HAWKE'S BAY TIMES. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1081, 29 July 1871, Page 2

HAWKE'S BAY TIMES. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1871.

There were no cases at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. Eight men of the Armed Constabulaiy Force arrived here yesterday by the Lord Ashley from "Wellington, Some alarm was occasioned this morning in town by a runaway cab, which came down Shakspeare-road at a furious pace. There were a good many people in. the street at the time, but no damage was done. The horses continued their course along Hastings-street as far as the Albion Hotel, vhen the driver turned them on to the beach, and brought them to a halt. The Nelson Evening Mail of the 17th inst. says :—lt is with the greatest regret that we have to record the fatal termination of the recent accident to Mr M. Sinclair, Up to noon yesterday no unfavorable symptoms had set in, and his numerous friends indulged in the hope that they might yet see him amongst shem once more, notwithstanding the warnings of his medical attendants, Drs Sealy and Squires, that he was by no means out of danger and that mortification might set in at any moment —apprehensions that are now proved to have ]}een only too correct. A little after twelv? yesterday, Mr Sinclair glarmed

those around him by complaining of severe pains in the back and side, and the doctor was immediately sent for, and at once applied remedies by which the pain was alleviated, but it soon 1/ecame clear that there were no hopes of fiis rallying. The symptoms gradually grew worse, and by midnight he was quite delirious, and from that hour he gradually sank until five o'clock this morning, when he breathed

his last. He appeared to be quite free from pain during the last few hours, and for a short period prior to his death was partly conscious. An inquest is now being held on the body. The funeral will, if possible, take place at two o'clock on Wednesday, and the remains of the deceased gentleman will be escorted to the grave by the Freemasons, Oddfellows, Foresters, Fire Brigade, and City Volunteers, of all of which bodies Mr Sinclair was a prominent member.—The Nelson Examiner, of July 22, writes the following particulars of the funeral of the above-named deceased gentleman :—The body of this unfortunate gentleman, whose decease we announced in our last, was conveyed to its final resting place, in the New Cemetery, on the afternoon of Wednesday, 19ih inst. Various causes contributed to impart unusual interest to the funeral. The genial character, and fine manly nature of Mr Sinclair, won for him a large circle of friends, while the manner of his death, which so suddenly removed from us one of the most stalwart of our native-born young men, caused a shock, which was felt almost universally. The connection of the deceased with several public bodies Captain of the City Volunteers, Captain of the Fire Brigade, a member of the Masonic body, and of one of the lodges of Odd Fellows, gave the funeral a public character, as members of all these bodies took part in it. The funeral procession was formed in the following order, by Past Masters Sealy and Squires;—Volunteers ; Band ; Star Lodge—Steward, Master Masons (two and two), Steward, Treasurer and Secretary, Bro. Moutray (with the Bible, supported by the two deacons), W.M. Burn (supported by P.M.'s Shephard and Younger) ; Clergy ; Fire Brigade ; the Hearse ; Fire Brigade ; Mourning Carriages; Odd Fellows (Loyal Howard Lodge); Mourners, As the procession advanced up Bronti street into Trafalgar street South on its way to Church, it had a most imposing appearance, while the measured tread of the large concourse of mourners, keeping step to the music of the Dead March, played by the band, imparted great solemnity to the scene. Arrived at Christ Church, the body was carried by members of the Fire Brigade into the centre aisle, the Volunteer sword and belt of the deceased, and his Fireman's helmet and coat, resting on the coffin. After the Rev. G. H. Johnstone had read the first portion of the Burial Service, the body was re-con-veyed to the hearse, and the procession having re-formed, proceeded round the East side of Trafalgar-square, along Nilestreet East, down Collingwood-street, and through the Wood on its way to the Cemetery—the band all the while playing the Dead March, aud the different bells of the city tolling their solemn notes. Arrived at the grave, the officiating clergyman completed the Burial Service, which was followed by the reading of a most impressive Masonic address by W. M. Burn. This ended, the Worshipful Master cast a lambskin apron upon the coffin—regarded by Masons as a badge of innocence, and a bond of friendship—the brethren marching around the grave, and each casting into it an evergreen sprig. The Volunteers then advanced to the grave, over which they fired three volleys, which closed the sad ceremony. We will not venture to estimate the number of persons who followed the body to the Cemetery, or of those who were waiting its arrival at the Church, but no such gatherings were ever seen before in Nelson on a similar sad occasion. The Pleasant Creek News tells the following story; —Ptomances in real life are not always to be met with, and the adage that ' truth is stranger than fiction " is, after all, not very frequently borne out by every-day experience. One of these cases, however, did occur in the family of a wealthy squatter on the Winimera recently-r-a servant engaged to attend on the children having stepped into a title aud a property of .£40,000, under the name of Lady Elizabeth Morton. It would appear that the lady, while acting as servant in the family,

