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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 911, 21 January 1868, Page 3

Large Profits. — A firm in Liverpool has made the sum of £60,000 on Adelaide breadstuff's imported by them this year. " How heavily you walk ! " exclaimed a watchful spouse on hearing her husband tumble up stairs late at night. " W r ell, my dear, ' was the gruff response, "if you can get a whiskey barrel up stairs with any less noise, I should like to see you do it." A Broad Hint. — " Sally," said a green youth to a lively Yankee girl, who was jusfc then showing unmistakable signs of being out of humour, "do smile once more upon me, for I cannot bear to see you looking so cross." " Bear, indeed," said the pouting damsel, " I wish you were a bear, you donkey ! and then perhaps you'd hug me now and then." "- ;> A, Favored -iNpivipuAL.—During the visit of his Royal Highness fo Ballarat , racecourse on 20fch ultimo, an old gentleman named Mr. Alexander Coutts, whom the Prince had expressed a desire to see, was presented to him. Mr. Coutts (who is father-in-law to Mr. E. J. Lewis, solicitor, Ballarat), had in the Prince's early days been resident at Balmoral; and, hearing of his being on Ballarat, the Prince consequently expressed a desire to have an ■ interview. A local contemporary says that his Royal Highness had alongchatwithMr. Coutts, and subsequently recommended to Mi*. Verdon that he should be employed in some position under the Government. Apropos of Coutts, a Daylesford contemporary tells the following anecdote : — We heard a characteristic story of Coutts a short time ago. Overhearing some person speaking disrespectfully of the Queen, founded on something alleged to have occurred at Balmoral, Coutts was not only | enabled from his own knowledge to give the statement the lie, but compelled the libeller to eat his own words, and then kicked him out of the company. The Aboriginals oe Australia havo been as anxious as the European settlers to be noticed by the Duke of Edinburgh, and are very proud of having met him. Duringthe visit of the Duke to Mr. Moffat, of Hopkins Hill, Victoria, H.R.H. expressed a wish to be " introduced " to a certain aboriginal, named Jim Cane, who is a servant of Mr. Roufcledge. Jim (says the special reporter of the Hamilton Spectator) was of course highly delighted with the compliment, and will probably never cease boasting of the fact that he shook hands with " big one Queen's piccaniny." The circumstance has made him as proud as Lucifer, and from the time of the handshaking, Jim has evinced a great disinclination to lower his dignity by performing any kind of work. Having heard that it was not the custom of His Royal Highness to shake hands with anyone, and that only one of Mr. Moffat's guests (Mr. Richmond Henty) had been so honored, Jim's conceit knew no bounds. " Mine big one fellow now," said Jim, "Duke shake hands along o' me ; lick all you white fellows ; Duke no shake hands with Billy Routledge even, only 'long o' me ; mine fustrate chap now.' &c, &c. Departure oe Sir J. Young from Sydney. — The Sydney Morning Herald of December 25fch, states: — "His Excellency Sir John Young, after an administration of the affairs of this colony for a period of six years and nine months, took his departure yesterday, taking with him the good wishes of the whole community, whose affection and respect he had secured soon after his assumption of the Viceregal office. It was, therefore, not remarkable that a popular demonstration to some extent exhibiting the sentiments with which Sir John was regarded should be made when the time came that he should leave our shores. Most of the places of business were closed, and thousands of the citizens mustered in the vicinity of the Government House, and in the streets through which his Excellency was to pass in his progress to the place of embarkation. The ships in harbor honored the occasion by hoisting their ensigns and signals, and the Consular flags floated from each office. Numerous addresses were presented to his Excellency, and suitable replies given in return.— On Monday evening, December 23rd, in compliance with the request of the Testimonial Committee, Mr. Keene presented to Sir John Young a beautiful silver vase of most chaste design and elaborate workmanship — figures of Fame, with outstretched arms carrying the civic crown, forming the handles, and the escutcheon on the vase bearing the following inscription : — " Presented to his Excellency Sir John Young, Bart., K.C.B. G.C.M.G., on the eve of his departure from the colony of New South Wales, by residents in the Hunter River District, as a mark of their esteem, and in testimony of their appreciation of his public and private worth whilst Governor of New South Wales." The inscription was most beautifully engraved by Messrs. Flavelle; and, after reading it, his Excellency said : — " Tell the residents of the Hunter River District how pleased I am to receive this present, and assure them that I shall be proud to show it to all my friends in Ireland.". Sir John Young then kindly presented Mr. Keene with photographs of himself and Lady Young, and with their autographs."