Hawkes's Bay Times Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 1872

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1483, 18 November 1872, Page 2

Hawkes's Bay Times Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 1872

Mails for Australia and tho United Kingdom, via Melbourne, will close at Hokitika at 10 a.m. to-morrow (Tuesday, 19 th inst) In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, one individual, charged with drunkenness, was dismissed with a caution. Flour in Auckland, on the 13th inst., was quoted at £l9 per ton. We all make mistakes occasionally (says «Tl»e Loafer in the Street," writing to the Chiistchurch Press). 1 made one tho other day. I got into an altercation with a bruising-looking cove, who in the course ot argument called me a " blinded idiot." As he was accompanied by a bull dog and a broken no«e, J said I thought 1 was. He seemed satisfied and deputedBy andtbye a small imliyidual entered whoso air induced the belief that I con id call him a blinded idiot in safety. I did so. Immediately 1 experienced two of the most tremendous shocks it has e*'er been my foitune in the couise of a chequered experience to leecive. On this occasion I lied the scene without further remark. I have since been told by numerous friends that 1 behaved in a eowardly manner. I don't believe I did. Had I been a Parliamentary leader, or a general, 1 should have gone in again, but the e}es ol an appreciative country were not upon me. In point of face, there was no audience, and there is no good either playing or fighting to an empty house. With the present leader of the Opposition the case is far different. After a defeat in a contest to close, that it might be almost termed a dead heat, he has decided to leave his adopted country. Were lin his place, 1 should, like retire to my plough, ami await tho time when the arterial lines and other public works are at a standstill, and when, being a really useful man, I should be called upon to put things straight. That time will come soon enough—juu bet. Mr Stafford, if he decides upon this course, won't plough long.

Wo (Southern Cms-) understand that a shipment ot dried fish, .somewhere about five ton*, is about to he made by Messrs. M'Leod and Perston, of Wangarei, to the Mauritius. Shipments have already been made to Melbourne ami Sydney to lest the market in those colonies.

The Thames Naval Brigade was, on the I lth inst., presented by the ladies of the Thames with a set of colors.

The Ot;vgo Daily Time.* says : Among the visitors to the Oamain Agricultural Show will be Julius Vogei and Watrrhouse —not the Colonial Treasurer and the Premier, as might be supposed, but two young bulls. The formei is described as a "really line animal," and the latter as a " promising roan." Unlike their namesakes instead of "selling,'' they an? to be sold. The Evening Post, Nov. 4, says : An infant child of Mrs Young, at Karoti, an as fearfully scalded on Satniday. It was playing about and upset a pot of hot tea down its breast, shoulders, and back. We believe it is progressing as favorably as can be expected, but fears are entertained for its ultimate recovery.

Tlie attempt made in. Dunedin to form a local committee for tlie purpose of representing Olago at the .Exhibition of Colonial Products in Chii&tch'tteh lifts proved a lamentable failure. A contemporary states that it is rumored that Prince Arthur of England is* about to contribute to one of the English magazines a series of articles oil cerium customs in the JBritish army,