Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1059, 4 July 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1871.

The Hawke's Bay Times to clay completes the tenth year of its existence, having been first issued on Thursday, the 4th July, 1861, The case of Evans v. Reuben (a native), adjourned from last Tuesday, was decided to-day in the Resident Magistrate's Court. It was a claim of .£l4 5s for a breach of agreement. Plaintiff had contracted to build defendant a house, to be paid for in four instalments, the first to be due and the work commenced on a date named. The necessary preparations wore made, but the money was not paid when due, and it was to recover this money that the action was now brought. Defendant said he would have recehed and paid the money before now had il not been for the flooded state of the rivers.— Judgment foi amount claimed and 19s costs—a reasonable time to bo allowed for payment.

The annual meeting of the members of the Napier Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute takes place on the evening of Thursday next, at 8 o'clock. Mr R, M'Asian, counter clerk at the Telegraph Office, Dunedin, died suddenly at his hou«e in Maclaggnn-street on the 24tli nit. The cause of death is supposed to have been disease of the heart. By the ship Alexandrina, which arrived at Auckland lately from London, the General Government, received a number of Snider rifles and 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition for them. A Highland Volunteer Corps having been successfully formed in Wellington, it is now proposed to form another corps to consist solely of Irishmen. Sickness is reported to be very prevalent among the Upper Waikato King nath es, and a number of deaths have taken place. According to the Bruce Standard, pheasants are becoming numerous* in the Tokomairiro district (Otago), though their increase is cheeked in some degree by the large number of hawks "everywhere to be seen." Hundreds of black swans are now to be seen on the lagoons near Timaru Where they abound, however, wild ducks are not to be seen. One who has I'ead the particulars of the marriage of the Princess Louise states that there was a conspicuous absence of any sisterly gift or recogni- v tion of the event by H.R.H the Princess Ivoyal of England, and now of Prussia. The Queen's last married daughter has done a dreadful thing in the eyes of the German Court. The young lady has made a mesalliance. She has married beneath her. The dowry, which by prescriptive right ought to have found its way to a German Elector, goes to a Scottish noble. The Prussian equivalent for the immortal Mrs Grundy is not yet known, but it is not to be wondered at that the Continental representative of that illustrious lady holds up her hands in wellbred horror at the decadence of England.

The Alexandra correspondent of the Daily Southern Cross, writes as follows:—On Saturday evening last, June 16, an old chief woman of the Ngatinianiapoto 'ribe, name Hiko (wife of Wi Pupapuka, now or at one time a native assessor, and residing at Otorohunga), attempted suicide by setting her whare on fire. She was very much burned about the face and body when discovered, and is, I am informed, not likely to recover. The cause of her attempt on her life was jealousy, Pukapuka having taken another young woman to share his aflections, She had previously tried to hang herself, but could not succeed. Canada now stands eighth, instead of eleventh, as last year, in the list ot countries trading with England, importing, in proportion to population, more goods from England than any other country in the world, and three times as much as the United States. The Otago Daily Times, June 26, says :—The amount of public money paid up to yesterday on account of the late Superintendency election, is shown by a statement laid before the Provincial Council, in accordance with a motion by Mr G. F. Browne, to have been ,£l9B 18s 9d This is in the old Province of Otago alone, the return for Southland being not yet received. The following extract is from the Sydney Mail:—" The cow that survived the attack oi foot-and-mouth disease, which proved fatal to the cattle brought from England in the Winifred, is dead. She was killed in deference to public opinion, and vevy properly so; there was too much at stake to allow of her being kept alive. The Govern* ment were powerless in the matter. There is no Act under which they could even detain the animal; but it nevertheless was detained, and, while so held, a deputation of alarmed squatters waited on the Government to obtain power to kill it and compensate the owner. The deputation, however, had to put down their own subscriptions towards the compensation, and Mr F. White, like a sensible man, accepted the ,£2OO offered him, and parted with the co,w to tho.se who were beut upon its destruction,.

