Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1386, 27 July 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1872.

As our readers are aware, by a telegram in or.r issue of Thursday last, Mr E. J. \Vakefield moved in the House of Representatives on Wednesday for a return of all persons holding land under tho natives. The motion was of course stoutly opposed by the Native and JDefence Minister, and it was ultimately rejected, It is a striking comment on the management of the Government or <* Press Association '' scheme of news distribution, that all reference to this motion was omitted in their summary, and that the only intimation sent to this Province was through Greville's Tejegiam Company. Jn the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, one drunkard was fined five shillings. It will be observed by advertisement that a new Ileehabite Tent will be opened in the Masonic Hall, Napier, at 7 o'clock an Tuesday evening next, 30th instant,

Owing to the forced detention of tho Nebraska at Wellington, the southern portion of the English Ma/i via San Francisco, thoroughly fumigated, was despatched south this day by the s.s. Wellington, that steamer having letb Wellington for Lyttetton at 11.5 p.m. J. M. TabuteaV; Esq., Collector of Customs, writes as follows to Messrs. Kinross & Co!, agents ol the late schooner Alice :— 4| Gentlemen,—ln reference to the inquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of the schooner Alice, I was satisfied from the examination of the captain and crew that the former had done everything which in his judgment he thought beat at the time of the accident to save the vessel and cargo, and did not consider it necessary, therefore, to have a further enquiry in the Resident Magistrate's Court.—l have the honor to be, &c, J. M. Tabuteau, Collector of Customs." So far as is at present known, the Supreme Court will most likely meet on the date to which it was last adjourned—Tuesday next, the 30th inst. It is to be hoped that no further delay <vill occur; but if it should arise «'e believe a new jury would have to summoned, ill which case the Court could not sit till the 12th August The Herald yesterday, in a paragraph of two brief sentences, disposed for ever of Mr Ferard's insurance scheme. It was not new—it " hud been discussed considerably years ago in England through the columns of the Economist and other journals"—and had " since been discarded by all parties as utterly absurd and impracticable. 2 ' Brief and vague as the paragraph was, it contained a material error at the outset, with which the Herald would now credit us—the evident fact being that the hasty reviewer of that paper did not consider it necessary to read the whole of our article of Wednesday last before writing bis paragraph. Mr Ferard in this mornings paper, writes : "The absurdity of a scheme which commended itse.f for serious discussion in such a paper as the Economist, will not be self-evident to tbe people of this Colony," and ask- at what date the discussion referred to took place. This has the effect of bringing the editor from his pedestal, and a half column paragraph is the result; .but as might have been supposed, the Herald is obliged to admit its inability to furnish the infot mation sought The Otago Daily Times says that at no time has there been amongst public men in the Middle Island such a feeling in favor of financial separation, and states that if the northern railways are not reproductive loss must fall on the inhabitants of the North Island, and not. be shared by the taxpayers of the Middle Island. The inoorue of the United Kingdom has been guessed at about .£800,000,000 per annum, or £3O as 'he average income of every individual in the United Kingdom, while the income of British India has been guessed at about £300,000,000, or say about Jg2 per annum as the income of every individual in British India. The great pyramid weighs about 12,700,000,000 tons, if anybody wants to know. According to Herodotus, it. took the labor .of 100,000 men twenty years to build. To show the mechanical value of modern improvements, Br Lardner affirms that 480 tons of coal, with an engine and hoisting machine, would have raised every stone into its position. The history of gas light dates only back to 1793, when in England William Munlock lighted his own dwelling with gas. In 1802 a machine shop, and in 1805 a cotton factory, were similarly lighted. It was not until 1810 that a company got a charter for its manufacture. In 1813 Westminster Bridge was lighted, and in 1815 Guildhall. Not very long ago a presumably prosperous gentleman in Melbourne presented to a suburban church a handsome and costly stained window. It was dowbtless a generous act, and the question arises, will thi* congregation composedly sit in the rich light streaming through these storied panes, and leave the manufacturers without their money]

