Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1288, 3 April 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1872.

The Colonial Government paddle steamer Luna, Capt. Fairchild, left Wellington for Napier at 3.30 yesterday afternoon, and consequently may now be hourly expected to arrive. His Excellency the Governor is on board the Luna, and the members of the Napier Artillery Volunteers and the Napier JR.ifle Volunteers have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to parade at a moment's notice. Immediately his Excellency steps on shore, the Artillery nill lire the first gun of the customary viceregal salute of 17 guns, whilst the Rifles / will form a <niard of honor. The Bauds of both the Rifles and Artillery will, we presume, be in attendance. We regret to observe that the weather iri likely to be anything but favoiable. We learn that most of the immigrants for this Province per rbip England, from London to Wellington, will arrive here this evening, per Luna. A. Follett Kalcam.be, Esq, has received the appointment of Immigration Officer under the General Government for the Provinces of Plawke's Bay and Wellington. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning one inebriate was tind ss. Te Hapuku and four other natives appeared to answer an information laid by Mr G. Davie, charging them with having, on the 14th March, feloniously stolen, taken, and carried away certain timber to the value of M7 t hi* property, i Mr Stedman appeared in support of the information ; Mr Lee for the defence. Mr Davie deposed that some months ago he had bought the dead timber on a certain block of land from a native named Renata for the sum of <£lo, which he had paid. From time to time, at his drays passad the place, he conveyed '.he timber to a place at the road side ner Mr Ellingham's, at Te Ante. On removing it from this place, on the 14th of March, his two drays were forcibly stopped and unloaded by a party of natives, headed by Te Hapuku. The details of the affair were recounted with great minuteness by Davie and others. —Te Hapuku, being cautioned in the usual manner, made a long statement in defence. Pie said that Davie, in times past, had stolen his timber and assaulted him ; and he claimed that the particular timber seized on the 14th of March had been taken from his (Hapuku's)lancb —His worship said this matter should have been dealt with by civil process. The act of the defendants was unlawful; but, all things considered, the element of larceny was not present.--Information dismissed.

Arrangements regarding the second Walker-Christie rifle match are progressing favorably. ]t will take place at -Duaediu, but no date is yet tad,

Nature appears to be determined to wipe out the town of Westport. The area of this town has already been considerably reduced by the incursions of tha river, and now we learn that the yea is making breaches in another direction, and compelling the removal of buildings to higher ground. It has been intimated that the defence of Cyrus Hale}', the incendiary, in the higher court will be—(l). That the case is merely one of very strong suspicion. (2.) That at the time he was arrested he was under some hallucination, (3.) The insufficiency of the proof of identity of the letter received by Mr Russell. The Wanganui papers announce that Major Kemp is in a fair way of recovery from his serious illness. Dr. Hector, it would appear, is of opinion that the Peninsula by which Dunedin harbor is enclosed belongs to the same geological formation as the Thames. Should a payable goldfield be discovered, water supply is not likely to be any drawback to its development. Commander Selfridge has made a report to the United States Government, showing that a good ship canal can be constructed across the Tsthraus of Darienat a cost ot 125,000,000 dollar*. Referring to thif, an American con temporary says:—"lf ihe project is as feasible as reported—and there is no reason to doubt it—the openiug of the canal is simply a question of lime. The cost, as stated above, will not stay the progress of such an international work." Referring to some illustrations of the influence of protection on shipping terests the Melbourne Argus satirically sav s : —lnstances of the beneficial effects of protection are multiplying, and one particularly gratifying case in point has been communicated to us. It seems that Messrs M'Meckan & Blackwood's steamer Aldinga required new boilers, and the contract was let +o a Melbourne house. As boiler plates are admitted free of duty in this colony one would suppose that this house would be in a remarkably good position to undertake a work of this character; but instead of that being the case, they find it more economical to ship the plates to Adelaide, where they are con verted into boilers and sent back to Melbourne to be placed in the vessel. It is stated the same thing had been done in the case of the Royal Shepherd, another Adelaide boat which required repairs. This intelligence ought to be peculiarly gratifying 10 the boilermaker.s of the city of Melbourne, whose strong protects e proclivities are well known. Information has reached the Wellington Independent of an accident which occurred at Manawatu Gorge a few days ago. Fortunately no serious injury was sustained, yet the escape was narrow. As several gentlemen— Messrs Burn, Stuart, and Dunn—were standing by the side of a cutting, a block of stone became detached and rolled down the side of the incline. The stone in its recoil, struck Mr Dunn on the chest and knocked him down senseless. As he remained insensible some little time, feai's were entertained that the poor gentleman was seriously hurt; but he soon recovered consciousness. The only mark of injury to be seen was a severe contusion. Dr Spratt, who attended Mr Dunn after the accident does not anticipate any dangerous results.

