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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1147, 26 April 1870, Page 3

! Accident:"— The Lyttetton Times of the , 18th says : — 'Oh Tuesday ' evening~last, Mr. Rhodes met wi.bh^|c!i |ceident while mounting his hprse. • $<$_. v^efjifai , home to town. It appeal that' the stableman had neglected to fasten the- girths properly. In mounting-, the saddle slipped, and' Mr. Rhodes fell to the ground, breaking -his collar-bone. We are. glad. to. hear that the accident is not likely to result in any more serious con.sequence 3to Mr. Rhodes than a confinement to.- the house of a month's duration. : .: . A Mormon Mission. — The 'Evening Post says : — The general public are perhaps unaware that we have among us a Mormon Mission — yet such is the fact. The scene of its labors is at present Jhe village of Karori^and. there sqme- four or five converts have bee> made. ; newly converted were a. few days ago received into the Brigham Young communion by the ceremony of immersion. For this purpose a hole was dug in a.stream in the bush, as much out bf the way as possible, into which the proselytes were duly plunged, and emerged entitled to enjoy all the blessings of polygamy and the fascinations of Salt Lake City, society. • It is understood that they will start at an early date for the "Promised Land," but whether (being of the sterner sex):. they will provide themselves with the requisite help--mates here, or run the chance of procuring them in the New Canaan s is not yet clearly understood. A Very Sad Case came lately under the notice of the Melbourne Bench: A young woman of very pleasing appearance, named Mary Elder, was brought before the Court by Senior-Constable Mooney, who had met her about two o'clock in the morning wandering about the streets attired only in a night-dress, and saying that she was going to Heaven. She was remanded to be examined by two doctors, with a view of sending her to the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum. Her history is a very sad one. About two years and a half ago her mother died, leaving her to the care of her father, who was a carpenter in a very respectable position. He, too, died last August, and she was left without a protector. A short time before thi3, however, she had become acquainted with, and gained the affection of a young man named James Hay, living inLatrobestreet. This young man, who had served as a voluuteer under Colonel Whitniore, in New Zealand, and seen some smart service, took her to his house, and since then she has been residing with his father and mother, and been treated in all respects by them as a daughter. The young couple were engaged to be married, aud the ceremony would probably soon have taken place, when about ten days ago she began to manifest symptoms, of religious mania, which have now culminated in a total aberration of "intellect. The girl has always borne a pious and exemplary character, and has lately seemed to be much distressed in her mind on the subject of baptism, which she has been assiduously studying for some time past. Annexation op Fiji to United States. I — A private letter to a gentleman in Dunedin says that the petition sent by the white settlers of Fiji to the United States Government in August last, has been taken up warmly in San Francisco, and that influential people thero urged -it upon tk» notice of the Government at Washington. Also, that the first re.s.ult , of this movement was the expected despatch, of the United States steamer Pocahontas to Fiji, and that" there, was grea^t likelihood of the American flag beingsobin hoisted, in that group. The writer, who is well acquainted with Fiji, adds tliat if the United States Government desire to take possession they would not only be. warmly supported by j all nationalities in the Islands, but have it in their power at any moment to saizo Nadroga, one of the finest harbours in the group. They have a lien over this and the whole of the adjacent country to cover damages done to .-.a United States citizen, whose plantation was destroyed by the nativ.es in 1869, and whose damages were assessed at £10,000 by the court held on board the United States steamer Jamestown at Levuka in November last. Nadroga is out of the jurisdiction of'Thakobau. The chief of the, district asserts his independence, and Thakobau declined responsibility for his acts on the occasion in question. The letter adds that Nadroga once in possession of the- Americans; the rest of the group would fall to them as a, matter of course. — ■ Otago Daily Times. Tb Kooti. — The Neios of the Day, a new Auckland penny paper,, of the 12th inst., has the following : — " A report was current in town this morning, to the effect that To Kooti, dispirited and broken down by defeat, had written to Taw'hiao, and had received an answer to the effect that the King would afford him refuge and protection, on condition of his laying down his arms and abandoning fighting. We have received a telegraph message from our correspondent at Cambridge, which fully corroborates the above." The Aurora -Australis was' seen in Melbourne on the sth iust. in unusual brilliancy. For more than an hour the whole of the south-eastern sky was magnificently illuminated with its coloured fires, and the phenomenon was visible in a lesser degree for some time afterwards. The aurora, we were informed, was witnessed simultaneously all over the country, and it had a very sensible, influence on the working of the telegraphic wires. Colonial Rifle Prizes. — The Phoabe, which sailed this afternoon, for the South, took as passengers 1 the competitors from the Northern provinces for the Colonial i>rizes to be fired^for ab Dunedin. Otago las hitherto oii'all occasions furnished the best rifle shots, but the northern men have lately been practising assiduously, and some of those now going South have made vei*y fair scores, and we trust to hear of i some of them acquitting themselves creditably. — Evening Post, April 21.