Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 23, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1256, 23 February 1872, Page 2

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

Tiiq. rifle, contest between members, of the, Rifle Volunteers —married v. single, six men a side—came off yesterday, and resulted in the single men winning by 35 point?.. Appended are the scores : SINGLE.

In the Resident ItyTagistrate's Qourt this morning two offenders against sobriety, charged also with using obscene language and resisting the police, were each find £2 and 5s costs. Hill v. Trimmer. —A. claim of .£5 15s 4d for goods delivered.— Judgment for amount claimed, and 18s costs. "\Ve have te acknowledge the receipt of the current number of the Illustrated New Zealand ITerald, which contains some exceedingly good engravings. A cricket match was played yesterday be.tvsr.een, the Taupo Club and the Country Districts Qlub at the racecourse, Me.anee. The day was fine, and the attendance good. The Country Districts eleven made 25 in their first and 44 in their second, being aUogetheir 69 j and were easily defeated by the. Taupo club a who, made 74 in one innings. A public meeting was held last evening in, the Council Chamber, to take measures to aid the, sufferers by the. late, disastrous floods at Greymouth. In the absence, of J. Rhodes, Esq., who conveneel the. meeting, H. B. Sealy, Esq., was voted to, the, chair. Telegrams relating to t the great distress occasioned by the disaster were read, and members of a'commit tee to collect subscriptions :—Messrs Holder, Jgpylan, and the. Hon. H. R. Russell.' sum of £26 was. collected before the meeting closed.

The new meat-preserving works at Winton (Qtago) are to commence opeiv ations on the, Ist J\larch,. Mr Justice Waid lately described dishonesty as a "jiangerpu§ luxury," and as being " remarkably infectious." According to the Southland .News the Chinese at the Nokomai are said to haye acquired the European habit of departing to parts unknown, without previously going through the formality of interviewing their creditors. A. P. Seymour, Esq. s Superintendent of Marlborough, has been elected a member of the House of Representatives for the Wairau district,, after a close contest. He was. opposed l»y MrWard, who avowed himself a protectionist. Mr Seymour went in on the free-trade ticket. There was great excitement at the election. The Government >teamer Luna was in the Waitaia river on tb,e 20th. inst.

dp to the 20th inst. nearly 50Odogs had been registered in the city of Wellington since the Ist January, one. of them being, according to the Independent, "the oldest do,g in the Colony " The Inter-pro,vincial boat race, which toolj place at Hea.thco.te (Can.terb.uty) on the 20th. inst., was won Ky the Waterlily, the Lyttelton boar, with the Peri (TCaiapoi) second, and the. "Wellington (representative of the Empire City), third. The distance was 3 miles, the time occupied by the winning boat being 20 minutes 26. seconds. The Waterlily is 44 feet in length, beam 20J inches, weight 1,05. pounds, and is built pfcedar throughout. The erection of the telegraph line between Opunake and New Plymouth has been commenced, and will, it is expected, be completed in about three months.

A person, in Wanganui has prepared some hams, bacon, salt beef, and other local products specially for shipment by the Malay for London. Tt will be interest] nc: to know whether the prices realised will pay sufficiently to induce a repetition of the, experiment. The lion, the Native and Defence Minister is at present on an official visit to Taranaki. Wi renin Kingi, of Waitara notoriety, desires yn interview with Mr M'Lean. Mr lloskios and Miss Colvilie., are performing to crowded houses in the Oddfellows' Hall, Wellington. The Otago Daily Times says :—The Resident Minister of Public Woiks for the Middle Island, the Hon. Mr Reeves, recently visited the province of Otago on business connected with the Government scheme of colonization. In company with his. Honor the Superintendent and two members of the Provincial Executive, he paid a visit to Stewart's Island and the southern portion of the province, with the view of ascertaining whether the large blocks of unoccupied Crown Lands in those districts are adapted for the establishment of special settlements. Professors Black and M'Gregor, of the Otago University, accompanied the expedition. No official report of the trip has as yet been furnished, but elsewhere we publish a full account of it by our own correspondent. He is of opinion that there are large blocks of land in Stewart's Island, and at Catlin's River, Tautuku, and Waikawa, that are capable of bearing a laige population. We understand it is the intention ot the Government, to settle in these districts families from the Shetlands and other parts of the North of Scotland. As a home for these people the coast of Stewart's Island is admirably suited. The inlets of the sea are teeming with fish of valuable kinds, and there is no want of material for building, nor of fuel, as the land is timbered to the waior's edge with fine forest trees. The soil is capable of producing rich crops of potatoes and oafr, and all vegetables and fruit trees common to English gardens thrive luxuriantly. The Otago Settlements Act provides that within those districts set apart as special settlements free grants, of land may be given, the only condition attached being continued residence for a period of three years. With the prospect of such a home before him, no Norseman need hesitate to leave his comfortless cabin, and bid good bye for ever to the rigorous climate and the barren soil of the islands of the Northern seas.

