Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1464, 25 October 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1872.

A mail for Poverty Bay, per Da*n, will close at the Port Ahuriri Post Office at 9,30 a in. to monow.

In view of the approaching; holidays, in celcbratiou of the separation of this Province from Wellington, two picnics, as will be observed by inference to onr advertising columns, are annonnced for Friday, Ist of November —one to lie given by the members of the Hope of Napier Tent, LO.il, in Sturm's pad dock, Napier, and the other by the Kapier Rifle Volunteer. Band, in conjunction with the Clarendon and Country Districts Cricket Clubs, at the Meauee Race-course.

In the Resident "Magistrate's Court morning there was one civil case : Hague v. Hawker, a claim of £i 2s. The transaction on which (he claim wa t s based took place early in 1868.

The plaintiff supplied the defendant with a ca>?k of corned beef, which some days after was sent back, on the ground that it was npt in good condition. Plaintiff refused to take it, alleging that it was goo 1 when it left his shop, and that defendant had left it in the sun. The matter had ever since remained unsettled. Witnesses were called on both sides, but after the lapse of nearly five years were unable to throw much light on the matter. The Resident Magistrate from the whole of the evidence, considered that the beef when received by Hawker was not in good order, and gave judgment for defendant—Costs, I3sj witnesses' expenses 15s. We believe that the Napier Rifle Volunteer Band intend giving one of their popular open-air performances in the Government Lawn to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, commencing at 5 o'clock.

We have been requested to announce that the Rev. R. Taylor will (D.V.) conduct Divine service on Sunday next, 27th inst., as follows :—At Waipukurau, at 11 a.m.; at Kaikora, at 3 p m,.; and at Waipawa at 6.30 p.m. A mail for Auckland, per Star of the South, will clo*.e at the Port Ahuriri Post Office at 10.30 a.m. to-moirow.