Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 10, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1064, 10 July 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 10, 1871.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, an inebriate was treated in the usual manner. Illicit distillation appears to be becoming somewhat rife in Christclmrch and its neighborhood. The following resolution was unanimously adopted by a recent meeting of the New Zealand Auxiliary of* the United JKingdom Alliance, held in the school room, Papakura Valley (Auckland): — "That this meeting is fally persuaded that no measures affecting the sale of intoxicating liquors will meet the urgent necessities of the Colony, unless, in addition to its restiictve clauses for regulating the liquor traffic, it also contains provisions making i< illegal to force the issue of licences into townships, parishes, or other districts, against the will of the inhabitants of n those districts."

A church is being erected in Dunedin for the Christian Disciples at a cost of £9OO, From a private letter the New Zealand Herald learns that Mr Vogel was to leave London on the 29th June, and he may therefore be expected to arrive in New Zealand about the 17th August. One of the strangest cases (says the Melbourne Leader) -which ever came before the County Court was that of Bradley v. Hardcastle, heard on May 19. The plain riff, landlord of the Prince of Wales Hotel al St. Kilda, sued to obtain ,£149 damages for assault. About 7 months ago Hardcastle came into the bar of the hotel and ordered a nobbier. He then went up to Mr Bradley and slapped him on the back, saying, "Well, old fellow, what will you take?" Mr Bradley, who is rather a corpuleut man, only answered with an "Oh !" and exhibited symptoms of very great pain. This continued for so long that ho took to his bed and positively became an invalid for five or six months. In fact, he had not yet recovered entirely, and might not do so for the rest of his lifetime. When he undressed, after receiving the blow, a dark place, like a bruise, appeared on his back, where the blow had been struck, and his medical men reported that it had injured his liver. It was stated in court on May 19 that the whole subsequent illness of Mr Bradley had resulted from the injury to the liver, caused by Mr Hardcastle's blow, although he had suffered to a comparatively slight degree from liver complaint for many years. On the other hand it was argued that Mr Bradley's liver complaint had been very little, perhaps nob at all, intensified by the blow. The plaintiff set out that he had been at the expense of .£6O lor medical attendance alone. Judge Pohlman save a verdict in his favor, with £IOO damages. The Diritto, of Florence, gives an account of a shocking accident which took place the other night at the Prince Humbert Theatre, in that city. A ballet pantomime was being performed, in which an encounter ' takes p/ace between brigands and soldiers. One of the former, who was fired at, fell mortally wounded, a bullet having entered the forehead, and penetrated the brain. At first the audience applauded the incident, J 6 soon, however, became apparent that a terrible tragedy had really occurred, and the audience were worked up to a pitch of the highest excitement. Women sobbed, men shouted, and many leaped upon the stage to see if the man was really dead. The performance, at which the King was present in his private box, was immediately stopped; and shortly afterwards a magistrate came upon the stage and took the names of all performers and supernumeraries engaged in the piece. 11 is Jiof; thought that the occurrence was accidental. The deceased was not a regular perforaier, but a printer engaged by thenigikt as a supernumerary.