Hawkes's Bay Times Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1481, 15 November 1872, Page 2

Hawkes's Bay Times Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1872.

C. E. Hangbtun, Esq., has been gazetted Under Secretary for Crown Lands and Immigration. In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, there were only two civil cases. Rush v. Lewfe.—Claim of £5 wages. Plaintiff was a seaman on board the schooner Colonist in July last, defendant being master. Plaintiff claimed a full month's wages, for two weeks' service, on the ground that he had been improperly dismissed. The defendant brought evidence to show that the plaintiff had got drunk and misconducted himself, delaying the vessel in port three days, and that on being told to go to work he flatly refused and used insolent expressions and gestures. Notwithstanding a prolonged and eloquent oration on the part of the counsel for the plaintiff, which referred principally to points of fact and credibility of the witnesses rather than to any legal question, the Resident Magistrate gave judgment for the defendant, considering that the plahviff by his misconduct, had justly forfeited his wages. Sweetapple v. Greenaway.—Claim of 10s 6d, value of a meerschaum pipe, or the recovery of the article. Plaintiff <]&■ posed that the pipe in question was his property; and that he lent it to a friend named Edwards k> color for him. Defendant, seeing the pipe in Edwards' possession, claiming it as a pipe he had lost from his pocket while drunk some time before. —Judgment for amount claimed, or delivery of the article. Congratulatory messages on the completion of telegraphic communication were received in Melbourne from the Emperor of Germany, the Governors of the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong, Lord Monck, clmil man of the Cable Company; Mr Dutton, AgentGeneral; and the Chief Secretaries of Victoria and Queensland.

The Argus of the 19th ulfc. says that it does not at present appear very probable that the Victorian Government will he represented at the intercolonial conference to be held in Sydney on the Ist of December. Should Victoria not be represented the labors of the conference will of small value, for with Victoria and New Zealand absent, neither the border duties question not' the matter of the San Francisco mail contract can be determined. An Adelaide telegram states that if the business of the session is finished in time, that colony will be represented at the Sydney Conference. A tin viola and violin of really good merit has been manufactured by Mr R. Billons, of the North-road, Chiistchuich. The viola is particularly noticeable for the rich fulness and sweetness of its tone. Several performers on the viola have tried it, and their verdict has, in each instance, been most favorable. By more than one the viola has been pronounced superior to instruments of the usual make. The Southland Acclimatization Society (the News states) hate sent home for a consignment of insectivorous birds. The biids will be purchased by and brought out under the care of a family leaving England for Otago about the beginning of Januaiy next. Dr L. Martin, of the Paris Geographical Society, lias dispelled some popular fallacies about the capital of China. The population of Pekin, he says, has never been equal to what it was represented by European authors, and it lias, moreover, decreased since the enthroning of the present dynasty. It fluctuates between 860,000 and 900,000 souls. It is impossible to affix auy actual number to the population, for no census has ever been taken. The city has no drainage whatever, and is very miasmatic and unhealthy. Infants die by thousands, and every morning carts go round to take away the little coffins.

The friends of temperance in Sidney are in the habit of giving Sunday breakfasts to the poor in the Temperance Hall. The New York canal trade in increasing. The boats alone are valued ai 20,000,000 dollars.