Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1414, 29 August 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1872.

Mails for Australia close at Greymouth at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow (Friday.) Telegrams received at Napier till 1 30 p.m. Alexander Kennedy, Esq., of Napier, Jias been appointed a Justice of ihe Peace for the Qolony, Gavin Peacock, Esq., has been appointed Cattle Inspector for the province of Jlawke's Pav, under .f The Diseased C»ltie Act, 1871,"

Jn the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, there was one civil case, Peters v, Wells, a disputed claim of £7 7s 6d, for carriage, fare, &c. The case was gone into at great length, and judgment was reserved till Monday. By a proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette of the 22nd August, the whole tract, of country comprising tha Province of Hawke's Bay is declared to be a diseased cattle district, under the* Act. of 1871. Eleven other districts are also proclaimed—including altogether the whole Colony. The following gentlemen are gazetted as constituting the local cattle board, under the Act of 1871 :—His Honor J. D. Ovmond (Chairman), J. D. Canning, J. H. Coleman, and John Heslop.

The number of shares in' the South British Fire and Marino Insurance Co. of New Zealand, provisionally allotted to Napier have not all been applied for.

The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, now before Parliament, forms the subject of numerous letters in the Wellington press.

Referring to the debate on Mr Stafford's want of confidence -resolutions, the New Zealand Herald August 23, says: —lt will be observed that, in all cases, the Government and their supporters cry peccavi over the Immigration Department, one of the movt important, if not the most important part of their whole policy, and on which the success or ruin of the colony must greatly depend. So far as the debate has gone, it appears to us that the conduct of the Government appears constantly in a worse light. The Wanganui Chronicle makes the following appeal :—Another year of such gross misapplication and reckless squandering of the country's means as that just expired will inevitably end in bankruptcy an 1 dishonor. Are the people of New Zealand dead to the sense of that is threatening them 1 or are they like the man who coolly watched, carpet bag in hand, the house he lived in whilst it was being destroyed by fire, and made no efforts to save any of its contents except the bag in his hand, because he was "only a lodger," and was readv to take up his quarters elsewhere at a moments notice 1

A man named John Benny was brought before the Police Court, Wellington, on Monday last, charged with setting lire to the barque City of New castle, on the 21st inst. He was committed to take his trial at the next sittings of tho Supreme Court. Mr and Mrs Anthony Trollope ar rived at Wellington by the s s. Alhambra on Tuesday last. During their stay in that city they will be the guests of his Excellency the Governor.

Dr Paley, the Inspector of Lunatic Asylums of. Victoria, arrived at Wei lingion on Tuesday last. He has come to New Zealand at the request of the General Government, to inspect and report upon the Lunatic Asylums of the colony. Pan go Pango, at the Navigators' Islands, is creating attention as a tield for settlement. A party of persons in Dunedin who intend settling there are tajung a pinnace with them, and intend to leave foi thence by the next San Francisco mail. Members of the Masonic craft at Beefton, in the province of Nelson, have resolved to build a hall, and establish a lodge in that flourishing goldfield township. Already shares to the value of seven or eight hundred pounds have been taken up by the brethren. The hall will be erected early in the Spring, and the lodge will be opened under the English Constitution.

An Adelaide telegram, stating that heavy losses of sheep have occurred on the Roper from poisonous herbage, has appeared in several papers, as " heavy losses to ships." The Jjyttelton Tiroes advocates the Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Bill, and hopes that i( success will attend the efforts of those who are promoting a desirable and even necessary reform." A new steam fire engine has been ordered from Shand and Mason, of Lton don, for the township of Hokitika.

The average earnings of goldmiuers in New South Wales are stated not to exceed ,£1 per week,

A Oroqnet Cltib has boon formed at Parnell (Auckland).

The Graham-town and Taruru tramway, at the Thames, is now in full working order. An active canvass is being carried on at the Thames to obtain to a petition praying the Assembly to grant the district increased representation.

Messrs Brogden are calling for tenders in Auckland for the. supply of 20,000 sleepers for the Auckland and Onehunga railway.

According to the Daily Southern Cross of the 21st inst. seven young emus were recently hatched on Motuti|)U Island.

The Harbor Board of Auckland have decided to. adopt Mr Higginson's general scheme of Harbor works, estimated at. £120,000, not including a wet dock. Pro\ision is, however, made for <roin£ on with the work in sections.

The natives at Short laud have held a runanga, on the subject of the late proclamation, prohibiiing all dealing in native land in that peninsula. They unanimously condemned the proclamation, and have drawn up a petition to the Assembly on the subject - . Messrs Pickles and Einmett, of Sandhurst, Victoria, have invented harness tackling so arranged ti:at m case of a horse bolting or becoming too refractory, the driver can, by polling a strap attached to the swingle-tree on which the traces are hooked, let the horse "slide" altogether, while he remains perfectly sale in the vehicle.