Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1252, 19 February 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1872.

The Rev. D. Sidey conducted Divine service at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church yesterday morning. The formal induction of that gentleman to his new piiarge. will, we believe, take place this week. A parade of the Napier Ride Volunteers took place on Clive Square this morning. There was a moderate attendance. —-Another parade of the same company is fixed for Wednesday evening at 7.30, in the baud-room. The rifle match between an equal number of married and single members pf the Napier Rifles h appointed to take place to-morrow morning. There was no business transacted in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. Compared with the weather experienced during the past three months, to-day has been decidedly wintry. A bleak south-easterly wind has prevailed, and a considerable quantity of rain has fallerj. A heavy sea is now rolling into the Bay, and breaking across the bar. The steamer Napier was to have left for Tongoio this morning, but of course there would have been no use in proceeding there with the wind and sea as they were. The local agents ol the various insurance companies taking fire ri-ks in the city of Auckland, have resolved to employ four night watchmen, and to pay for a sufficient volunteer guard in the event of a fire occurring. These precautionary measures would appear to j>e called for by recent occurrences. Assuming tl}at the next session of the General Assembly will be held in Dnnedin, in accordance with the ab surd resolution of the, Hoirse of Representatives, the Nelson Examiner says : —" Every cloud has its silver lining, and one good effect of the meeting of •£he Assembly at Dunedin may be that it wili hasten the advent of that period §q much to be prayed for, when this pn happy colony will have exhausted its credit, and find itself unable to botrow another, penny " A fifty-two, ounce nugget has been found at Stockyard Greek, Gipp's Land. The total yield that day of the claim in ip was found was 90 ounces. The, Melbourne City CquncU propose'tq borrow ,£150,000 for extending (he market accommodation o,f the city is so. scarce at Rallarat tliqt notice has been given that the supply Will be. cutoff from persons watering the |tie.e.ts, gardens, or yards.

The Melbourne Argus does not seem to have any particular affection for the Premier of "Victoria as a public man. In a recent article it said: — : " Estimable as Mr I)n% may be in private life, politically he is looked on as the incarnation of trickery and the express embodiment of selfishness." Twenty-six thousand two hundred and eighty pounds of butter were shipped'to London from Auckland recently. Says the Australasian :—" Chicago, re-edified, ought to have a monument like that on Fish-street H.i]l, and there should be recorded on the pedestal how the great city was burned to ashes as a stupendous sacrifice to the principles of protection in the year 1871." Spain appears to be arranging the Cuba difficulty after a fashion that is likely to compel intervention. If, as is reported, a large number of free men are reduced to slavery, such an outrage on humanity has been perpetrated as must e-oke the interference of the law of nations ; and the collision which has already occurred witli America may not improbably afford the grounds for. the annexation, and the placing under humane and civilised rule, of an-island that by nature is the of the Antilles." The shipments of kercsjne from the United States to Australian ports have been very large of late, and those of the year 1871 were expected to be in excess of those o.f 1867—the largest on record. New Zealand flax is fast superseding Sisue hemp in the New York market, as it rnakes a better rope. Although not so clean looking, still for actual service it is far superior. A magnificent statue of the Virgin Mary, in massive silver, valued at 30,000. francs, has just been sent to the Pope by the Spanish Catholics. The following anecdote respecting the liberality of the English Chancellor of the Exchequer is vouched for by a home paper :—:The other day Mr Lowe, walking in the High-street of Croydon, descried an apple woman. Wishing to make a purchase, the Chancellor of the Exchequer crossed over to the itinerant vendor, and entered into a bargain for a punnet. After some higgling, it was arranged that Mr Lowe should become the owner of a threepenny punnet for 2d. The Chancellor seemed pleased with his purchase, but he shortly came back to point out that one of the apples was bruised. The whole number of boot and shoe, factories now in operation in San Francisco is twenty six, twenty of which are owned by white men and six by Chinamen. In addition to these, there are 16 slipper factories, 15 owned by Chi nese and one by a white man. There are employed, in small shops and factories, 1,400 white men, 262 women, 40 boys, and 862 Chinese, a total of 2,564 persons. The number of pairs of boots, shoes, and slippers made during the 3'ear is about 9,800,000, and their value about 3,300,000 dollars, of which 20 per cent, is paid for labor. Some of the Kyneton (Victoria) farmers have manifested a preference for Chinese labor on account of the neat and substantial charactei of the work.

