Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1312, 30 April 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1872.

We learn that a rumor is afloat in a Southern city of its being the intention of Mr Orrnond to retain office as Superintendent of this Province, conjointly with the Ministry of Public Works. There is no legal obstacle to the carrying out of this plan of action ; but it will be counter to the generallyaccepted belief that certain very obvious political reasons would prevent its adoption. Our Tennyson-street brother, it will be remembered, on Mr Orruond's being gazetted to the Public Works Department, lost not a day in hailing with poeans of praise the assumed near appearance of the I'ising sun, and in making the discovery of his possession of the qualities exactly adapted to our needs, On this occasion? at least, he appears to have been Vasty, and to have spoken without official inspiration. Vexation at the error may have been the cause of the silence maintained ever since. The present news will not, we are sure, prove an unbearable disappointment. Our Hastings-street contemporary, about the same time, very openly expressed its wish for the disoovery of some means whereby the Province should escape the loss of Mr Ormond's services as Superintendent, It has, we therefore think, established a claim to praise for its prescience and dear apprehension of the exigencies of the position ; seeing, it is said, that a solution of that difficulty is to bo found in nonacceptance of salary for the Suporintendental offices. The Province will in this way at least be a gainer. But it is not quite so clear and certain that Mr Ormoud's.

colleagues (save Mr M'Lean), and the members of the General Assembly will cordially join in our satisfaction.

We regret Lo learn that Mr Loddeiy engineer of the Star of the South, was unable to proceed in that steamer this morning, owing to severe indisposition. He is much better this evening. The hon. Mr Vogel, we are informed, is likely to be a passenger southward from Auckland by the neat trip of the Nebraska. Mr. Hill, late of the Telegraph Station at Napier has, we hear, been exchanged to Maketu, Mr Hanna, late of Maketu, taking his place. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning the adjourned case of Brawn v. Steel came on for hearing. The witness John Evans was called, and deposed that he was a carpenter, and had been engaged by Brown to assist in building a thrashing machine for Steel. According to Brown, Steel was to pay him, and during the time he worked on the thrashing machine Steel paid him two separate sums of 10s. The witness after a time quarrelled with Brown, and refused to work longer under his directions, whereupon Steel employed him in other work. While he was working on the thrashing machine one day, Brown said to him, " I do not care if T only get enough out of this job to pay you." Nevertheless witness looked for payment t$ Steel, who disclaimed liability, and referred him to Brown. He afterwards sued Brown, and obtained a judgment for his wages, which had, however, not yet been paid.—Mr M'lntyre addressed the Court, reviewing the evidence at considerable length. He claimed a nonsuit, on the ground that the payment of wages, on which plaintiffs claim was based, had never been made—Mr Sted man briefly reviewed the evidence. He said the objection raised by his learned friend would have carried great weight in a higher Court; but the casw was different in this. In fact, in this matter it was an understood thing that .the payment should stand over till the present case vv\s decided.—The Resident Magistrate- said that as the evidence was voluminous and conflicting, he should require time for its consideration. —Judgment reserved till Friday. The following marriage announcement appears in a late Melbourne paper: — • Ah Poo—Thurlow.—At the Wcsleyan Parsonage, Lonsdale-street, Melbourne, All Poo, Esq., of Canton, China, to Miss Frances Louisa Maud, eldest daughter of F. J. W. Thurlow, Esq., late of Belfast, Port Fairy, and grand-daughter of the late Capt. Edward Wilson Cotton Hodgson, and grand-daughter of the late Capt. Ressic. in the Australasian, says "it is doubtless very uncharitable and unchristianlike, but the souls of men revolt at the matrimonial alliance of Mongolians with Englishwomen. It doosn't mend the matter much, nor does it quite Anglicise the bridegroom that Ah Sin appends " Esq. " to his native appellation. Nor need the lady feel so much pride in the alliance as to parade in the public journals the names of her distinguished ancestors —an announcement which, if they could read it, would make them shudder in their graves." A plan for forewarning vessels along the coasis of Europe and America of storms that sweep periodically across the ocean has been under discussion for some time, but the most practical device for providing news of sea storms is that of an ocean storm ship. It is proposed that a screw ship of immense power and especially fitted for the purpose be stationed in mid ocean directly above the line of an ocean cable, which shall be laid for the purpose of connecting it with the the shores of Europe and the United States. The vessel is to be provided with powerful pumps so that it may be able if necessary, to assist a ship in mid-ocean, and tow her into port. Under suoh circumstances, facilities would be provided for anchoring the end of a cable to a floating buoy of immense size, and so arranged as to render a cable safe while the vessel left her station. The plan, with some modification, will doubtless be carried into effect at no distant day by international co-operation.

The Otago Daily Times and Witness Company have purchased a building site near Rattray-street jetty, Dianedin, at a cost of £I6OO. It is contemplated to erect a building the cost of which will be, £2OOO. At first (writes Mr Arthur Helps) it surprise* one that love should be made the staple of all the best kinds of fiction ; and perhaps it is to be regretted that it is only one kind of lave that is chiefly depicted in works of fiction. But that love itself is the most remarkable thing in human life there cannot be the slightest doubt. For see what it will conquer. It is not only that it prevails over selfishness, but it has the victory over tiresomeness, and familiarity. When you are with the person loved you have no sense of being bored. This humble and trivial circumstance is the great test, the only sure and abiding test of love. With the persons you do not you are not supremely at your case. You have some of the sensation of walking upon stilts. In conversation with them, however much you admire them, the horrible idea will cross your mind of "What shall T say next?/' Converse with them is not perfect association. But with those you love the satisfaction in their presence is not. unlike that of the relation of the heavenly bodies to one another, which in their silent relvoutions lose none of their attractive power. The sun does not talk the world,, but it attracts it.