Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1382, 23 July 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1872.

In the Resident MagistrateV Court, this morning one civil case (through the eloquence of the counsel engaged) occupied two hours. It was a cross-action, the parties being C. Dempsey and R. Wheeler. Mr Lee appeared for Dempsev; Mr Lascelles for Wheeler. The The latter had been in Pempsey's employ at £1 per week, and claimed £ls 12s wages. Dempsey put in a set-off of £l3 8s 6d, and paid the balance, £2 3s 6d, into Court. The set-off was allowed, with 'he exoeption of items amounting to £4 6s, and judgment was given for Wheeler for that amount, with 8s costs.—lt being 1 o'clock, the court adjourned for hal fan-hour. Yesterday morning two volunteers were brought before the Resident Magistrate for non-attendance at drill. John Boyd was lined 5s and costs. John Franklin pleaded that he was in ignorance of the rules of the corps, not having been supplied with a copy. His Worship informed him that every member of the corps would have a copy of the rules if they applied for it; pleading ignorance of the lavv would not save him in this case. He should enforce the fine of 7s 6d, with costs, 10s. No loose papers from Auckland came to hand per JNebraska this afternoon, none, it is alleged, having been put on board On the arrival of the Keera, freni Wellington, the other day, we received a similar reply to our enquiry for files. The following additional telegraph regulation is published in a recent New Zealand Gazette :-?--" All original telegrams shall be safely kept in the custody of the General Manager at Wellington for the space of five years from the dates thereof respectively, after which pe\iod they shall be burned in the presence of such General Manager/'

"Depositors in the Post Offiee Savings' Bank are cautioned that in sending deposits by young children they are doing so at their own risk. to the fact that there was no speech from the Superintendent either at the opening or close of the late session of our Provincial Council, the Wellington Independent remarks that "this is making pro\incial institutions what they were intended to be." A number of ragged newsboys—not more than twenty, all told—contributed ten dollars in.pennies, five-cent pieces, and ten cent stamps, for the relief of the Chicago, unfortunates, and handed the money over to the chairman of one of the committees with this characteristic speech :—-.•* Here, boss, is our stamps- We hain't got much, but we likes to do a leetle fin* Chicarger when she's busted up.' 1 Chief Justice Nicholson, of Tennessee, lias decided that a man who reads the newspapers i* incompetent to act as a juror, though willing to give a verdict according to the testimony. The German railway companies have presented a handsome saloon carriage to Prince Bismarck. The carriage is said to be a " triumph ot good taste and technical skill." The citizens of Honolulu have advanced the Government the sum of ,£42,000 for years without interest, for the purpose of building an hotel, which is absolutely lequired for the accommodation of passengers coming and going to and from New Zealand and Australia Parakaia Pouepe, once a well-known name in the Manawatu dispute, has been gathered to his fathers. Traffic has been discontinued on the Lauuceston and Deloraine (Western) Railway, Tasmania, for want of funds. A Needlewoman's Co-operative Asso oiation has been formed in Melbourne. An inmate of the Immigrants' Home* Melbourne, has received a legacy of .£3,000, and piesented £ls to the Home. The Kaiwhike natives (says the Wanganni Herald) have again interfered and stopped the ploughing on Captain Iveson's land. A mob of them appeared on the ground this morning, and caused the ploughmen to delist, removing at the same time the plough and horses to some disiance. The law will have to be put in force, but in order to make everything clear in the first instance, a surveyor is to define the boundaries of the land for whioh the Crown Grant has been issued. According to the Architect, M. Gus tave Dore is about to challenge the opinion of the 'vorld of art on a grand scale. He has just finished a picture thirty feet long by twenty feet wide, at which he has been working pretty constantly for about four years. The subject of this large composition is " Christ leaving the Temple," and it contains about four hundred figures. This picture is to be shown for a lew days in the painter's studio in Paris, and to be sent to London for a public exhibition early in May. At Raglan (Auckland), lately, some Maoris robbed a store, to which they obtained ingress by slipping down the chimney. Another store in the same place was also robbed by natives, who removed a pane of glass from one of the windows with a skill quite equal to that of pakeha burglars. An extensive merchant in a neighboring Colony writes to a gentleman at Taranaki:— "It appears to me very strange that the iron sand should be so jealously guarded. Ii it has any value why does not the Council allow every one free access to it, and to take away ms much as they please, so that its value may be proved 1 When that is established it will be time enough to look to it :is a source of revenue." The Taranaki Herald fully concurs in the above view, and says : "In oi\r opinion, siuce our own settlers have neither the means, experience, nor time for the purpose, every facility should be given to people outside the place to prove its value." Josh Billings says that w the Hon and the lamb may possibly sumtime lay down in this world together for a few minutes, but when the lion kums to get U,p the lamb will be missing."

