Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1062, 7 July 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1871.

"\Ve have been requested to announce jbhat the Bev. K. Taylor will (D.V) hold I)hine service next Sunday as follows :—At Kaikora at 11 a.m., at at 3 p.m., and at Waipukuran at 6 p.m. In the Resident Magistrate's Court fliis morning an application was made by the plaintiff in the case of Nott v. Scott, which came before the Court some months since. The claim was one $f £8 3s for |)oard ? for which judgment

had been given, but the account remained still unsettled, and the plaintiff was under the impression that his debtor could pay the amount if he chose. The defendant's residence being at "Wairoa, further proceedings could not be taken without considerable expense, which expense the plaintiff thought should be borne by the Court. His Worship said that it was no part of the duty of the Court to act as a collector of debts, and any fuither proceedings must be at the cost of the plaintiff, who would be entitled to recover them from the defendanb if it were possible to do so. The Annual Meeting of the members of the Napier Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute was held last evening. The committee for the year was appointed, several old members resigning, and successors being elected. We are informed that a consignment of books from Messrs. A. and C. Black, Edinburgh, may soon be expected, having reached Wellington in the ship Edinburgh Castle. In this consignment is included the latest edition of that splendid work, the " Encyclopaedia Britannica," which consists of twentyone quarto volumes. As mentioned by us yesterday, a meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society was held on the Ist instant. The Evening Po<t &ays :—Communications were read by Mr E. Stowe, describing a new shell found by the late Mr Davis ; by Mr Buchan, adding some new plants to the flora of New Zealand, and by Dr. Knox on the anatomy of the rat, which was described last year byMrßuller as the Maori rat. The discussion that ensued appeared to leave no doubt that the rat in question is the Mas ratus, or ancient black rat of Britain, :tnd that the true edible rat of the natives has still to be discovered. A letter from Mr B. Hart, dated on board the Nevada on her late trip, called attention to the drift which sets to the eastward from New Zealand, a telegraph pole having lately been stranded in the Chatham islands. Mr Skey announced the discovery of the active poison that occurs in the karaka seed. It is a new crystalline acid resin, which he names " Karacic acid." Dr Hector exhibited a number of interesting additions that have recently been made to the Museum. Chief among these is the neck of a moa, lately found in the Province of Otago, to which feathers, skin, and muscles are still partly adherent, showing that no long period can have elapsed since these gigantic birds roamed over the grassy ranges ill the interior of the South Island. From the North Island, also, very interesting and novel traces of the moa were exhibited in the form of drawings of their footprints, lately discovered at Poverty Bay in a loose stratum of sane], that had been pteseryed under alluvial silt. Along with a cast of the gigantic egg of the the extinct bird of Madagascar, Dr Hector exhibited a fine series of models ofmoa\s eg"s of various sizes ; after which Captain Hutton de scribed several rare birds and minerals which he had obtained; and the meeting broke up about a quarter past 10. Mrs M. A. Colclough, well known under the name of " Polly Plum " as a contributor to the Southern Cross, delivered lately in the City Hall, Auckland, a lecture on "The Subjection of Woman." The lecture was divided into four parts, viz.:—l. The origin of the theory that woman is inferior to man, and the basis on which it rests. 2. The strong presumptive evidence against that theory. 3. The effect of their subjection on themselves and on society. 4. The ajDparent remedy for the existing evils. 'fJMrs Colclough's theory," says the Southern Cross, " was most sensibly and elaborately worked out. It was simply this : By making women more self-dependent when single, and personally responsible when married, not only would a simple act of justice be done, but the sex would be benefited in circumstances as well as intellectually and morally." Among the many Japanese students sent to foreign countries are three princes, one of whom is studying in England, another in Germany, and the third in the United States. A fourth prince will soon proceed to Russia. A Noose-paper : A Marriage cettili-cate.—-Judy.