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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 3, Issue 146, 7 July 1860, Page 3

Otaks. —June 20. —A body of natives, 40 in number, have just started for Wairarapa, to meet the Ahuriri chiefs, and to concert measures respecting the King movement, and to appoint a day for simultaneously raising the King flag at Wairarapa and Otaki. These natives are deputies from the various tribes on the West Coast, say from Manawatu, Poroutauhao, Ohau, "Waikowa, and Otaki. The following is an extract from a letter just received from H. H. Tu'rton, Esq., dated Wanganui, 29th June':~"All quiet at present, but the Ngatiruanuis threaten to shoot every man who goes beyond the Kai-iwi, by driving through even 1 for strSy cattle^—myself and Rev. Mr. Taylor particularly mentioned.— W. Adter'tiser. Curiosity has been excited by the discovery on Wednesday morning of a coffin containing human remains of somewhat old date, at a spot on the forty-mile beach, about a quarter of a mile from the water's edge,. and on the run of. Mr. Greenstreet. The 6om'n had apparently been buried some e)ght feet deep in the sand, which had lately blown away from over it. It is improvable that any one from the land side f would .Have been buried there; and as nothingremahVs to identify the 'individual, the best cpnjectujre' is that, dying at sea, he,.was. l^defi^rlm^rine^t from some,.vessel afc; tfce time -bli the coast. T?he coffin, is well .roactefof sawn timber,,.p<l in the/ English fas||of.7Tr^« ef^» Times, June,2. ,; ; JMAT^HES.—rSome one observed the other? day^,*? Mfiichzs are; made- in heaven.!': axe often dipped in the other place."

'Consumption of Beer' in London. — London alone produces above one thousand million tumblers of ale and porter per an. A recent essayist, in alluding to one of the great London porter breweries (Truman, Hanbury; Buxton, and C 0. ,; says : " The visitor , in proceeding through this establishment, realises, perhaps better than any other place, the enormous scale on which certain creature comforts for the use of the town are produced. As he walks between the huge boilers, in which 1600 barrels are brewed; nearly every day ; or makes the circuit of the four great vats, each containing 80,000 gallons of liquor ; or loses himself amid the labyrinth of 135 enormous reservoirs, which altogether hold 3,500,000 gallons, he begins to fancy himself an inhabitant of Lilliput who has gone astray in a Brobdingnagian cellar. Porter, however, is a comparatively modern drink, having been invented so recently as 1730. The three popular liquors in use previous to that year were ale, strong beer, and twopenny ; and these beverages were frequently asked for by customers, in a compound state — that is, a half of any two, or a third of the whole three, mixed together, so as to form either ' half-and-half,' oi 'threethrees,' as might be required ; thus giving Boniface, when the three was in demand, the trouble of going to three different casks for what formed after all but one pint of liquor. To obviate much of this trouble and the waste attendant on this clumsy plan of mixing, a brewer of the name of Harwood, in a moment of inspiration, conceived and brought forth a blended imitation of all the three, which he named ' Entire,' and which in time came to be looked upon as a most nourishing and refreshing drink for laborers and porters — whence its name." — Chambers 1 Journal. The Wairarapa Meeting. — The great runanga at the Wairarapa is over. A number of horses have died from starvation, and the Maories have been half starved also. The Ahuririans are dissatisfied with Manihera's food, if they are not with his Maori loyalty, Six of the Wairarapa chiefs have left the district for the ostensible purpose of going to Auckland. Manihera does not go, and Wi Kingi will not proceed further than Wellington. The weather was fearfully wet during nearly the whole time the meeting lasted, and never was there a more miserable affair. The Superintendent, it is reported, was nearly drowned between Greytown and Papawai, and though he had treated some Maories to dinner at Hayward's, not one of them would take the trouble to show him the road. Ngatuere disclaims any Maori sovereignty but his own ; but I think under his rough exterior he has a more loyal heart than the petted and polished Manihera. There is going to be another meeting this week at which the question when the king's flag is to be erected will be determined. Much disappointment was felt by the Ahuririans at the nonappearance of Wiremu Tako. Manihera's Maories may novr be said to be very hard up for food, and while he regrets having had the visitors, they complain of the insufficiency of the victuals with which he has supplied them. The late meeting may be pronounced a failure. — Correspondent of the Advertiser.