Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1364, 2 July 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1872.

The Customs Revenue collected at Her Majesty'* Customs, PoitAhuriri, for the mouth of June, 1872, amounted (including Pilotage Receipts, i-31 8s 2d) to .£1,766 Os id. We are requested by the Chief Postmaster to state that mails for England, &c, per p,s. Nevada, will close at Napier on the Bth inst. Persons wishing to take out money orders are re quested to do so as early as possible on that day. The Ne\ada leaves Dunedin on her upward trip ou the sth. In the Resident Magistrates Court this morning nine natives appeared, charged with being concerned in the Olive riot. Three, who pleaded guilty, were fined £s' each. The case against another prisoner was proceeded with, but fell through, and the remaining cases were withdrawn. There was also one civil case. Our full report is ciwJed out.

We publish to-day the concluding portion of Mr Judge ftochforls decision in the case of Kegina v. Paora Torotovo for perjury. ■ ; We have received a communication fiora "Willie Steel, for which we have not space to-day. A Guilford (N.S.W.) resident having some time ago read in the papers of a new way of removing stumps by the use of kerosine, has tried the experiment with the mo-,t successful results. The plan adopted is to sprinkle on the top of each stump a small quantity of kero sine, and as the stumps in nearly all cases are .seamed, weather cracked, or decayed, it soon disappears. On the tops of the stumps is then piled some refuse wood, which, after two or three days, is set tire to, and the consequence is that the stumps' are burnt completely up, roots and all. The allies are then scattered about. Digging up stumps has always been hard and tedious work, but now a lad can do the work, and have scores on fire at once. At a late show of the Western Agricultural Society, held in Bathurst, N.S.W., a special prize was offered by a Mr John Smith to the value of i?2, for the female servant who should produce a certificate ol the longest continuous service in one place. One solitary competitor appeared in the list of entries; her service reached 4 \ years, and she received the prize. Referring to the above, the Sydney Morning Herald remarks that "if Mr Smith had reversed the conditions, and offered a prize for the mistress who had been longest under the dictation of her servant, it is more than probable that the entries would have been large and the competition keen. In Australia, to expect servants to remain for any length of time in one situation is an insult to the independence of the cla^s."

There is at this moment (says the Belfast Newsletter) a gentleman moving in good society in the metropolis whose case is one that evokes the liveliest sympathy of his friends He is a peculiarly modest, unostentatious person, and aboii'. the la»L man in the whole world to aspire to popularity of any sort. There is no possible objection to my mentioning his name—it is Netterville. Unfortunately for Mr Netterville, he labors under a disability for which he cannot in any way be held personally responsible. He has the misfortune to resemble the claimant both iu face and figure. The result is extremely inconvenient During the trial people who were entire strangers to him used to accost him in the street, in the theatre, and wherever they might happen to meet him, and observe—" Excuse me, sir, but are yon the claimant'?'' So long as the claimant's case appeared to be going on well, tiie inconvenience to Mr Netterville was not peculiarly oppressive, but when the defence was entered upon, and the case began to look extremely fishy, the necessity of constantly disclaiming the claimant became in proportion more annoying. Under these circumstances, yon may imagine how gladdening it was to Mr Netterville to hear that the claimant was safely locked up within rhe walls J of Newgate, as he presumed that there would be an end to his persecutions Not so, however, for no sooner had the prison door.* closed upon the claimant than the rumor got into circulation that he had been bailed, and was again to be found at his old haunts— the Junior Gun Club, the Waterloo Hotel, Car's Tavern in the Strand, the Alharnbra, &c. It was only then that poor Mr Netterville began to realise the true nature of his posi'ion, as three-fourths of the people he met stared at him, and exclaimed, "There goes that vile impostor!" and the other fourth (eonsisting for che most part of newsboys, cab drivers, and the like) gathered round him, " Here's Sir Roger out again. Hurrah, boys, give him a cheer ! " The result has been, if not to drive the man nearly mad, at least to drive him out of London, where, he says, it is impossible for him to remain unless he walks about with a placard on his chest and another on his back, inscribed with the words, " I ain not che claimant. I aspure you, upon my honor, I am neither lioger Tiehborne nor Arthur Ortou."