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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 912, 25 January 1868, Page 4

Word of Command. — At a Fourth. Julycelebration in Marion County, a young lady offered the following toast : — " The young men of America, their arms our support, our arms their reward. Fall in, men— fall in." — American Pa/per. Seizure of Oysters. — A seizure of three bags of oysters was made by the police last night, under the provisions of the Oyster Fisheries Act, the present month, being one in. which, the eating of oysters is prohibited. They were discovered lying in the water at the back of the Albion Hotel, and fastened to the piles by rope. It is reported that the quondam proprietors of these forbidden delicacies were silently looking at the capture, against which they were too well aware of the stringent penalties enforced by the Act to offer any. remonstrance. — Nelson Evening Mail. The Selwyn Family. — The London Correspondent of the Western Weekly News gives the following interesting sketch of the Selwyn family : — There was a wonderful gathering of bishops, clergy, and laity at St. Gabriel's, Pimlico, last Sunday evening. I noticed not fewer than six bishops. The preacher was the Bishop of New Zealand, who, though he looks somewhat older than he did (as who would, not ?) when he was here 14 years ago, is still full of vigour and energy. His voice is still the same clear ringing organ that it always was, and displays his splendid eloquence to the best advantage. Those who have known him in New Zealand speak in enthusiastic terms of him. He is the boldest of swimmers, the most expert of mechanics, the most skilful of navigators, the tenderest of nurses, as well as the most devoted of missionaries. The Selwyns are in truth a fine family, and their father, the Q.C., would have been proud of them. Besides the Bishop, who was a firsfc-class in classics, there is the Lady Margaret's Professor of Theology at Cambridge, who was 6th wrangler and Chancellor's Medallist, and who, I am glad to say, has quite recovered from his recent accident ; Captain Selwyn, a distinguished and most ingenious naval officer ; and Sir Charles Selwyn, the Solici-tor-General. Nor are the energy and the talent confined to the male branches of the family. Miss Selwyn is worthy of her brothers, and has established near Birmingham an institution quite unique in its way. It comprises under one roof a home tor indigent ladies, a training school for servants, and an orphan school for boys. Attached to the house — a very large one, and lent, I believe, by the Duke of Devonshire— is a farm, on which the boys work, and raise the produce required - for_ the establishment. The girls are trained to wait upon the. ladies, and thus the whole institution is made mutually dependent and mutually helpful.