Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1381, 22 July 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 22, 1872.

The steamer Nebraska, with the European and American mails via San Francisco, arrived at Auckland from Honolulu on Saturday afternoon. She Jell again at 13 o'clock last night for Napier and other Southern ports. She may, therefore, be looked for in these ■waters to morrow afternoon. We hear that the O.G. p.s.. Luna, having on board the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, left Wellington for Lyttelton on Saturday, and was expected to return to the former port on Tuesday (to-morrow), leaving again immediately for this port, with his Honor 3VU Justice Johnston. The probability is, therefore, that the sittings of the Supreme Court in this town will yet pgain have to be further adjourned. We are informed lhat a subject of interest to those who may be in the habit of patronising the various traps running on the road between Napier and Port Ahuriri occupied the attention of the different proprietors of those vehicles on Saturday evening, viz., as to whether it would be advi4ble to reduce the fares The subject having been, debated, the question was decided in the negative, the opinion of the majority, however, being that were there iewer convevances on the load, the fares might very well be reduced onehalf.

After recording that the simmer Godhead, on a recent trip from Wanganui to tlie Manukau, had met with very rough weather on the passage, and had in consequence lost 14 head of cattle and iQ sheep, the Wdiiganui Chronicle •tiddxi —These, ever recurring losses of stock at sea damage the cattle (shipping trade considerably, as the money lost in this way is irretrievably lost —in faci thrown into the sea. It is time that ♦'Storm Signals" were inaugurated in New Zealand, as they wou'd, now telegraph communication, is. so far advanced, prevent many of the losses to shippers weare so culled ,j| 0

Mails for the Australian Colonies at the Bluff at 2 p.m. to-morrow (Tuesday.) Telegrams ,received at Na* pier and Spit ,tii||nppn. % f Recent intelligence- by the mail steamers has informed us of the wonderfully rapid recovery of France from the devastating results of the late war and of the'"reappearance of the' old spirit of defiance pharaoteristic pf the race. The Prussians seem to be " quite"altWTo look out on the movements of the irrepressible Frenchman, and by way of counteractive to' the threatening attitude , assumed by certain divisions of the late empire have commenced 1 io fortify Metz with enormous cannons . ot. steel ; from Krupp's manufactory ai Essen, which ; i are said, to be of the same calibre,as those.of Mont:Yalerien during the w&rl They are also enlarging Strasburg, so that, instead of ninety thousand, it can contain two hundred thousand. .They are also making a canal parallel, with the Rhine, and an enormous basin for ships coming ; from Mannheim and the North Sea. We (Wangatiui Herald) have to notice an item of fashionable intelligence which cannot fail to interest our readers. We refer to the marriage in Maori life the other day. The bridegroom thus made happy is Takana uga moko Rongo Hikaia, and the blushing bride Rahiii Hohi. The licence was taken ovu in 1 he correct Pakeha style, and the youthful couple made one at the Putiki church, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. J 3. K. Taylor. In honor of the event, Aperahama gave a wedding breakfast this afternoon at Atkinson's Hotel. The company was very select, numbering 24, half of whom were Eupi opeans. Among those present we noticed Messrs. Pharazyn, Worgan, Woon, Booth, Fleetwood, Capt. McDonnell, &o. " Oain*o," in the Auckland Weekly News, .says that the gold from the Thames costs twice as much to procure as it was worth ; and that ever) 7 ounce of gold yielded at Coromandel Lata oost £lO. Attention is being directed to the sanitary advatage* of cultivation of the sunflower in malarious districts. Many facts have been adduced to show that the sunflower has the property of purifying air iaded with marsh miasm, absorbing a great quantity of moist and noxious gasses, and exhaling ozonized oxygen. Moreover, (heFrench Sanitary Commission has lately pointed out that the sunflower is a most useful plant; it yields about 40 per cent, of good useful oil, the leaves furnish an excellent fodder, and the stem, being rich in saltpetre and potash, makes a good fuel. It is notified in a late issue of the Otago Provincial Government Gazette that 100,000 acres of land in the Waitaki district have been set apart as an endowment for the Otago Univeisity.

According to statistics obtained by tho Milk Journal, the appalling fact has been made public that, up to the end of March last, 116*3 samples of milk have been analysed from various dairymen in London, and that only twenty-two honest dairymen have as yet been discovered in tho whole metropolis. An eminent divine says— t( I have been a great sufferer from bronchitis and asthma, and I am anxious to make known to my rev. brethi en, and through them to others, a valuable remedy which has never foiled me, It is as follovss; —2 oz.. of garlic peeled and bruised ; 1 lb of coarse brown sugar; one pint of water. To be simmered together for two hours; it must never come to a boil, since boiling heat destroys the spirit of garlic. It should be put into a bottle, and a wineglassful taken first thing in the morning and last thing at night" The tradesmen of Oamarti have agreed to stop work at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon.

A person recently fell on a defective highway in Waltham, Massachusetts, had an eye knocked out,sued the town, and gob $2,500 damages.

The settlers of the Bell Block in Ta* ranaki are taking steps for the estahlishiuent of a.n agricultural 4istrict,