The Liberie tells the extraordinary; story that an Austrian, when about tostep on board an English packet at Calais, was arrested, and found to bethe bearer of 43,000,000 francs, destined for the Emperor Napoleon. A man. of" from six to seven thousand francs being deruan< led as dues upon Jfcba.,transit.. o€ the money, the millions were impounded,, as well'as the until advicea be, received from the Austrian Govern.-. ment. Mr F. White, of Waitakcrei, waited upon the Superintendent of Auckland lately, and applied for a lease of a portion of the «-ea beach near the Manukau Heads that he tmigl.it erect works to. convert the iron sand there into a useful and valuable metal. His Honor pointed out to the applicant that the beach referred to being granted, to the. Superintendent under the Public Service Act, 1854, it was impossible to> grant any lease for, a term of yearas without the passing of an act by the Provincial Council, and even then it could only be leased for a term of" twenty one years, which would be altogether insufficient to develop such an industry. The correspondent of the Southern Cross says—Had this beenYankee land instead of New Zealand, our iron sand would have heen, utilised long before now, and then the enormous increase in the price of iron would have done us good instead of harm. One of the Ballarat lodges of the Manchester Unity Order is entering npon a very practical undertaking,. From the Courier we learn that at a recent meeting " a resolution; was carried approving of the establishment of" a Technical and Practical Trades'' School in Ballarat, for the purpose of educating boyt» bora in the town in mechanical trades. This resolution will be laid before the next district meeting, in June, for its approval. The primemovers in this matter intend, as soonas the district meeting has. confirmed the resolution,, to-invite tike-co-operation* of all the local friendly societies, so as make the movement a general one m. the town. At a meeting of farmers at M*ancbes< ter, it was stated that the production off milk costs 28 per cent, more no.w than it did two years ago. At Gainsboiough, two young women,, for laughing aloud in church, and " banging the door ,? as they went out, havebeen fined -£1 each. The Royal Welsh Fusiliers have a regimental goat, which attends church parade, bei airing "with suitable gravity and decorum."' There has been an abundant fall of rain and snow in, Persia, an I ad tears, on account of the coming harvest have therefore disappeared. The Bavarian Government are taking proceedings against a priest forusing offensive language in the pulpit against German princes. A French vegetarian has separated from his loved wife "solely because sheevinced an unconquerable predilection for flesh and fowl." The wonderful vitality of the Pre*i.pent of the French Republic does not desert him. Much alarm was felt by his friends at the rapid progress of the bronchial catarrh from which he has. been sufficing, and the other night it seemed for some time as if his life were al stake. M. Thiers rallied, however, and, true to an elasticity of constitution second only to that of the late Lord Palmersion, is now quite well, and in the aotive performance of his peculiarly difficult role. In the garden of a certain, nobleman'* country house there happened to he fixed up at different spots painted boards with this request — lt Please not. to pick the flowers without leave." Some wag got a paint brush and added an " a " to the last word,! Mr Edward Ross, the well-known rifleshot, has just made a score-newer, before equalled, at all events in public. In shooting off a lew days ago an undecided tie with Captain Fenton* another crack shot, for the National Association Cup of 1870, Mr Ross won the-match with the following : Out of 25 shots at 200 yard-, 24 were, bull's-eyes and one a centre; out o i 25 shots at 600 yards, 23 were bull'seyes and 2 centres—giving a total oi 197 out of a possible score oi 200*