Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1052, 26 June 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1871.

■ In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning James Evers was charged with Wo separate acts of drunkenness, and with having used abusive language to Mr Landon, a publican. For the first iwo offences he was fined £ 1, or 48 hours' imprisonment, and for the abut-ive language «£2 or one week's imprisonment. The Age says : —" The meanest set of men that ever lived have just been lighted upon. Let any of our readers ransack their memory for the worst instance of it they can think of, and they will still fall short of any'approach to an illustration of a colonial gold-field specimen of selfishness and hard hearted meanness. It was thought that the man who gave to each of his -children a penny overnight if they went to bed without tea or supper, and then made them pay their penny for their breakfasts before they had it, was about as mearia reptile as ever crawled, but in Victoria we can beat that. Slav ell lias the unenviable notoriety of being the habitat of the most consummate pract isers of meanness that can possibly

exist. Their cultivation in tills line can best be attested from by the following extract from a letter in the Ballarat Courier of yesterday :—' A man named Lewis was killed 'in :*,he A North Cross Reef Company 'by*son>e rmillock falling upon him, arid of course other workmen immediately, went to the rescue; and would you believe it, sir, the time the men spent in recovering the body and landing it on-the surface, was actually deducted from their salary on Saturday. After a neat calculation the directors tbund that' the wages coming to the deceased man amounted up to the time of his death, to j£2 Is 8f; but a little sympathy came over these generous men> and they instructed the manager to- make it even money- and pay the widow £2 Is 9d , which was accordingly done. This happening in one of the richest mines in the colony makes it all the worse.' If our readers can supply a parallel case to the above they may do it—we cannot."