Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1360, 27 June 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1872.

A new kind of printing-ink has been invented, from which copies of printed matter can be made in the same way as manuscript written with copying ink. We have received a specimen, from Mr G. Street, Cornhill, London, which was taken in an ordinary copying-press six months after the original was printed. Tne new invention will be of value for numerous purposes.

We are glad to. hear that the Permissive Bill petitions are being numerously signed in Canterbury.

There were no cases in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning.

Mr Edward Scott, banker, Cavendish, Square, London, is sending out a pair of vases from England as a contribution to the art department of the Canterbury Museum. The vases cost 150; guineas.

The Marlborough News says :. " Diphtheria has again appeared in our midst, and a daughter of Mr Hockey's, who was attending school, but considerately told by the school mistress on seeing she had a difficulty in speaking, to remain at home, had.a severe attack., and. succumbed under the dire disease We notice the melancholy circumstance that parents may be warned to keep their children from unnecessary expo sure to the cold and damp during this inclement weather."

The Wellington Independent,. June 12, says :—On Monday night, when the barque City of Newcastle was coming to an anchor, the chief mate performed a. gallant action that deserves to be known. The occurrence took place between nine and ten o'clock at night. The men had been *ent aloft to furl sail, and one of the erevv who was on the foretopsail yard lost his hold and fell into the harbor. Mr-Thomp-son, the mate, was the only person who noiiced the accident, and he bt once plunged overboard after the sailor, whom he succeeded in keeping afloat until the captain and pilot were called. But as a fresh breeze was blowing from the south east, with heavy rain, it was a work of considerable difficulty even to get both men on board again. It is a pleasure to record such instances of intrepidity as the above, and Mr Thompson deserves to be complimented upon his plucky act. The Wellington Independent says:. —Large numbers of duck are now being shot in the Wairarapa, where the black swans have so increased that the settlers on the borders of the lake are slaughtering them wholesale, and they are reported to be very good eating. No fewer than 260 were counted in one lot the other day, flying over the lake.

A memorandum lias been issued by his Eoyal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, directing ihat in future " clothing for recruits be fitted as loose as possible, to enable them as they increase in size from good diet and healthy exercise, to undergo their drill without impeding the free use of their lungs and the action of the heart."

It is proposed in Melbourne to organise a company to form an establishment in India for hor.se-breeding pur poses. The project does uo.t meet much favor.

A late telegram states that Count Bismarck retires to his estates, and will abstain from active participation in affairs for several months.

A late Sydney telegram states that the returns far the past four months shew the yield of gold to he 75 per cent, more than last year.

A great calamity has overtaken the beautiful town of Somerset, Pennsyh vania. The fire demon has visited that town, aud fully one-halt the place is smouldering in ashes. As in Chicago the fire commenced in a stable in the rear of Holderhauin's fctore. There was a strong wind blowing from the south-west, causing the flames to spread with great rapidity, and render irig|futile all endeavors to check it* ravages. The damage is estimated at $1,000,000.