Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1379, 19 July 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1872.

*The body of the unfortunate man was fotmil to-day, on, the sea beach, near M'Muvroy's, An inquest we believe, will be held before Mr Begg,, hospital coroner, at 10, o'clock tomOVV° w morning, at, the Napier Hotel.

In Resident Magistrate's Co.uvV this nio.rning, Erueti Puti, a, native, was charged Mith having assaulted John Allanacb, at West Olive, ou the 24th May, by striking hiui with a long pole. The principal witness was John, Davenport, who deposed that on the day in question he. saw the prisoner, whom lie vnhesitatingly identified, knocH Alladown \?Ufe ft PQle ahout W n «

feet long and JJ inches thick. He ran to his assistance, and was himself struck by the prisoner, with the same pole. J ohn. A, llanacji," bjikeiy deposed that just after ihe on the hotel by the natives he went to the artesian well for water. On his return, he was struck from behind with some heavy impleinenfc, and his head laid open for about (six inches;. He raised his arrn,iwhich, was broken by another blow. A-third blow stunned him. When he came to himself he rose and was assisted into the house. He was then covered with blood, his head and face much cut, one of his teeth knocked out, one of his knees cut, and his side injured. He afterwards missed from the end of his house a long titoki pole called a " scufflerod," used in cleaning out the oven. [The presumption being that this waa the weapon with which he was assaulted I—The prisoner, having been cautioned, made a statement to the effect that he went to the scene oi the riot with a companion, and that seeing Mr Williams assaulted by the natives, they were frightened and rode away—-Com-mitted for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court; hail (£200) heing allowed. Simeon v. Manaena.—Claim of <£l 10s—a tailor's bill. Defendant admitted the claim, but md he had so many accounts to settle that he had been unable to settle it.—The Resident Magistrate said that a chief of his posi lion should not let a small account like that run for more than a year.- -Judgment for amount claimed with 9> costs. The Wellington Independent says : men in Chrislchurch and suburbs to establish a tent in connection with the Auckland district of the Independent Order of Kechabites."—lf we are not mistaken, a member of our local tent, at present resident in Christchurch, has originated the movement there. ~~A late telegram from England states that bar iron has advanced £1 9 and galvanised iron £2 per ron. We learn from the Souihern Cross that for the future it has been determined that the CaliforniaU mail steamers shall be anchored first off Raugitoto Reef, and until passed by the Health Officer no communication alloved. Should indications of disease he present, the vessel will without doubt be moved off to quarantine ground, and the mails, after thorough fumigation, sent South by other steamers. It is stated that Mr H. Thompson, who died in the Hospital at Auckland a short time ago, had never been vaccinated, and hence the severity of the attack in his case. The first passenger train on the Punedin and Port Chalmers railway is expected to ruu in August. The Victorian Government has forwaided a communication to the AgentGeneral of that Colony in England, stating that it is not their intention to recommend Parliament to confirm the contract entered into by the late Go vernment with Mr Vogel relative to the Califorman mail service, but that they wiil be quite willing to recommend the payment of a reasonable subsidy for a b'ne of mail steamers between Victoria and California, of which Melbourne shall be the terminus. That Melbourne should be the terminus, is to be one of the items in any contract to be made in future. A heavy gale occurred at Ngaruawahia on the 2nd inst. The Waikato Times states that about 5 o'clock the punt at Ngaruawahia . started on a trip down the river, the only persons on board being the punt boy and an elderly gentleman ; also a horse. It was soon recovered. King Potatau's. tomb, was blown down, and other slight damage done. At Timavu, quoted at M per ton, and at times has been so scarce that, according to the Herald, "a king's ransom would not buy a ton." Geelong (Victoria) no longer stands where it did, but somewhere else. It now turns out that it ought to have been p'aced on. \\ie map half-a-dozen miles further ea*t, north,, or south from its present position. Wlio can tell "what dive events may accrue fromi ' the blunder of some uuh.ap.py trigono- : metrical surveyor \ A U.CW Survey |s i a,t once \o, be made.

