Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1227, 20 January 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1872.

We have received from the lion, the Minister for Public Works a copy of the regulations for the introduction of immigi ants into New Zealand on the nomination of persons resident in the Colony, together with a copy of forms of application for nominated passages. The terms offered by the Government are such as must act as an inducement to those who wish to introduce friends tothe Colony under the Government scheme, viz. :—Single women, betweu the ages of 12 and '36, free; other adults, £5 each; and children between the ages of l and 12 years, £2 10s each. The above must be paid by the person making the application, and at the time such application is made. We are glad to report that Mr. Symes' new steamer was successfully launched this afternoon.

A new telegraph station has been opened at Akaroa, Canterbury. We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Government printer of a title page and index to the authorised Parliamentary reports, and other Parliamentary paper?.

We yesterday announced the capture in the inner harbor of a shark measuring 12 feet in length. We have now to report that another, about 9 feet long, was caught this morning. This capture also took place in the inner harbor.

The Itangatira (».) will steam hence for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin on Monday next, 22nd inst. The second wool ship of the season —the barque Ballarat—-is expepted to take her departure for London direct on Tuesday next. She will clear at the Customs on Monday. An opportunity to ("hose desirous of witnessing Gisborne Races on Wednesday next, 24th inst., will be afforded on Monday, the favorite steamer Jjapier being announced to steam hence for Poverty Bay at C o'clock that evening.

The Es-ening Post, 17th inst., says: —The preparations for the production of an illusirated work on the fishes of oar seas, by the officers of the Colonial Museum, are progressing well. We have seen the lithographs of the fish, executed by Mr Buchanan, and they are clear and faithful outlines that will be most useful to a beginner in the study of icthyology, and will enable him to discover the names of any specimens which may come before him. There will be twelve platen, giving outlines of fifty fish, all of which, with one or two exceptions, are available as food.

We (Taranaki Herald) regret to hear that an accident happened on Jan. 7 to Mr James Ratten bury, of Bell Block, by which he will lose the sight of one his eyes, if not be rendered blind altogether. It appears that lie was holding a hide with his foot and cutting it into strips. Whilst drawing the knile upward, it slipped, and went into one of his eyes, causing, as may be imagined, the most excruciating agony. He managed, however, to get as far as

Mr Oonnett-s hou.->e after the accident, when Dr. Bawson was immediately sent for, who did his utmost to relieve his sufferings. Jt is feared that inflammation will set in ; if so, Mr Rattenbnry may probadly lose the use of both his eyes. We have not heard how the sufferer was later in the day, but earnestly hope that his affliction will not be such as to render him totally blind for life.

The Taranaki Herald, Jan. 8, says : We are glad to learn that orders have been received by Mr Octavius Carrington, Enginneer in charge of Public Works in this Province, to commence the survey of the railway from Waitara to New Plymouth at once, with a view to tenders being called tor the work, that it may be executed as soon as. posBible. This shqws that the General Government are in earnest in the matter of railways in this Province, and their promptitude in carrying out the wishes of the Legislature will give satisfaction to the public generally.

The gold yield of Otago has fallen off 15,000 ozs. during the last year. Several cases of sunstroke amongst children have occurred lately on the West Coast goldnelds. The thermometer in some places ranged as high as 90 in the shade. The Paris Liberte has an article on the J?ad state of health of Queen Victoria. After attributing its origin to the death of the Prince Consort, it says : —«ln the present sceptical times men do not understand that a woman can mourn the loss of her husband during 10 years; they with difficulty believe in ineffaceable grief, and when the mourner is a Queen, they shrug their shoulders and say, ' nonsense.' "■

A singular accident happened recently in the streets of London. It appears that a huge steam roller was in Pall Mail, oti its way to St. James' Park, to be used on some paving work. An 12 o'clock the driver of the engine concluded to go and get his dinnei. He therefore, shut off steam, and left the engine standing near a statue in front of the Pall Mall Restaurant. A crowd of people soon gathered around it including some mischievous boys, one of whom got on the engine, and managed to start it. The locomotive, to the dis may of the bystanders started of}, at first slowly but continually increasing its speed, and presently spread consternation, all around. Tts first direction was for the statue, w Inch it wquld probably have overthrown if not de mojished, bub when close, up to it, the engine turned capriciously, almost at a right angle, went straight across the road, and into thesbo.p of Mr Thompson, a photographic eolorist. lis entrance was effected by the window, which was totally smashed, and not only this, but the heavy stone facade underneath the glass was also shattered. Several ladies standing in front of the shop were slightly hurt, and one gentleman seriously. Two other ladies fainted in the crowd, and being trampled under foot, received bad though not dangerous injuries. Tie devastation committed by the unruly machine in the window, which was full of pictures and fragile articles, is said to liave been indescribable, and it is easy co believe that a bull in a china shop could, have been nothing to it.

