Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1472, 5 November 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1872.

Mails for Australia close at Greymouth at 10 a.m. to-morrow.

Mails for Poverty Bay close at the Port Aburiri -Post Office at 9.30 a.m. to-morrow.

A letter for William Colenso, Esq., Napier, is detained for postage at the Port Ahuiiri Post Office, The Customs Revenue collected at Port Ahuriri for the month euling 31st October amounted to £2,725 16s 2d. The Pilotage Receipts for the game period amounted to Mid 'dti sd. Jn the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning Thomas Grey was brought up on remand, charged with stealing a gold watch, the property of Rowley Haley. The owner of the watch deposed that he left it in May last locked jn a box in Mr White's store at Porangahau. He next saw it in the hands of t!)ti police. A watch was here pro duced, and identified by the witness, "who pointed out his own name, which he had scratched inside the case —-the name of the . prisoner being scratched over it. Mi* inspector Scully deposed that from information received he went on the 13th inst. to Olive Grange, where lie found the prisoner. He asked for his watch, which the prisoner handed over, Witness, after examining it, and finding it correspond with the one of which he was in quest, asked hfm where lie got iv. Prisouev replied ; " I got it

out of a box in a store in the rear of Mr White's public house at Porangahau. I have been in perfect misery ever since I took it." Witness arrested him on a chaige of stealing the watch. The prisoner, who made no defence, was committed for trial at the next criminal sitting* of the Supreme Court. Patrick Burke v. Charles MitchellClaim of £5 7s balance of wages. The defendant did not dispute any part of the claim except the wages for five days during which the plaintiff was absent from his work drinking. He pleaded that the plaintiff had broken an engagement extending to the end of next June. The plaintiff denied the existence of such an engagement.— Judgment for £5 Is 4d, with 16s costs. Dinwiddie, Morrison, & Co. v. Gilligan. —Claim of £5 16s for advertizing.— Plain tifts nonsuited, having sued the wrong party.