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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 934, 14 April 1868, Page 3

How the News is to go Home. — " It is reported," says the Melbourne Argus of the 20th March, "to be the intention of our own Government, acting in conjunction with the Governments of the neighbouring colonies, to despatch a special steamer to Galle with the news of the late assault upon the life of His Eoyal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh that it may be transmitted thence to England by telegraph. The effect of this will be to prevent the unnecessary alarm which would, certainly arise throughout Great Britain, on receipt of the mail to be despatched frqm hence next Tuesday week, if thd;first intelligence of the disgraceful outrage were to arrive in the shape of miscellaneous and perhaps varying reports, and if the Eoyal sufferer's recovery from, his wound were not made pubfic as promptly and as explicitly as its infliction. By sending a special message this advantage will also be gamed — by its means the prompt, emphatic, and unanimous expression of sympathy with the victim of the outrage, arid horrified detestation of its perpetrator, which it elicited from Australians of all classes and degrees, will obtain due prominence in the first message received in England on the subject, and we shall suffer no more loss of credit and prestige ! from; O'Farr'ell's crime than is inevitable under the circumstances."

Improvement of Stock.— This is one of the most important subjects that can engage the attention of settlers throughout the districts. We allude to it now briefly because we observe that some thirty selected and well-bred milch cows of the shorthorn blood, from the herd of Messrs. Nairn Brothers, of Hawke's Bay, will be disposed of here a week hence. They are in calf to the pure imported shorthorned bulls " Knight Templar" and "Knight of Bath." Those bulls are stabled, fed, and groomed, and return to the owners a large annual revenue. Fifty pounds is a common price for a calf of six months', old got by one of them. The cows how expected were selected by Laurence Daniells, Esq., one of the best judges in these districts, who went through to Hawke's Bay for that purpose. We notice this addition to the stock of these districts as a matter of great public benefit, the result of which will be apparent in years to come.— Wanganui Times.

Australian Tea. — We have seen a sample of tea from leaves taken from plants in the Botanic Gardens, by Messrs. Deen and Co., a Chinese firm in Edward-street. The head of the firm, who is well known in town, appears to understand the process tea has to undergo before it is suited to the European taste, and the sample he has now "on view — about 21b. weight — bears a strong resemblance to', orange pekoe. The manufacturer states that he was quite surprised to find that the tea turned out so well; and affirms that it is equal to the best tea that comes to this market from China. Mr. Deen further informs us that the process of preparing the tea is quite simple, and that he is willing to afford every information pn the subject to persons who will take the trouble. to make the necessary inquiries.— Queensland Guardian, Jan, 30.

A Conscientious Colonist. — The following appeares in the London Times of the 28th January last: — The Chancellor of the Exchequer begs to acknowledge the receipt of £5 from K. Y. Z., New Zealand, on account of Income Tax not not charged in England.

Tkoops to Hokitika. — The Government of New Zealand are determined to act with energy and vigour in the suppression of Fenianism in New Zealand, and H.M.S. Falcon, with a company of 70 men of the 18th Royal Irish, under MajorOßocke, Captain Dawson, Lieutenant Butts, and Assistant Surgeon Chandler, proceeded per H.M.S. Falcon to Hokitika to preserve the peace, which has been threatened in consequence of the action taken by the authorities in arresting Father Larkins, Mr. Manning, the editor of the Gelt, a Fenian journal, published in Hokitika, and two other men named Barret and Melady, charged with rioting. — Ni Z. Herald, April 1. The Thames Gold-fields, says the N._ Z. Herald, are gradually growing into importance. The erection of machinery is 'going forward, and some half dozen machines must now be in working order, though as yet hundreds of claims are next door to idle, there being no means of getting the quartz crushed when out. Still our last monthly produce cannot be less than 3000 ozs., though one or two of the richest claims have ceased getting out stone until they ---can get machinery from Australia for their own use. The largest yield yet recorded is that from the Mahukau Claim. On Tuesday, a ton of stone— picked . we may presume — was crushed, and yielded nearly 700 ozs. of ' gold. There are scores upon scores of claims the stone from which yields from two and a half to twenty ounces of gold .\.'-' : to.:,the ton, and there are miles of country, .._--, scai-cely traversed as yet, which are just "as likely to abound in quartz reefs as that portion already prospected and occupied. -.---. ; -i- Export of Gold. — The s.s. Egmont, tor on Saturday, was the bearer of r- ;;:;1160''pzs.' ; ;^oid--from-'the Union Bank of ':):^ Australia,- a^A 1 437 ozs. from the Bank of " / Australasia;-^S r .^. ITeraM, April 9. Nv;^?W|ffiffivißE : ybU' find many men you i.y : :j, willffiM-ma'^y minds," exclaimed a .public '0^ spsal|er^«t!TauVtso, by jingo/'respontied s^oibojcs^^ if you'd only ask this y^«^|^^|y^«^e'^.-dri'iik,.you'd find 'em The lecturer "oaved," p£l^iji£o&f ßising the experiment,