frequently assured those around her of her aristocratic connexions, but no one credited her tale. She came out, it appears, to this country without an education at all adequate to her position, and it is not improbable that but for the efforts of an able lawyer in Melbourne, Lady Elizabeth Morton would have remained in a dependent position to the day of her death." We have received from Russia a rather amusing enecdote, showiug the different feelings of the Emperor Alexander and the Hereditary Grand Puke towards their German relations. The former attaches great value to the friendship of bi 3 Imperial unc]e in Berlin, while the latter is connected by the nearer ties of marriage with Denmark, and his sympathies naturally take that direction. For some time past the Grand Duke has strictly forbidden the use of the German languages iu his saloons under the penalty of twenty-five roubles. At a recent soiree iu the Grand Ducal palace the Emperor entered unexpectedly, greeted the guests with a " Guten abend" (Good evening), aud continued the conversation for a couple of hours in German, the answers being of course in the same language. At last he rose, wished the {company " Gute nacht," and was apparently going to leave the room. Before, however, he had reached the door he turned round suddenly and said, " By the bye, gentlemen, it has just occurred to me that it is forbidden to speak German here. I must therefore pay a fine of twenty-five roubles." Then, turning to one of the higher officers present, he paid the twenty-five roubles, and continued, " I pay this fine to you, and at the same time give you the commission to see that ail the gentlemen present pay the same sum, for they have all spoken German. The amount is to be forwarded immediately to the Prussian general staff for the benefit of the German wounded,"

Occasionally a " real lord" becomes impatient of the restraints of his position, and attempts to adopt the life of " common folks." This was the case with Lord Ockkaoi, Byron's grandson, and heir to his father's earldom of Lovelace. After a great deal of strange and troublesome conduct, Lord Ockham took regular employ in the yards of Mr Scott Russell, the eminent London shipbuilder. Qn one occasion, having need of money for the purchase of some instruments, he wrote to his grandmother, Lady Noel Byron, for the required sum, which was promptly supplied. The cheque was drawn to the order of Viscount Ockham, and he, acC irdingly, in his workman's dress, walked into a great London banking-house and presented it The clerk glanced at it, and then handed it back, saying, "It's drawn to order, and needs his lurdship's endorsement; " upon which, to the indignation ol the clerk, the rough mechanic seized a pen, and scribbled " Ockham " on the back. The scandalised clerk immediately signalled to the constable in attendance to arrest the forger, as he supposed, and the culprit was confronted with a partner. The clerk explained the circumstances. " Well," replied the offender, to the clerk's astonishment, " I am Lord Ockham." The partner, who knew the circumstances of the case well, looked steadily at the young man for a minute, and then said, " Yes, it's quite right; pay the cheque." Lord Ockham, at the time of his death, was engaged to a young girl of highly respectable antecedents, in humble life, whose parents were, almost to the last, ignorant of the real position of the suitor. An important discovery of tin ore in New South Wales is reported. The Sydney Herald says : —A large deposit of tin ore, of extreme richness, has been found in the northern district, near Inverell. A bag of it has been received here, and some of the ore, smelted by a rude process, has yielded over 70 per cent, of tin, with a slight admixture of silver and some traces of gold, The metal has been pronounced to be of the finest quality, aud as it is said that there are immense quantities of ore where the other came from, it is hoped that ere long tin will be added to the metalliferous exports of the colony. A large extent of ground about the mine has been leased from the Government by Messrs. Brown, Austin, and Barron, who intend working it without the formation of a public company. The Indian papers meution several cases in which leprosy has been cured by carbolic acid,

