Hawkes's Bay Times Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1485, 20 November 1872, Page 2

Hawkes's Bay Times Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1872.

Our Wellington files per Rangatira are very deficient. We received no loose papers, and our latest dates per mail are the following : —lndependent, £Tov. 8; Evening Post, Nov. 15. In the Resident Magistrate';* Court this morning, before K. Stuart, Esq., J.P., and A. Kennedy, Esq., J.P., a number of cases under the Crown Grants Act, being claims for fees, were decided. The statements of .soine of the defendants showed, to say the least, an extraordinary degree of laxity in the conduct of the business of the Land cilice under a former Commissioner of Crown Lands. In every case judgment was given for the plaintiff; but in those cases where the delay was proved to have been owing to the dilatory action of the Land office, the • custody fees of

6d per month were remitted, Particulars of the cases appear in another column.

From Hansard we learn that the rooming expenses of the C.G. p.s. Luna amount to ,£7,000 a year.

With reference to the intercolonial regatta at Wellington, the Evening Post says :-—The preparations for our approaching interprovincinl and intercolonial regatta are quietly being pushed on. Crews may be seen nearly every morning doing their steady practice, and generally the clubs are striving to secure for Wellington some of the honors so be competed for. We hear there is some chance of a Melbourne crew coming over for the occasion, and there is almost a certainty that the majority of the provinces will be represented. Four at least of the boats that will be out will be from known English makers. We understand that it is by no means improbable that one of the Wellington clubs will contribute the winning crew. The subscriptions have reached abont £4OO.

While alluding to the scratching of Peeress for the Canterbury Cup, the Olago Daily Times says :—" In. tlie new rules of the Victorian Racing Club, we notice that the committee can call upon the person entering a horse 1o declare the bona fide owner, or name of any person having any interest in the horse. We commend the rule to the Dunedin Jockey Club, with the addition * that any change of ownership after nomination (before the race entered for is run), should be officially notified to the secretary.'" The Lyttelton Times records that a farmer named Joseph Charlesworth, residing at Teurpleton, committed suicide by hanging himself on Tuesday night, 12th Inst. Deceased, it appears had lived alone for a number of years in the above district; and was in anything but embarrassed circumstances. The cause for committing suicide is therefore a mystery. Inspector Pender and Detective Feast proceeded to Templeton yesterday, and hud the body taken down and removed to Parish's hotel, where an inquest will be held at 2.30 p.m. to-day. In deceased's poeket a piece of paper was found in his hand writing, stating that God only was aware of what had driven him to take away his own iife; the paper was also in the nature of a will, deceased leaving his property to a Mrs Inne's. Deceased has no relatives in the colony. - The following is from the Melbourne Argus, 23rd Oct. :—The despatch received from the Imperial Government by the last mail relative to the future postal communication between the Australian colonies and the mother country was yesterday presented to the Legislative Assembly by the hon. the Treasurer. The Imperial Government; will convey all letters from the United Kingdom to Galle fiee of charge, and will contribute to hall the cost ot a four-weekly service agreed on by the colonies to convey the mails from Galle to the colonics, provided that such contribution does not exceed £40,000 per annum. If, however, a foitnightly service be detei mined on, the Imperial Government will consider the question of granting an additional subsidy. The Treasurer announced that the Victorian Government would communicate with the other colonies on the subject. He intimated indirectly that a fortnightly mail \ia Suez would be recommended, and at the same, time stated that the Ministry were prepared to take the whole responsibility of accepting the offer of the Imperial Government if the other colonies declined to come in. The Victorian Cabinet would also be prepared to grant, under certain conditions, a moderate subsidy towards a mail service via San Francisco, but, seeing the competition already existing on the route via the Cape of Good Hope, the Government did not propose to subsi dise that line, because it was considered that without such assistance the colony would reap all the advantages that were to be derived from it.

There have been immense shipments of grain from California to England. The estimated wheal crop of California is 700,000 tons, 1,000 vessels are a\anted, and tonnago rates have advanced iOO per cent.