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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1033, 23 March 1869, Page 2

An Extbaoedinaey Scene is reported to have taken place lately at Geelong. Four young men, clerks in one of the banks, and members of highly respectable families, have been dismissed for gross acts of insubordination. It appears that the whole of them proceeded to the manager's worn with the intention of horse- whipping him. Change foe a Shilling. — Mr. Dilke in his "Greater Britain" says: — "As I walked up from the quay to the town, looking for the Empire hotel, which I heard was the best in Hokitika, I spied a boy carrying a bundle of newspapers. It was the early edition for the up-country coaches, but I asked if he could spare me a copy. He put one into my hand. 'How muchP' I asked, 'A snapper,' 'A snapper?' f Ay— a tizzy.' Understanding this more familiar term, I gave him a shilling. Instead of changing it, he cocked up his knee, slapt the shilling down on it and said ' Cry !' I accordingly cried 'Woman!' and won, he loyally returned the coin, and walked off minus the paper." The Impeeial Teoops.— On receipt of the alarming intelligence from Tauranga, yesterday, Dr. Pollen, the Resident Minister, applied to Colonel Elliot, the officer commanding the troops in JN"ew Zealand, to issue orders for a small detachment of the 18th Royal Irish, several companies of which are stationed in Auckland, to proceed to Tauranga. It was clearly pointed out to Colonel Elliot that the men would not be required to fight, or rather that I they would not be required to act as a field force, but merely to garrison the redoubts, so as to leave the colonial troops available to proceed out against the enemy. Colonel Elliot expressed his regret that he was not at liberty to comply with the request, his orders entirely forbidding any movement of the troops whatever. At the same time Colonel Elliot assured Dr. Pollen that he would have been only too glad, had his instructions admitted of such a thing, to have complied with the request and to have proceeded to Tauranga in command of the detachment. Wo can only express our regret that orders of so stringent; a nature should have been issued as to compel a number of brave and willing men to remain idle while their fel-low-countrymen are being butchered and thousands of pounds' worth of property destroyed. — Soutfwm Crete, March, 18.