Destructive floods have occurred in ths Raglan district. The New Zealand Heraid's correspondent writes under data July 18 : —" The weather has got from bad to worse—lightning and thunder* with terrific gales of wind and heavy rain. On Friday, the rain came down in torrents, causing higher freshets in the rivers than were ever known here before. A considerable amount of damage waa done. A foot bridge over the Oketo river, only completed two weeks ago, was entirely swept away, and the new bridge over the Mata river was severely damaged. The approaches to several culverts lately constructed ok the Waipa road were more or less washed away, The mill-dam at Capt, Johnstone's flixmill is totally destroyed, aud slight da* mage was done at the mills of Mr John Moore and Mr M'Donald," A Riverton correspondent of the West* land Independent writes :-*■" A melancholy accident occurred on the 28th ult.,, at the station of Messrs. Manning and Evans, near the foot of the Takatimos, which ended in the death of a shepherd in their employment named Andrew Daney, a native of Madras, better known as ' Black Daney.' The station hands, were dipping some sheep, and not having sufficient wash, two more bucketfuis had been prepared, and were left standing on the table of the hut. Of this Daney was, not aware. He was the first to return,, and, supposing it to be pure water, hastily took a hearty draught from one of the buckets. The- flavor warned him of his mistake, and he at once cooeyed to his companions. On their arriving at the hut, they found him lying outside in a convulsed state, unable to walk. They assisted him in, and on learniug from him what he had done, they made him drink copiously of salt aud water. He vomited freely, but was severely convulsed during the night. The following morning he appeared better, and about four o'clock in the afternoon he asked for something to eat. It was provided i& accordance with his wishes, but he could not take it v He afterwards asked for a smoke, and a pipe was filled and lighted for him. He sat very quiet, when his mate, who, was,' watching him, observed a peculiar movement of the mouth, and then a waving of the head to and fro, and all was quiet,. His mate, at first supposing him to be asleep, would not disturb him, but soon found he was dead* Sergeant Morton left here on Saturday morning for the purpose of beiug present at the inquest. The state of the roads and rivers prevented timely assistance being got." At Evansdale, Tasmania, a spaniel dog was the other day taken up alive out of a. shaft into which it had fallen, and where it had remained for three weeks and five days, sustaining its. existence only on water. The Greymouth Star contains the following :—" Here is an anomaly :. Mrs. Dick, the proprietress of an old estab* lished Registry office in Hokitika, an* nounces her intention of proceeding to Melbourne for the purpose of engaging servants suitable for the coast. We refer to some Melbourne files of papers, and we find that the wages of housemaids and geueral domestic servants range from <£2B to c£3o per annum ; and nurse girls from e£ls to .£25 per annum. Now we will travel to our own Colony. Good domestic servants can be obtained in Nelson from <£ls to M2O per annum, and nurse girls from .£8 to J 212 per annum. We go on to Auckland, where we find the average of wages given to domestic servants is as nearly as possible that paid at Nelson. At Hawke's Bay, wages ranga below these figures. The auomaly then is, that the wages of domestic servants in Melbourne are considerably higher than at many ol the centres of New Zeaiend, and yet a necessity appears to arise for importing domestics from a distant Colo* ny. Surely there is something wrong somewhere," A 9 pounder bronze gun, with carriage t limber, and fittings complete, has been prepared at Woolwich Arsenal for presentation to the Emperor of Germany, in exchange for a Krupp steel field guo similar to those used by the Prussian artillery in the late war, Each gun will be accompanied by a sufficient quantity of its service ammunition lor the purposes of experiment. The reason why a ship is by common consent designated in the femiuiue gender, is because so much attention has to k$ paid to lier riggirifc*