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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 58, 10 February 1868, Page 36

Tetal foe Muuobr at Tahanaki. —The trial of the native Inia, for the murder of one John Daniel Roby, at Taranaki, has resulted in a verdict of manslaughter. The native had been taken into custody for robbery, and placed in the room of an inn for safety, with Roby over him as a guard. Roby had a loaded gun. Inia, it seems, took the gun from his guard and shot him with it. According to the prisoner’s statement, his captor had repeatedly threatened to shoot prisoner, and fearing that he intended to do so, he, the native, had wrested the gun from Roby, and.killed him in selfdefence. The excuse would not have, held good in the case of a European, but being a native a verdict of manslaughter only was returned.—N. Z. Herald (Inia was sentenced to three years’ penal servitude )

Magnetized In ox. —Among the many applications .of electro-magnetism to the arts and manufactures, says the .-Hhecasum, is that of majtiug it instrumental in the smelting of iron. A fixed electro-magnet is placed opposite an opening in the side of the furnace containing the metal to he smelted, and a current of magnetism is directed into the molten metal. The effect on the iron is said to be very remarkable, rendering it extremely tough and hard. The process is carried on at one of the most important ironworks in Slaflield.

A Poetical Editoe.-—A Young Ladies’ Early Kisiug Association was established in our township a few weeks ago (says the Woods Point limes, in a poetic farorej and has been successfully carried out. Just as Phoebus begins to peep over the high hilis the fair members of this society, with faces bright as the rays of the morning sun, proceed along the banks of the troubled wuterß of the Goulburn, making the hills echo with their merry laugh and chatter; and after visiting the romantic scenery in the neighborhood of Bullock Hide Villa, return with cheeks red with the kisses of Aurora.

The Rebel Gobdon.—lt will be no little satisfaction to the admirei-s of Ex Governor Eyre, of Jamaica, to learn that “An affidavit has been sworn in London by Captain Henry Bolton Eden borough, who in 1865 was in Kingston, Jamaica, in command of an armed schooner, the Happy-go-Lucky, which was cruising in the offing while he was on'shore. It is to the effect that the Rev. G. W. Gordon (who was executed at the instance of Governor Eyre) endeavoured to purchase the vessel, and, failing thut bargain, her armament, guns, powder, rifles, torpedos, &c., and that these were intended for use in the rebellion of the negroes, which afterwards broke out prematurely.” '

Deawikg- the Long- Bow. —“I say, mister, did you see a dog come along here that looked as if he were a year, or a year and a-half, or two years old?” said aYankee to a countryman, at the roadside: “Yes,” said the countryman, thinking himself quite quizzed. “He passed about an hour, dr an hour, and a-half, or two hours ago; and is - now a mile, or a mile and a-half, or two .miles ahead; and be had a tail . about an inch, or an inch and a-half, or two inches long.” “ That’ll do,” said the Yankee.:.- . ■‘■"■U-

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