Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1164, 6 November 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1871.

In the Resident Magistrate's Cuurt this morning, four inebriates were brught up by the police. In two cases, where it was a first offence, fines of 5s were inflicted; in another case, being a second offence, the offender was fined 1(V. The fourth, Thomas Floyd, in addition to getting drunk, had resisted the officer who took him in charge, kicking him and tearing his trousers. ■ Fined 10s for the offence, and 12s for the damage. John Sirnmonds was brought up, charge [ will] having, on the night of the 12th or morning of the 13th October, broken into Messrs Robinson & Go's, store, and stolen £6l. Remanded to Friday. In the District Court this morning, before his Honor Singleton Hochfort, Esq., District Judge, Messrs Peters and Dyei, coacli proprietors, sued Messrs Thompson & Hobbs, coach proprietors, for a breach of agreement, damages laid at =£2oo. Mr Lee appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr Stedman for the defendants.— Mr Stedman, for the defence, while admitting the agreement, which was produced, denied the particulars as set forth by the plaintiffs. The case was merely initiated, and adjourned till tomorrow at 2 p.m. In Bank nip toy.- - Re J. Cuff. —On the application of Mr Lee it was ordered that the bankrupt attend on the i.-t May, 1872, to pass his final examination, with liberty to preditors in the meantime to apply for the older to be rescinded or modified. The monthly inspection parade of the Napier Volunteer Artillery took place on Saturday in Olive Squaiv. At its elo.-o, the Company, headed by their band, marched to the Spit for practice. A buoy with a white Hag attached had been fixed as a target 700 or 800 yin-iln out in the Bay. Several shots ji red, and though at the close of the practice, \ he Hag still floated from the buoy, it had had some very narrow cHcapCß. 4,

Mr Douglas's apparatus for lowering boats 'from the side.* of vessel* almost instantaneously, recently exhibited at Wellington, has been successfully tried in Melbourne. An inquest was held recently at Exminster upon the body of a young woman, who, on the pre- ious day (Sunday) was shot by a boy living at the Industrial School. On Saturday evening, Mr Dickens, the master of the school, was engaged in shooting small birds in the garden attached to the institution, and, being called in on busi ness placed the gun, which was loaded, in the corner of the entrance-hall, and forgot all about it. On the following morning he remembered it. and sent a boy named George Ash to remove it from the hall to the study, where it was usually kept. Ash started 017 his errand, and lew moments after the report of a gun was heard, and tl)e boy came running back in a state of excitement bordering upon frenzy, and incoherently exclaiming, <f Ann—the gun—the steps I'' fell down senseless On going out the master found Angelina Ware, the servant girl, lying on the steps of the entrance-hall, bleeding from a fear ful wound in the head. Medical attendance was promptly at hand, but it was of no a«ail, th,e girl dying within an hour. It appears that she had been cleaning the steps, and Ash, as he passed on his way to the study, raised the gun, and, not knowing that it was loaded, "playfully" presented it at her. The charge passing through a glass-door which divided the lower portion of the hall where the boy stood, entered ihe girl's head just above the left eye, blowing away a portion of her skull-. An English journal states that an "imported" king is not usually a success. Nevertheless, young A madeus, of Ttaly, seems to have made his mark in Spain. Tn that state it has been the habit of the sovereign to choose Ministers irrespective of the will of the Cortes or Parliament, Consequently there has always been such a broil betwixt the Cortes and the Throne that a "Ministerial crisis" ordinarily portended revolution. ICing Amadeus has realised I his danger and avoided it. His Ministers being piqued because, he would not let them have their own way on some question, sent in their resignations. The King would not accept them. " But," said the ministers, "we won't stay in office." Asked the King, " Have you a majority in the Cortes V "Certainly." "Then I command you to hold your offices till you have lost rhe contid nee of the House." In this wise discourse, you perceive, the young king skilfully shifted the royal responsibility of the act of the Ministry to the shoulders of the Parliament —pleased the latter, discomfited the cabinet, and made himself more popular than ever with the outside public. Moreover, which is rhe greatest thing of all, he has declared for a constitutional form of government, which cannot but tend towards the consolidation of the monarch v and toe consequent pacification of the contending factious. Young ladies, beware ! Young gen tlemen, pause ! There is danger a head, for the courts have recently deci ded that "flirting" may be construed into an engagement of marriage. Thus Chief Justice Parker of Massachusetts announces the opinion of the Supreme Court of that State that an engagement "may be proved by those circumstances which usually accompany such a connection ;" and the Kentucky Court of Appeal has decided that the " mutuality of an engagement may be proved agaiu-t a young lady, by showing that she demeaned herself as if six; had concurred in or approved tin; young man's promise or offers" it is not necessary that there should bean express promise on either side; for the learned and voluminous Mr Chitty in his work on contracts, says an "engagement may be evinced by Ihe unequivocal conduct of the paitius, and by a general yet definite reciprocal understanding between them, their friends and relations, evinced and corroborated by their actions." Young men and maidens are, therefore hereby cautioned as to their understandings and actions if they would keep i'vvo from a rigid applicacioij of l-ho laws of evidence for such casus made ipid pro- \ ided.