The Melbourne Chamber of Com meree has under consideration a proposal from the President of the Chamber at Batavia on the proposed new line of steamers to Australia, via Netherlands and India. Ever since the year 1864 Holland has been anxious for such a line, but it has never up to the present time met with mu,ch favor from Australia. Mr Fraser, the head of the Netherlands India Steam Navigation Company is, however, now visiting the Australian Colonies, with the hope of inducing them to co-opeiale in the proposed scheme. Some one in Liverpool must have a profound confidence in the honesty of the Post office officials. On the 2nd November a £5 Bank of England note was posted at one of the offices, simply folded in three, the address written on the outside. fold, with a halfpenny postage stamp on the right hand corner but unsealed in any way. The authorities, upon detecting it, dealt with the note as a registered letter, and imposed the usual surcharge upon it. The address was to a port in Anglsey.

The children of the Prince and Princess of Wales have, late papers inform us, been suffering from whooping cough. Late English papers announce that the grand jury at the Central Criminal Court have thrown out the bill against Crossman, the writer, and Farrah, the publisher, of the pamphlet containing the alleged libel against young Pook, who was acquitted —the pamphlet says wrongly—of the Eltham murder. Spurgeon tells the following:—"I like the story of the servant maid who, when she was asked on joining the Church, 'A re you converted?' answered, 'I hope so, sir..' 'What makes you think you are really a child of God? : ' Well, sir, there is a great change in me from what there used to be.' * What is the change?' ' I don't know, sir, but there's a change in all things; bin; there is one thing, I always sweep under the mat now,

An interesting account of a recent exploration of the Yorkshire cave*, in England, is contributed to Macmillan'si Magazine by W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. Mr Dawkins demonstrates that these caves had human inhabitants five, tli on sand years' ago. He says the Victoria cave was inhabited at two different times by people of two different states of civilisation. Nor are we without a clue to the approximate date of the older occupants. The debris from the cliff on the Roman Celticstratu m is two feet in thickness, and has accumulated since the middle of the Bth century, or in about twelve hundred years, while that b.elow is not less than six feet thick, and therefore probably took three times as Jong, or three thousand six hundred years. In other words the interval between the Roman Celtic, and the Neolitic occupations, if measured by the present rate of disintegration of the cliff, cannot be less than 3,600 years and the date of the latter will be removed back about 5,000; years from the present time. The accuracy of the calculation is indeed injured by the possibility that the, winter cold was more intense,and the splitting action more active in the past-Roman, times. Nevertheless, the change from the Arctic severity of the past glacial Winter to the present climate of Britain has been so gradual that it may be. assumed to have been very small in so, short a time as 5,000 years. The only

assumption, that is the rate of the disintegration of the cliff before the fourth century aftei' Christ was about, the. same as it has been since that time,. This mode estimating the interval does not pretend to any scientific accuracy, but is, merely useful in affording some, idea of the lapse of time out of the reach of history. We extract the following from the British Trade Journal of the Ist Nov.:. —A striking proqf of Protectionist prin r ciples and practice comes to us from the. Antipodes. They must be in the ascendancy in the colony when the Victorian legislature contemplates the imposition of 20 per cent, ad valorem. duties on imports. Differential duties, are now out of fashion, so. that the, mother country is treated quite the, same as all other States. Of course it. consists neither with our principles nor our interest to retaliate, but thereseems to be a grievous want, of generosity on the part of our fellow-countrymen in. Australia, thus uncivilly to shut the. door in our faces. They are workingpeople who in this country and the. colony are more immediately affected by protection. Here, so far as the tion of the Victorians can affect us, our working people are deprived of breadin the interest of their fellow-laborers on the other side, of the globe. Had: we dealt thus with them, and refused to receive but under a heavy impost the wool, cotton, copper ore, or the. gold of Australia, the commercial worldwould have resounded with their complaints. We know very well that to do so would in effect be to tax ourselves, and not less, certain do,the Victorians tax themselves by protectionist duties. .Every article of foreign manufacture that is excluded by a 2(\ per cent, duty insures that that article. is more than 20 per cent, clearer to, native consumers who rely on native manufacture. Protectionist duties are. just bounties on native indolence and, incompetence, and they rob the great bulk of consumers to gratify the in-, terest and avarice of the few. Nothing could be more destructive of the advance of a colony than protectionism. By tlie nature of things, a new settlement is a producer of the raw material of manufacture, and an intelligent regard to that fact should dictate, the commercial policy proper to such places. Their interest in every way is bound up with the cause of free trade, in order that the raw materials which they produce, should with the least possible pecuniaryhindrance, find their nay into immediate use.

The New York Herald has not always been the fast friend of England, but late events have wrought a wonderful change in its opinions. J jet the following from a late number of the Herald bear witness:-- "How completely the Treaty of Washington ha-j changed the relations of Great Britain and A merica ! Recently how cold werg relations. Look at theacte of the

last few days. How nobly our Government has gone to the rescue of England and saved her territories from what might have proved a serious JFenian invasion. How nobly the British Government has acted in the matter of the Chicago disaster! At the time the British Government was issuing instructions to the Government .of the Dominion of Canada to offer to -Chicago all the military tents and blankets in their possession, the Government of the United States was taking excellent care of General O'Neill. This is an intelligible kind of reciprocity. We owe it to the Washington Treaty. Let us have a little more of the same."