NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 1, 2 May 1872, Page 3

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

The old chief Marsh, in course of conversation with two Europeans who passed through To YVifcu a few days back, requested that thoy would ask Ihc Superintendent to corn, irience Ihe construction of a road to Te Witu. lie said that lie and his natives would assist in the work, and explained that lie now saw the error of his ways ; he had fought against the government in former times, but would never do so again. ; ' ( !

Wk were glad to notice that the owners of cattle have commenced to avail themselves of the barge placed at their service by the Waikato Steam Navigation Company, for the transport of their stock to Auckland. This barge is capable of carrying sixty head of cattle and a proportionate number of sheep. The low rate charged by this Company should enable the settlers in this district to compete successfully with those of either Napier or Wanganui. $

Macktk'.s T ypf.-Composino Mactiink.—This ingenious and philosophical piece of mechaninm is attracting more arid more attention, and is likely to prove, as it comes to perfection, tlio argument which is to " dissolve into the air" the predictions of those who have always insisted upon the absolute impossibility of setting' type by machinery. It jh not reasonable to suppose that a machine which is already successfully performing the work of the "(J rapine" newspaper, besides composing all of its inventor's publications, and doing its work to the complete satisfaction of both, that it lias not the qualities claimed for it. We take from a London pa,per the following description of it characteristics : —" It works on the principle of the Jacquard loom, composes types of any size at the rate of .1?,000 an hour, aTid with all the expenses of. distribution and rnaking-up included, the cost of composing by this machine is estimated at about three and onc-lialf pencc per thousand; it is also stated by the patentee that perforators aud composers of double speed may be easily produced. It is claimed that t he action aud capabilities of the perforator being once understood, the operator, male or female, may prepare the slips at home in the same way as needle-work is now done by the sewing-machine; or an author may actually perforate his own manuscript, and thus insure correctness."

A \V kit lilt in the ''Australasian" says of the claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy : —

"The Au'-il .ralian claimant is tlie right man in the right place at last. If there is a more unpleasant prison than Newgate anywhere, he ought, to be removed there forthwith. Jt is envious to notice how strongly opinions favourable to his Lien tiny with Sir Roger Tichborne preponderated in the newspaper press, and amongst the public generally. In The Australasian'' of :'sth November last, I wrote : —' tis not at all likely that an expression of opinion iu Victoria could in any way prejudice the claimant now. After reading the cross examination, I cannot understand how there could be any other conclusion than that the imposture of Arthur Orton is one of the most daring and unblushing attempts ever made upon theciedulity cf a jury.' That time I happened to be ' right." Eevcnge.—A woman's husband was perse-

cuted to death by a creditor. She then married the creditor, and persecuted him to death in six months. Time at last sets all things even. The Reason Why.—"l say, Jones, that's a shocking bad hat of yours. Why do you wear such a hideous thing ?—" Because, my dear fellah, Mrs. Jones declares she will not go out of the house with mc till I get a better one." Reason of r loo 'Much Punishment.—A committee was recently appointed to investigate the inordinate chatisement of a pupil in a public school, and reported that the chastisement was not actuated by malice, but occasioned by an "undue appreciation of the thickness of the boy's pantaloons."

A last \orxn Man.—Lord Courteimy, the eldest son ot the Earl of Devon, lias lately passed through the Hank nip toy Court. Lord C'ourtenay is only thirty-five, bat the debts were stated at the astounding- sum of ot svhich 7,688 were secured, and £251),038 unsecured. The mere interest on that mass on waste would be, for the majority of middle class men, a considerable fortune, and we fear Lord Courtenay's will be found not to be a solitary case. The temptation which induces a great noble to plunge into such a "slough of despond" as this, nnd mortgage himself tor life, is to ordinary minds inconceivable, pleasure can be worth such a final '• spill."