Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1406, 20 August 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1872.

"We would draw attention to the teameeting to bo held in the Oddfellows' Hall this evening, in celebration ot the first anniversary of the United Methodist Free Church. We doubt not it will prove a success. Mails for Australia close at the Bluff to-morrow (Wednesday) at 10 30 a.m. Telegrams will be receivel at the Spit till 9 a.m. In the Resident Magistrate's Court 1 this morning, several civil crises were heard. Parsons v. 'Smith; adjourned case. This was a claim of £l6 16s 6d, amount of two cheques, for £l4 15s 6d and £2 Is respectively, cashed by the defendant on account of the Papakura Road Board, the proceeds of which he failed to hand over. Mr Lascelles for the plaintiff, Mr Lee [who appeared for the defendant ou the former occasion) said that his client had been consigned to what was vulgarly known as "The Jug " for debt, and that he would not represent him on this occasion. The defendant was then called in the <e-ual form, but failed to put in an ap pcarance, and tho case proceeded in his absence. The plaintiff; Mr Brandon, the Manager ol the Bank of New Zealand ; and Mr Torre, teller of the Union Bank of Australia, were examined. The facts were these : On the 16th Jane, Mr W. F. Smith, collector for rhe Papakura Road Board, paid into its account at the Bank of New Zealand, the sum of ,£33 12s 6d, in which was included the two cheques above-mentioned, and which was credited to the Board These cheques being-drawn on the Union Bank, were sent over in the course of business, and returned as dishonored, and the Board was debited with the amount. Mr ■ Parsons, the Chairman of. the Board, being in the Bank a few days after, gave his cheque for the amount, and the cheques wen; returned to the collector, Mr Smith. On the 29th June Smith went to the Union Bank, and presented the cheques, which were duly honored ; but omitted to pay the amount to Mi Parsons.—Judgment for the amount claimed, with co*ts, £1 Bs, and counsel's fee, £1 Is. W. Irwin v. W. E Baxter. —Claim of Ml lis wages. Defendant claimed £6 13s 6d for working. on board the ketch Miry Ann Hudson, of which defendant is master, at the rate of 7s per day, previous to shipping as a seaman, and £6 for one month's wages; against which was placed £1 2s 6d on account. Defendant put in a set-off of <£4 10s on account of delay and expense occasioned by the defendant's drunkenness at Wairoa, the vessel having been detained one day, and a native taken on board to take the plaintiff's place. Mr Lee appeared for the plaintiff. The defendant disputed the first item of the account, stating that the plaintiff only worked for him casually previous to his engagement as seaman, and that he was paid in full for all the work he did. In support of this view he produced plaintiff's receipt, given on payment of his first month's wage's, which was in this form: "Settled up in foil." This claim, he said, was never raised until the plaintiff was discharged. The item of £6, wages for the month of July, was admitted. Plaintiff said that all the money he received from defendant previous to shipping with him, was one payment of 2s 6d.—The Resident Magistrate thought that this part of claim was an afterthought, or it would have been raised before the leceipt in full was given. He could not allow defendant's set-off—he had not taken the proper course after the plaintiff's misconduct.—Judgment for one month's wages, less amount paid on account, or £4-. 2s 6d, with 19s costs. Grant v. Meihana Claim of £5 3s, goods delivered.—Defendant paid £5 into Com t, bin judgment was given for the full claim, with 16s costs, two months being allowed for the payment of the 19s balance.

The Financial Statement of the hon. the Colonial Treasurer is to be delivered in the House of Representatives this evening. The Government will telegraph a summary 10 the press during its progress. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased io appoint Samuel Walker to be Assistant-Surgeon in the Armed Constabulary Force. Date of Commission, Ist July, 1872. With reference to the Premier's abandonment of the Education Bill, the Canterbury Press says : " It seems that undei the present system nearly 20,000 children in New Zealand are growing up uneducated, and we certainly do not consider that that is a result which warrants the congratulatory tone assumed by Mr. Fox, or with which the colony ought to rest contented." A member of one of the Oamaru mercantile funis informs the local paper that he, a day or two ago, exchanged a bag of wheat for a bag of coal. Cash and coal seem both alike scarce in that quarter, The following native petition in favor of the Bill appears in the Auckland papers It was to b««. presented by Mr Creighton : "To the Great Council of New Zealand, sitting at Peace be with you all. Fiiends, the chief's of the Council of this island, —Salutations. Hearken to our word, because we discovered fully the many evils which ari.-e with respect to that producer of evil distemper,—intoxicating drink. We are devoid of influence now, caused hy rum; we are needy also, caused by rum : and ve see many other evils emanating from the use of intoxicants, day by day,, and year by year. We ask )ou, then, to abolish by law the s-ale of that thing —intoxicating drink. With you, the chiefs of the General Assembly, is the power to make laws for New Zealand. Say we, then, meu, women, and children, to you, O friends, O honorable chieftains, dry up the spring of intoxicants; let there be no traffic whatever in this direful thing; let it not be made or sold throughout this island, neither allow it to be brought here from the other side of the sea. (Signed) Te Pohiha Taranui, Te R-anapia te Rangikauariro, W. H. Taipari, Commissioner," and 54 others, several of whom are Europeans who speak and read the Maori language. The Harapipi (Waikafo) correspondent of the New Zealand Herald writes :—Justice is administered in a most extraordinary way in this part of the world, and certainly some of our J.P's. deserve the initials after their names in more ways of its readiug than one. A few days since a poor fellow who is as mad as it is possible to be, a raving lunatic, was brought before the said J.P's., when instead of sending him down to the Asylum or Hospital, they gave him three months as a rogue and a vagabond, which he certainly is not, as he is t and always has been peifectly willing to work, and has been doing so for this past year or more, in this neighborhood, but lately has gone quite out of his mind, owing to an injury he received while working on the Thames goldtields. He is a quiet inoffensive man when sane, and at, intervals he is quite »o. Now, is this the sort of man to send amongst convicts 1 Professor Max Miilier has addressed a lon<r letter to the London Times on • the subject of the proposed memorial to Bishop Patteson. In the course of the letter he says :—" As we look back into the distant past, when there was as yet no Rome, no Allien*, when Germany had not yet been discovered, when Britain was but a fabulous island, nay, when the soil of Europe had not yet been trodden by the Aryan race, may we not look forward, too, into the distant future, when tho.-e * Black Islands' of the Pacitic shall ha\e been changed into bright and happy isles, with busy harbors,'villages, and towns? In that distant future, depend upon it, the name of Patteson will live in every cottage, in every school and church at Melanesia, not as the name of a fabulous saint or martyr, but as the never-to-be-forgotten name of a good, a brave, God-fearing, and God-loving man. His bones will not work childish miracles, but his spirit will work signs and

