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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 174, 13 May 1864, Page 3

AkRIVAL OF THE MaOBI CHIEF POMAEE AND his Wife and Son. —In the Statesman, which touched at Nelson for provisions and water on her passage from London to Auckland were two of Mr. Jenkins’ exhibition lot of Maories, the chief Pomare and his wife, together with their son the Queen’s godson, Victor Albert Pomare, who, it will be remembered, was born in England. The parents seceded from Mr. Jenkins’ party, and have been sent back to New Zealand by the Home Government, while others, as we formerly stated, joined the Australian troupe of Maories, and have

been doing an excellent stroke of business, leaving Mr. Jenkins with but the rump of his party, picking Up a precarious subsistence in the northern and midland districts of England. —Nelson Colonist , April 29'

Moral Lessons ToMAOUtics.—ln a literary notice by the Daily News (London) appear the following sentences : —lf we glance at our antipodes we come to the pathetic lament of the New Zealanders. These Maories are faithful and trustworthy, but they don’t seem to believe in the rights of property; and this of course causes great difficulty in all cases of sale and purchase between them and the whites. They naturally throw all the blame on to other shoulders, and say that “before honesty was invented they had much less trouble in managing their affairs.” Two of the Maoris, chiefs who had settled in Auckland sold their plots of land and their pigs to the English governor, and weer appointed constables in the island. So great was their zeal, and so unalloyed by any base admixture of common sense that when a cemplaint was made against one of them that his dogs had killed a sheep, he immediately hanged seven of them as a warning to other dogs. M. Esquiros says that this punishment conveys a moral lesson to foxhounds, and that after due deliberation, an insubordinate or vicious English foxhound is led from the kennel with a halter round bis neck, and in the sight of the assembled pack solemnly hanged. So perhaps, after all, the New Zealander was not far wrong.

A Newfoundland paper, in speaking of the House of Assembly of that island, eulogises it in the following unequivocal language :—“ Take them for all in all, from their speaker downwards, we do not suppose that a greater set of low-lived and and lawlesss scoundrels, as public men, can be found under the canopy of heaven.” —[“Comparisons are odious.”l — Ed. jET. B, T.

English Peepaeations foe Wae. —The following is from the United Service Gazette of the 15th February, 1864:—“We have been informed, on good authority, that the Secretary of State for War, on Monday afternon received instructions from the Privy Council to take a supplementary war credit of about £2,000,000 to meet expenses in case of hostilities between this country and Germany. The following corps have received orders to prepare to embark for Copenhagen, viz., the 11th Hussars, at Richmond barracks, Dublin, the 15th Hussars, Newbridge, the Ist battalion 10th Regiment, Kilkenny, the Ist battalion 11th Regiment, the battalion 12th Regiment at Dublin.”

Teaction Engines. —The last mail conveyed to England an order for the first traction engine for Tasmania. It is expected to cost from £1,200 to £1,600 complete, landed in Hobart Town. Its presence on the roads of the colony will settle the question of the utility of these engines in Tasmania.—H. T. Advertiser.,