Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1057, 1 July 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1871.

The export of live stock from Port Ahuriri for the" month ending June 30 amounted to 128 head of cattle and 1,840 sheep. The Customs Kevenue at Port Ahuriri for the month ending 30th June amounted to <£1,935 3s. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a telegram from G-. S, Cooper, Esq., Under Secretary, announcing that the General Assembly will meet for the despatch of business on the 14th day of August. The following civil case came before the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday :—Thompson v. Renouf—Claim of ,£3 15s for non-delivery of certain buildings.—Judgment for ,£1 15s or deliveiy, with Us costs. Yesterday, in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Florence Sullivan, of ihe Settlers' Hotel, was charged by Cornelius Tuely with assaulting him and ejecting him from the premises, of which he was in legal possession. Mr Carlyon appeared in support of the information; Mr Lee for the defence. Mr Carlyon, in opening r.he case, said it was one of the utmost importance, involving as it did the whole question of the law of distress and replevin. Mr Lee raised an objection in limine, that the case, being beyond the jurisdiction of the Court, should be dismissed, and read a rule of the Court, that it should not be competent to decide upon any charge of assault when the same arose from a bond fide dispute regarding title or possession of estate. The Magistrate said that, from the manner in which the counsel for the prosecution had opened the proceedings, this appeared to be a case of the kind referred to, but that he considered it necessary to go into the evidence before deciding the point raised by Mr Lee. John Marshall deposed that he was the proprietor of the property known as the Settlers' Hotel, and defendant was his tenant. At the end of last quarter he was £33 in arrear, and another quarter's rent (,£4B) was now due. Acting under advice witness took possession of the property on Wednesday, the 28th, and left Tuely in charge. By Mr Lee : It was in the afternoon, before sunset, when possession was taken. Mr Carlyon was then sworn, and deposed that it was before 3 p.m. when possession was taken. After some few remarks, Mr Carlyon said his case was closed. The Magistrate said that if this was the case the information must be dismissed. The charge was one of assault, of which no proof had been brought. Mr Carlyon said that he considered the assault to be admitted by the other side. —Mr Lee would not in any way admit the assault.- By permission. Mr Tuely was then called and deposed that he w T as placed on the premises as the agent of Mr Marshall, and the key of the billiard-room was delivered to him. The billiard-room was detached from the rest of the hotel. It was from the hotel he was ejected, Mr Sullivan pushed him out. —His Worship said that in this case there was evidently a bond fide dispute about the right of possession, and he therefore dismissed the case, as being beyond his jurisdiction. Yesterday, in the Resident Magistrate's Court, John Moorhouse was charged with having broken into the dw T elling-house of the Rev. A. Shep herd, Ha\elock, with intent to commit a felony. Mr Shepherd deposed that on the 28th inst. he and Mrs Shepherd left home at 11 a.m., the windows being fastened and the door locked. He came to Napier, but from information received in the evening, returned, and found that one of the bed-room windows had been tampered with, and that the articles in a chest of drawers in the room w r ere in confusion. Three handkerchiefs, two of which were marked with Mrs Shepherd's maiden name, were afterwards given to him by the

policed—From other evidence it appeared that about 3 p m. on Wednesday, Mrs Chautfdy, a neighbor of Mr Shepherd's, saw a man entering his window, and she drew the attention of her husband to the fact. Mr Chaundy in company with a neighbor named Burge and another named Probata at oncej went to Mr Shepherd's house, Burge looked through the window, and saw the prisoner kneeling in front of a client of drawers, some of which were open, and their contents strewn around him. He was engaged in trying a key into another drawer. Burge said, " What are you doing ?" to which he believes the man replied, " Not much." He said, " You had better come out of that," when the prisoner hastily bundled the things into the drawers, closed them, and raised the window and came out. They took him to Reynolds' hotel, and gave information to the police. He attempted to escape, but was recaptured. After he was taken away, tbiee handkerchief's were found at the hotel, the same as those produced in Court. A bundle was found in the prisoner's possession, containing a large knife and a very nondescript collection of tools. He told the policeman who took him in charge that he was hard up, and had gone to look for cash.— He declined to say anything in defence, but expressed a wish that the Magistrate would deal with the case at once. His Worship replied that he could not do so—the matter must go before a higher court, and the prisoner was accordingly committed to take his trial at the sitting of* the District Court on the 16th July. Yesterday, in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Margaret Cleary charged Peter Searles, Ann Searles, and John Boyle with having assaulted her on the 28th inst., and pulled out a quantity of her hair. She was in posession of a room at the old immigration barracks, and a quarrel arose through the defendants intruding upon her. She deposed that they all set upon her together, but Mr Miller, who saw the combat and separated the parties,.said that the women only wei e fighting and that Mr Searles was sitting " quite comfortable," apparently " enjoying the sport," and that when expostulated with for his noninterference, he said, " Let them fight it out." Mrs Cleary appeared to the i witness to have been very roughly used. He saw no blows exchanged; the fight seemed to be a kind of "tearing arrangement," and both parties lost a good deal of hair.—A very feeble and infirm old man, known as " Old Harry," was called by the complainant, and testified that he hoard the women screaming, crying "murder," and threatening each other's lives with knives and axes. He did not see the fight, and was afraid to go and separate them, lest he might be killed.—Mrs Cleary produced a large handful of hair, which ehe said had been pulled from her head on this occasion. She was here interrupted by Mr Searles, who declared he had seen the same hair in her possession a week before the quarrel.—The Magistrate said there seemed to be no case against Searles or Boyle, but as Mrs Searles seemed to have been the aggressor in intruding upon the complainant, she must be bound over to keep the peace for three months, herself in .£2O, and two sureties in ,£lO each. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning the licence of the West Clive Hotel was transferred from Mr W. Caldwell to Mr R. Jeflare?. The District Court sat this morning, when the following civil cases were disposed of:—Robinson v. Cuff.—A claim of £H 12s sd, Watt v. Cuff.—A claim of £66 12s 9d. Judgment was given by default for the amount claimed with £5 3s costs in each case. The Pall Mall Gazette says :—The Kalmaks of Drungaria Proper are ruled by an old woman who has a novel mode of dressing her hair. She wears it hanging down her back, and ornamented with gold and precious stones, making it so heavy that two men supported her tress as she walked. It might be premature as yet to follow the example of this old lady ; but there can be no doubt that banknotes might be used as curl papers with the most pleasing effect, and that any young lady thus adorned would not suffer from any lack of admirers,