ABB ! ■ ■■' J J i "" "■' '■■■ » The unusual circumstance of a Chinaman drinking himself to death is ported to have occurred at Cardrona, in Otngo.. A. man named William Watson was imprisoned and tried lately at Ballarat for passing a bad half-sovereign. Just before he was sentenced a constable came foi ward, and stated that he had been at the trouble to get the half sovereign analysed, and, to his astonishment, he found it was perfectly gent line. The handsome sum of i-54 sterling was collected in the plate at the door of Knox Church, Dunedin, on Sunday, the 16th June for the poor of the congregation. This ss over and above a somewhat similar amount collected annually for the Benevolent Institution by the same congregation. A few days ago a fine stag that weighed 3001 b when skinned and dressed, was found in the Maitai, Nelson, bearing evident marks of having been shot. The Government and the Acclimatisation Society offer each a reward of £lO for the discovory of the person who killed the animal. The Dunedin Evening Star says it believes it is intended to try the question whether or not the constables who went on stiike were legally dismissed. A test ease is shortly to be submitted for the opinion of Mr Justice Chapman. The Thames Advertiser states that the native chief Taipari has been appointed a Native Commissioner at a salary of i'3oo. That journal adds : "We have not been informed of the* nature of the duties which he is expooted to perform. A Mr Cockerell of Sydney has invented a patent lever knife for cutting down horsed hoofs and foot-rot in sheep, which has been in use for six months. He has received several testimonials acknowledging its value. The Wanganui Herald "ays it is informed that when the water works are completed, and the town is liberally supplied with water, the premiums on insurance will be reduced by about one-, half, and that tlie amount thus saved will more than equal the whole water rates. \ 3M[r J. H. Angus, a South Australian M.P, has given all his overseers and men who have been in his employ for two years or more a bonus of ten per cent/calculated on the last twelve- i months' wages. This is to allow them to participate in the increased profits arising from the high price of wool. It is said of Boulter, a highwayman, that one day riding on horseback on the high road, he met a young wi.man who was weeping, and who appeared to be in great distress ; touched with compassion, he asked her what was the cause of her atfiiction ; when she told him that a creditor attended by a bailiff had gone to a house which she pointed out, and threatened to take her husband to jail for a debt of £3O. Boulter gave her the amount, telliug her to pay the sum, and set her husband at liberty; and she ran. off, loading the gentleman with benedictions. Boulter, in the meantime, waited on the road till he saw the creditor come out; He then attacked him and took back the .£3,0,, besides everything else he ha 4 about him.

The San Francisco News Letter says: —"The Tava.na.ki sand, N.Z., is supposed to he identical with the famed beach sand of California. It i« now used in the manufacture of; the finest quality of steel, and qmeiy \WjpW fr»* Unvuish ing metals."

We extract the following paragraph from a recent issue of the Southern Cross :—" lif is high time that when Maori witnesses commit perjury steps should, be taken to make them understand and feel the consequences. Noone who is in fiequent ai tendance at> our law courts, whether in their civil or criminal : jiim3iotldn7 buf riuist'afr times have been almost at the qool, imperturable, and deliberate manner in which Maori witnesses will peijure themselves. If there l>e two of these to give evidence, wc know exactly what the second will say after having heard the deposition of the first. If there be six or a dozen, it will be alt the same. Their statements dovetail in as a tenon does to a mortice, or fit as nicely as a. key does to a patent lock. Sometimes it is a man's land which i& at stake, sometimes his liberty ; and iff it were his life it be all the same.. There can be no manner of doubt whatever that a Maori's oath is worth nothing excepting when it is believed in by a Judge or a jury, when it is, exactlyworth the mischief or the evil arising, out of its being accepted. Within the last twelvei months half-a dozen cases have come into our Courts in which? Maoris have been known to perjure themselves in the most heartless and' cold-blooded manner it js almost, possible (o conceive; yet no steps have beeii taken to have them brought to the hat? of justice and punished for the crime. Until severe penal sentences are njion this class of offenders we may feel? certain that Maoris will continue to perjure themselves when they are called upon to give evidence exactly to theextent that will meet the- end they de* sire. There is not a press reporter, nota constable, not a Court o.ticial, but will bear us out in the statement we may here make. When Maoris know, they have to give evidence chey wi)k consult together for all the time that iH> permitted them and arrange how it shall be given. There are never those little discrepancies in small mattery such as numbers, time, or dates, which is generally noticeable in, evidence of" other classes of witnesses, and which geneially go to confirm their testimony as a whole by showing that there ha* been neither collusion nor agreements Without making any special we think there have been one or two, cases which have lately come under the notice of our Courts where authority should have stepped in and directed a criminal prosecution to be instituted, against Maori witnesses. Mr It. C. Furley,M K.C S, in a letter to the Scotsman, says he is able to provethat vaccination is not only a preventive of small-pox but a cure. It is, hesays, ascertained that when a person, liable to take small-pox is exposed to. the infection the poison circulates in, the blood for eight days before producing any febrile symptoms; then commence headache, sickness, pain in the Ijack, suffused eyes, and a peculiarly white-furred tongue—a group of symptoms that belong to no other disease, ami which last for three days. It has been held and acted on since Jenner's great discovery, more than eighty years ago, that it is not only wrong, but fatal, to vaccinate any one- during that stage of the disease, or the- subsequent one when the eruption makes its appearance. But Mr Furley says he can show, from cases under his care at the present time, that if you vaccinate during the febrile stage the fever is slightly increased, and the eruption, doesnot make its and; U you vaccinate during the eruptivestage the eruption is immediately arrested. The mature lymph overtakes the immature poison, and tho disease terminate*. If the eniptioi* has gone the length of having white tops, there is danger of infection; it not, it dies away as pimples. Mr Fur ley feels confident that if every doctor were to vaccinate each case of smallpox that come* under his oare at once, many hundreds of lives would 1# spared, and many thousands of pounds, would be saved.- In the meantime he invites members of the medical profession, to accompany him through th* patients he has under his care, and thus: possibly stamp out the epidemic in * ijew weeks. Forty-nevon years ago President M.. Thiers *wa,s « devil"- m & punting in Paris..