Hawke's bay Times. Nulluis addictus jurare in magisiri. FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1385, 26 July 1872, Page 2

Hawke's bay Times. Nulluis addictus jurare in magisiri. FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1872.

Jn the Resident Magistrate's Court this morniug, two drunkards were each fined ti\e There was another case--an individual brought up on a judgment summons, who wa< examined as to his means of payment. As lie showed that his iailuie to pay was occasioned by an accident which disabled him from work, further time was allowed him for payment. More rapid communication with the mother country is no doubu most desirable, but it is just as well to look at the per contra, and to consider the risk that may be incurred of introducing diseases hitherto unknown in these Colonies. An article in a late number of the Lancet states that since commit nication has become comparatively easy between Europe and India, soailet fever, once unknown in the latter portion of the globe, has committed considerable ravages. The article contains also the following paragraph, which touches us nearly : —" When communication with Australasia becomes more extensive and rapid than it is at pre Bent, it is \cry possible that we may •witncw:: the introduction of cholera into j those colonies."

In the Drawbacks Bill—which, a telegram in another column states, has passed its second reading in the House of Representatives— it is proposed that the following ai tides only shall be entitled to drawback when exported in the original packages :—Ale, porter, and cider,in bottle; bottled fruits, trimmed bonnets, liars, carriages, candied peel, china, confectionery, earthenware, (isji (potted or preserved J, furniture, cabinet*

ware, glass, glassware, haberdashery, harness, jams, jellies, marmalade, millinery, pickles, preserved meats, raspberry vinegar, saddlery, and sauces. On goods, when re-packed, drawback at the folio* - ing rates will be allowed : —Apparel, boots, shoe«, linen, cotton, woollen and silk manufactures, drapery, drugs and apothecaries' ware<, Foifar sheeting, hosiery, scrim cloth and shirts—-three-fourths of the duty; l on carpet-bags, cotton counterpanes, blankets, rugs, men's 'hats' and caps, uhtrimmed women's hats and bonnets, and furs—-two-thirds of the duty; on apparel made up in the colony from imported material—one-balf of tho duty. An official inquiry into the pause of the wreck of the schooner Alice at Porangahau on the 16th inst., was held at the Custom-house, Port Ahuriri, on Wednesday last, 24th inst., before J. M. Tabuteaii, Esq., Collector of Customs. The following is the decision :—"That, considering the time of year in which JST.E. winch prevail, it would have been more prudent in the captain to have returned to Napier to await a more favorable opportunity, and a change of wind; also, that he was to blame in not letting go hi* anchor when his vessel became baffled by the wind veering ahead a+'ter «he had passed through the breakers on the bar." The following are the average prices current of New Zealand wools at the A pril May series of sales held in London :—lnferior to superior scoured, 2s Id per lb.; inferior to superior washed fleece, Is lOfd ; and greasy, Is 0-|d. Two New South Wales squatters lately drove 220 mile. 1 -; in three days to be present at a Church of England parsonage concert. A German Protestant Church is to be erected in Christchurch at a cost of about £7OO. According to a resolution passed a few days ago at a meeting of Hie Board of Health ai Lyttelton, any boatman going alongside a steamer or approaching htM within 30 yards (before she has been declared clean) is now liable to a fine of A;SO. The Thames Guardian says :—Whilst we have been all talking about finds of coal at a distance from this district, it lias been found quite close to Shorthand. The man who found the seam reports that where struck it *\as a tine large body of coal over Oft. Considering that the sample was taken from under water, and is consequently broken up, it looks pretty fair foi surface coal. The Southern Cros« says : Our attention has been drawn to a statement published in the Belfast Weekly News, and extracted from the Dublin Gazette, to the effect that Joesph Kinsey, Esq , Balcarris Hojse, County of Dublin, who died in February last, amongst other bequest--, has loft in trust £5,000 for establishing a Protestant Orphan Society in Auckland, New Zealand, and i;5,000 for the support of clergymen of the English Episcopal Church in Auckland. At Cambridge (Waikato), a child named Arthur Lawrence, aged seventeen months, has died r iom the effects of eating Inciter matches. The Thames Guardian hears that a volunteer named A. D. Bennett has applied to the Government for compensation for injuries" received on the Queen s birthday, while the corps to which he belongs was engaged in a sham fight. A correspondent of a Melbourne paper states that in a church in that city he, on one occasion, "actually counted a congregation in the proportion of thirty seven females to one ! adult male." |

" The Loafer in the Street," in the Canterbury Press, writes : —"Drinking is a, popular custom in this country; it is particularly so when done by invitation. I wish to call the attention of my temperance friends (not for the first time), that some of the beverages vended by men who call themselves licensed victuallers are simply poison. If a ' taster ' were appointed by Government to sample the drinks in every house, and analyse h if necessary—and, more ore)*, if a heavy tine were imposed upon doctored drinks—we should see a decrease in the drunk and incapable, eases, and stand a chance of becoming temperate and happy set of people."

The snow this winter has been from 3ft to 4ft. deep on some of the toads in the Grey Valley.

The Coromandel Mail says :—The crisis, or k ' crash" as it is generally termed, in respect to Coromandel, is not after all a very serious matter, viewed in comparison with the decline in the value of stocks in other places, at the most there has not been a depreciation of the stocks of Coromandel of more than £70,000 or £BO,OOO, whilst at Sandhurst the other day, in twentyfour hours, there was a collapse in the stock of one mine alone which repre sented something like £BO,OOO. Of course there was a partial recovery soon afterward-% as there will be at Coromandel. [ndeed, we believe all our stocks have now fallen as murh below their real value as they were before above it, and any change in the market must be for the better. It may be interesting to show what the Coromandel field has produced recently, and contrast the return of gold from the stone crushed with that at the Thames field. In a paper recently published, entitled " Further Reports on Gold fields of New Zealand," we find that from about February, 1871, to the 14th June of the same year, or a little Over four months, the various claims yielded an average of rather over 4 Joz of gold to the ton of quartz —a really magnificent yield. Fiom the Thames field during the same period we have no return ; but for the year the return show a little o*er 2|oz to the ton, notwithstanding i he many rich ciushings from the Caledonian and other claims.

A. now license law, advocated by some politicians in Wisconsin, is to grant license to both sellers and drinker*. Every man who driuks must pay $lO for a license before he can get a, drink. and in order to obtain this license a man must have bondsmen who will be held responsible tor damage done by him while in a state of intoxication. The Industrial Exhibition of the Thames Mechanics' Institute is to be opened about the third week in August, and gives piomise of being a very decided success. The Hon. Secretary, iVIr Bain, has received many applications for space from intending exhibitors of North Island produce —mineral and agriculluial, and manufactures. Then; are also several applications from Nelson and Otago. Among** the articles enumerated area fire-pvouf safe, musical histm merits, fla x-d ressers, preset veil pro\isions, New Zealand vines, and some choice specimens of cabinet woik. The fine arts will not be unrepresented, several beautiful water color paintings having been already sent in. Mr Bain wishes it to be understood that the space for exhibits is not yet entirely apportioned. He is piepared to receive a lew more applications.