Mr Charles Mathews has had a tremendous success in America. He has. met with an enthusiastic reception, and commands crowded houses. V The total expenses involved by thfr war to the German Confederation have been returned by Prince Bismarck at. 286,403,497 thalers. The British Trade Journal, May 1, says ;—H.M. ironclad Captain, it is generally thought, was sacrificed for thegratification of a scientific whim ; and now it is feared that the steamer Queen of the Thames has gone to the bottom of the sea for no better reason than she was racing against time, and hugged the shore off the Cape of Good Hope with fatal nearness. Outward bound she had made the trip in fifty-eight days, and her commander, doubtless,, did his best to rival, if not suipass that feat on his voyage home. Happily crew and 200 passengers escaped with their lives,, but a splendid steamer ha& been wantonly thrown away with 2,500 bales of wool, 12,000 bags of copper ore, a large quantity of preserved meats,, and £7,000 worth of gold dust. And. all this for the paltry vanity of maintaining a reputation for speed. Let us hope that the Board of Trade will institute a searching inquiry into the circumstance's of a disaster all the mora aggravated that it would seem to have been easily preventible. All men (writes Thackeray) who> avoid female society have dull perceptions, and are stupid, have gross tastes, and levoit against what is pure. Your club-swaggerers, who are sucking the butts of billiard-cues all night, call female society insipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a yokel; beauty has no. charms for a blind man;. music does not please a poor beast who docs not know one tune from another ; but as a true epicure is hardly ever tired, of water, sauce, and brown bread and butter, I protest T can sit for a whole night talking to a well-regulated, kindly woman about her girl Fanny, or her boy Prank, and like the evening's enter tainment, One of the great benefits a man may derive from a woman's society is that he is bound to be respectful to her. The habit is of great good to your moral?, men, depend upon it. Our education makes us the most eminently selfish men in the world, and the greatest benefit that comes to a man from woman's society is that he has to think of somebody to whom he is bound to be constantly attentive and respectful. A curious case of death occurred in the Charing-cross Hospital lately. On the 4th of March the deceased was engaged in killing a pig, when one of his fingers was scratched by the animaFs tusk. The excitement of being killed had made the pig's saliva poisonous, and the finger got so bad that amputation was advised. Persons employed in slaughtering animals are constantly observed to be exceedingly sensitive to pain, and the deceased had so great an aversion from physical suffering that he asked for chloroform. A very small dose of the anaesthetic was given, but it instantly killed him the only explanation being that his. highly nervous condition had made fatal what would otherwise have been harmless, Cowden Clarke tells a good story of a gentleman who lately, in making a return of his income to the tax commisssoners, wrote on the paper:— w For the last three years my income has been somewhat under .£l5O - } in future it will be more precarious, as the man is dead of whom I borrowed the money." If twice eleven are twenty-two, how can twice ten be twenty too ?—Judy.

The best substitute for silver: Gold t —Judy. Next year is Leap Year, but we shall have Spring here directly.—Judy. A young beginner writes to know whether, if a man gives him pepper, ho can charge the man with a salt 1 (Judy requires time to think this over.) French gentleman, taking leave of English lady :-*-" Well, raadame, adieu ! As to the conduct of England towards us, I fear we shall retain—pardon me —the belief we have long had, that you are a nation of shopkeepers."—English lady : " Very well. Mistakes vviil always be made. We long had a belief that you w ere a nation of soldiers,"-—. Funck

The German Lloyd's agent for Cardiff, Wales, reports that the Marquis of Bute, the proprietor of the Cardiff Docks, has refunded the dock dues paid for all German ships detained in that port in consequence of the war. Several of our country's vessels have received a sum equivalent to the whole cost of laying by. The owners of these last wish herewith to express their most sincere thanks to his lordship for his noble and disinterested behavior towards them. The following extract, in regard to Jifew Zealand and the paper manufactuie, is extracted from a long article on paper and paper-making published in the British Trade Journal, May 1 : " New Zealand produces a number of fibrous plants and grasses, chief among which is the New Zealand flax. This is an excellent material for papermaking, and forty years ago a book on the plant and its uses was actually printed on paper made from its fibres. Unfortunately, New Zealand is at too great a distance for us to profitably import this or any other of the native grasses; but, as after preparation for spuming into ropes, the refuse particles of the fibre can be utilized, and the colony is blessed with a plentiful supply of pure water, there will be no difficulty in New Zealand not only making all the paper necessary for her own wants, but for those also of the Australian colonies."