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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 961, 8 March 1871, Page 2

Resident Magistrate's Court. — This morning Thomas Masterson was charged with indecent exposure. Fined 10s. and 5s 6d costs.

We are informed that a human leg has been found on the mud fiats near the Tutaekuri river, supposed to belong to one of the party drowned on the 20th November last.

A Public Meeting was held last evening in the Council Chamber, Mr Lord in the chair, at which Mr addressed his constituents. The meeting was largely attended, and Mr Colenso was well received, We shall not be able to publish our full report to-day, and therefore give a short summary of his address. Referring to his absence at the nomination, he declaimed any intention of treating +he electors with discourtesy. In reference to a certain low and scurrilous placard against him which had been printed in this town, he observed that it would scarcely be possible to compress a greater amount of falsehood into a few. lines than the author had done. After refuting the statements it contained, he told the audience not to expect great things from the next Council—the day of great things in this Province had gone—never to return. He then spoke of the toll-gate, the position of which he strongly objected to. Jf we were to be taxed in this manner, the gat<> should be placed at the bridge over the Nga ruroro. No person could object to pay for the privilege of using that fine bridge. He spoke of the Education Rate, to which he strongly objected, and alluded to his haying resisted it to the utmost. He would not object to the tax if we had, like Otago or Nelson, a system of education, but we had not. He spoke at considerable length on the Permissive Bill, to which he raised various objections. If it were carried out he believed it would be found necessary to make some compensation to the losers by it, as England compensated the shareholders of Jamaica. He then alluded to our future prospects, condemned the system of small failures which had lately arisen, counselled tradesmen to deal more leniently with their debtors, and recommended all who sought the prosperity of the country to work, conscientiously and truthfully, to live within their incomes, and to help each other. He concluded by a quotation from Shakspeare :

" To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as t!;e nijfht the day, Thou canst uot then be false to any man." —Mr Colenso resumed his .seat amid great applause. No other person seeking to address the meeting, the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman.