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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 72, 18 May 1868, Page 120

Fine Gold from the Thames. —An assay of a sample of gold from the Kerry Claim, Shortland, recently made at the Bank of New Zealand, has proved to be one of the best yet tried. The assayer’s note shows that the sample is. worth £3 17s 10Jd per ounoe.—New Zealand Herald.

The Misses Trevor, of Tingrith House, Beds, have presented seventy-three acres of land, worth £SOOO, situate at Biddenliam, to their hutler, Mr Manning, who has been in their servioe over thirty years, as a reward for his faithfnl services.

A new Methodist monthly has just appeared, devoted to the advocacy of total abstinence from alcoholic drinks. The Methodist Temperance Magazine is well got up. is presented at the price of one penny, and bears on its cover the names of three responsible editors, the Revs. George Maunder, Charles Garrett, and T. Bowman Stephenson. These gentlemen all belong to “ the old body,” but they disclaim for themselves or their magazine any representative character. They do not assume to be the organ of any of the sections of- the great Methodist family, but they hope to have aocesß to all; and the publication appears to be designed as a medium of communication for Methodists of every type on the Temperance question.

Extravagance in Dbbss. —The Pope has issued a decree against the use of profane language in Rome and the extravagant style of dress adopted by the Roman ladies. He complains that the Romans seenr to forget 1 that a churoh is the house of God, and says that “ probably the cause of this evil is to be found in the of the women who when they go to church > dress as if for a theatre or fashionable promenade.” He recommends &b a remedy • for this state of things that a number of ‘ respectable ladies should; form .themselves - into a society with the objeot of “ counteracting by their "example and influence alnxuiy. which produces themin of fami* lies, and leads to immorality.” The Cardinal Vicar in publishing this decree an- • nounoes that women with extravagant head ; dresses shall’in fiifrire - not be admitted to ; the communion-table; • - . "

A jerseyman gathering mushrooms was told that they, were poisonous. ; qThank - you,” he.replied, “but l aqa not gping to eat them myself.: X sell them atthehoteL” An inventorannounces a new imidof paper, whioh?he claimß to be waterprodf,.;*;!;.; That. would be the paper for .lining milk’ :?? ; pails and'