Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1134, 30 September 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1871.

His Honor J. D. Ormond, Esq., M.H.R , was a passenger by the Lima from Wellington this afternoon. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, one drunkard was fined five shillings. In the District Court this morning, jn re the last will of Samuel Winsor, of Waipawa, publican, deceased, Mr Stedman moved that probate be granted to WiUiam Miller and Joseph Witherow, two of the three executors named in the will. Application granted —accounts to be rendered on or before 16th July, 1872. It will be seen by advertisement lhat the next show of the Horticultural Society is fixed for Thursday, the 3rd of November, The Rev. W. M'Gregor will (D/V.) conduci Divine Service at the Port Church to-morrow (Sunday.) evening, at 7 o'clock. A supplementary mail for Europe, America, &c, will be forwarded hence by the s.s. Star of the South, which vessel will steam for the Thames and Auckland at 1 o'clock this evening. ' A small detachment of Armed Constabulary (11 men) arrived here by the Luna from Wellington to day. * The Luna, which vessel will steam for the East Coast to-night, will conyey a large quantity of potatoes for the jiatives residing on different portions of ihe coast

The anniversary ball of the Napier Volunteer Artillery and the Hawkje's Bay Yeomanry Cavalry took place in the Oddfellows' Hall last njght. The attendance, we hear, was not so large as might have been expected, but the threatening appearance of the weather during the early part of the evening no doubt deterred many from being piesent. The Hall was very tastefully decorated, and the arrangements as a whole were excellent. The Wellington Independent of yesterday says :—-A paragraph appears in the Evening Post of yesterday, in which ib is said, with regard to the Seventy Mile Bush :—" Matters were progressing very favorably, and there seemed every reason to believe that for the sum of £30,000 this valuable block —which for railway purposes will be absolutely necessary—a* ould have very shortly passed into the hands of the colony. But a stone has been thrown, and rippled the befoie clear face of the negotiations. Mr John Martin has offered the natives several thousands of pounds more than the Government bid for their land, and of course that has stopped matters." We are authorized to say that there are no grounds for such a statement, no such offer as that referred to having been made.