Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1391, 2 August 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1872.

We have Leon requested to announce that the Rev. R. Taylor will (D.V.) conduct Divine (service on Sunday next, 4th inst., as follows :—At Waipukurau, at 11 a.m.; and at Patangata, at 3p m. The decision in the case Roper v. Wall was given in the Resident Magistrate'.-* Court this morning The plaintiff, having failed to .show that he was legally empowered to impound on hehalf of the Road Board, was nonsuited. The Court was occupied till past 4 p m. with three or four civil actions l>y a man named M'Hugli, of Polmi, against another of the same place, named Warrington. M'Hngh, having gone to servo a summons, was on two occasions assaulted by tho defendant He claimed ,£5, debt, and .£SO for each assault. Counsel being engaged on both sides, tho case occupied a gjie.it deal ol time, and was not concluded when our reporeer left.

A man named Howell Williams has been pistol iri Queen-street, Grahamstown, on a recent night. The Wellington Independent, of tho 30th nit, says :—The body of the man Sim, who was missing on Sunday, was yesterday found in the Hut? river, having evidently approached too close to the bank on his way home in the dark night. From the place where the articles were found that he had been carrying home, it was feared that he had been drowned. An inquest will be held at the Hutt to-day.

We observe from a late paper that Mr Kells, of Karori (Wellington), died rather suddenly on Monday last, 29th ult. The deceased, who had been unwell for some weeks past, was seized on the day in question with a violent fit of coughing, during which he burst a blood vessel, and the haemorrhage was so great that he expired iu about 20 minutes.

A wonderful escape at the Arrow Gorge is recorded in a Southern paper. As a party of miners were proceeding homewards, along the banks of the Arrow River, at about du.sk one evening last evening last month, their notice was attracted by some heavy falling body on the opposite hank, which was seen, now falling, now tumbling from rock to rockj and effecting a fearfully rapid descent from the great height from which it had fallen into the bed of the river. On descending to the spot, they found the object seen by them was the body of a man, who by some mischance, had slipped fiom the height above, and had fallen into the liver. The apparently lifeless body was taken from the river and carried to the township, ami was thence conveyed to the hospital at Frank town, where the ca*e met with treatment at the hands of the resident surgeon. Incredible as it may seem, although M'Gregor fell from a height of GOO feet, not a bone of his body was broken, and he is now moving about seemingly none the woi\>e for his extraordinary tumble. A Chinaman named Wong On who keeps a public house at Tuapeka, has lately taken out letters of naturalization. When does a bullet resemble a sheep? rr-When. it grazes.

The .Melbourne Age, July 20, savs : What the Irishman said of himself, " that he was not dead but speechless," may be said of the submarine cable between Port Darwin and Java. It is not dead, it is speechless, or but very faintly transmits the signals At some point or other the cable must have received severe damage. The links of connection at one given point must be very few. There is something to be glad of iu the fact that the cable has not been quite cut through. The Investigator, if she once manages to lay hold of the spot where the damage is done, will soon repair it, and next week it is anticipated that we shall again be on speaking terms wioh the Old World. Before, however, we can hope for permanent communication, it is very likely that another cable will have to be laid, and then all contingencies can be provided against. The risk of disaster would thus be fairly met, and the transmission of messages be uninterrupted. Dr A (tier, the London Time* r correspondent at Berlin, is admitted by all who have reveiwed his works, and have watched the character of his communications, to be a remarkably able politician, and a most faithful, compiler of facts and figures; therefore «»« are not surprised at the marked attention which ha* been given to his last letter. Its tendency is to prove that another war between France and Germany is a matter of certainty, ex en proximate, and we are astounded, indeed, at the figures he gives. From these it would appear that ere long France would outnumber Germany in soldiers, as the scheme of M Thiers will rar-e the army of the Republic to at lea*t, 1,600,000, * figure winch Dr Adler says, the German troops, now es timated at 1,250,000, cannot in their present organisation attain before 1880. He adds, owing to the full Laudwehr and Reserve system having been but recently introduced into the three Southern States, some eight or nine years must elapse, even with the new increased rate of recruiting, before the armies of Germany will be numerically equal to the host JYI. Thiers intends to create by a single fiat. A still more formidable feature in the French plan, he thinks, is the contemplated increase of the field artillery, which, from 1,500 guns is to be run up to 2,700. It is obvious that, with her I.9oopieces Germany would find it difficult to oppose these terrible odds.

The wife of Senator Spraguo, of Khode Island, U.S., paid slß*ooo in gold for six and a half yards of point lace which the Queen of England and the Empre>:-> of France had both admired, \>u 4 ; refused to buy as too expensive for them. A New York exchange notes the fact that the average vveekiy supply of" salmon reaching that city from the waters of the Sacramento is 4,0001b* ; from Chicago, a cartload of Oalifornian <almon is delivered weekly to other cities. In thf> height of the season, not less than 20,0001 bs of salmon are sent "East, every week, from Californian waters. Tobacco-cancers on the Up and tongue are increasing so alarmingly as to greatly diminish pipe smoking in Germany. This deadly form of cancer is incurable. Nothing iias yet been heard of the missing boating party which left Adelaide some time ago. A late telegram says:—An oar, basket, iinc| waterbottle have been wa*hed ashore at Aldinga, and are supposed to belong to the missing boat. The steamer Eleanor has been seni out in search of boat