Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1078, 26 July 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1871.

There was no business at the Resi dent Magistrate's Oouit this morning. A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Napier at ton minutes to. 10 o'clock this morning. Its apparent direction was from north to south, The s.s. Taranaki, with the European and American mails via California, arrived at Nelson this morning. As this steamer was announced in the Auckland papers as having left the Mannkau on the 21st inst,, we presume there has been some heavy weather on the West Coast. The European news by the last mail, as respects grain, is important, as it would appear that the French and Prussian crops have proved a failure in the germination of the seed; and, as report has it, the requirements to supply those markets will be so extensive sp to create an upward tendency in prices in the wheat growing countries. This information requires additional pontinnation, which, in all probability, may be brought by the mail via Suez.

From the report of the Superintendent of Telegraphs of New South Wales for 1870, it appears that the revenue from all sources, and departmental expenditure from Ist January to 81st December, 1870, is as follows:—Eevenue from eighty-six stations, .£28,550 4a 8d ; balance on intercolonial business, £2,225 10s lid ; balance on guaranteed lines, £1,262 3s 3d—total, £32,037 18s lOd ; expenditure, £29,830 8s 5d ; nett profit, £2,207 10s sd; total extent of lines, 5,247 miles; cost of construction, £195,544 15s 7d. Reduced charges for telegraphic messages came into operation on the Ist July, 1.870, since which date a considerable increase in the number of messages has resulted. For the fast six months in 1869 the total number of telegrams was 76,016, and the amount received £15,214 8s 4d, and for the same period in 1870 the number of messages was 101,131, yielding only £13,748 13s 9d, showing an increase in the number of messages of 25,115, being fully equal to 25 per cent., and a decrease in the revenue on the half year as compared with the corresponding period in 1869 of £2,165 14s 7d. His Excellency the Qovernor, as a power in the State, is thus described by Mr Gillies, the Superintendent of Auckland in his recent speech at the Thames : —The Governor is a mere cypher, bound to do what his ministers for the time being advise ; he is the representative of Her Majesty, of the dignity and history of the monarchy ; but he is, so far as the colony is concerned—-I speak of the office, not of the individual now so worthily holding the office, and representing those ideas —an umbra, a shadow, without whose existence we would not suffer, and by whose extinction we would scarcely be gainers or losers. I wish you perfectly to understand this, that the Governor in name, is not the Govvrnor at all, in reality ; that when you address indignant remonstrance to His Excellency to disallow this or that Act, to assent to this measure or that, to do or leave undone, any political action, you are, save when imperial interests are concerned, merely addressing the Ministry of the day, and not His Excellency in person, as a separate entity at all. He is governed by his responsible advisers. They are the Governor he, but an oracular medium to the priests inspired. We notice from an advertisement in the columns of the Thames Advertiser that the proprietorship of our contemporary has undergone a change, and that in future the business will be carried on by Mr W. Wilkinson, Mr C. F. Corlett having retired. The N. Z. Herald, of July 22, says: —We regret to have to report a fatal accident which took place at an early hour yesterday morning, by which a man named William Fotheriugham, a laborer, lost his life. A butcher's cart, heavily laden, belonging to Mr F. Clayton, of Newmarket, and driven by a man named Graham, was proceeding along the Kyber Pass Road, when, between the Grafton Road and the Stockade, the horse, from some unexplained cause, took fright and dashed away at a great rate, and was only brought up by a heap of stones, which immediately turned it over Fotheringham was walking along- the road at the time, just at this spot, and the cart as it came over fell with its full weight upon him, crushing him beneath the heavy load. A messenger was at once despatched to Dr Philson, who lives close by, on the Grafton Road, but he only arrived in time to find the unfortunate man breathing his last. The driver, who was thrown from his seat, was a good deal bruised about the back and legs, but was not seriously injured. An inquest will be held upon the body of Fotheringham, at two o'clock to-day, at the Queen's Head Hotel. The unfortunate deceased leaves a wife and two little children to mourn their loss. Miss Burdett Coutts has been raised to the peerage by the title of Baroness Burdett Coutts. The Young Duke of Genoa has just, completed his course at Harrow, and has returned to Italy to prepare himself for entering the Italian navy. The King of Italy has conferred on Mr Matthew Arnold, in whose family the Duke lived while he was in England, the order of Commander of the Crown of Italy. The same order has been conferred on Dr Butler, the head master of Harrow School.

ENQIAND CONQUERED BY GERMANY, The latest British literary sensation appears in Blackwood's Magazine for May. It is a narrative of the German conquest of England in 1875, as recounted in 1925 by a yeteran of the Volunteers. Ireland had achieved her independence, Canada been taken by the United States, and the Colonies were in revolt, when Holland and Denmark were annexed by the German Empire. England waxed terribly indignant, and declared war. The army was scattered throughout the colonies; the navy to all quarters of the sea. Aiter stupid delays, the available force—so,ooo men, with a reserve of 5,000 —was got in readiness to repel the invasion, while the artizans of the United Kingdom were set to work building ironclads. Then comes the dreary story of red tape obstructions, and belore anything is in readiness the invaders destroy the fleet; effecting a landing; find the key to the position exposed ; turn the English flank ; and, at the battle of Dorking, defeat and destroy the English army. Then the couutry is depleted to pay the levies made by the victors ; the war debt of Germany is put upon the shoulders of poor cowed John Bull; the navy is seized boldly, and the important fortifi* cations garrisoned by the victors. The resc is a repetition in England of the punishment inflicted upon France by the Germans. The article is significant as a stinging protest against the supineness of England now, while her future conqueror gathei'3 strength for her overthrow." But what can England do to arrest the triumphal progress of the German Empire!