A considerable amount of destitution is reported to exist in Greyinouth. A few days ago (says the Western Mail, April 21) a poor woman belonging to the village of Oldbury-upon-Severn, was interred in the burial ground attached to the Thornbury Church, and the affair was eharacteiised by some most disgusting and graceful proceedings. The coffin wasjv: supplied by the parochial and an inhabitant of the village, a hedge *' carpenter, undertook to invite the parties to the funeral to assemble at his house, which they did, about twenty in number, and so freely did they indulge in cider that when the funeral procession started they were nearly all in a state of intoxication. On their way ta the church (about three miles distant), several of the party fell into the hedges, and ditches, and it was with difficulty they recovered their equilibrium, and were enabled to follow the cortege. Near the residence of Mrs Neale, however, in Oldbnry-lane, about half-way to the church, one of the party was sofar intoxicated that he fell into a ditch by the wayside, where he remained until he was found a considerable time afterwards by the driver of a passing conveyance, who placed him upon it and conveyed him to his home. A son of the pooi* deceased woman, who works in Bristol, arrived about the time the funeral was starting, but was too much inebriated to follow his mother to her last resting-place. After the burial ceremony had been performed at the church nearly the whole of the com-* pany repaired to some neighboring public-houses, where they spent the remainder of the day in drunken revelry, and on leaving they were obliged to assist each other to their homes. Altogether the affair may be termed the most disgusting that has ever occurred in this locality, and has excited considerable indignation among the inhabitants,

The Tie v. Benjamin Eaton, first ant! only rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Galveston, America, was stricken with death while standing in the pulpit, on April 2. The Galveston thus describes the affecting scene :Ho ascended the pulpit. .Announcing his text, "There is yet room," all trembling beneath the weight of his last message, he referred to one after another of the friends of his youth and the communicants of his church that had £one before. Then, as if the thin veil that hides the spiritual from mortal vision had been rent, and his eye could see such scenes none could see and live, his fine descriptive powers bent themselves to their task. He painted Death entering the church door, passing up the broad aisle, laying his bony hand to the right and to the left, breathing his cold, clammy breath on the cheek of beauty, and wafting the silver hairs of asje—now touching the father, Iheu the son, then the mother, then the daughter. As the spectre, so plain to his entranced vision, advanced to the chancel door, and as he saw that his time had oome, his words struggled for utterence. He faltered- his weakening limbs staggered. A gentleman who advanced to his assistance was waved back. For ten minutes he spoke—his words only audible to those next to him. The excitement of the audience was fearful. The silence of death was only broken by the words he strove to speak. Three times he struggled to continue, saying : " I am very sick but. I must say." Again he staggered; befell into the hands of Mr C. R Hughes, as he raised his hands to pronouuce the ascription. Like Moses, that other servant of God, he was too weak to hold up his hands, which was done by Mr Hughes, as he said his last pulpit words, "To God the Father." The hand of death lay on his shoulder, was too heavy—for himself, for his friends. His tongue refused to speak; his hand dropped. He was carried to his rectory, where he died.

The Otago Daily Times, June 26, says: An accident, which ended fatally, happened to a man named George Clark, in Princes street, on Saturday evening, at a quarter-past seven o'clock. Me was crossing Princes street with a friend from the Metropolitan to the South Australian Hotel. The person with him saw two cabs abreast coming at a quick pace towards. them ; and being driven towards the,

Octagon. He jumped on to the footpath, and on looking round him saw the deceased lying on the road and the oabs pulled up. He considers that no blame can be attached to either cabman, as both called out to deceased, and endeavored to pull up as quickly as possible. Another eye-witness considers that no blame is attachable to the drivers, as they were going at no more than a reasonable pace, and that the spot where the accident occurred being in comparative darkness, the cabs would come on deceased suddenly before the drivers had time to pull up. The deceased, we are informed, was soon after taken to the Hospi:al in the cab which knocked him down, and which was driven by a man named James Smith. The deceased, who remained speechless from the time he was knocked down, died at about 8 p.m. The only external injuries upon him were a severe cut upon the chin, and one or two slight cuts upon the face. These cuts \\ ere not sufficient to cause death. The extent of his internal injuries will no doubt be made known at the Coroner's inquest. The deceased, we understand, leaves a widow and six children. —The same journal of June 27, savs : —An inquest was held at the Ho'spital yesterday upon the body of the man George Clark, whose death by being run over on Saturday night was noticed in our issue of yesterday. The jury returned a verdict of accidental <leath. Smith and O'Donnell, the cab snen, charged with manslaughter, were subsequently discharged.