Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1250, 16 February 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1872.

We understand that a parade of the Napier .Rifle Volunteers is to take place on the morning of Monday next, 19th inst, at 6 o'clock, when a good muster is expected. Of late, the attendance at parades of not only the Rifles, but also the Artillery company, would seem to indicate, be the cause what it may, that volunteering is at a very low ebb in Napier at the present time. As, however, the period of the annual inspection visit of Colonel Harington is fast approaching, it is to be hoped that the members—both officers and men—of the respective corps in the Province will, while there is yet time, assiduously endeavor to acquire such a knowledge of military tactics as shall enable them to pass the ordeal of examination, wit h credit to themselves. There were no pases this morning in pit her the Resident Magistrate's Court pi the District Court, A. rifle match between six married members of the Napier Rifle Volunteers and an equal number of single members of the same corps ha*, we believe, been arranged to come off on the morning of Tuesday next. From the Home News we learn that *' Mr C. Thorne, who is indefatigable; in his endeavors to utilise New Zealand flax, has at length so far succeeded as to be able to furnish T>\\ Featherston with a piece of sailcloth made from the fibre. As the sample will be forwarded to New Zealand by the present mail, some of our readers will have an opportunity of judging as to the character of the manufacture Mr Thome hopes to produce good samples of towelling and before long." The Honolulu Gazette of a recent date thus refeis to a gentlemen not altogether unknown in New Zealand : V The arrival from JVTicronesia report.-* that tjie notorious Captain Hayes has turned up again—this time as a trader among the islands in the Pacific. He has command of a brig called the Lenore— probably ' the lost Lenore.' If there is an opportunity to kidnap natives, or in any other way to 'do' somebpfly ip those seas, Hayes is the man for the business. As there are a number in our community who have pause to remember Hayes, and may probably feel an interest in hearing of his whereabouts and welfare, we give jum notice." Five to eix shillings a day and board fre.the wages paid this season to harvest men in Victoria. In Philadelphia fire was communi eatecj fiom ona hoy be to another by a gjpthes-lifte.

The Nelson Examiner gives the following illustration of the high motives which actuate those who desire the next session of the Assembly to be held in Dunedin : The Mayor of Dunedin, Mr Fish, tells the Superintendent of Otago, Mr Macandrew, that "if the Governor could be induced to reside for a time in Dunedin, it would give that tone to society which they thought ought to exist." Lower motives also influenced Mr Fish in his desire to see the Colony put to a heavy useless expense to gratify the people of Otago : "Viewing the matter from rather a selfish light on behalf of the citizens, they did not fail to recognise the benelit it would be from a monetary point of view if the Governor and the General Assembly came to Dunedin." The heat at Geelong (Victoria) has been so great that some of the fruit in the gardens has been literally roasted on the trees.

An Otago paper says :—" The accli matisation of trout in Nelson is threatened with failure from a singular cause. The fish grow too fat and die of plethora." .Referring to the Navigator Islands, the Sancelito Herald says :-— Ci We observe that companies are being formed in San Francisco for the acquisition of these islands by purchase or otherwise. New Zealand has also an eye in that direction, and is now discussing a proposition made by Mr Vogel, PostmasterGeneral, to establish a protectorate over the Islands. The San Francisco companies, however, go beyond that, and are calculating upon the number of cocoanuts and pounds of coffee they will raise, and the income they will receive. Nothing is '■•aid regarding the natives' titles to their lands, or their hereafter, but we think they will be able to make bargains to protect themselves,"

The Melbourne Age says:—"The snnimer of 1871-2 promises to be one of the hottest e\er felt in Victoria. For four days has a fierce north wind been blowing, and, without leaving the city, people have been able to form some idea of what a journey across the Great Desert is like. Clouds of dust, a fierce glaring sun, and no water are the the evils we have at present to sutler, and from all appearances theie is no likelihood of any change. It is an unprecedented fact, and beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitant, for a hot wind to last four days, and last evening the southern horizon was • eagerly scanned by half-baked individuals for signs of a change, but without any satisfactory resr.lt. The thermometer yesterday marked 96 degrees in the shade, and nearly 120 degrees in the sun, which heat was sufficient to try the temper of the most amiable person in Melbourne. The intense heat, combined with no water, must be most trying to children and invalds, and an increase in the mortality list must be expected." The gold fields at Tambaroora, N.S W., continue to furnish an almost daily excitement, and new companies are constantly coming out. It is the old claims, however, that yield the rereturns, all the speculative companies that have taken tip new adjacent ground being still in the stage of calls and expenditure, The dividend looms in the haze.

A lady, writing to the New York Tribune, regarding the Chicago fire, relates the following incident, of which she was an eye-witness :—" A young husband, finding it impossible otherwise to save his bride, covered her up with sand, except her head, and then ran between her and the lake, soaking his pocket handkerchief to lay over her month.' 1 An honest farmer of Surrey has written a letter to a relative in Virginia to say that all the talk in the newspapers about the sanguinary engagement between the Germans and English at Dorking is a stupid hoax- -that he lives in the neighborhood of Dorking, and that nothing of the sort has occurred there at all. The Governor of California urges the adoption of assisted immigration to that State. A Uiah mine is valued at ten million dollars, or fbur thousand dollars per foot of t<he lose,