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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 902, 21 December 1867, Page 3

Mr. Thatches, who will no doubt be well remembered as the author of numerous amusing songs bearing on colonial life during the gold fever, has again made his appearance in the colony, and will very shortly visit G-eelong. He lias had a now and humorous entertainment written for him, something in the Josh Billings or Artcmus Ward style, and it has been very highly spoken of in the metropolitan and portions of the provincial press. — '*" Geelong Register, J^ov. 30. -\ -■ ' Gold. — We (Inileiicndcnt) have' been. . informed on the best authority that 'gold was found in the Poverty Bay district as * long ago as 1859. The party was digging a hole on the bank of the Turanganui r River, at Makaraka, about seven miles from the sea, when, near the surface, a*- ., sample of gold, resembling small fish, scales, was picked up. Our informant has no doubt that a paying goldfield exists in the locality, if a proper search were made. Our informant also states that at Hikurangi, near Waiapu, about 100 miles from Poverty Bay, minerals of almost every description aro picked up in largo quantities. There aro also petroleum springs in the vicinity, which, have been purchased by the Provincial Government of Auckland. A Human Amphibian. — A strange story is told in the last number of the Land and Water, by Mr. Prank Buckland. A. It is a description of the performance of a, " V~ man named Cooper, who under the title rf "JN"atator," is exhibiting at Cremorne. This man eats drinks, dances, rolls about like a porpoise and, most marvellous of all, * smokes (without letting his pipe out) be- . neath the surface of the water in a huge aquarium, through the glass front of which. - . all his motions can be plainly seen. ■ The difficulty of performing these tricks so as to avoid the entrance of water to the lungs is enormous, and the fatigue which they produce is very great, when the per- : former emerges from the water his pulse ; " is at 148, but in 20 minutes it sinks to 92, ■'■ and it appears that his general health is excellent.: Mr. Bucklandhints at "strange ; phenomena" which . are revealed by auscultation of the heart and4ungs of Cooper, and we doubt not that-.agceat nmnber^.ppt medical men, will .examine this i r ©^i%^|& teresting.cas.e far.theniselves; in.ofider,||£f|:|; possible,^D.disc6ver the;meaiiS/rby*wMeK . •nature can " accommoda^eHhe^a^hlne^jr^^.i; of an^s^eatlu!jg.: s attim^ an el^ent onlfisUiMA^^^^^i^^lip