Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1308, 25 April 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1872.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning;, an individual who was: fchown to hare been drunk at Port Ahuriri yesterday, and to have violently resisted Constable Hunt, who arrested Jrim, was fined £2 and 10s costs. Mr $. D. Canniqg, who was called as a witness, deposed that the man was in a frenzied stale, and that but for timely assistance, Constable llun,t would have fared badly. "We observe from an advertisement in another column that Mr F. SJianly, from Christchurch, who arrived by the Rangatiira, has taken the coaehbuilding business recently carried on by Mr A. Peters in Browning-street. We wish Mr Shanty every success in his enterprise. The seat for Waikouaiti in the House of Representatives—vacated by the resignation of Mr G. M'Lean—affords another opportunity for the disconsolate ones to make another effort to get into the Parliamentary elysium. Candidates apparently are not wanting. The Waikouaiti Herald mentions that Messrs. Thompson, Douglas, and Green will come forward ; while other journals state that Mr Fish, Mayor of Dunedin, and Sir David Monro are seeking political honors in that direction. It is even thought quite likely that the irrepressible Macassey already four times rejected—will make another appeal to the free and enlightened eU-ctois —this time of Waikouaiti. The Southern Cross, April 10., regrets to learn that Captain Freer has met with a seyere accident on the wharf, resulting in the loss, of one of his fingers. It appears that, on Wednesday afternoon, he was attending to the shipment of goods from the wharf to one of his customers in town, when he had occu§ion to assist one of his men with a roll of lead, which fell suddenly, cutting the first joint of the second finger of the left hand clean off. Capt. Freer was at OJice taken to Vv Lee, wheu it was found necessary to, amputate the second.

Some alarm was caused at Port Ahuriri yesterday by a drunken man, who, having been refused more drink, created a great disturbance, and with almost incredible strength resisted the constable and others who arrested him; being, in fact, in a state of drunken insanity. In Court, this morning, he stated that, it was a first offence, and that he could not remember any of the circumstances of the affair. He was heavily fined—as he deserved ; but we are inclined to think that the dealer who must have supplied liquor to this man, sufficient to make him a temporary maniac, and a source of terror and danger to the public, deserves a much heavier penalty than the drunkard himself. In the Supreme Court, Wellington, on the 16th. inst., the ca«e of Te Hapuku, a bankrupt, again came on for hearing. The Attorney-General appeared for the trustees, and Mr Tracers opposed on behalf of Mr .Russell. Mr Travers said he had been at a previous sitting directed by his Honor to direct his attention to two points. First, that Mr Russell was not a creditor within the meaning of the act, on the ground that he was a secured creditor, and had therefore no locus standi, and was not affected by the deed. Second, whether the bankruptcy was a subsisting bank ruptcy within the 255th section at the time of the execution of the deed.— After considerable argument the case was ordered to stand over. Advices from Na\ igator's Group state that the American war steamer Narraganset had taken possession oi Titiula in the name of the United States, and it was the general belief that the whole group would be annexed. The notorious Captain Hayes was found there, with the brig Leonora, and the captain of the Narraganset arrested him for offences committed against the United States laws, but, after a formal inquiry, released him. Since the beginning of February, 203,784 feet of sawn timber, have been exported from the Bluff to Melbourne, and either one or two vessels are now on the berth waiting to be loaded for the same port. In the language of his companions, Ulick Burke "cot.ld be a gentleman when he pleased." How often ha*, cwe heard this phrase, and witli what a fatal mistake is it generally applied ! He who can be a gentleman when he pleases cannot be anything else. Circumstances may. and do, every day in life throw men of cultivated minds and refined habits into the society of their inferiors; but while, with the tact and readiness that is their special prerogative, they make themselves welcome among those with whom they have few, if any, sympathies in common, yet never by any accident do they derogate from that high standard that makes them gentlemen. So on the other hand, the man of vulgar tastes and coarse propensities may simulate, if he be able, the outward habitudes of society, speaking with practised intonation, and bowing with well studied grace; yet he is no more a gentleman in his thought or feeling than is the tinselled actor who struts the board the monarch his costume would bespeak him. This being the "gentleman when he likes" is but the mere performance of the character. It has the smell of the orange-peel and the foot-lights about it, and never can be mistaken by any one who knows the world.

The Evening Post remarks that there is something very singular in the delay in the arrival of the last San Francisco mail and the excuses made for it. It may be presumed from the date of the intelligence, that it left San Francisco on the Ist March; but on this point the telegrams are singlarly reticent. We are told it left Honolulu on the 19. th March and arrived in Auckland in twenty days fratu, that date But of the detention ' before leaving, or arriving at Honolulu vv ~e should like to know something. Are we expected to believe that for ten days prior to the mail steamer leaving San Francisco there was no American news? for our choice lies between that and the snow yarn. Is it not more likely that the steamer running to Honolulu broke down, 1 Be the reason what it may, the public have a right to know it, and also to. l>e protected by the penalties Ufttued, in contract being inflicted. '