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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 941, 11 February 1871, Page 2

The late Sir Koberfc Peel said, "I never knew a man tq escape failures either in body or mind, who worked seven days in the week."

When a penny savings bank was established at Putney, and the deposits were added up a(; the end of the year, a brewer who was on the committee, remarked, " Well, that represents 30,000 pints of beer not drunk." Some pf the American papers fear that, "At the present rate of appointments by the American Senate, nine-tenths of the people will goou off the other tenth."

Resident Magistrate's Court.—. This morning Nathaniel Sadler, whose face exhibited marks of rough treatment, was charged by Constable Bice with having been drunk in the street, opposite the Clarendon Hotel, at midnight. Prisoner stated that he had engaged a bed at the Clarendon Hotel, but that some persons there had entered into a religions discussion with him, and, getting the worst of it, had violently attacked him and turned him out into the street, where he was knocked down and kicked, and otherwise brutally ill-used. He denied that he was drunk, but admitted that lie had been much excited in consequence of the treatment to which he had been subjected. In the morning he found he had lost the money he had upon him.— Constable Rice said that from inquiries he had since made he found that the prisoner's statement about the ill-usage he had received was quite correct. He was not in any way disorderly when taken in charge, but did not seem able to take proper care of himself. He had never before been brought up on a similar charge.—His Worship had no option but to inflict the usual line of 55., and pointed out to the prisoner that a public-house was not a fitting place for religious controversy. He further recommended him to lay an information against those who had illused him, Peacock v. Paora Torotoro.—We have heard that complaints have been made that no detailed report of the final hearing of this case has appeared in our columns, and that some have gone so far as to hint that we had some object in omitting to reprint it in full. The fact is, that the case came before the Court in the afternoon, and our reporter was unable to attend. From enquiries made at the Court we find that the items struck out of the claim were as follows :—Two items, each " 2 gallons rum at 235. £2- 65,"—,£4 12. (These were not disputed by the defendent, but were struck out because the transaction was an illegal one). "To goods at time of giving order en Mr F. Sutton (not entered) <£l 17s 6d. (Disputed by defendant and no order produced). «Interest, J£2 lis 9d." (Notallowed by the rules of the Court, unless a stamped agreement can be shown). Total deduction, £9 is 3d ; balance for which judgment was given, .£l7 16s 6d.