Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1129, 25 September 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1871.

Mails for Europe and Australia close at the Bluff at noon to morrow. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, an individual charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday, was fined 10s, or in default 48 hours' imprisonment. "Wemiderstand that the keel intended for Mr Syme's new launch arrived by jbhe ss. Napier, from Auckland, yesterday. It is a piece of kauri timber. The. total receipts of the public account of the colony for the financial j-ear 1870—71 are, omiiing fractions : Consolidated fund, ,£1,592,922; special fund, <£1,269,306; public works account, £111,068; land fund, £344,045; trust fund, .£430,186 : grand total of receipt*, £3,748,129. Late Auckland, papers inform us that negotiations are at present going on for the opening up of Ohinemuri (Upper Thames.) A public meeting, convened by his Worship the Mayor, in compliance with a requisition, was to be held at Auckland on the 19th iust., for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of removing or diminishing the grievous and increasing evils conse quent on the present state of the traffic in intoxicating liquors. We (Auckland Evening Star) have received a long and rather outspoken letter against the advocates of the Permissive principle, signed "Anti humbug." Since our last fracas with the teetotalers, we seem to be regarded as the organ of big drinkers. We plead not guilty to the soft impeachment. On the contrary, we believe cordially in the application of the Permissive principle, but not in a supercilious and tyrannical bearing towards those who differ. Our correspondent, whose letter is too long for insertion in our colums, writes as a working man, and says : —"I warn all free-minded men and women from being cajoled by the sj'eophants who are now prowling about from house to house, taking advantage of the absence of the head of the family, who is away from home, getting his living by the sweat of his brow, while these underhand drones are seeking by false representations to get the signatures of his wife and daugh-

ters to the thing they call a Permissive Bill. This same Permissive Bill is a delusion, as all my fellow-workmen know." "We give the public the benefit of the warning; bul we thing that if there is any subject under the aim on which " Woman's right" to vote, irrespective of a husband's wishes, is unimpeachable, it is the question as to whether home should be turned into a hell upon earth by the existence in the neighborhood of an ill-conducted and pestiefrous dram-shop. And if there is any class in the community that should pray " God speed the Permissive principle," it is the class of the " working man. 1 ' A mixed committee of Protestant and Roman Catholic gentlemen has been formed tor the purpose of purchasing from the Irish Church Co minissioners, and securing from further decay, the " JRock of Cashel," with the ultimate view of restoring the now roofless Cathedral of St. Patrick's for public worship, and preserving King Cormac's Chapel. The rock was abandoned about a century ago by the Archbishop of Cashel, Dr Price, who obtained an Act of Parliament, constituting St. John's Church, which stood on a lower and more accessible site than the cathedral, and since that time the cathedral has been dis used. The k< Hock of Cashel " is rich in historical associations. Upon its summit the ancient Kings of Minister had their palace, and were solemnly crowned. Jfc is an old tradition that the King of that region was baptised upon the rock by the hands of St. Patrick. (Jormac McCarthy, King oi Desmond, crowned it with the beautiful Norman Church which still bears his nome; and Donald O'Brien, King of Limerick, added the fabric of the old cathedral, within the walls of which was celebrated the Synod of Cashel in a.d. 1172, just JOO years ago,

At the Police Court, Auckland, on the 16th inst., Joseph WaLshaw was charged by Captain Doile with being absent without leave from the s.s. Goahead on the 3rd April. Mr Kees for the prosecution; Mr Joy lor the defence. —Captain Doile, being sworn, said :-The man shipped with me in March, as carpenter for six months, and left me in Napier on the 3rd April. He had no permission to leave the vessel. —To Mr Joy :-I saw Walshaw again in May. I did not lay any information against him I laid the present information yesterday. I received his summons for wages from the steward on Tuesday six miles down the Manukau harbor.—John Griffiths, mate of the s.s. Go-ahead, sworn, said :-Walshaw left the vessel in Napier on the day the vessel was going to sail, T did not o-ive him leave to go ashore. —The Bench suggested that the prisoner's best courseVould be to forego his wages, and to pay the costs of the case. This he agreed to do, and the case was therefore dismissed.