A "Colonist" has contributed to the Australasian an article upon "The Forests of New Zealand, 1 ' in which the following estimate appears ; —" It i> no exaggeration to state that there aie 500,000,000 of kauri trees growing, in a healthy condition, in our forests, and each on an average will produce 21b weight of gum annually, or 5,000 tons collectively, which valued atJESO per ton vould amount to ,£250,000. It would thus appear that from this source alone a quarter of a million sterling is added to the wealth of the colony every year without any cost of production, anxiety, or labor on our part, and without in anv way exhausting the source from whence such boundless wealth is derived.' 1

A Southland paper states that favorable advices have been leceived from Melbourne regarding recent shipments of Southland timber to that

The Sydney Mail says :—lt is reported from Melbourne that Messrs Webb and Vogel have been more successful in the second offer they made to the Government than they were with the first, and that they have now made proposals which are accepted as satisfactory. But, foL* unexplained reasons, the results of the negotiations are to be kept secret until disclosed to Pailiament, and Mr Duffy's majority is probably sufficiently large to enable him lo carry through the Assembly any soheme he may strongly recommend. His political position has been rendered stronger by the temporary retirement of Sir James M'Culloch, who has resigned his seat, and is about to take a trip to Europe. If Victoria subsidises Mr Webb, that colony and New Zealand together will, doubtless, be able to give him enough to keep him going, taking into consideration what he expects to get from Washington; and this will be a security that this postal and passenger route will not be even temporarily closed. Whether Sydney is to be allowed to participate with Melbourne we, of course, do not know at present. If we are left out in the cold we must console ourselves as best we can. The Wynyard Pier, Auckland, seems to be in a bad state. The Herald states that as. Captain Gilfillan, of the schooner Nuknlau, was approaching the spot where his boat was fastened, he suddenly descended into a pitfall that was nearly being his death. Two of the planks of I lie pier wore wholly gone, and through the aperture caused by their absence the captain found himself suddenly precipitated. Fortunately, he caught himself by extending his arms, and was thus prevented from going right through. Had he not done so, he would in all probability, have been drowned, for a heavy sea was running, it was pitch dark, and raining and blowing heavily. As it was two of his ribs were broken, and he was consider ably injured and shaken. The Wellington Independent, referring to the recent importation of Scandinavians, thinks thai there is something radically amiss in the management of the immigration department in London, and that it is owing to the absence of the Agent-General in pursuit of immigrants. Another officer is evidently wanted to do this part ol the work, so as to permit the Agent General to stay in London and superinted the transhipment of th.e emigrants, there having been in the case of those by the England a lamentable want of management. At the sittings of the Supreme Court (in banco), at Wellington, on the 18th March, in re Te Hapuku, the Attorney-General appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr Buckley for the trustee. Mr Travers appeared on behalf of Mr Eussell, a creditor, who ap plied to set aside the declaration of the plea of execution of deed, and to have the deed taken oiT the file. The Attor-ney-General, previous to going on with the informed his Honor that on Friday last it was thought better, through something that had happened, that the case should not be gone on with that day. It was understood that communication should be held with Napier, and if the trustee for whom Mr Buckley was acting consented to the arrangement to which he had made reference, he would have asked his Honor to adjourn the case in order to see whether the arrangement could be carried out. A message had since been received from Napier, which showed that the carrying out of the arrangement was hopeless, and it would be necessary to proceed, but Mr Buckley's clerk had not delivered the communication to Mr Travers in sufficient time to appear that day, an irregularity having arisen in consequence of the clerk putting the letter into the letter box instead of taking it to the office. The case was ordered to stand over till the 26th March. The very handsome sum of <£3oo was subscribed in Melbourne for the relief of the sufferers by the late flood at Greymouth. In an article beaded, "Is America prepared for war?" the New York Herald says :—" Lovers of peace may be assured that there is but slight danger of war on our part. Our condition precludes the possibility of iW"

