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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6551, 1 December 1879, Page 2

the $6ot 'dr" the Saragaim, near Lake Timsah." If this be correct, it follows that the spot where the Israelites crossed the Hed Sea wag, eituated.4ot to tile". south, but to the. norjtli of, jfte f preeent extremity a| it^ Aortuei'n army, In his paper Les Mo'ndes, Abbe Meigne has traced the course of the children of Israel day by day, in accordance with these now data, and lig asks tho whblo Christian world, since the spot. is. now known where the : E^ypti^ns jvero ; s'fvalkj\tod ,upj witli ''tile lioi'ie aiid the i l idei I ,' chariot and everything, to subscribe the requisite funds to enable excavations to be made, and " the relics of the army overcome by the Almighty himself to be brought to light," The ldarndd Ab.b^ wjil iin.dertd.Vp, tlie work if he r succccds ! id getting jto'^ethei; &)o;otid franco, "UoßAilsd the finding of the remains of Pharaoh's army would be a powerful reason in favor of the truth of the Holy Scriptures."

The Parihaka correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle says : — I really pity the officer in charge of the A.C. on this coast. They have to put their inventive faculties 3d much in j>lay to find out ntcalid to Otfciipy the men linder them; One day tlley wjll have harp dnd hounds, shooting and tlieri. a nidrcii l'oiind the! doiintry, and so on, simply to give the men something to do. It is very roiigll on the officers at present, as il\ey lidve exhaiisted tho'ir slore df mcjtn^ to aniiise tlie men, and are now on their beam ends 1 for a new idea. I will give them one. There are a great many roads about that require forming arid repdiririg. Jfdvr; is! not this a "Brilliant idea to amuse the nie'n and devclope their muscles at the same time, and I am quite sure the general public will be glad to, learn tliatjwe are setting iii rehirii for Ilie thousands we arc taxed for keeping these men. If they are not intended to fight, then let them do something, uspful. ,The public dp not generally care to pay for ornaments;

A preliuiinnaiy .infeepng o£ tliGoe engaggoon tlie prniuhg business was beld oil (Saturday evening in the Provincial Hotel, tho object being to form an association similar to thoso in other parts of New Zealand. After some discussion it was decided to write to the Secretary of the Wellington Typographical Association, asking whether Napier could join it as a brunch. A committee of three was appointed for that purpose; and also to get stll the inforinatidi} they ptissibly could oh the subject; and to fcepbrt at the next iheetins> Which will be advertised.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Hawke's Bay Permanent Building and Investment Sdcie'ty, toil the payment of subscriptions, &c, will be held this evening.

A Lodge of the Independent Ofdoi 1 of Loyj^l United ITiliehds Trill be opened in Napier in the course of a week or ten clays, the. charter or warrant having been received from Home by the last nisiil; In Auckland; we Hear* tlic Oraer is making rapid progress, and there appears every likelihood of its becoiiiug equally successful hero. It is registered as a Friendty Benefit Society.

£n dvr 1 advertising columns will be found an attractive programme of a concert to lie given at the Port Ahuriri District School on Tuesday evening next, the object of which is to raise money for the purchase of' prizes to be given to the scholars at the breaking up of the school for the holidays. Mrs Gush is the. promoter of the concertj and several of our best singer's have kindly promised their assistance. Such a programme should draw together a crowded house.

The sunken moorings were recovered on Friday) after" having been imbede'd in silt for over six months. The Harbor-Master and his crew went aboard the Helen Denny on Frkld.y, morning f <3r llle piirpose of iln shackling the chain that was b'uoyiug the lost moorings. Before Unsli'deklin^ the chain, however, the wiiich wsis tried on it> arid fliklmji; llial it seemed clear, they stuck to it until 6 o'cloclf, when the end of the mooring chain was made fast to the bow of the Helen Denny. On inspection, after getting the chain above water, it was foxtiid that . the diver had fastendcl his chain 7 fathoms from the end, which made the work of hauling up very much heavier than it would otherwise have been. The Harbor-Master informs us that he will have to replace 15 fathoms of the mooring chain now in use with the piece lying on lioittledge's wharf, and then shackle on the buoy; wliich" -yvill make tlie nlob'rlngs as good as ever they were.

