Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1872,

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1393, 5 August 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1872,

New telegraph stations have been opened at Reefton and Ahaura, in ihe Province of Nelson. Mails for Australia close at the Bluff at 10.30 a.m. to-morrow (Tuesday.) Telegrams received at Napier till 8.30 a.m. The English Mail via San Francisco Will he despatched to-morrow,, per p.s,

' We ave indebted to Mr C. E. Keeble, puisor. of the Keera, for the delivery of Wauganui and Wellington files. We understand that the repairs to the schooner Three Brothers are being vigorously pushed* ahead; It; is expected that she will be ready for launching in four or five weeks. In the Resident Magistrate's Court at 10 a.m. to-day judgment was given in the case of Scoones v. St nan, a claim of .£45 freight, brought by the master of the schooner Alice, lately wrecked at Porangahau. As it appeared from the evidence that two-ihirds of the cargo had been duly landed, judgment was given for .£3O, the full freight on that amount, and £6 Is costs. Parsons v. W. F. Smith.—Claim of «£l6 16s 6d. Plaintiff claimed as chairman of the Papakura Koad Board, the defendant being the collector. The sum claimed was the amount of two dishonored cheques drawn by ratepayers, the amount of which they had subsequently paid to the defendant in cash. Defendant objected that the account was not sufficiently explicit.—Case adjourned to 3 p.m. —The case was called at that hour, and further adjourned to Friday next, 9th inst. A very bad practice appears to have sprung up in Auckland of using blank transfers*. His Honor the Chief Justice, in commenting upon the custom, ht»s intimated some day the town will be staitled by some gigantic fraud, which will embrace in its mischief the mean* of subsistence of many innocent and unsuspecting persons. A late Thames Advertiser says:— " An instance of the value, of impoiting goods direct is forcibly illustrated by an advertisement in Auckland papers regarding the price of coal there. We peiceive that parties sending their own drays alongside the ship, and paying cost of putting them on the Government weighbridge, can be supplied at 50s per ton, whilst at the Thames they have been supplied in the yards at 45s all the winter." Messrs Walker and Co., of A uekland, large expoiteis of flax and kauri gum, are now placing on the line between that province and New York, four tine ships, which are to be specially engaged in carrying the exports of the province to ihat important centre of American commerce. Two ships are already on the berth, another two have been or are about to be purchased by Messrs Walker and Lister, of London.

The Victorian Government propose to introduce a measure to check gambling by betting. Wool anil sheepskins are being exporteJ from Sydney to California. A Taranaki paper says that a desertei from the 57th Regiment, who gives his regimental name as Samuel Smith, and as having deserted from No. 8 Company at Manawapou in 1865, was seen by Mr Parris and his pany. He stated himself to be an American, the sou of a shipbuilder in New York, and other matters, which may or may not be true ; he resides on the Waitara above the block purchased. The foundation-stone of a new synagogue has been laid at Sc. Kilda. (Victoria).

The New Zealand Herald thinks that the postal authorities at Wellington had better order a ne v v " perfora ting machine." The present article must be exceedingly infirm, as at present it is almost impossible to separate postage stamps without the aid of .scissors.

Heavy gales, have prevailed along the coast of New South Wales. Fears are entertained for several vessels out of Newcastle.

The Australasian of the 20th July, says :—The small-pox alarm has now entirely subsided. The cases at Sandhurst are going on satisfactorily, and the disease has not made its appearance in any other locality. The Bendigo Advertiser states that " the house which had been inhabited by the James family at Long Gull} 7 , was burned down on Friday by direction of the local Board of Health, so that the ?eat of the disease being destroyed ihere will be no further danger. In the meantime, until the house has been rebuilt, comfortable tents will be provided for the fcnuK\"