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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3871, 13 March 1877, Page 2

The awakening in England on the sub* Ject of temperance spreads on every side. The clergy of the Established Church are especially active. The Archbishop of York and several bishops have become known as earnest temperance speakers. The clerical memorial asking for the enactment of repressive measures has been signed by 11,067 clergymen — more than half of the whole number connected with the Established Church in England and Wales. Among them are 11 bishops, 21 deans, 60 archdeacons, 59 canons, 190 honorary canons, and 126 prebendaries. In 1875 the profit on the various rail* way lines in New South Wales was £318,474, or equal to £4 7s 11 per cent, on the capital expended on lines open for traffic. Germany does not intend to take part in the Paris Exhibition of 1878. Henry ELingsley, the novelist, left his widow destitute, and a fund for her relief is being raised in London. The Mahommedans of Calcutta have appointed a committee to collect and send money to the Turkish Government. Stringent measures are about to be adopted by General Chanzy, Governor of Algeria, to check the incendiarism of the forests, which is now very prevalent. Foot-and-mouth disease, which had nearly been stamped out from the herds of Surrey, has again broken out amongst dairy stock. Lord Falmouth proposes that foreign horses shall not be allowed to run on English courses unless English horses are permitted to contest all races in the country to which the horses belong. Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from yours. It will be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. Lord Chancellor Campbell, a few days before his death, met a barrister and remarked " Why, Mr ■ , you are getting as fat as a porpoise." "Pit company, my lord, for the great seal," was the ready repartee. A husband having arrayed himself elaborately with gaiters, gamebag, and gun, accompanied by his faithful dog, goes forth to hunt, but shoots nothing. Impossible to return empty-handed ttf the house, he stops at the market and buys a hare, which he presented to his wife. The hare was terribly high — not alone in price. "Ah !" said his wife with a sniff, so you killed it. You were right. It was high time."