Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1468, 30 October 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1872.

Yesterday afternoon, the steamship Albion arrived at the Bluff, from Melbourne, having left that port on the 25th insb. This vessel was the bearer of the English Mail via Suez, and telegrams of news from London to Thursday last, 24th instant.

Owing to unavoidable circumstances, we learn that the Picnic advertized to be given by the members of the Hope of Napier Tent, 1.0. R., has been postponed. We learn from Canterbury papers that the whole of the shares in the recently started Deep-Sea Fishing Companyhave been taken up, and that so soon as a satisfactory answer has been received from Auckland respecting a vessel,, the company will at once commence operations. In answer to a tele<*ram from the directors to Auckland, they were informed that plenty of vessels could be obtained, but they desire to get one specially fitted for the purposes ol the trade.

Advices from Dunedin state that the whaUng parties at the heads have netted £1,700 during the past five months. The value of property in the Waikato district seems to beat a low ebb. A short time ago two farms were submitted to public competition ; one, which had several thousand pounds expended on it, was bought in at ,£1,500. The other is a farm of 100 acres, partly fenced, with a dwelling-house, which cost £200; thi* property was sold for a trifle more than <£so.

Some very strange rumors (says the Canterbury" Press) have been current in town relative to the recent exhumation of a human skeleton at Feudal town; and we are, therefore, glad to be enabled to announce that it is planed beyond all doubt that, it is the skeleton of a Maori, and that probably it was interred very many years before the advent of any Europeans to these shores.

Potatoes are selling in Tauranga at 5d per lb, or like £46 per ton.

We learn from a Dunedin paper that the first number of a periodical devoted to matters useful and interesting to the legal profession, will be published in April next. It is to be entitled the " New Zealand Law Times," and will be equal in size to the monthly numbers of the "Law Times Reports." The editorial managers of this important addition to the periodical literature of the colony are stated to be Messrs AJacassey, Haggit, and G. Cook.

The Press, of the 15th inst., says : We were shown yesterday the contents ol the gizzard of a fowl, which woie extracted in Christ-church on Sitmday ] as t —truly a miscellaneous assortment. They consisted of several large pebbles, a piece of glass, three pins, about half-a-dozen rivets half-an inch long, three or four fragments of some curious article of jewellery in wrought gold, three nuggets ol* alluvial gold—one tome what minute, another the size of a barley corn, and another the size of a pea; a shirt button, and a brass trowsers button. The fowl had been running among others previously on the South Town belt, and was perfectly healthy and in excellent condition. The Wellington Independent, Oct. 18, says :—Captain Renner, who has given up the command of the Rangatira, was yesterday presented with a handsome timepiece by the officers and men of whom he was superior officer for a considerable time. This, token of the esteem of his late associates came upon Captain Renner as pleasantly as unexpectedly, as he was unaware that they had any intention, ol presenting him with a souvenir.

A very bright Aurora Australia was visible at Oli.ristchurch on the night of the. 18th inst., the bands of scarlet light and r.aYK being exceedingly vivid,, despiiQ i|s moonlight.