The Duke of Edinburgh has given a doualion of <£sQ(> to the Royal Naval School at New Cross, of which institution he therefore bccqmes a life governor. The German inhabitants of Chicago, feeling that the subscription of 1,000 thalers (,£150) by the Emperor of Ger many, and of 500 thalers by the Imperial Prince and Princess towards the relief of the German residents is not commensurate with the rank and dignity of the donors, especially as such large sums were sent by Germans in Chicago for the relief of their countrymen at home who suffered by the late war, have unanimously resolved to request the committees instituted for the relief of Chicago " to indignantly reject the miserable pittance thrp/wn to us by his Majesty ihe Emperor of Germany and hjs Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia and lady." Five thousand sheep were, burned to death by a the on a station in Riverina The maimgey. went out of his mind in consequence.

The total valuation of thirteen New York daily newspapers is estimated at 14,934,000 dollars.

The completion of the gratuitous transfer of Columbia Market by the Baroness Burdett Coutts to the Corporation of the City of London is a gift the most splendid and munificent that was ever made by a private individual. The instances are numerous in which those who have amassed property have signalised themselves by some single act of generosity, but the Baroness Burdett Coutts has made benevolence the business of her life. It has not been, in her case, the crowning of a career, but the earnest aim of all her thoughts, in which there has been neither nor deviation, and which lias not even had the drawback of leaning in the direction of a favorite theory. Wherever good of any kind was to be done she has been ready, not only to help, but to anticipate others, and to undertake the work herself. It is perhaps even more to her honor that, while her generosity has been unstinted, it lias been, if possible, surpassed by the pains she has taken to ascertain in what ways and by what means her intentions could best be carried out, and by the judgment and capacity with which she has given effect to her wishes.

Here is a chance for a doctor. The. guardians of the Haniton Union, Devon, advertize for a district medical officer at a salary of <£9 per annum. A Good Templar has sued a man at Perth for defamation of character, in having said that plaintiff had gone to. an hotel for the purpose of drinking. The case was proved, and damages were awarded for £3 3s. On the 25th November, at Doncaster, a girl nineteen years of ag§, named Mary Ann Skoyles, died from the bite of a cat, which had been bitten by a mad dog. The bite had been received, three months before, and had quickly healed; and the symptoms, of hydrophobia only set in the day previous to the girl's death. On the 4th December Lord Leigh, with full Masonic state, laid the foun dation-stone of a new building to be added to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, at a cost of 48,000.' Her Majesty recently contributed one hundred guineas to the fund, which a committee of working men raised, for the purpose of meeting the expenditure. A noticeable feature was that a choir of 1,000 chil dren sang a hymn composed for the occasion by the Rev. Canon Kings! ey. Among the plans adopted in Paris, for economising food was one mentioned by the Siecle as extremely successful., Tt consists of making bread of wheat submitted to no process but that of skinning and damping. To give an idea of the economy effected by the unground wheat, it is sufficient to state that 100 kilogrammes ot wheat yield 80 kilogrammes of flour and 112 kilogrammes of bread under the usual system, while the same quantity of wheat merely skinned yields 143 kilogrommes of bread of a nutritious quality and not inferior in taste to ordinary bread. Civility (says a correspondent-) is about the dearest commodity to be purchased in Scotland from waiters, guard*, coachmen, and all that ilk. A friend of mine declared that after having rung the bell several times at an hotel in Glasgow, a waiter at last put his shock head inside the door, screamed out, " Wha rung that bell?" and, on my friend pleading guilty, shrieked out, "Then don't do it again!" slammed the door, and disappeared from view. An avaricious man, after having kindled his fire, stuck a cork in the end of the bellows to save a little wind that was left in them. A person abusing another to Charles Russell, said he was so insufteiably dull, that if you said a good thing he did not understand it. " Pray sir," said Charles, "did you. ever try him ? " An old philosopher hath said : <' The woman that maketh a good pudding in silence is better than one that maketh a tart reply." Proof positive. Good young lady : " Little boy, have you ever been baptised \" Small heathen: "Oh, yes, mum; I have the marks here on my arm 1 "