AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 241, 20 March 1865, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

The Native QrEsxiox. —Yesterday afternoon (12) a native in a state of intoxication* was'endcavoring to creale a sensation in llobson-street, by inviting anybody and everybody, from the nnbreeched urchin to the constable, to fight. The advice of the muse to “drink deep or not at all,” had evidently nut been lost upon him. His dusky spouse took him in hand, hut was as unsuccessful in her attempts to assuage the bellicose tendencies of her “lord,” as her pakelia confreres usually are in similar eases. It appeared that he had been vending fruit during the forenoon, receiving as payment from some unscrupulous pakelia, two bottles of rum ; repeated applications to the bottles for consolation had ended in the world-old result —“as the drink went in, the wit went out; as the wit went out, the clothes went off” For nearly an hour was he, enabled to keep Ilobsonst reel in an uproar, the constable declining to use any olhorforcetl.au ‘‘moral suasi m,” notwiihstandin'r the tender of personal aid by the bv-slanders to enable him to arrest the man. The native had no intention, however, of availing him,elf of the officer's forbearance, or allowing him to cseaue the execution of his duty ; until at last, goaded by the insolence of the Maori, and the taunts of the onlookers, who kept exclaiming. “Yon wouldn't let a vfhita man go on in that fashion.” he ventured to arrest him, and aided by two Europeans who stepped forward to his assistance, succeeded in conveying him to the stalioniioiise. We trust that Mr. Commissioner Naughton will not pass over this dereliction of duty on the part of the constable.