Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 1, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1363, 1 July 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 1, 1872.

la the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, one drunkard was fined five shillings. In the District Court this morning there was one civil v. {Sutton, a claim of i:B6, amount of a dishonored piomissory note, drawn by E. Leonard, and endorsed by the de fendaut. The defendant pleaded that \\e was not liable, on varum.-) grounds, the principal one being that due notice of the bill being di-honored had not been given. Mr M'Tntyre appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Wilson for the defendant, and the matter was discussed at great length.— His Honor reserved his decision. Mails for Australia and the United Kingdom will close at Grreymoutlj. at 1 p.m. to-morrrow, 2nd Jul v. Telegrams for transmission by this opportunity will be received in Napier until 11 a.m. on that da\.

Dining the month ending 3Qth June, thp exports of live stock from I'ort 4-huriri comprised 151 head of cattle and 3,504 sheep. The Scotsman (Hidinbnrgh), in a late article on the liquor traffic, makes the important admissions which we give below. Coining from an open opponent of the Alliance they are remarkable as showing the steady progress of the principles of that institution :—" There is undoubtedly a peculiarity in the liquor trade which does not exist in any other. If a man buys a loaf, or a book, or a ready-made pair of trousers, he may bring his purchase in him, pr. with him, or on him, without much jisk of hi* proving a public nuisance on the way home. But when a purchaser goes into & liquor store there is a possibility of his[coming out so ulfeetod by ftis investment that he may immediately ltt'(&W9 'aft in tolerable invader of the

rights of others, may break their private windows, smash their public lamps, overturn their persons when accessible, shout and sing neither wisely nor too well, and vvindup by pounding his wife into a jelly Vhen he reaches his own abode. This is,clearly a ense in which law may legitimately interfere with the freedom of trade. It is not obliged io stop at, the imprudent consumer,'though it is clearly bound/to visit hint with a check. The seller, too, is, or may be, implicated, and thai in two ways. In the first place, he may have fraudulently supplied his customer with a poisoned article, whiclijxon being used by the latter, may have, made him, contrary to his justifiable calculations, a public nui sauce, in which case the seller is certainly i primarily responsible. In the second place, he even wheie, *'by means of an article that is not poisoned, his customer has put himself into a condition in which he doe* not know clearly what he is doing, continue to transact business with him, which is plainly as impermissible in alcohol a$ it would be in matrimony or any other contract requiring a responsible contractor."

A correspondent of an English paper, who describes the earthquake at Antioch, states that about 300 Greeks were worshipping in their church, when tho entire, building crumbled to pieces and buried the'whole congregation in its ruins. A Greek school of 50 scholars of tender suffered a siuilur fate. Paul's Gate, a fine Roman ruin at the east entrance of the town, is now no more. Troops were despatched from Aleppo to discover the dead, and on the 10th instant some 1,600 bodies had been extricated. The necessary work is much retarded by the fanaticism of the inhabitants, each religious denomination fighting for the dead of their own creed, instead of allowing the whole to be buried by the Moslem soldiery. The stench emanating from the corpses is something fearful, and pestilence will, it is much feared, result, from the usual rapid putrefaction of dead bodies tinder a Syrian sun.

Vesuvius, which on Sunday, 28*h Apri], seemed to be resting, had at latest dates, once more burse into fury. Lava pours in great rivers down its sides, which are wrapped in sulphurous clouds, powdered ash mixed with cinders and pumice stones falls far and wide, the summit of the mountain itse'f glows at red heat, and tiames burst from its sides. To flames are now added lightnings, and to allies showers of sand, Already the lava has overwhelmed two small villages and part of a larger one, and a whole circle of neigh boring townships are in such danger that their inhabitants have, fled with such of their goods and chattels as they could eariy with them. The fruitful vineyards and orange groves upon lire lower slope* of Vesuvius have many of them been utterly destroyed, and for a circuit of ten miles round the hot ashes he thick upon the ground, and threaten destruction to every green thing should the heavens not speedily ■vouchsafe moie kindly showers. As yet, destruction seems to have fallen rather on property than on people. The 200 who at first were said to have been killed have shrunk to 70, and at last to 12. The horrible tale which Senor Lanz;a told in the Italian Parlia ment of people devoured by flames " bursting from beneath their feet" is probably mythical, as also are those of other unfortunates surrounded unawares by lava, and so engulphed in a molten tomb. That some have lost their lives is indeed only too probable. The most, poisonous vapors float about at seasons of eiuption, and there is reason to believe that most of those who have perished, bo<h in ancient and modern times, have perished by these means. On Wednesday, the inhabitants of several of the villages in the neighborhood of the volcano resumed work. The latest o-timate of the number killed is BQ. No English visitors to Naples are amongst the dead or missing.

Kind and Patronising. -A venerable country gentleman said to a newsboy, Hi the Strand, on Thanksgiving Day—- ■' Boy, 1 want to go to Somerset Fiouse" " "Very welj," replied the boy, "you may go, if you'll promise Rot to be gone long."