Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1018, 16 May 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1871.

The Provincial Council order paper for ihis evening, which appears in another column, allows - a considerable amount of business laid out for members. Six bills come on for their second reading, and the Council is to go into Committee of Supply and Committee of Ways and Means. It vv ill be seen that the members not been behind-hand in the requisitions for Committee of Supply, It is pretty generally understood that the Auckland correspondence of both the Hawke's Bay Herald and the Lyttelton Times are supplied by one individual, whose mission appears to be to to puff the Ministry in general and Mr M'Lean in particular. In general, there is sufficient internal evidence of identity, long passages occurring, the phraseology of which is almost the same; but in native matters a wide distinction is observable. on Southern ignorance, in his letters to the Lyttelton Times, he indulges in flights which, in the columns of a Hawke's Bay journal, no matter how fa* orably disposed lo the Government, could not be looked upon otherwise than as burlesque The following extract from a late letter to our Southern contemporary is too good to be lost. Portions of this little romance are inlenselv suggestive of Fenimore Cooper :—"lt is feared that after their late terrible journey in chase of Te Kooti, many of Kopata's men will never more be fit for bush warfare. Some are said to be dying. For seven days they saw no sun in the dense trackless forest, and subsisted only by eating such wretched fare as turpentineimpregnated tawa benies These are the indomitable men —savages if you will—who enable East Coast settlers to sleep sufely where, little over a year back, destruction aud massacre were rife. They don't get well paid, these intrepid JSgatiporou. Government supplies them with a little biscuit and sugar for the war-path, and that is all. It is necessary to find them such simple supplies, for Ngatiporou cannot cultivate whilst reducing tierce Uriweras to abject submission, — scattering Kooti's force like chaff, and hunting the archvillain out of fastnesses untrod by hum'm foot until he sought them in despair. I suppose these simple children of nature never imagine that Europeans exist who begrudge Ngatiporou their humble meals of biscuit and eau de siicre (few Maoris care for tea) — that newspapers sometimes sneer at our Maori allies, and laugh at what they ignorantly term the * Flour and sugar policy.' I hear Ropata has got a few more fresh men together, and is about to make another effort to get Te Kooti. May the brave fellow succeed, and receive the plaudits of a grateful colony, as well as the substantial recompense he will then have fairly earned." As we suspected, the story about Mr Yogel having lost his shares in the Caledonian claim through his too close application to the business-of the Colony, turns out (like so many other stories from the same quarter) to be purely imaginative. It is authoritatively denied by the Auckland pi ess The Thames Advertiser, May 4, says : "The statement is not true. Mr Vogel never was in the Caledonian. The shares forfeited were in another company. Mr Vogel must have known before he left that the calls were due, but like many others holding interests on the gold field, he chose to leave the calls unpaid. The whole matter is very trivial, but as Auckland correspondents of Southern papers have chosen to make Mr Vogel a martyr to his zeal for the public interests, by the Thames goldiield, we must state the facts." Mr H. Churton informs the Wanganui Herald that he saw three black swans opposite his home on the Wanganui river a few days ago. It is most gratifying to find that their introduction has been attended with so much suecess, and every care should be taken by those who see them to guard them trom the attacks of mischievous boys and others who are too glad to avail themselves of a shot, no matter at what they aim,

Scarlet fever is said to have shown itself in the neighborhood of Westport. From Woodburn, Richmond River, Victoria, the correspondent of the Clarence Examiner, writes, that re- | cently, while Mr was busily engaged at pine getting, at Lismore, he dreamt that some person had died and left him a lot of money. When the morning arrived, however, his visionary happiness was dispelled, and he, the inmate of a small hut, without the money, still doomed to labor as hard as ever at pine-chopping. About the same time, three letters were brought to his house from the post office—for he resided here apparently —addressed, one to himself; one to his brother, who died at Ballina, about a month ago; the other, addressed to his eldest son, but intended for another brother of the same name, who is not here. When Mr opened his letter, he was surprised to'find that it was from a lawyer at Sydney, calling upon hi in to trace his ancestral lineage as far back as he could, so as to connect him with a gentleman of the family name, who had gone to London, while young, from the same place, accumulated a considerable fortune, and died intestate about twentyfive years ago. The intestate estate, with interesD and compound interest added, has now reached the immense sum of £IOO,OOO, Mr says the deceased gentleman was his first cousin, who went to London as a clerk upwards of forty years ago. At Brighton, the other day, says the Charleston Herald, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, a civil case—Danks v. West —was heard, which occasioned considerable amusement. Plaintiff sought to recover ,£l4 15s for goods supplied, including £2 8s 6d for drinks lost at billiards. Defendant filed a «et off amounting to <£6 6s 9d, the items composing which were, —concertina, £1 sa) acting as waiter on the 17th of March, £1 ; ditto on the 26th of De cember, 1871, £1 ; drinks objected to as not legally recoverable, M 2 8s 6d ; discrepancies in account, 13s 3d. Mrs Danks conducted the case for her hmband, although he was present in court, and her expressions of wonderment at statements of defendant, which she considered mendacious, were, a continual source of irrepressible merriment. E'.ery now and then she would say aloud to her husband, " Did you ever hear such aHe Danks 1 " "Oh ! What do you think of that Danks?" She addressed the Court at considerable length, and in a style which would have clone no discredit to a counsel at nisi prius, and when the magistrate was giving his decision, she interrupted him with explanations and remarks, which, had they had not been checked, would have prolonged the hearing 10 an indefinite term. The Bench gave judgment admitting all the items of plaintiff's account as proved, except the £2 8s 6d for drinks, which was not legally recoverable. Defendant's .set-off was not allowed, with the exception of £1 for waiting on the 17th of March, the other charge for waiting was disallowed, as the date on which it was alleged the service was rendered,has not yet arrived Defendant applied to be allowed oo pay the amount by instalments of 5s each, but the Bench refused the application. The steamers Rakaia, Kaikoura, and Ruahine, are advertised in the Sydney Morning Herald, for sale by public auction or private arrangement. It is rumored that it is the intention of the A S.N. Co to purchase tbese vessels, and place them on the line between Sydney and San Francisco via Fijis, and probably the Wonga Wonga and City of Melbourne wiU be placed on the coastal line of New Zealand. Tn its account of the second day's races at Hokitika the West Coast Times states :Mr Taylor's ch g Knottingly will never have an opportunity of starting for a race again, as he departed this life on the Hokitika comse. The bell had been rung for the horses entered for the Ladie's Purse to be saddled, and shortly afterwards he was led out and mounted. It was then seen that the horse had what is commonly called the " stagger-," the rider however gave the horse a slap on the neck, and coaxed it to proceed as far as the starting-post, and when near that post it suddenly rolled over and there died. In consequence the race was not proceeded with.