The statement, of meterological obser ! rations for the month of August describes that, during the month earthquakes were reported by telegraph on Ist,, 8.52 p.m., Cromwell. Otago ; 16th, 12.25 and 9.30 p.m., Tauranga; 22nd, 7.45 a.m at Maketu ; 27th, Lyttelton; 21st, 2.5 a m.'at Wellington, White's Bay, Cheviot, FCaiapoi, and Kaikora. The Wellington Daily Advertiser, 3.oth Oct., says : —A rather singular affair occurred at the Provincial Jail on Friday last, ft will be remembered that a man named Holmes was com nutted to take his trial some few weeks ago, on a charge of stealing a carpet bag from the Nelson Ale House. At the time, the prisoner asserted that his own clothes had been stolen from him by a Maori, at the Hutt, but his statement was not believed, or, at any rate, not thought of sufficient importance for the matter to be inquired into. On Friday afternoon, however, when the M;>ori Hoani Warren (remanded on a charge of horse stealing) was received into jail Holmes immediately identified the coat and trousers worn by th& Maori as his property, and gave notice of the same to S\v Head, -The identification of the clothing was complete in every way, Holmes describing peculiar marks upon the apparel, which immediately pointed out the Maori as the delinquent. Warren, in excuse, said he had " found " the things. It is probable that the alleged theft will form the subject of inquiry before the Resident Magistrate. This is certainly a most remarkable case of recovering property under difficulties. The Wanganui Chronicle thus sums up the Tichborne case :—This would-be Baronet is a rank imposter. There are dozens of facts which prove him to be so, but one is nearly as conclusive as any number, He says he received a liberal education, and among other establishments which he attended was Stony hurst College. But he positively knows nothing of it. He could not say where the lectures were given, what name was applied to the playground, or whether fogging was a custom or not. Speaking of the building, he used the word " quadrangle " to mean " staircase," afterwards said, like the idiot he must be, it-meant "that part that goes round," and then declined to answer any more questions about it. The Solicitor General, asking bin. about the " seminary," lie thought he meant " cemetery," and aftei wards asked if it was a separate building, He had studied Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, but he did not know that Hebrew read from right to left; his knowledge of Greek was not very extensive as he could not give the word for "and," while his acquaintance with Latin was shown by his supposing that Caesar was a Greek writer, Virgil might have written either poetry or prose, and be ing shown a copy of the iKneid he said it appeared to be Gi'eek, and Greek no doubt it was to the witness. He was sure he had learned mathematics, but he did not know what it was. Euclid at any rate had nothing to do with it, perhaps Algebra might; he had never heard of the Asses' Bridge or Pons Asinorum, Does any one doubt, after such an exhibition as this, that the man is both a logue and a foul 1, The Parliament of Victoria has just voted a pension of ,£I,OOO a year tor the late Speaker of the Assembly, Sir Francis Murphy. The Pope suggests that the money which his proposed throne of gold would cost should be spent, in procuring the exemption of seminarists from military service. By way of the So ith we (Southern Cross) have received later Tasmanian papers. The Hobart Town Mercury of the 30th ult. says;—"William T. Bray, the young man who was arrested immediately on his arrhul here by the Bella Mary, from Auckland, on Thursday, was not brought before the Police Bench yesterday, owing to a slight difficulty in the way of obtaining the desired remand, It is necessary that proof should be given of the signature of the Justice signing the warrant, and of Mr C. D. 0, Quoting has not yet been able to obtain such proof in this ms'uucc. Mr Bray will no doubt be brought before the Court \\\ a day or two, but in (he meantime lie will, we | understand, be accommodated within

the precincts of the-jail. He is now detained on a charge of having forged a promissory note on the Bank of NewSouth Wales, Auckland, for £IOO, prior to leaving New Zealand." In a. subsequent issue the same journal states that, identification of the signature attached to the warrant, Bray had, upon the advice of the attorney General of Tasmania, been released. This result appears to have been effected in a great measure by the strange sympathy exhibited by the Mercury for the accused, that journal, in a loading ariicle on the 30th ult, making some rather strongaspersions with reference to those in Auckland who were instrumental in securing Bray's arrest. It is not customary for journals to pro-judge cases, more especially when they are so far removed from the scene of the occurrence as to render an acquaintance with the real merits of the case impossible.