Diphtheria, we regret to observe, i& very prevalent in Wellington at pre-, sent. SeveraJ deaths from, its ejects, aye recorded. A serious affray has taken place- between some Oliinainen and Europeans at Tinker's Gully (Q,tago.> Th.e Chinamen were supplied with short weight meat, and remonstrated-. A melee ensuedj £Li\d or.e Chjnaman was severely wounded in the head with a shovel, and a European's arm was broken. The butcher, wdio is named Morgan,, has been arrested.. The Chief Justice of Tasmania, Sir Francis Smith, having obtained, leave of absence for 18 months, was, to have If ft Hobart Town for Eogland, on the 20th- inst. Sir Valentine Fleming, the iate Chief Justice, relieves Sir Francis. The time of the- five-mile race between Pentecost, of New Zealand; and Henry Bedfoj J, of Melbourne, was, according to the Australasian, 27 minutes an.d 45/seconds. The race was by no, means closely contested* Pentecost be* ing beaten ea-i!y by 20.0 yards. The "Royal Association for the pro. motion, of the Fine Arts in. Scotland " numbers.in,all 5,266 members, of whom 354 aie in New. Zealand — 135 in Wanganui, 56 ap Oamaru, 56 at. Dunedin, 45. at Wellington, 30 in Greymouth, 17 in Christchurch, and 10 at Milton, The Evening Post, of Tuesday last, says:—"As Alexander M'Farlane, a seaman, belonging to v tbe Glimpse, was s coming ashore last night in. company with another man in a small boat, he suddenly dropped, his oar and fpll bach. His companion, thinking he w T as in a, fit, pulled quickly to ihe shore and sent for Dr. Grace, who, on arrival, pro-, nounced; the man dead. The body was removed to the Club Tap, where an inquest was held, and a verdict returned of u death from natural causes.'"

It is evident; thnt within no long time a day's labor for a skilled artizan will, in England, mean nine hours. The engineers have carried their point, and at a meeting of- delegates from the Trade Societies, held at Blackfriars, firms were named by the dozen —engineers, shipbuilders, and builders—which had conceded the demand. In tact the only point the masters seem able to raise, is the date at which the- reform shall begin—the. men contending for January 1 and the employers for July 1. The. reform, if it becomes universal, will, we firmly believe, reduce, greatly the sum of human misery without costin anybody a penny, as the work willingly done in nine hours will be more than the work, wearily done in ten. On the 22nd of January 'says the Otago,Daily Times), an-action instituted by Mr Reichelt, against the New Zealand Insurance Company to recover the sum of i>l,oDo, the amount of insurance on his building and goods, was commenced in the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Chapman and a special jury. The only defence was that the tire was caused by the wilful act of the plainti ft. The plaintiff had given, several different accounts as to how the fire happened, the last being that he went to his shop on. the night of the lire to meet a Mrs Wiight, who was. then residing at the next house, a registry office. Mrs Wright, however, denied that she was in the plaintiff's company that evening The jury found that plaintiff did not wilfully set fire to his premises, and gave him a verdict for £IOOO. The verdict also decides the actions brought by him against the Liverpool, London, and Globe, and Victoria Companies. The defendants in the case will move for a new trial at the next sittting of the Supreme Court in Banco.

