Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addiclus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1501, 9 December 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addiclus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1872.

The Luna was employed for some time to-day in taking bearings in connection with the new lighthouse on the Ahuuivi Bluff. Michael Brickley, the sailor belonging to the barque Ballarafr, whose narrow escape from a painful death was Recorded in our last, returned to Napier overland from Moeangiangi last evening, and has again joined his ship. As may be supposed, he is in a very ex bausied state, being also much cut and pruiscd. The Post Office at Vernon, in this province, has been closed ; and a new Office has been opened at Karamu. His lienor Mr JusHce Johnston announced in Opurt to day that he had received a telegram informing him that the conviction of Paora Torotoyo for peijury had been quashed in. the Court legal grpui^ds,

The Supreme Court was opened this morning by his Honor Mr Justice Johnson. There were only three crim inal cases-r-Thomas Gray, larceny; Robert Shaw, indecent assault, and Maaka, murder. The first prisoner, it will be-remembered, stole a gold watch from a box in Mr While's store, Porangahau. He pleaded guilty, and in consideration of previous good character, and the time he had been in con* fincment, he leceived the light sentence of six months' imprisonment. Robert Shaw was then brought up on the charge of indecent assault on Mrs E. Gregory, Waipawa. According to the evidenee he entered the room in the Empire Hotel, where she was sleeping by means of the window, and pulled her out of bed. She screamed for help, and Mr Parkin the landlord, came to her assistance, whereupon tiiH prisonerwent away. Prisoner's counsel contended that he had mistaken the room, and that the evidence for the prosecution was unworthy of credence. —The jury retired at 2 p.m., and the Court adjourned for half-an-hour.