Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TfIUKSTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1439, 26 September 1872, Page 2

Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri . TfIUKSTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1872.

In an article relating to the unfair distribution of advertising notices by the late Government, the Waiiarapa Standard make* the following remarks concerning the injustice done to its subscribers in consequence of their not having important Government notices brought before them. Of course the same injustice was done to that jarge section of the public throughout the Colony who preferred to give their patronage to the journals in opposition to that Government. Our contemporary says :—"This is not a matter which concerns us merely. It is one in which our subscribers are—some of them directly, and all of them indirect }y—interested. Why should not the pettlers of the Wairarapa be officially informed, through their local paper, jiuw they can obtain passages for their friends under the Government Immigration, Regulations? Why should they not know, through the same medium, when tenders for telegraph poles and railway sleepers, for bush falling and road Waking, are wanted } . . All our local readers are more interested in shis matter- \\v<\vi they might at Jirst imagine ; for with as large a share of Government ad\ prfcisements as is given to our Wellington contemporaries, we Qaijlcl afford to publish a paper double \he size of the §taj>darc| at half its present }^rice, ,,

Mr Halcombe arrived in town this afternoon from the Seventh-mile Bush. The immigrants have reached the nearest settlement, and are encamped there for the present. Their sections have been allotted to them, and they have been placed in possession by the surveyors, and are already at work. A quantity of potatoes and seed has been advanced to them by the Government. They are to be settled in two villages —the nearest about twenty miles from Waipukurau, and the other some fourteen miles further on. About twenty families will be settled in the further village. As soon as the houses are ready in the nearest village, the men intended to be settled in the second one will be sent on; their wives and families remaining in the camp at the nearest village until accommodation has been provided for them at their destination. The women and children will leave Napier for the settlement duiing next week—probably on Tuesday or Wednesdav.

A number of the single Norwegian women—about ten, *ve' believe—remain unengaged. Those who have found situations are reported to be giving satisfaction. We are informed also that a number of Norwegians, single and married, at present employed on railway works, are opeu for engagement.

The fine Band of the Napier Rifle Volunteers intend performing in the Government lawn on the afternoon of Saturday next.

The nomination of candidates for Eginout (Taranaki) was to have taken place to day. We hear from Wairaiapa that, despite the loss occasioned by late heavy rains, owners of sheep confidently expect to realise a large percentage of increase thiw season.

We from the Advertiser that Mr E. W. Hoi lis, who transmitted to Mr Oeighton the petition wigned in the Thames district in favor of a system of 800111111' education, has received a letter from Mr Civighton acknowledging receipt of.tliw petition, and stating that he had presented it w the House. Mr Creighton states further that the protracted del>ates ou the motions of Mr Curtis and Mr Station! had prevented any action being taken in the matter, in the way of calling the attention of the House to the necessity of some measure in view of the deficient educational machinery in some of the provinces. Since the letter was written, however, Mr Stafford has. announced in the House, as part of the programme of the new Ministry that next session a bill will be introduced dealing with the matter, by supplementing the existing provincial systems where these are de feetive. One of the greatest difficulties in the way of bunging into force an efficient system for the colony is the fact that several provinces ha\e already good systems, with which they are contented, supported by considerable endowments. These provinces object to being brought into a general scheme from a very natural apprehension that their endowments would in part be taken for the assistance of other provinces which have not been so careful or so fortunate. Mr Stafford would apparently allow these provinces to remain pretty much as they are, while provinces such as Auckland would be aided to make their systems really efficient. In this way, our old friend "the religious difficulty " might be got rid of for a time at least, as the provincial laws on that subject would be allowed to stand.

A Native Land Court is to be held at Masterton on the 16th. November, and following davs, when several large blocks of land will be passed through the court, and several important claims investigated. A great meeting of persons from all parts of the United States, claiming to be heirs of Sir Francis Drake, was held at New York on the §oth June, to organise a ulaini to estates in Devonshire, England, valued at $125,000,000, which Drake is said to have left behind him at his death. Additional claimants put in cjaims, and the meeting adjourned to October. The New York Herald solaces present occupiers of the Devonshire property by advice not to be uneasy,