Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1463, 24 October 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1872.

The fallowing letter is detained for postage at the Port Ahuriri Post Office :—"Mr Thomas Gilligan, (care af G. Fannin,) Napier, Hawke's Bay." The New Zealand Herald, October 19, say* :—At the meeting of the Auckland Freight Company, held yesterday, the following resolution was carried : " That the attorneys of the Company be empowered to arrange with Shaw, Saville, & Co. as to rates of freight, class of vessel?, &c, and that all their vessels be consigned to the Freight Company here. That they be instructed in the event of their negociations as above failing, to at once carry out the original programme of the company." There seemed to be a good deal of difference of opinion on the part of the meeting, bat eventually the shareholders appeared to be agreed upon the general principle, The plan of holding the company over the heads of Shaw, Saville, & Co. aw a rod in pickle may answer the purpose to a certain extent, but if the carrying trade of New Zealand, even at reduced rates, is so valuable to the London firm, we should have thought that the Auckland company would have found it worth their while to have carried out their original intentions, regardless of the impotent threats of Shaw & Saville. The reason for the change which wa3 made a short time ago in the colors of the various New Zealand postage scamps was a puzzle to nmny people The report on the postal service recently prest-nted to both Houses of Parliament enlightens us on the subject, and states; —" It having been discovered that the colors in which certain of the denominations of the postage stamps were liable, by chemical process, to bo so altered as to resemble the colors of stamps of a higher value, in order for the protection of the revenue it was deemed advisable to alter the color of such stamps. These are now so arranged that the effect of auy change in the color would be to assimilate them to those of postage stamps, of lower valine,"