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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 816, 25 August 1870, Page 2

The Inward Mails from Europe, America, &c, via San Francisco, may be expected to arrive here by the Keera, due here from Auckland this clay.

By advertisement elsewhere it will be seen that Professor Dorney intends to perform at Havelock this (Thursday) evening, and at Meanee on the evening of Tuesday next.

j The Outward Mails for Europe, ! America, &c, via San Francisco, will be despatched hence per Lord Ashley on Saturday next. Supplementary mails will be desptched as opportunity offer*. The mail steamer for Honolulu leaves Auckland on the 7th September.

Rout ledge, Kennedy & Co. will hold a sale of horses and other stock at West Olive this day at noon. It will be seen that the groceries and drapery, also lease of premises, previously advertised," have been disi posed of privately.

"The Daily Telegraph.'*—Efforts are at present being made in Napier to form a joint-srock company with a capital of .£I,OOO, to start an evening paper under the above title. From the prospectus, which appears in another column, it will be seen that the projectors " are scarcely satisfied with journalism as it at present exists in their Province," and that (in the event of the Company being floated) the new journal is to be characterised by "earnestness, sincerity, and independence of thought and conduct/' This programme, however, is somewhat qualified by the remark that "the professions of public writers seldom receive much attention, and this is on many accounts reasonable."

The Saddle Case.—ln our last we mentioned the case against Hebberley, who was charged with stealing a saddle from the scene of the fire at Mr Palmer's stables. The court was occupied with this case during the whole of Monday, a large number of witnesses being examined. Mr Focett (from whom the prisoner said he had bought the saddle) was examined, and deposed that he had about three weeks since sold a saddle to Hebberley, and acting under his instructions, had despatched it to Probat, at Waitangi. This saddle, which he minutely described, was old and patched, and was very different from the one in Court. Probat's saddle—which he had received from a carrier who stated that it was sent by Hebberley—was then produced for identification ; but Focett stated that this was not the one he had sold to Hebberley, that he had never sold it, and that it belonged to him and must have been stolen from his stables. Some complication was thus causedj but no further light was thrown on the matter. Mr Focett's evidence was confirmed by other witnesses. The policeman who was to have relieved Hebberley at four o'clock on the morning after the fire, was examined, and stated that he was not called that morning by the prisoner, as he should have been. After the adjournment for dinner, Mr Lee addressed the Coui*t on behalf of the prisoner, maintaining that the charge had not been borne out by the evidence; that it was highly improbable that the prisoner had stolen it; and that his story, that he had bought it from Focett, was far more likely to be true, —Judgment was deferred to Tuesday, when the Magisti ate decided that the charge had been proved, and sentenced the prisoner to six, months' imprisonment,