Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1158, 28 October 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1871.

A special meeting of the Rose of £>haron Tent, 1.0. K , is announced for Monday evening next, at 7 o'clock, at the Court-house, Waipawa. The report of the proceedings in the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday will be found elsewhere. There were no cases to-day. It will be seen by advertisement that the Napier Christy Minstrels will give a performance in the Oddfellows' Hall on the evening of Tuesday ne*t, 31st October, for th,e benefit of the funds of the Napier Athenaeum. A juvenile tent, in connection with jthe Rose of Sharon Tent, 1.0. R., i«, we are glad to observe, to be opened in the Court-house, Waipawa, on the evening of the Bth November. In the House of Representatives, on Tuesday last Mr Stafford presenced a petition from certain inhabitants of in favor of the Permissive Bill.

In the discussion on the Newspaper Press Bill, in the House of Representatives, Mr Brandon said:—"Members who had spoken had shown that even in New Zealand violence had taken the place of law. He referred also to that low section of the Press which pandered to the vitiated taste of a certain class of the community, who delighted in gos«ip and slanders of individuals in their families and social relations. He thought he had given the House sufficient to show them that the Press already enjoyed ample protection, and if that which was at present considered the line of demarcation was removed, what might they expect? People under libellous attacks would be apt to take the remedy into their own hands, and the world would get back to the old system of duelling, and other illegal matters. It was not everybody who could afford to, or would, treat with contempt the malignant comments of a despicable paper which might choose to attack him. ,J

A new wharf has been, erected at Pa tea, West Coast, which was opened amidst great rejoicing on the 16th inst. The Canterbury Races will take place on the 7th, Bth, and 10th Noveinber, and the Agricultural Show on the 9th November. At Wellington, as in Auckland a short time back, an attempt to get up a meeting of persons interested in horseracing has apparently resulted in failure, as v e read in a local journal that " there was no attendance." The vote of £28,393 13s Qd for militia and volunteers has been passed without reduction in Ihe House of Re-

presentatives. A ball, given by members of both Houses of Assembly, at Wellington, on the 2 3rd inst., was a very brilliant affair and a great success. Mr. J. O. Richmond has addressed a letter to the Nelson Examiner, in which he suggests a method of overcoming ex tremely steep gradients in railways. Mr Richmond's attention was directed to the matter by a contemplation of the difficulties of the railway line between Kelson and the West Coast, and by an invention by Mr Handyside, an ingenious l-esident of the-Upper Buller district. Briefly described, Mr Richmond's plan consists of making the locomotive eugine haul itself up by means of a cable which may be either of rope or chain, firmly secured at the top of the gradient, and passed twice or thrice round a small drum upon the drivingwheel shaft, or other more convenient axle on the engine. According to an Otago paper (the Arrow Observer) a new feature has sprung up in connection with the AntiChinese petition. The Chinese themselves are wishing to sign the petition, as they say they consider there are quite enough of them here already. Not only are they anxious to sign, butwilling also to contribute to the expense incurred by the Arrow Miners' Association in its circulation. The Taranaki Herald of the 14th instant says : " The police ha~v e received information that a man named William Doughty, of Manutahi, has not been heard of since Monday last. It appear.i that Doughty came into to receive, his pension from the Imperial

Government, and drew the sum of ,£45. Part of this, we believe, he placed in the Bank, and the remainner he took with him. He left town during the day, and was seen this side of the Waiongona in the afternoon, bat since then nothing lias been heard of him. If he does not turn upon in the course of the day a search will be made for him."— A telegram, of date Oct. 21, states that the body of the missing man had been found in the Mangoraka river. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. Mr Brogden, the railway contractor, while the steamer Wellington remained at anchor in the Taranaki roadstead on her passage from Manukau to Vfellington, went on shore and visited the works of the Pioneer Steel Company, In a town in England, a newly married woman, hardly thirty years old, went into her garden to gather vegetables. Without a moinent's notice the covering of an ol<J well gave way, she fell to the bottom and was taken up dead.

Dr. Oarr, mesmerist and phrenologist, is at present performing in Wellington province, In its commercial report, a late Weir lington Independent records that there appears to be so little life in the place that all transactions are of the most limited character.

In Nelson, a few days ago, a man named William Good had his arm chopped to pieces by becoming entangled in a steam-driven chaff cutter. In Sydney, the Kev. Mr Bailey has been committed for trial for marrying a person under age. Diptheria in its most formidable character was, at latest dates, beginning to make its presence felt in the eastern suburbs of Geelong, Victoria.

The Wellington Independent, Oct. 23, says :—We are informed by the manager of the Golden Crown claim that the drive is now in for a distance of 125 feet, Gold-bearing stone was struck at 117 feet, and the prospects have since improved, the vein apparently dipping at an angle of 35 to 40 degrees.

A. Victorian paper of September 30 says :—The receipts on the Government lines of i ail way still maintain the improvement noticeable for several weeks past. For the week ending the 21st Sept., the amount was <£11,750 9s Id, against £11,787 6s lOd for the week immediately preceding, and .£10,409 6s for the con esponding week of last year. The total receipts to from the Ist July in each year now stand as follows ; -In 1871, £128,867 9s lOd; 1870, £115,661 7s 7d, Weekly average for 12 weeks:—lß7l, £10,738 18s Id; 1870, £9,638 8s lid. The Wellington Independent contains the following :—Amongst the objections enumerated by Mr Buuny to the drinking system, he thought the worst form was that of "shon ting." He thought that should be put down by every possible means. Whenever a man came down from the country, a friend offered to " shout " immediately on his arrival. The result was that, after adjourning to the nearest publichouse, one shouted all round, until each one of the company had had his turn, bo that instead of merely having one glass he had seven or eight. He objected to females voting on the prohibitory clauses. " I should like to catch a

wife of mine signing such a paper," said he. The idea was so suggestive, that Mr Bunny had to put in a disclaimer by the announcement that he was not a Mormon. Mr Creighton and Mr Bunny kept the House in capital spirits during the discus>ion of so interesting a subject, the speeches of Mr Swanson exerting a similar influence during the passing through committee of the Married Women's Property Bill. There are nearly 4000 ticket-of-leave women in England. The majority live

in London. The London International Exhibition was to be closed on September 30th, Up to the end of August it had been visited by 818,000 persons. The Times says the Queen's speech on proroguing Parliament "i-ecords unqualified success abroad, and almost as unqualified faikue at home." Ex-Emperor Napoleon was congratulated by four sovereigns on his birthday.

Six lives have been sacrificed at the Wilmslow gasworks by the falling in of the sides of an excavation. The men were buried in the sand, and their bodies were not recovered for several hours. The foot-and-mouth disease has appeared in almost every county in England. In Switzerland an old man has died from the sting of a wasp. The beautiful Duchess of St, Albans, aged 22, died in child-bed. The Hon. Mis Cowper has been committed for trial for swindling. A London bricklayer shot liimself with a piece of gas-pipe about 18in. long, with one end lapped over, Having nearly filled it with gunpowder, and rammed it down, he heated a small screw driver, and put it in the pipe, then placed it in his mouth and he|c( it until it exploded.