" Anglo-Australian " writes in the European Mail :—I am glad to state that Australian meat is getting more generally into consumption. You may see it at most of our retail grocers' and oilmen's stoies. In some shops they sell it by the lft>, |-ih. and £lb— a great convenience to the poor. Some I saw exhibited m this way looked first rate, the grain of the meat being highly suggestive of the tender nature and tine flavor of the article. The wholesale prices are not, perhaps, so remunerative to producers as could be wished, but these may improve with experience. The Melbourne Corporation has con structed on the bank of the Yarra a bath 120 ft by 60ft., and increasing regularly in depth from 3ft at one end to 7ft. at the other The total cost of the work was about .£1,500. Under the heading, "The Duke of Edinburgh and President Grant's Daugh'er," the London Dispatch has the following :—Not a few oi those knowing gentlemen who always whisper to us mysteriously that their information comes from quarters not to be deceived, have been saying, and evidently believing, that Mis* Grant's visit to Europe was undertaken in the hope that she might win the heart of an English prince, who was to receive the indirect claims as the dowry of his bride! After thi« it may weJl be said that people who hunger for news will believe anything. If the Duke of Edinburgh be the Prince pointed out in this pretty scheme, I fear the young lady is too late, as I have every reason to believe his royal highness is about to follow the example of his sister Louise, and select a partner from his mother's subjects. Those of our leaders who were present at the opening of the International Exhibition will not forget the marked attention paid by the prince to a lovely young lady in a ravishing light bine toilet/and the most piquante of Louise bonnets. The daughter of one of the proudest and wealthiest oi England's duke*, may well aspire to be the bride of even an English prince. One hundred thousand persons in Cashmere are employed in the shawl manufacture. A female spinner earns the muniticcnt compensation of three shillings a month. Some shawls of elaborate pattern occupy these weavers 12 or 15 months. Some of the banking and insurance companies in England are beginning to employ women as clerks. The prudential Assurance Company, which has the largest staff of clerks of any London otnoe, has created a departments for female service, for whioh only the daughters and widows of professional men, me»chant«, and gentlemen engaged in public offices are eligible. Jewellery of all sorts is so successfully imitated now-a-day, and the imitations sold so cheaply, that it has come to be considered common to wear jewellery on the street, and fashionables are seriously considering whether for a while they will not give up jewellerv altos gether and do the ".heavy sim.pUc.ity."

Some of the French residents in New Soul}) Wales have energetically commenced a movement whereby they hope to enable a number of their widowed and orphaned country-women to emigrate to that colony. Subscriptions (the Age says) have alveady been collected, but one gentleman, M. Jules Joulbert, has taken a more practical atop, by ascertaining that we can easily obtain, through some responsible per" sons both in Alsace and Lorraine, firstrate servants, quite ready to immigrate into Australia, under engagements for one, two, or three years; provided we remit from here, as an adxance, the neeessarv amount to defray their passage. The passage-money, he says, will not exceed £l2, and he, from personal knowledge, speaks highly of the people of Alsace nnd Lorraine, who arc described as a " sober, industrious, hardworking population, admirably suited for our country districts/' and he asserts that the French Consul will undertake the supervision of the scheme whereby the sister colony secure some first class faun and servants, and at the same time save a number of unfortunate beings from poverty and death. Sir Charles Lyell and Dr. Chambers have made us familiar wiih the fact of the upheaval of the Scandinavian peninsula, and M. Reel us adds many curious details. Certain tine woods in Norway are "being continually upheaved towards the lower snow limits, and are gradually withering away in the cooler' atmosphere ; wide belts of forest are composed of nothing Hut dead trees, although some of them have stood for centuries." The Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland, like vessels tilted up out of the horizontal, slowly pour their waters into »he southern basin of the Baltic. Fresh islets appear, and M. Reclus contemplates a remote future'in which the Aland Tales will become connected with the continent, and serve as a bridge beiweeu Stockholm and the Empire of Russia. Of South. America we are told a very curious t-hing. The western coast, from the island of Chiloe to Callao, is upheaving; Patagonia and Brazil are sinking. " Then a large portion of the South American contiiK-nc is constantly gaining on one side that which it loses on the other, and is gradually making its way through the ocean in a westward direction."