On the subject of assfetecr- immigration, the London Times, Sept. 5, writes : —" There is a certain school of political philanthropists which never wearies of complaining that a Government ruling the greatest colonial empire the world has ever seen, is equally indifferent to the hardships that foot the daily life of our laboring masses at home, and to the just demands of the colonists for immigrant labor. It has over and oyer again been made a ground of accusation against the present Ministry, by Tories: and Radicals that it lifts neglected its bounden duty in failing to further migration of labour from, the overcrowded centies of population in thorn other country to- the thinly-peopled settlements of Australia and New Zealand. We have always doubted thesoundness of any plan for assisting & migration of this sort on a large scale.. We have taken leave to question thebenefits predicted as the results of such a policy either to the working classes, of England or to the colonies, in which there is a deficiency of labor. We have felt most strongly that to ship the unemployed by wholesale to the colonies, without discriminating their character or capacity, would be to confer a very dubicis favor upon the-per-sons deported, and to inflict a serious, injury upon the countries.on which we thrust them. On the other hand, except in rare cases, we should, not be* justified in spending the public money, raised in taxes from persons struggling; manfully to support themselves as English, citizens, in order to pay the- passage of a picked class of laborers to a Paradise of high wages. The indiscriminate ejections from the kingdoms of people 'out of work' would, it is certain, be repelled with indignation, by any of our colonies, and with very good reason. If, however, they vvant a more serviceable article in, the shapeof imported labor, it is fair 1 that they should pay for it themselves." A gentleman residing at New Norfolk, Tasmania, writes as follows to an Otago friend concerning the salmon experiment in that colony :—" Theparent salmon hatched in the ponds here have been twice in the Dcrwent to spawn since their liberation. Salmon, according to my authority, Mr Rarinsbottom, of Clitheroe, visit their original breeding places only every two We have parr the results of two of these visits from the sea, showing that at an interval of one and ahalf to two years the parent fish came to spawn. I have been down to see at least three veritable specimens of salmo. salar, but not in one were the fish trumps. Still, a salmon will be taken sometime, of that you may rest assured; but so far, this fish has proved more than a match for the anglers. As to trout, fi-di from one to nine pounds are constantly killed. One gentleman, lately took six,, which weighed over 30ibs, one of them being nearly 91bs." Incendiarism is so familiar to the people of Auckland that it has become almost a household world. Three files, in various localities Tre reported in the Herald of the 16fch March, and two of them seem to have been intentionally raised. Of one at Otahuhu it is. said " there is some reason to fear that it. was the work of an incendiary "; and of another at Onehunga, ' w there can beno doubt, that this fire vas wilfully raised." In both cases the houses destroyed were unoccupied. The Canterbury Meat Preserving; Company have commenced shipping this season's manufactures for London, and during the past few days about 30 tons weight have been sent through to Lyttelton. "Despite the success that has attended gold mining in Victoria, and the general prosperity that has attended mining speculations lately, there is a large falling oil" in the yields for the last two months compared with the corresponding period in 1870. Nearly 39,000 ounces more gold were exported in the first two mouths of last year than this, and this in the face of some 18,000 ounces more received from New Zealand for January and February,. 18:72,, than in 1871.

It is stated that roasted onion applied to the wrist is a certain cure for roorhache. A lady writes to a contemporary to say that she applied the remedy in the case of her son, and in ten au* antes the painha.d ceased.