" Atticus," in the Melbourne Leader, relates that "Mr Anthony Troll ope has been getting into trouble in Tasmania." At a public dinner in Hobart Town, speaking of the fully of the Tasmanian people grumbling at the withdrawal of troops, he ridiculed the idea of the forward progress of a colony being retarded by the absence, of two hundred "liveried menials." One gentleman present a military officer,,]'limped up and demanded in stentorian tones, what Mr Trojlope meant by applying such terms to her Majesty's troops? Mr Trollope, of course, at once saw the mistake he had made, and amidst a scene of indescribable confusion he made the proper amende.

The widow of the late J. M. Esq., C.IJ., was married on the 14tK November last, at Edinburgh,, to a gen.tleman named A. H. Nicholson. The Grey River of the 9cliinst., say s • —"The Argus of this morning was produced under circumstances that we do not believe any other join - nal in the colonies ever had to contend with. The water stood 2ft. 6in. on the office floor,, and we have publicly to thank our staff for their exertion under the trying circumstances." New Post and Telegraph Offices are in course of erection at Arrowton, Otago. A. man named W. JRae died the other day at Ross, Westland, from a rupture of the heart during excessive vomiting. At Sandhurst, recently, the thermometer registered, 177 degrees in the sun !. The Sydney, expedition to New Guinea has sailed;. Mr Landells, an Australian explorer of note, has died at Calcutta.. Near Goulburn, Victoria, a. train ran into a flock of sheep, ancl.killed, nearly a-hundred of them.

The Melbourne Daily Telegraph says: : past month has been maiked by a succession, of some of the hottest days on record; On ; Sunday, the 7th. Jan., the temperature in the shade was 97 deg., on the following day it was 87: deg., and on Tuesday, the 9th, it was 99 deg., nor did; a change take place* until the afternoon, of Wednesday, the I,oth insfc.. Sunday,, the, 21st, was another fearfully hot day, and the succeeding night was almost unbearable; but a change took place somewhat unexpectedly early the next morning. The result ot the great heat has been a-good.deal of sickness, and, rumors, of various malignant diseases, having shown themselves have been, frequent, [n several cases.it is. said that true Asiatic cholera.has appeared,in a pro, nonnced form, but this has not beep., substantiated. It is, however, painfully apparent that diphtheria is ragingin various parts of the- colony, for reports of families.being almost. entirely cut off by this disease have been coming in almost daily. So important has the question, become that the Grovernment has deemed it. tp.be a,duty to appoint a Royal Commission to'inquire isto the causes and treatment of diphtheria. In this they have been, met by some difficulty, in consequence of several of the medical men a* ho had been asked* declining to act.

The Melbourne Leader thus writes : ; —"The middle-glass Englishman," says the Pall Mall Gazette,. " who consents to be an Australian laborer to-day,. may count on becoming the Australian aristocrat of to-morrow. Is not that better, than starving at home/' This is sheer balderdash, and of a very cruel sort. Men, who have been, brought up with middle-class notions of position and refinement are thoroughly unaj-lapied for-the role of. laborer, A. few hardy constitutions and welldeveloped muscles, such men. as, supposing his story, to be true, the soi disattf Sir Roger Tichborne seems to have been when he first landed, may succeed, but the greater number must fail, nay,, from sheer inability to dp. the work required of them they would starve hi. the midst of plenty. The falsity of thetheories set up by the Pall Mall Gazette, was abundantly shown by the experience of the early days of the gold L nelds ; Thousands of gentlemen, men of culture, and refinement, visited the gold-fields;; they worked manfully for months and, even years. The romance of the occupation prevented its causing any loss of. social position. The digger of 1854) like the overlander a dozen years before, was a privileged individual. Bui) how many of this class permanently remained as diggers,? They used the pickaxe and the shovel solely as step-ping-stones to other and better- remunerated operations, And so it would be in the event of any large immigra--tion of middle class men anxious to, be* come Australian laborers. They would find no poetry, little comfort, plenty ot' hard work, and but scant wages. In* few weeks they would abandon theirnew career, and return home sadder; and wiser men.

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