Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1359, 26 June 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1872.

Mails for Australia and the United Kingdom close at Auckland at L 30 p.m. 1 to-morrow (27th inst) Telegrams for transmission by this opportunity will be received in Napier till 11.30 a.m.

A statement appeared in several journals a short time ago, on the authority of an evening paper in Auckland, that Mr T. B. Gillies, Superintendent of that Province, was about to be elevated to a Judgeship. We now find that Mr Gillies repudiates the statement, and thinks " the rumor was the work of the enemy."

We mentioned, in our issue of the 20th inst., thao the information of perjury against Paora Torotoro had been quashed in the District Court. # We have obtained a copy of the decision, which we intend publishing in full.

A large seai has been seen lately in Dnnedin Bay, within a hundred yards of the Anderson's Bay road. The length of the animal was about se\ en feet!

The members of the Legislative Assembly at Honolulu were entertained at a luncheon by Captain Blethen on board the Nevada, on May 25. The vessel was gaily dressed with flags. John Davius, proprietor of the Hobart Town Mercury, has died suddenly al Hobart Town from serous apoplexy.

The Victorian mint has commenced operations with £95,000 worth of. gold. We learn by the Coromandel Mail that the telegraph line between Coromandel and Grahamstown will probably be completed in a few days. The twenty third half-yearly meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company was held at Auckland on the 19th inst., the hon. James Williamson in the chair. A dividend at tlie rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared, and a sum of £ti,l(j7 7s 9d carried to the re-insurance fund account.; this amount is in addito a reserve of .£11,862 to meet outstanding claims. Some rooks which had departed from their self-selected habitation at the Christchurch Hospital, have returned after a tour in the neighboring country. The news is gratifying, as it was feared the birds had been destroyed. The merits of the Alabama question have been admirably summed up in a letter to a distinguished American by Mr John Bright, who observes :—" No facts and no figures can sho*v that the war was prolonged by the mischief of the pirate ships. And surely what cannot be proved by distinct, evidence cannot be made the subject of an award. This country will not go into a court to ask for an award which, if against it, it never will accept. An award against it in the matter of indirect claims will never be paid, and therefore the only honest course is to object- now before going into court,"