wonders by revealing even among the lowest of Melanesian savages the indelible Godlike stamp of human nature,.., and by upholding among future generations a true faith in God. To have carried bivt one small stone to the cairn which is to commemorate this great and I holy life should be a satisfaction to all who knew Patteson, a duty to all who have heard the name, of the first Bishop* of Melanesia,"

The Virginia Enterprise has the following :—A friend relates a little story,, of a venture into stock speculations. Our friend says that one day*, a week oir two since, he met a painter of his acquaintance whom he knew to havebeen dabbling in stocks. But the painter no longer wore his old paintstained clothes. He shone in a new broadcloth suit, sported a glossy* " plug," and wore neatly-fitting kid.; glove*. " Hello ! how is this 1 " cried» our friend. "Stocks, stocks!" laconically replied the painter, as he strode • along, twirling his slender switch of a. cane. He had made some s£,ooo ma: few days by the sudden rise of stocks, and had resolved to throw aside the paint brush and come out a stock speculalor. A day or two since our friend met the same man with a big roll of wall-paper under his arm, a coarse apron reaching from his chin down to* his knees, and a big bucket of paste in his hand. " Hello !" cried our friend in astonishment, " how is this.again ?'* " Stocks, stocks ! " briefly responded the philosophical as he marched away towards his nearest job with his roll of paper and bucket of.paste- Hehad gone through. An almost entire: human skeleton,, fossilized, has been found in Hungary,, together with a stone hammer, in a geological formation, indicating that* the living man existed long before' the mammoth age. The contemporaneity, of man with the mastodon had before been pretty well established by discoveries in the lacustrine deposits and bone caves of Europe,, including a tolerably well carved image of themammoth on a piece of bone. All recent researches establish for man art antiquity so remote that the period ill, yoirs cannot be calculated. The evidences on tin's score thai have beeik accumulated in California are particularly numerous and convincing and will, astonish the when collectively presented. The recently published "Life of Thomas Cooper," author of " The Pur* gatory of Suicides," affords an instance of rare industry and application. In an, article on the book, a late Saturday Re--view says:—" Mr Thomas Cooper has. in turn been a shoemaker, a schoolmaster, a newspaper writer, editor, and? proprietor, the manager of a choral sochartist lecturer, a chartist pri> soner, copying clerk in a Government office, a poet, a novelist, a two days" actor, a Methodist preacher, a Unitarian, lecturer, a Baptist lecturer, and the writer of his own biography. There is scarcely any subject which he has not. studied, and there is no subject on which* he has not lectured—from Pythagoras to Beau Brumaiell. In less than nine years, he delivered 3373 lectures, but no»w practices moderation by preaching only twice on Sunday, and lecturing three or four times a week For maoy years of his life Mr Cooper lived on ten. shillings a week, for which he had to labor hard and long at shoemaking, while all his leisure time he devoted to study. It is impossible for us to tell what degree of accuracy Mr Cooper attained in his studies of Hebrew, Greek* Latin, French, German, and Italian, not to mention divinity, and sceptical literature. His method of studying English was at all eveuts thoroughly sound, for he set to work to commit to memory passages from the great masters. To use his own words,., he had " become master of a vocabulary, of no mean order by committing Milton, and Shakspeare to memory and repeating, them so often." We wish that not only preachers, but also novelists, could b« made to go through a like training. It is refreshing to turn from that strangest, of all tongues, the language of the socalled sensational novel, to Mr Cooper & idiomatic English, even when its garrulity is at its Hood. We know scores of popular writers whose style would be greatly improved if every morning before they