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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 188, 26 April 1860, Page 4

CANTERBURY. We have received during the past week some very interesting specimens of pottery ware, the manufacture of Messrs. Jackson ami Bishop of the Ferry Road; they are the earliest production, of their new works, which have been erected at considerable cost of labour and capital, and are remarkable alike as being the first specimens of that kind of manufacture carried out on a large scale among us, and as superior in execution to anything yet effected in the province. They consist of specimens of. draining pipes, flooring tiles, roofiing tiles, and flower pots, and are turned out in a. reflect great credit upon the establishment The draining tiles are likely, we should imagine, to supersede the clumsy and costly wooden.culverts for road draining, and are of course more, durable, not beiffg liable to perish through.rotting ; no doubt they will also before long be used generally by our farmers, being now almost a necessity of agriculture in the old world. The flooring tiles are applicable to hearths, verandahs, dairies, passages, sa. The proprietors intend manufacturing a variety of pottery tv are, and will be able to produce all those numerous household necessities which come under that head, at a price which will command a large trade.— Lyttelton Times, March 24. HAWKE’S BAY. The Natives. —Rumours have, been rife during the past week of assaults committed by the natives at Waipawa. We learn on good authority that such rumours are without foun-dation-nothing haying occurred bejoud one of the “ runanga” meetings, conducted quietly, which are now so common throughout the province.

Military Detachment, Napier.— lt will be seen from a letter to the Superintendent, under the head of “• Council Papers,” that the rumour which so much prevailed a few weeks ago to the effect that the strength of the detachment here was to be reduced to fifty men has had no foundation in fact.