Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus in jurare verba magistri. MONDAY, MAY 2, 1870.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 783, 2 May 1870, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus in jurare verba magistri. MONDAY, MAY 2, 1870.

The public of Hawke's Bay are still without their English mail, and are likely to remain so for some days. So far as this Province is concerned the interprovincial mail arrange ments are at present most unsatisfactory. For the last two or three weeks our items of Auckland news have had to be mainly derived secondhand from southern papers; and now, when the English mail for this Province is lying in "Wellington, three Auckland steamers arrive here in t\*o days. Items of English intelligence, for the most part taken from the Auckland papers, will be found in other columns. The colonial question does not appear to have assumed any new phase. The New Zealand commissioners, from whose exertions so much was hoped in some quarters, have found Earl Granville inflexible, and appear to have effected actually nothing. The European Mail anticipates that " their return home may be the signal for a dispute with the Colonial Government which may prove very unpleasant." In her Majesty's message in opening Parliament, the only allusion to colonial affairs was contained in these words : —" Papers will be laid before you with reference to recent occurrences

in New Zealand." In the House of Lords on the 14th February, the Earl of Carnarvon in an able speech, opened the subject of the relations between England and her colonial possessions, strongly deprecating the withdrawal of troops from the Colonies, particularly instancing Canada, observing that " their presence was the visible presence of the empire there, and their absence would be construed into an abandonment of that power." This remark was received with cheers. The despatches of Earl Granville, he said "were couched in hard terms, and marked by severe logic; and in fact so framed as if there were a debtor and creditor account between this country and the Colonies." Earl Granville, who next took up the subject, said "he should like to know when the relations between Great Britain and the Colonies were ever in a more satisfactory state than now." Nothing definite was elicited during the did cussion that followed, and the question having been withdrawn, the subject dropped. The subject of emigration is being forced upon the notice of the English public by great distress among the laboring classes. Many deaths have occurred from cold and starvation. Oil one day (11th February) three inquests were held in London on the bodies of persons literally starved to death. The latest reports of the principal colonial produce markets will be found in our commercial column. The flax market returns, we regret to see, must be very discouraging to to producers of tbe article. Taken in connexion with the rapid growth of this industry, the remark of the "Anglo-Australian" is ominous, that, the market being flooded, "the best thing that can be hoped for the article is a temporary cessation of shipments." On the other hand, it is gratifying to find that the wool market is " in favor of sellers;" that prices are firm, with some advance, and competition brisk. We hope this state of things may continue. The first auction sale of Australian preserved meat has been held, with very satisfactory results. We have to acknowledge the courtesy of Captain JBendall, of the s.s. Star of the South, in lending us a copy of the European Mail; and also of a gentleman in this town, who has obliged us with the use of a London morning paper of a recent date. We have not, however, been able to make so much use of them as we could have wished.