Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addietue jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1280, 22 March 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addietue jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1872.

We understand that a rifle match is fixed to take place to-monow between #. team selected from the Napier Rifle Club, and an equal number of members of the Wellington Club. On the occasion of the last match between Napier and Wellington—tired some considerable time ago—the local representatives proved victorious.

We are requested to intimate that the Public Meeting and Tea Meeting advertised by the Rose of Shaiou Tent, JO. It., to take place at Waipawa on Easter Monday, Ist April, will be held jn the new chapel instead of the schoolroom, as originally advertised. The Napier Bifie Volunteer Band will be in attendance.

We yesterday alluded to the misnomer by which portions of Auckland Province are termed " counties." A subscriber writes :~-"The apparent inconsistency in unreal. The division of counties prevails in the Auckland Province as boundaries for Crown Grant districts. Waste lands are thus more easily classified, Ecien County is Auckland district; Marsden is more northerly. All notices of land sales by the Auckland Provincial Government mention the comity as well as the block (vide Gazetie.)" In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning there were several claims pn immigrants' promissory notes.- Or mond y. R, Jeffares.— Claim of £25 lis. Mr Lee, who appeared for the defendant, pleaded that there was no consideration. Defendant gave the promissory note for the passage of his brother in-law, William Worrell, and a person named Robert M'Lean, who. personated Wil liam Worrell, was brought out instead.

- -Mr Wilson, for- the Goveriinif.nt, admitted that the wrong person had "been brought out, but maintained that the Government had performed their part of the contract, and that the real William Worrell must have been a party to the personation. defendant, he maintained, was liable. —The Resident Magistrate reserved his decision for Monday. Oiniond v. L. Higgins.—A claim, of ,£SO PA a promissory note, which defendant \\3id. signed as surety. The note was |s;- the passage mcmev of Qns

and family, who had since left the Province. Previously to their leaving, the defendant had warned the Government of their intention, but action was not taken in time to prevent tliem. It appeared that the money had never been properly demanded of Filmer, and as the note was due "on demand," Mr Lee, for the defendant, contended that it was really not yet due.---Judgment reserved till Tuesday. Onnond v. Mylan.—Claim of XI4 10s, balance on a promissory note. —Judgment confessed. Panapa, a native, was charged with assaulting David Joll at Clive, by seizing him by the throat and pulling his ears. The assault was proved, and the defendant pleaded that it was a joke. In consideration of the heavy costs incurred (12s 6d) the Magistrate inflicted a nominal fine of one shilling. Referring to the outbreak of small pox on board the ship England, from London to Wellington, the Evening Post has "no hesitation in saying that for every death which may occur now, as well as for many of those which have occurred on the voyage out, the Government and those specially who have the direction of immigration arrangements will be responsible." Christenurch supports the local gas company very well, for we read of it paying a dividend at the rate of 16 percent, per annum last week. A. very perfect and beautiful model of a high-pressure steam engine, cut out of rala with a pen-knife by a resident at M oonlight Guily, has been exhibited at Greymouth. John Peerybingle writes as follows in the Melbourne Weekly Times : —A teetotaler of thirty years' standing wants to know whether a man can get drunk on colonial wine j Let him try it, and [ won't answer for his standing any more for the present. Instead of writing to the papers to ask the question, he can get a bottle of this kind of teetotal drink from the grocers and drink it. If he doesn't feel "mixed" after it you can call me a Dutchman. Why I recollect going to see a man once that brewed colonial wine. A kindly, good sort of an old boy, he took me to his cellar behind a stable, and let me loose, as it were. "This," says he, holding up a gla*s, " I call the pure juice of the grape. There isn't as much as a whisper of brandy in it." We sat across a log in the cellar dreaming the happy hours away —and we drank that pure juice of the grape. We talked —and drank the pure juice of the grape. We argued—-and dranked the pure juice of the grape. We borrowed money of one another —and we d-d-drank the pure juice of the g-grapes. We sang—and we g-graped the pure juice o' the drink. We chirruped—and drunky-purejuiceogi-apes ! There was a bundle of straw in one corner of the cellar, and I slumbered. There was a bundle of straw in the other corner, and there Ihe other slumbered. When he woke up I asked him how he felt. He said there wa-n't a headache in a hogshead of it. It was the pure juice of the grape \ Still i thought we'd been drunk, and 1 think so still, otherwise why did that other man snore so, and what fetched him, as he called it, off the " propindicklar ?" My teetotal friends, and my friends that aren't teetotal, don't deceive yourselves. Take the very purest grape juice you like, and in fermentation, as I've read in hooks, (i the sugar is decomposed and the brandy formed." This is the stuff to make a teetotaler talk of his friends. The New York correspondent of the Echo gi-es the following account of the successful efforts of the associated Press. He says :—" A. very clever telegraphic feat was accomplished the other day, which, as far as I am aware, is quite unique here The Loudon agent of the New York Associated Press obtained, it would seem, an early copy of the London Times of November 9, and at 6 a.m. sent a cable despatch, giving a short synopsis of the Times' remarks on the downfall of Tammany at the recent elections. This came th rough promptly to the Associated Press, and reached the newspaper offices in manifold at 2 a.m. the same morning in ample time for publication, so that our New York morning dailies of the 9th, printed at 3 am. contained the pith of an article in the London Times, say, at : 5. a.m.