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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 65, 18 December 1858, Page 3

Two Bussian guns (trophies from the Crimea) have lately been received in Melbourne, hating been sent as presents to the colony from the Home Government. A similar present has been mad© to Sydney. A E/ude Joke. — Some evil disposed wags retui'ning late from a drinking bout one evening last week, while passing along Kingsdon, Bristol, unfixed a washerwoman's board, which informed the public — 'Mangling done here,' and affixed, it just above the door-plate ofasurgeon s a few streets on. Judge of the disgust of the doctor on his at-, tention being called to the fact by the puns and unkind observations of the passers-by. While the Emperor and Empress of the French were staying at I;orient, they went unaccompanied to Port Louis, and entered the citadel there" in which, is Bituated the little roomjwliere the Em* peror was confined for a week in 183&, after the expedition to Cherbourg. The husband and wife spent some short time in the room, attended solely by an old woman who had waited on him while a prisoner there. It would be a ourious speculation, to penetrate the thought of this extraordinary man at such a time and place. Hungarian journals state that a few days ago a waterspout broke near the village of Kosslad, district of Widdm, aad killed four hundred horses or oxen, also several persons. They add that another waterspout at Ternowa, in the same district, threw down houses, and crushed many persons ; and that a third at Plewna, drowned more than a hundred persons. . PiEXiAMEtTTjoiT QtrAiJDPiOATiQjrSv— Property Qualification is done away with. Let us now have a Mental Qualification. The only inconvenience attending the experiment might be^ that we should have no Parliament at all. Whatanaj tional loss. — "Punch.

As- Obsebvutg Yottth. — A young man of bidli liant attainments and keen susceptibilities has dis^ covered that upon seventy three clothes linea which, had fallen under his observation within the two past -weeks, there were no less than forty two, red petticoats.