Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1024, 23 May 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1871.

The English. Mail via Suez may be expected to reach Napier some time this week by the s.s, liangatira.

The rifle match between twelve of the Napier Rifle Volunteers and an equal number of the Auckland. Rifles, will, we believe, take place to morrow. A telegram appeared in thin journal some clays ago, elated Auckland, May 10, announcing the arrival of the ship Alexandrina, from London. This turns cut to be Incorrect, as, up to our latest dates (17th inst.) that vessel had not put in an appearance.

We learn that the Napier Rifle Volunteers intend giving one of their po pular open air concerts in the Government Lawn to morrow afternoon.

A brigantine—believed to be the Amherst, from Newcastle—has been in sight of the port all day, the prevailing calm preventing her reaching the anchorage. To-morrow being the Qneens Birthday, will, we presume, be observed as a general holiday. We learn from the Evening Post that the body of Taylor, one of the unfortunate men drowned in "Wellington harbor by the capsizing of the Virago's boat, was found on the beach on Friday last, in the neighborhood of the baths, and removed to the Clyde Hotel. The body was much disfigured, the head and one arm being mi.sing An inquest was held the same afternoon, and a verdict of "accidentally drowned by the upsetting of a boat" returned.

A Marton telegram in the Evening Post, dated May 17, says :--" Great Hoods here. Cobb's couth has not arrived. The approaches to the Tnrakina bridge are washed away, and all traffic between this place and Wanganui is stopped." A Wanganui telegram in the same journal, dated May 18, fays : "Heavy Hoods washed away the approaches of the Turakina bridge. All traffic stopped. A man named Morris was drowned while crossing the Kai Iwi stream."

The of blankets ever made in Victoria are now on view (states the Geelong Advertiser) at the Victorian Woollen Cloth Company's office. A Westland paper states that amongst other debris washed up on the beach, after the late gales, a fish, about nine inches in length, that has been pronounced by a competent judge to be a true whiting, in every respect identical with the whiting found on the British Coast.

A special rate of 2d in the £ has been imposed on ail property in the City of Christchurch by ihe Boaid of Conservators appointed under the Canterbury Rivers Act. The object of the rate is to pay interest on the sum of .£5,000, borrowed by the Board for the purpose of being expended in works intended to prevent the Waimakariri overflowing, At the banquet given to the officers of the Nevada in Auckland, Mr Burns proposed " The members of the General Assembly," and the band immediately struck up " There is nae luck about the house." The Evening Post hopes ''the house alluded to was not the House of Representatives. The American visitors may have accepted the allusion as uncomplimentary to our representative institutions."