Hawke Bay Times Nullius addictuts jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1480, 14 November 1872, Page 2

Hawke Bay Times Nullius addictuts jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1872.

In the Recent Magistrate'* Court this morning, a man named John White was fined £1 for drunkenness and re sitting the police, and Jgl for using obscene language. Pi ess of business on the wires prevented our telegrams, which were presented in Wellington in good time, from coming to hand in time for publication yesterday. Mails for the Australian Colonies close at the Bluff at 11 a.m. tomorrow (Friday) 15th inst} Coughs, cold*, and catarrhs are so prevalent in Weatport that the school committee are seriously considering the advisability of closing the school for a brief interval.

Messrs Brogden and Sons have rented a beautiful residence opposite the Government House, Auckland. The place is being nicely fitted and furnished.

Several of our contemporaries (says the Grey River Argus) have quoted from American exchanges a long letter purporting to have beeu written by Dr. Livingstone to his brother in Philadelphia, The letter seems to us to bear palpable marks of being a stupid forgery. All through it there are traces of American diction, and tfye concluding sentences can only be properly enunciated when accompanied by a decided drawl. Imagine Dr. Livingstone writing the following from the centre of Africa. He if writing, or supposed to be writing, about an agent of his ■who made a journey in fourteen months instead of three, and he adds :—" And then he remained here and sold off everything. You call this smart, do you ? Some do, if you do not. I yall it moral idiocy. Yours affectionately, David Livingstone." Travellers have been known to. lose the recollection of their native tongue, but he must be an extraordinary traveller who, hail ing from Scotland, acquires in Central Africa a Yankee idiom.