On Saturday af tcriloori a .large rjiimb!er of children .viftited tliß Waxworks Exhibition in the Protestant Hall, and in the evening the exhibition was also well patronised. A number of valuable articles were distributed, including a silver cup, which fell to the lot of Mrs Harris. The company will exhibit the show at Havelock this eveningi

A t feniale servant named. Elizabeth Brodlo in the employment, of M.y Clist; of the Pacific Hotel; Havelocli:, Avds arrested by tlie district constable last Saturday, on a charge of having stolen articles valued at from her employer.

A report having somehow received currency that Dr de Lisle's practice is advertised for sale iii a Wellington paper, we may state that we have authority for saying that there is no foundation for the report.

A puzzle for the curious. — There is, at Golding's, watchmaker, Liverpool-street, a mysterious clock (says the Lyttelton Times). A pair of hands register the time upon a clear glass gold lettered dial. Take the hands off and the glass is found to be only a dial suspended in the air. There is nd mechanism about it. Put the hands on the dial at any hour you please, and — hey, j>rcsto ! — you have the time true as the compass to the north. The hands obstinately refuse 1 to be put wrong. Spin them dn tlleir spindle, turn them backward and forward, manipulate them at will, but like things of life they fly back to the correct time, irreversible as the finger of fate. And yet thei'ts is only the pin on which these wonderful hands turn — only that and nothing more. There are no works to be seen, nothing to account for the secret of this very notorious clock. It is the latest inveution of horological science, and has only one other representative in the colonies. The novelty was manufactured at Mr Golding's establishment.

We have just learned (says the Oamartt Mail) that Messrs Royse, Stead and Co. obtained the champion cup at the Sydney International Exhibition for wheat grown by Messrs Fleming and Hedley on the Seadown estate. New Zealand, therefore, lias beaten the world, and we feel proud that an Oainaru firm were the means of her doing so. Now that the warld's judges have decided that New Zealand has exhibited the best wheat, perhaps the bias which grew so strong in faA-orof that of Adelaide will die out, and give place to a condition in which our wheat will be judged on its merits against this most formidable opponent.

A tradesman in Invercargill is, according to a local paper, puzzled by the working of the railway tariff. He says that while goods weighing a hundredweight cost him Is for carriage, a packet of a quarter that -weight for the same distance is charged 2s. He thinks seriously of advising his agents to keep on hand a hundred of bricks, or some stone ballast, or pig-iron, or something so a3 so as to bring up the weight and lessen the cost of transit.

" Captain Moonlitc," the leader of the Natabadgcry bushrangers, had only just completed a sentoneo of seven years' imprisonment, which he had undergone for robbing the Egertor. Bank, Victoria, in 1872.

The following letter appears in the London Daily Neics of September 24th : — " To the Editor. Sir, — As a large number of farmers and other middle-class Englishmen are leaving for the ' England of the Pacific,' will you allow me to inform them that I have just received from the Agent-General his promise to endorse a request which I have made to the New Zealand Government, that the emigration homes at each of the leading ports should be thrown open, free of expense, to the new arrivals. Should the Wellington authorities accede to my request, and I have no doubt they will, most valuable help will, be afforded in the shape of a temporary homo while the immigrant is selecting his sphere of operations. By giving publicity to this in your widelycirculating columns much anxiety may be relieved. I am, Sir, your faithfully, Arthur CiuVyden, 13 Clapham-cominon Gardens, S.W., September 23rd."

At a sitting of the French Academy M. Lesseps stated, upon the authority of the reports made by his engineer, that "at the time the Israelities left Egypt under Moses' leadership the ebb and flow of the tide of the Red Sea reached up to