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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 801, 4 July 1870, Page 2

The next meeting of the local Total Abstinence Society is advertized to take place to-morrow evening at half-past seven p.m. ' Members are specially requested to attend. We would draw attention to the sale by auction announced for Wednesday next, at 2 p.m, by Messrs. Routledge, Kennedy & Co., when they will dispose of a large assortment of quicks. Anniversary.—To-day is t]ie 9th anniversary of this journal; the first number of the Hawke's Bay Times having been published on Thursday/ 4th July, 1861. The Revenue collected at H.M's Customs, Port Ahuriri, for the month ending 30th June, amounted to £1,886 0s lOd, apportioned as follows: —Customs Receipts,' 1,f62 2s 10d; under Arms Act, £,% 3s; Pilotage, £2l 15s Volunteer Ball.—The Napier Rifle Volunteers contemplate giving a ball early next mon'h. At a meeting of the company held on Friday evening, preliminaries were settled, and a coormittee appointed.

The Decision regarding the late Wreck.—ln the Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday morning last, the decision in this matter was given by S. Rochfort E»q., R.MHe read a document, briefly stating the circumstances of the casualty, as reported in the depositions, and narrating the particulars of the inquiries. The document set forth tbat Captain Fairchild, the nautical assessor, had left the court shortly after the evidence of the chief officer bad been given; that, being under thesupposit.on that he would return, the magistrate had continued to take the evidence; but desisted on discovering that the assessor had been ordered to Wellington in the Luna, tie found that the law bound him to give a decision, and that he must, ih giving it, confine himself to the evidence taken in Capt. Fairchilds presence. He had no opportunity of consulting with that gentleman, and it was therefore, with great reluctance that he gave his decision, resting, too, as it must do, on incomplete evidence. His decision was, that in the evidence which had come before the Court, there wae nothing to justify any imputation of blame to Captain Bendall. Captain Bendall's certificates (which had been deposited with the Court at the time of the inquiry) were then returned,