Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, MAY 29, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1028, 29 May 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, MAY 29, 1871.

Mails for Australia close at the Bluff at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday.) Mails for iUickland close at Tauranga at 3 p m. to morrow (Tuesday.) The follov ing is the report of the select commitee on the Napier School Bill, as referred to in our report of Council proceedings : —" Your Committee beg to report thai an Educational Reserve, part of section 90, of Napier Town, containing 2a 3r 22p, now under lease to Mr A. Kennedy, would be surrendered by him ; that the property is fenced, and in good postion. Your Committee recommend that +he above site be substituted for sections 106 and 107, and that the Hawke's Bay Grammar School Act be repealed. Youi Committee recommend that, so as Trustees are lawfully appointed for the management of the Napier School Trust, the Superintendenc be authorized to grant to the said Trustees a lease of the above land at a peppercorn rent for twentj-one years, renewable in perpetuity, subject to the maintenance pf a Common School in the terms of the present Education Act of Hawke's Bay. The Committee recommend that pne condition of the lease shall be that school fees shall not exceed two shillings per week for each child, and that poor children, a? defined by clause 19 pf the Education Act, be educated free. The Committee recommend that the lease contain a right of re-entry by the Superintendent if- the said school shall at any time be closed for \% months."

Bank of New. Zealand shares were quoted in the Sydney stock reports on * Jlgy 6 at ils, ex..div, •' ■

Mr A. Blair has been appointed post* master at Gisborne (Po-erty Bay). Mr A. Macalister at Rqt.or.ua, Mr R. White at Tarawera. Mr G; M. Park at Taui'O, and Mr Sheath at T,auranga, A Permissive Liquor Bill has been introduced, and read a first time, in the Victorian Assembly. It was rumoured in Melbourne "at our latest dates that tlie members of the Navsl Brigade had refused to serve under Lieut. Panter, of the Cerberus, monitor. In Brazil there is a law in force to compel men to vote.

The Period estimates the Queen's fortune, saved and accumulated, at .£3,380,000. On the 20th inst., at the Thames Police Court, Messrs. C. F. Mitchell, A. Bachner, and Win. Rose were each fined £lO and costs for selling spirits to natives without licences,

A correspondent of the New Zealand Herald writes as follows : —One of those sad accidents which cast a gloom over a neighbourhood, cause sorrow in families, and fill some hearts with anguish, occurred at Tokatoka on the 9th inst: A youth named Frank William Northwood and a man named Henry Sullack were drowned by the upsetting of a boat. The youth wa.s related to Mr J. Fitness, of Tokatoka (throug his wife), and was employed by him in the stores of Must and Co. During Mi Fitness's absence in Auckland,, the care of the store was left in the deceased Sal lack's charge. He appears to ba T 'e been very anxious to do all he could 'during his absence, and made a voyage to Kaihu on the Bth inst. with 2 tons of gum. and returned to Tokatoka about three o'clock on the following morning. He loaded again, and started with 2 tons and 13 cwt. more gum, Frank Nordiwood, Mr Fitness's brother-in-law, being with him in the boat, at the helm. When abreast of Mr Jenkins' it came on to blow very hard, and whilst Sullack was endeavoui ing to take in a reef, the boat gave a heavy lurch, took in water, then righted again, and eventually sank. Capt. Stanaway, of the Clyde, Mr Manning, of the Packet, Mr Stanaway, of Tokatoka, and several of che settlers on the banks of the Wai roa, spent considerable time in endeavouring to rai«!e the boat and find the bodies. The boat came to pieces with the efforts made, and T regret to say the bodies have not been found. The elder deceased was a married man, and leaves a family, now residing in-Mel-bourne.

Mr Hopkins, of Hobart Town, has projected a long voyage —one, in fact, round the world—for the sake of his health. He proposes to make it, how ever, in a somewhat unusual manner. He is about to build for the purpose, in Hobait Town, a ship of 500 tons. She will have a framing of blue-gum, with Huon planking, decks of Norway timber, and spars from New Zealand. The heavy portions of the framing are now being prepared, and the keel will be laid down soon, after which the con struction of the ship will be proceeded with with all speed. Mr Hopkins will proceed with his new ship on a two years' cruise, visiting Fiji, the chief islands of the Pacific, thence round Cape Horn along the South American coast, through the West Tndian Islands to some of the chief North American ports, then to England, and thence back to Hobart Town.

u Genius ! " says a correspondent of a Southern paper, " I never did know but one personally, and he was an enterprising genius that made a fortune in New York debt collecting. He vas a genius and deserved his fame, Apd yet his in\ention ? like all biilliant disco\eries when you come lo know it was as simple as could be. When he started business he invested in a buggy and pony. The buggy was second-hand and had got the rickets very bad ; but the pony, I guess, was at least seven-teenth-hand, and had got them ten times worse. However, that did nor matter, the pony could manage to stand, and his work, consisted principally in standing. His master had a big placard stuck on each side of the buggy, *< had and doubtful debts collected ; and. when a ca*e was put into his hands, if he asked for the money two or, three times without observing symptoms of pay-

ment, he used to drive up in Lis buggy to the door of the delinquent, and there he would sit all day if need be with the gravity of a judge, amusing himself by flipping.the flies off his pony's ears, until} for the sake of getting him to move on with his pernicious advertising van, the exasperated debtor would contrive to raise the money and pay him. As a rule, the buggy was always kept in the baekgrouni-r-trotted out in emergencies .as it were-r-but so sure as there was anything like a tightness in the money market, so sure did I see my ingenious friend driving about in his glory." He concludes thus:—" Fancy the effect of such a conveyance drawn up at the door of some of our would be ■* upper ten.' 0, rapture!. What would be the profits of the new conveyancing agents compared with the proprietor of such a conveyance as 1 have described. But, alas 1 Sir George, there are no geniuses here ! "

The Scottish American Journal observes :—A glass of whiskey is manufactured from a dozen grains of corn, the value of which is too small to be estimated.. A glass of this mixture sells for a dime, and if of a good brand is considered well worth the money. It is drunk in a minute or two It tires the brain, sharpens the appetite* deranges and weakens the physical sys tern. On the same sideboard on which the deleterious beveiage is served lies a newspaper. It is covered with half-a-million of types; it brings intelligence from the four quarters of the globe. The newspaper costs less than a glass of grog, the juice of a few grains of corn, but it is no less true that there is number of people who think corn juice cheap and newspapers dear.