The Braid wood Despatch (an Australian paper) says :—The other day, observing a blaokfellow, who appeared to b»> a stranger in this part of the country, standing in front of our office, taking a dignified survey of the town, we questioned him as to where he came from. He replied that he was a native of Shoal haven. As he spoke very good English, and was dressed in rathei a fashionable style, we supposed him to be a cut above the ordinary run of hia countrymen who hang about the different townships, and observed that he was a gentleman. At this he was* quite indignant, and quickly exclaimed, " No, Mister ; not so bad as that." His notion of the term gentleman was evidently that of a worthies*,, lazy fellow; and so far as its Australian acceptation goes he was, peihaps, not far out.

Some time since (says the Orovmouth Star) a tradesman of this town named Deane suddenly disappeared,and rumor,, invariably uncharitable, siated that he had absconded for the purpose of evading the claims of his creditors. Circumstances have since come to light which lead to the belief that poor Deane, ?o far from intending f o abscond from his creditors, was not involved to any extent beyond what he was able to meet; and it is now fairly presumed that he has met his death by falling into the river, and been carried, out to sea, or that he has perished in thebush, Deane, before his disappearance had been drinking somewhat heavily, and the last time he was seen, he was very much the worse of drink, and was in his shirt sleeves without overcoat or upper covering of any kind. It is not at all likely that in this state the unfortunate man would have attempted to clear out of the colony.

A writer of gossip in the Court Circular says ■:—" It may be not uninteresting to detail a gambling transaction that took place at one of the fashionable West end cluV»h a few evenings since. Some gentlemen sat down., to a little game of 100 after dinner, and one of tliem was looed to the extent of Iwo hundred pounds. The game was unlimited, and he being unfortunate enough not to take a trick next hand, was looed a second time in company with another player. They were both equally unlucky next time, and the first player I allude shared the same fate again, and also a fourth time, so that in about five minutes' time he lost twelve hundred pounds; and he paid the money next day. And wln-n I. say that at another club, some three weeks ago, a military man lost his commission

in an hour or two at whist, and sold out the very next day in order to meet th& 10 Uhft had given for the amount, it will he probably thought that it is high time that a strict limit to the amount of stakes played for is fixed at every club."

In Boston a poor man, who less than a year ago had only one suit of clothes, went into'the newspaper business, and now has eight suits. Seven of them are for libel.

On the mairiage of a Miss "Wheat, it was hoped that her path would beflowery, and that she might never be threshed.

The "Frankfort advices" which form one of the features of the City Article in each Monday's Times show that a " bad effect "* has been created among business men by the extraordinary severity of the fine inflicted upon France. The indemnity, we are told, is " universally reprobated." " Out of the two hundred millions sterling, not only all the recent German loans, but the old ones too, could be paid off, and there would yet remain a large sum to be put into the treasury." Germany has thus set the example of fighting a neighbor for purposes of simple plunder; for " in a material sen-e she has suffered very little by the war." A telegram from Berne announces an explosion at the arsenal of Aiorges The explosion occurred whilst the workmen were engaged in withdrawing the bullets from the French cartridges. 'J he effect was serious All the powder magazines exploded, and the large and picturesque castle in which the arsenal is situated is in ruins. According to the last accounts the number ot deaths had reached twenty, and the wounded above eighty.