Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1372, 11 July 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1872.

As far ns we are aware, no intelligence had reached Napier up to the time we went to press this evening regarding tbe steamer Nevada, due at Auckland from the South yesterday morning; and there can, we think, he little doubt that some disaster, more or less serious, has befallen her. We trust soon to receive some intimation of her safe arrival at Auckland or other port. Although there is good reason to hope that the precautions taken both at Auckland and Wellington to stay the progress of that tearful scourge, smallpox, and prevent its spreading to other districts, will prove successful, it is satisfactory to know that the Government is alive to the danger which would attend its reaching the native pas oil this coast, and have taken the precaution to engage the services of two medical gentlemen to prosecute the •work of vaccination amongst persons of the native race. Dr. Hitching*, we are informed, will take the southern portion of the Province, and Or. Scott the districts to the north. In the "Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, Samuel Sykes was charged with stealing £7 from the person of William Shields, in Gobi) & Go.'s coach, between Havelock and Napier. : —Remanded till to-morrow. The Foxton correspondent of the Wellington Independent writes on *he 24th June:—"Mr Grindell has been here for the past few days, and speaks of his having progressed very favorably with the natives upon the Otaki block. Three surveyors are already at work surveying the outer boundaries, so as to ena-ble the block to be passed through the Native Lands Court early in the spring." A peculiar and a'* kward accident is noted in a late Nelson Colonist. Messrs. Adams and Kingdon were sending a large safe full of deeds, &c„ from. Neb son to Blenheim, where they have recently opened an. office, but by some mishap, while it was being .v.hipped on board the Lyttelton, it fell between the j wharf and the boat into the water, J svom whence there would be gieat diffi-' \*Hy in, extricating it |

A BENEFICIAL FLOOD AT FOSTON.

The Foxton coirespondent of the Wellington Independent gives the following account of a flood in that district, the results of which, contrary to the general rule, seem to have been rather beneficial than otherwise ;—"LaM> Thursday morning early (June 20) the inhabitants of the town were seriously alarmed by hearing an unusual roaring and rushing sound, and as span as it was.light they went to discover the cause of it What was their astonishment to find the whole of the flat on the north end of the town under water, with a sei'ies of rows of frothy matrer, showing how much the water had ri-,en and fallen whilst they had been asleep. Jt appears that on Wednesday evening the water, which always collects on the race-course every winter, and which lies some height above the flat o,n the town side, had been noticed to be just on the level of the roadway which has been cut for the tramway through the sand ridge which divides the town from the course, and had during the night cut a channel, and having increased its momentum, at last burst ihiough with a fearful ' rush, carrying the road formation to the right and left, and ahead, anywhere and anyhow, so long- as it did not impede its stream. There was a hurrying to and fro of Government officers, but by the time lhey were moving, the water had almost ceased, leaving them merely the work to gracefully conduct it by some convenient outlet to the river—steps which they immediately set about doing. The accident, as I suppose it must be called, though it is decidedly the be-t thing that could have happened, had a wild look in the morning; but upon closer examination one may say that hardly any damage has been done. The rush of water through the cutting has lowered i( a >out ten feer, making a far better road through it than there originally was It laid some acres tern porarily under watei, and one or two gardens, but by the opening of some old drains and the cutting of one or two new ones, it will do away with all the present inconvenience, and be a marked benefit lo a large district for all time. This is the general view of the case, and when hands were wanted to make a cutting across the Avenueroad, to see the a ay some of the settlers having adjacent properties tinned into it and worked was one of the finest sights, possible, and had none of the Government stroke appearance. One or two gentlemen having a slight interest in the old Awa Hon stream (their lands abutting on it) spoke very strongly to the Engineer about turning the water down it, and suggested various measures to prevent him, even so far as a proposal to erect a brick dam across it, but fortunately the Engineer was firm to his purpose, and, heedless of the two, considered the good of ihe many."