Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1357, 24 June 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri.

The half-holiday movement in Invercargill is reported to be a failure.

The hou. the Defence Minister has declined to accept the services of a new company of Naval Volunteers recently formed at Auckland in the following terms ;—" Anxious as lam to promote the Volunteer movement, I deem it necessary on the of the meeting of the General Assembly to postpone the acceptance of the services of the proposed corps until the Legislature has made provision for the expenditure which would result from it."

An Auckland telegram, of date 17th June, says:— «Henry Thompson, a passenger by the Nebraska from Dun ediu, has gone to the hospital, suffering from small-pox. He says that two other passengers by the Nebraska, who. went on to San Francisco, were sinii' larly affected, but did not. know the nature of the disease."

Mr George Peter Mutu, a Maori, has recently been admitted to Deacons' Orders at St. Michael's Church, Christchurch. The Lyttelion Times says i—"Mr Mutu has been studying for the ministry for some time pa-t under the instruction of the Re*. J. W. Stack, and it is a strong proof of his devotion to the work oi the ministry that he has twice refused a seat in the General Assembly as a Maori representative."

The capital of the New Zealand Freight Company, formed in Auckland a short time ago, has been increased from .£10,00.0 to <£ls,ooo<, so as to allow importers in other towns in New Zealand, and also exporters from home, to partake of the benefits to. be enjoyed by the formation of the company.

We gather from our exchanges, that the contracts for several of Ihe railways to be constructed by Messrs. Brogden and Sons are nearly completed. That for the Pictou and Blenheim Railway is signed, the tender being ,£IO,OOO over the original estimate made for this line. Tenders for other lines have been received, but the estimates seem to be in all ease* larger than anticipated. In the work of the Auckland and Wai

THE RECENT CASE OF SMALL-POX IN WELLINGTON. (From the Eveoing Post, 17th June.) LATE on Saturday afternoon the startling intelligence was spread through the city that a fresh case of small-pox had broken out among us, and enquiry confirmed the authenticity of the rumor. Mr Kay, late mail agenu of the Nebraska, hail been discovered to be .suffering from a disease which was pronounced to be small pox, at such a state that although the sufferer ran no risk of dangerous or fatal results, it was eminently infectious. Accordingly steps were immediately taken 10 put the patient, "in quarantine," at Soames' Island, whither he was sent about dusk in a boat, accompanied by two of the Armed Coivstabubuy, detached to attend upon him until his recovery. He was yesterday visited by Dr Johnston, who found him progressing favorably. On first hearing of a man suffering from a malignant disease, taken from his hou«e, ami. sent away in the dusk of evening in a boat, it was impossible not to think of the celebrated Wanganui case, in which the authorities-got out of the dilemma of having a small-pox patient on their hands, and no place to keep him in, in a Aery clever manner. As our readers will recollect, the modus operandi was to put him in a canoe on a wet night, in charge of a drunken sai disant medico, and an equally drunken attendant, with orders 10. take him to to the Heads; and that these votaries of Bacchus, being for obvious reasons unable to reach their destination, hawked him up and down the liver, and anchored him olf the share, until the cold and exposure killed him, it bein" afterwards discovered that he had never been affected with small-pox at all. The case- of Mr -Kay is. not quiteso bad as this. He was in a fit state of i health to be removed, and had sober and trustworthy guardians, but still it seems that there must be something radically wrong in our system, of sanitary precautions when an occurrence of this nature can take place. If the man, had eho:-en to. object to his unceremonious removal liom his own house, he

During his Excellency the Governor's recent visit to the Taupo district, the resident natives preferred an especial request to Sir George that a European town should be founded on the shores of the Great Lake, and named "Bowen,' c and that a steamer should l>e placed on the lake. They received replies to the effect that the Government would carry out their requests.

Creditable specimens of earthenvara in the shape of wash-hand basins, manufactured in Christchm-ch, are spoken of by the Canterbury Press.

The Otago Daily Times, June 12;, says that coal-mining at Preservation! Inlet is.aboul to be proceeded with by the company foimed to work the mines there. Seeing that the Inlet affords safe shel+er, and that by the expenditure of a small sum of money, a jetty for the accommodation of large vessels could be constructed, it is hoped that eventually the Melbourne steamers, will 20. there to be coaled.

A London correspondent of the Lyttellon Times writes to- say that theNew Zealand mails by the route-have never reached homedn less, than 52 days, or 8 days beyond their proper time, while occasionally the delavi have been nuich greater.

A Sydney correspondent of a Melbourne paper writes under a late date :: —ln the mining history of the week there is phenomenon which I must no.t neglect ta notice,, and that is then, actual declaration of tobon&fide dividend' by a gold mining company. It is a fact which, will be- scarcely credible that, such, an, event has never before happened, in New South Wales. Of course therehas been a great deal of profitable gold--mining, and individual diggers and partnerships of diggers have madehandsome piofe; and there have alsobeen some cases where a capitalists have clubbed and worked a. snug claim jpintiy; but there hasnevertill now been a case where a regular joint-stock company, the shares of; which are purchasable in the. open, market, has paid. &'dividend.

The first systematic crushing has been completed at Keefton. Two hundred and sixty tons of stone from Mace's Claim have yielded at the rate of 3ozs to the ton. The Roman Catholic population of New York is about 400,000; Protest,ant, 600,000. The former have only 40 churches, the latter 380. The Protestants average one church for every 1,500 people, the Catholics one for every 4,400, The Empress of Russia is suffering from gout and dropsy of ihe heart. The Empress of Austria is consumptive. The Empress of Germany is rheumatic. The Queen of Denmark Is deaf. The Queen of Holland is subject to frequent fits of hysteria. The Queen of Portugal is a continued invalid. The Queen of Spain is'the only crowned lady on the European Continent who enjoys good health. A company is to be formed by some London, Chatham, and Dover residents, to build an hotel at a station they are preparing on the Holborn Viaduct, which is to cost .£50,000. The London Standard is informed that in the Spring a new experiment is to be made in the matter of military clothing. Twenty thousand men are to be clothed in scarlet tunics and blue trousers, instead of the brickdust tunics and Oxford grey trousers now in use, and the button is to be of one uniform pattern, bearing the Royal arms upon it in the place of a regimental device. If the experiment is found to answer, the whole army will be a clothed in a similar manner.