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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 708, 12 August 1869, Page 3

Australia appears likely to trouble the wo: id wit!) an embarres de ricJiesxes. Meat, wool, corn, wine, gold, diamonds, and now pearls ! Somo of the hitter of the most magniticent character have been left in charge of Dr Bleasdalo by their discoverer, the owner of the schooner Huon. They ws're found in the neighbourh. od of Nicol Bay, North* '»■* est Australia, and there is reason to believe that there are plenty more of these exquisite jewels where those were found. For some time past on this part of the coast a profitable search for pearl shells has been carried on, and trade with England opened out. The pearl shell is used for inlaying papier mache articles, and realises a high price; but the p arls now discovered arc of the rarest description, one being of surpassing beauty, and valued at from £2OO to £3OJ. It is about the size of a large pea, perfectly spherical, and ot admirable colour. Dr Bleaadale proposes to hold another Gem Exhibition in Melbourne, under the auspices of the Technological Commission. This wiil be a (host acceptable undertaking, as the utmost interest is felt in this branch of Australian mineralogy, and great eagerness manifested to obtain inloriiixti )ii regarding it. It is four years since the last exhibition, and in the interval the subjjet has assumed immensely increased importance in public estimation.—Australasian.

The Colony Kampant.— The Lyttelton Times concludes an extraordinary article on the threatened rupture between England and America, i.i the following grandiloquent style: —" This is not the time for tne colony to separate. We know that, the consequences of war may be disastrous to ourselves, but we should be miserable cowards if, as a p-irt of the English nation, we did not stand by Great Bitaiu in vindicating her honor. Uur duly is, to say to Great Britain, —Your honor is ours also, fight rather than yield an inch ! Take away, if necessary, from these shores your troops and your ships. We will hoist your tlag, and do wuat we can to d- fend ourselves, if you fall, we fall, —ours shall be your triumph. More than this we cannot do. if we did less, we should be indeed unworthy of tho race from which we have sprung, and unfit for the freedom with *vlnch we are blessed." ljravol Might we, however, vjnture to suggest to our valiant contemporary that we have a little struggle nearer uome —not about to eoiiltf upon us, not in ihe distance, but actually going on, —and that we shou'd believe all the more readily in ad this " hoisting of the 11 ig and ligh ing, and not yielding an inch," if our anterbury friends took some more interest in the honor and safety of their fellow colonists than they seem to do at present. Jii th se circumstances, such " tail talk ' is sad nonsense. — Wauganui Chronicle.

.Native Ukp jars. —l'lxe constant communication which is kept up by means ol the VVauganui river wit.i tne very heart oi Me island (and, by tne way, tins is oaiu to li»o Government in any schemes iliey may have of opening up tne country,) is often productive ol - news. Tlie lVutiki natives have received information, wuieii couih"US that al eady known by Grovorument, of tne clandestine meeting of Te Jvooli and Titokowam witli the Jving, and cae latter'a determination to maintain tin oli'diisive neutrality, out «jomo of tne iior caul's seem to have been Jed away uy the intriguers. This is important only in conlirnuug wliat is already known. One effect of these dissensions among the inland irioes lias oeen the remo»al of a certain part ot mo aukali, which, it is said, now ooens up uninterrupted overland communication between Auckland and iNapiOi, via Hamilton and the other Waikato uottienitfnts. VVaugauui Uhrouioie, July 27.