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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 845, 28 May 1867, Page 3

Opunakb. — In our last issue we intimated that the friendly (?) chief, William King, who had received 70 stand of arms and a large quantity of ammunition from Mr. Parris, had failed to do what that gen- - tleman expected. We can nojy state upon reliable' authority, that the British ensiga which was hoisted at Opunake, and 'under which 70 stand of arms and a large quantity of ammunition were handed over by Mr. Parris, has been 'hauled down, and the Hau-hau red flag of defiance- hoisted in its stead. How long will the Parliament and people of this colony submft to the unwarrantable exercise of authority wielded by such men as Mr. Parris, and sanctioned by such a Governor as Sir George Grey ?— Wanganui Times, May 10. Artemus Ward. — An interesting letter appears in the columns of the Argus from Mr. Kingston, the "agent" of Artemus Ward, of whose death intelligence was received by the last English mai', describing in pathetic terms the last days of the humorist whose works have afforded much amusement to their readers. The extract is as follows: — "Radley's Hotel, Southampton, February &5th — I am detained here beside what I have, unfortunately, reason to believe is the death-bed of Arte- . mus Ward. The doctors hold out no hope ; in fact, his decease was expected two or three days ago. Consumption has a frightful hold upon him. Though sinking rapidly, he revives, flares,' and flickers — one day bright, chatty, and clearminded, the next prostrate, deathlike and delirious. . I have been his nurse night and day, until I am much worn out myself. He is a man of whom I am very fond, and his death will be to me a real affliction. Around his bed some of the brightest minds of the day con- - gregate. Yesterday for instance we had '> around him Tom Hood, Andrew Halliday, the editor (actual) of AH the Year Round ; Bayard Taylor, the American traveller, and Brunton, who does glorious etchings on the back page of Fun. Artemus has endeared I himself to everybody; he is loved rather than liked. Only thirty-three years-old, yet called for already to join the shadowy corpsl The most rapid form of consump-;-tion having seized him, he had to break; off ' lecturing suddenly and try if he could not .:\- --recuperate. To this end he wenito Jersey, ,;; There he got worse rapidly, and ia now; here 1 : at Southampton dying., If strength' had enabled him, he wished to embark for the t States, to go home to his mother, and ia the arms that nursed bimgive.upbistsh'bi^i:?; restless, brilliant iife-r^truly, . *a ; life t^9 ■ : short for friendship, iiotfoE famel'" ; ; . - : :