Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1154, 24 October 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1871.

The Volunteer Artillery Band intend, we believe, giving one of their open-air concerts on the green opposite the Herald office at 7 o'cloyk to-morrow (Wednesday) evening.

A sad case of sudden death occurred last evening in the person of Mr Kenny, late clerk iii the TeJegraph office, Napier. The deceased does not appear to have exhibited any sign of departure from his usxial health previous to the sudden and fatal attack. An inquest was to be held on the body this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The return match between seven of the Napier Jiifle Volunteers and a like number of the Band of that corps, took place this morning at the usual range, the result being another victory for the Company. The weather was excellent, and, as a reference to the appended list will show, some capital scores were niade :

In the Resident Magistrate's Cqurt this morning, the adjourned case qf assault on Joseph Cawley was called. The sufferer, though slowly recovering, was still unable to attend the Court and give evidence. The accused were, therefore, again remanded to Friday next Smith and Mayo y. Hart and ]VlfKinley.—-This was a claim made by plaintiffs for the use of two horses jaken by defendants from a paddock without their ponsent. The horses were used for five days, and a claim of 10s per diem for each horse was made, and rife2 for damage sustained by one. — Judgment for £d and k'2 4s costs.

The Greymoath Rangers having fejjt a challenge" to the Thames Rifle Association to fire a match on the 11th jNoyember, the latter accepted the same. The erection of a new Episcopalian church at the Thames is proceediug apace. A sample of the mineral recently found at Muddy Creek, (Auckland), and supposed to he a portion of a seam of coal, was left at the Southern Cross office the other day. That journal remarks that the substance is light, black and glossy, bearing a considerable resemblance to Waikato coal. We should judge, however, that it is not a true coal but a kind of lignite. A steam hammer —the first in Otago province- -has been added to Kincaid, M'Queen and Co.'s Foundry, Dunediu. The fitst wprjk it was put to was the welding of the broken shaft of the s.s. Maori. We (Thames Guardian) understand that Dr Pollen and Mr James Mackay are to proceed to Ohinemuri on important business in a few days, and we trust that through the influence of Mr Mackay, this part of the country may soon be opened. The singular adventurer named Regnier, who went to Mejbz during the siege, and about whom so much was said and written at the time, has been released from prison. He went to Versailles some weeks ago, called on members of the Government, intruded himself at the Prefecture in spite of warnings, and behaved altogether in so strange and offensive a way that the attention of the police was directed to him, and finally he was arrested; on what charge is not exactly known. The mystery and impenetrable secrecy that environed this person and his strange expedition to Metz have never yet been cleared up. It will be remembered that he got into the fortress at a time when it was almost impossible to get either in or out without being on excellent terms with the beseigers, that General Bourbaki then passed out by £he help of Us passport, after which Regnier himself left the place, with what passport i=? not known. The Vigilance of the Prussian army round Metz has been positively deposed to by Lieutenant Yoydtkewitch and others, who Jiad the actual experience of it, that it is difficult to believe that Regnier could have done all he did except by Prussian consent, and the general impression seems to be that there was an understanding between liim and Bismarck, with an object * hich, perhaps, never will be clearly and fully ascertained. The following interesting paragraph is copied from the Overland Ceylon Times :—"According to the Daily Telegraph slip, the time occupied in the transmission of messages from the United Kingdom end Tndia is as under, difference of longitude being allowed for—Via Russia, 5 hours 7 minutes; via Turkey, 12 hours 48 minutes; via Suez, 8 hours 33 minutes." The Emperor of Germany intends establishing a conservatoire for the improvement of military music. The latest statistics show that on the present network of railways in Europe there are 30,000 locomotives with their tenders, 50,000 passenger cars, and over 500,000 freight cars On the German railroads alone are now 6,000 locomotives, and as each one lasts from 15 to 17 years, the German locomative shops haVe to make nearly 400 per year to keep things in the present state.* They actually make 700 per year, which includes 150 for exportation, and about 160 for yearly increase of the number. The enormous influx into the legal profession is becoming a source of alarm at home as well as elsewhere. The Law Times states that " upwards of 200 candidates went up at the last preliminary examination for solicitors; that 290 went in for their intermediate, 190 for their final, on the last occasion. Whilst as concern's the bar, on the 6th ultimo, Lincoln's Inn called 20 men ; the Inner Temple, 29 ; the Middle Temple, 24; and Gray's Inn, 1 ; total, 77. The increase in the number of attorneys is causing a fall in the value of clerkships. As m the bar, if men will rush upon a cflreer which is full of uncertainty and which exhibits to a majority the certainty of failure, the matter is beyond control."

