preaching is calculated to unsettle the minds of ordinary hearers, and to create doubts as to the fundamental truths of our religion;” but “ that, in the circumstances, and considering the peculiarities of Dr. Wallace’s style of preaching, it is desirable that an opportunity should be given him. of making further explanations and therefore they appointed a committee to confer with him and report.