Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 996, 19 April 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1871.

"The Marriage Act, 1854."—The Bev. Hairy Blake Redstone, United Methodist Free Chmch. has had his name added to the list of officiating clergymen within the meaning of the above Act. ."District Court, Poverty Bay.— It is notitied in the Gazette that four quarter-yearly sessions of the District. Court of Hawke's Bay will be holden in £aeh year at Gisborne, in Poverty Bay, in the Province of Auckland. Such sessions shall commence respectively on the first day of January, April, July, and October, in the present and each succeeding year, and shall end respectively on the last day of March, June, September, and December such year : the first and last days pf each huarter yearly session ahall be inclusive.

The District Court this morning was occupied by the civil cases tfiggins v. Neagle. A Shock op Earthquake, of nearly o minute's duration, was felt this morning about 1 o'clock. During the last two or three evenings beautiful displays of what is known to seaman as " sheet lightning" have been visible in the heaven*. Tljis phenomenon, which is unaccompanied by thunder, has been occasionally mistaken for the aurora. F. G. Skipworth, Esq., has received the appointment of Clerk at Gisborne in the District Court of Hawke's Bay. John Knowles, Esq., has been appointed Under Secretary in the Public Works Department. The Shoals of herrings which annually arrive in our harbor at this season have made their appearance, and there has been the usual commotion among the sea-birds on such occasions. Many fish were thrown up on the beach this morning by the sea. Resident Magistrate's Court. — This morning, before R. Stuart, Esq , J P., and P. Russell, Esq., J.R, Alice Casey sued by the Superintendent for £lO, the balance of i.TB passage money paid by the Government, judgment having already been given, as previously reported, for £8 f the amount of promissory note .signed by defendant. Mr Haddock appeared for the plaintiff; Mr Lee for the defendent. Mr Maddock said it was an understood thing with the defendant and others, when the promi-sory notes were signed, that they would only be charged £8 for their passage if they remained for one year in the Province. As they had endeavoured to leave the Province, a judgment had been obtained for the £8 on the promissory note; and the Government now sought to recover the balance of the passage money. —Mr Lee admitted no liability beyond the £8 for which judgment had already been given. Six months had boon allowed for its payment, but it was offered to the Government last Satin day, and they refused to accept it. There was no proof whatever of the alleged understanding, and his client could .show that r.o such arrangement as that described was spoken of. Even if the churn had been a just one> the Government, having obtained one judgment, were not in a position to sue for a further sum, as the rules of the Court set forth that no single claim could be divided and brought before the Court in two separate actions. He maintained that the judgment already given must be taken as the final one.—Defendant was then sworn, and in reply to the Bench stated that no understanding was entered into relating to any sum beyond the .£8 for which the promissory note was given. She did not know, not was she informed, what her passage would cost the Government —Case dismissed, as also a precisely similar claim against Joanna Casey.