Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1313, 1 May 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1872.

Xn the, Resident Magistrate's Court fhis morning, one. drunkard was fined five shillings, or in default 24 hours' imprisonment His. Honor the District Judge this morning held a sitting in bankruptcy. Re James M. Boyd, cab,proprietor. — Mr J. N. Wilson "applied, on behalf of three of the creditors, that the estate should be vested forthwith in the provisional trustee, under section 9 of the Bankruptcy Act Amendment Act, 1868.—Order made. Re Joshua Cuff, solicitor.—-This being the day appointed for the bankrupt to apply tor his final discharge, he was called, but failed to appear, During the month, ending 30t]i April, @0 head cattle and 1,564 sheep were exported from. Port Almriri. The Qustoms Receipts at Port Ahuliri for the month ending 30th April ainounted to 41,73413 s 3d, A.n announcement appears in. our adYertising columns,, that the steamer Rangatira —advertised during the last <Jay or. two to,, steam for the South—•will leave here on or about Saturday i&ext, 4th inst., for Auckland, calling ijii Poverty Bay and Tauranga if t ucement. qffers r

A Band of Hope Ins been opened at Meanee in a very successful manner, no fewer than 32 juveniles having joined the society on the opening night. The proceedings were enlivened by a magic lantern exhibition; the apparatushaving been kindly lent for the occasion by Mr Wood.

No intimation has yet reached Napier of the arrival at Auckland of the " magnificent" steamship Nebraska, from Honolulu, with the English March mail. As the 22nd of last month was its due date, the mail boat is now nine days behind time. The noble and generous manner in which the people of the United Stales of America came forward and subscribed towards the relief of the distressed operatives of Lancashire, in England, some ten years ago —when the former country was suffering from the dreadful effects of its disastrous civil war—will not be readily forgotten by Englishmen in all parts of the world. The great fire which recently devastated the city of Chicago lias afforded the people of Great Britain an opportunity of giving their cousins across the water a practical proof of their gratitude for past favors. In Manchester alone, the subscriptions to the Chicago Relief Fund had, up to latest dates, reached 010-. e upon £17,000. The New Zealand Herald, April IS, :—The memorial, signed by 2,G00 citizens of Auckland and suburbs, pre sented to the Licensing Bench on Tues day, is a strong expression of public opinion in the direction of restraining the liquor traffic. The objections taken to it by the lawyers present were, no doubt, in strict order; but we are of opinion that the Bench would not have been acting in the interests of public morality if they had declined to receive it on technical giounds. The deputation stated that the memorial was not presented under tho Act, but simply as a protest against the granting of new licences for the sale of intoxicatingliquors ; and the Bench, with a somewhat ostentatious declaration of unbiassed judgment, which, by the way, was quite uncalled for, declared that they were not in the least influenced by it. Hie applicants, therefore, had no reason to complain of want of k( fairness, J as they did through one of their legal representatives As it was, the licensing justices appear to have acted entirely on the police report. No doubt that was a safe course to. take; at the same time we think pub'ic sentiment should have been respected a iit tie more than it was.

The Nelson Examiner reports that on the evening of the 2nd April, a miner, named Edward Gardiner, Ihing near the Waikaromuum River, Takaka, left his cottage about eight o'clock to look for his boy, who had gone out against his instructions to visit, as he supposed, his mate, who lived on the other side of the river. The wife of this, man «sa*r a light, as if carried in some, one's hand, near the Waikaromurnu, about, the time Gardiner left his house, and it is supposed that, the night being dark, he got too near the bank of the river, which is eighteen feet high, and fell down the bank into the water, as his body was found the following morning halfa-inile- from, where it is supposed the accident occurred. The poor fellow had received a severe cut on his forehead.

A late English paper contains the startling announcement that there were 4,000 cases of small-pox: at Sheffield,

At the Manchester-gaol .sessions, on the 2nd January, a report was read from the surgeon,, in which that officer recommended the use of Australian preserved meat in the prison. He reported that the saving upon the present price of fresh meat would be' 40 pel" cent, whilst the food would be quite as nutritious as English meat. The other day a gentleman entered an hotel in Glasgow, and finding that the person who, appeared to act as waiter could not give, him. certain in formation which he wanted, put the question, "Do.you belong to the establishment?" to, which Jeames replied, " No, sir ; J belong to the Free Kirk," " In repenting of bins," saysthe philosophical Josh Billings,, "men,are apt to repent of those they hain't, got, and, overlook those they have,"