From Sydney we hear that it is intended to give additional modes of employment for the hoys of the training ship Yernon in the cultivation of gardens on Cockatoo Island. <r The London Times, speaking of agrarianism in Ir-eiaud, says : " During the year 1870, 549 £amilies, comprising 2,622 persons, were evicted in that country. 104 families, comprising 528 persons, weie re-admitted to their places; leaving the number of families actually evicted at 445, and persons, 2,094. The statement of the Bank of England shows an increase of ,£4,000,000 in specie reserve. The London Telegraph says that the treaty of alliance, defensive and offensive," between Italy and Prussia, has been signed. The increased postal charges in France is criticized by the Press, and the example of the tlnited States is cited to prove the ad /ant-age qf cheap rates. A beautiful specimen of the golden eagle has just been captured at Caenlochan, Glenisla. One of Lord girlie's gamekeeper's, James Dnncan, Linns of Tulchan, scaled a rock about 300 feet high, and succeeded in taking the bird from its eyiie. It is stated that by a recent decision in the law courts the Marquis of Bute comes into an additional income of j£40,000, and arrears to the amount of £IOO,OOO. The Marquis's trustees are about to run a line of steamers from Car Jiff to New York. While a nurseryman named Stuart was waiting the other day to open the dams on the Spey that iioat down the timber from A bernethy, at the foot of the Cairngorm, he was startled by the cry of a large eagle immediately above him. On looking up he observed an eyrie in a broken tree, about 40 feet high, and to satisfy his curiosity he began to ascend the tree. This was, however, rather a difficult job, the branches being decayed. The nearer he approached the nest the neater the eagles approached him, till at last one of them made a dart at him and fixed its claws in his head. With some difficulty he got its claws out of his head with only a few scars, but leaving his hat in his talons. The bird then flew about with it for some time, and left it on the edge of the nest. Stuart, becoming alarmed, got down the tree as quickly as he could, fortunately for him, being unmolested in his descent. In consequence of the recent heavy rains, the river Ayr rose to a consider able height. Nine children belonging to the mining village of Annbank, about six miles above Ayr, were amus ing themselves by wading in the water a little below Annbank, when the river became suddenly swollen, and the children were at once lifted off their feet. A miner who was walking by the river at the time saw the perilous position of the children, and at once ran into the water to rescue them. He got hold of two, whom he conveyed to the bank, and returned for the others ; but by this time the water had risen so rapidly chat it was impossible that he could convey ihem by twos to land, and the children all clung to him, while he stood in the water almqst up to the neck. The cries brought a number of people to the spot, and three or four men swam to the rescue, but the cuiTent was so strong that several attempts had to be made before any of the children could be taken to land. At length they were all taken off one by one from the body of the miner, to whom they had clung for about an hour and a-half, and who himself had a narrow escape from being drowned. Everyone who has noticed the height to which the heels of women's boots are now carried must have marvelled much how the wearer could mahv.ain her equilibrium. Walking on stilts is nothing to it. It may be questioned how far the " Grecian bend, v has be come fashionable from a certain power it gives the wearers of the «f high-heel" to balance themselves, B.ut there are more evils attending the odious custom than mere falls. The other day Dr W. H. Paneash, of New York, ««after pei forming an operation on a little girl whose feet had been injured by wearing high-heeled shoes," said, " T|us is the beginning of a large harvest qf such cases."

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