Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addiclus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1509, 16 December 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addiclus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1872.

On Saturday afternoon, the fine Band of the Napier Rifle Volunteers gave another of their usual fortnightly: open air performances in the Government Lawn. There was a numerous assemblage of persons persons present, and the playing of the Band (now the only one in Napier) was much admired. The following was the programme : Quick March—" Jove " Gurtner Quadrille —"Christmas Gathering".. Berger Fantasia—" The Waits " Collins Waltz—" Pipee " Werner Galop—"Valentine" —■ God Save the Queen.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning there were three cases of drunkenness. The offenders had all been locked up since Saturday, and were dismissed with a caution. Michael Rooney, a tailor, a notoriously low character, was charged by Katherine Callaghan with us-ing insulting and abusive language to her, and placing her in bodily fear. The prisoner, it appeared, had been recently guilty of certain disgusting acts, of which it is very difficult to obtain proof, people being naturally reluctant to come forward to give evidence respecting them ; but it would seem that he had caused considerable alarm in various neighborhoods. The complainant in the present case had been left alone in charge of her master's house, and saw the prison er prowling about the back door. She ordered him off, but he refused to go, and attempted to follow her in. She ran fait at the front door towards a neighbors house, and he followed, but did not succeed in overtaking her —ln defence he told a disconnected story to the effect that he was in search of some person who had hit him with a stone, and that " he meant no harm to the young lady."— Ordered to find two sureties, JB2O each, to keep the peace tor three months. Failing in this, he was sent] to prison for that period—doubtless to the great relief of many who have heard of his propensities. We have been favoied by his Honor Mr Justice Johnston with a copy of notes in the case of Joshua Cuff, a bankrupt, in the Court of Appeal, which we give in full in this e\ening'« issue. Our readers who have followed the progicss of this matter through the District Court and the Supreme Court, will observe that the decision of the highest tribunal in the Colony precisely coincides with the view of the law taken by the learned Judge of the District Court. This day was the twenty-second anniversary of the foundation of the Province of Canterbury. The Exhibition was to have opened to-day. Mails foi Great Britain and the Australian Colonies, via Melbourne, close at the Bluff at 11 a.m. to-morrow (17th instant.) At Poverty Bav, a few days ago, a very closely conte>ted rifle match was fired between eight members of the Armed Constabulary and a like number chosen from the members of the Gisborne Rifle Club, resulting in a victory for the former team, they winning by four points onlv. The ranges were 400, 500, and 600 yards, 7\shots at each range. The totals were—Armed Constalmlary, 309; Gisborne Rifle Club, 305. On the side of the Rifle Club the highest score made was 50 points (by Mr J. 8.. Stubbs); and on the Constabulary side; 45 points, by Sergeant Bell. Over 300 roughly-cured wild pigskins were lately brought into Timaru in one day. They were sold right off to a buyer at a handsome profit upon the labor employed in killii g and skinning. A Timaru paper says, " Dining the last few months upwards of a thousand wild pigs have been slaugh-

tered upon the Four Peaks and adjoining runs, the killers getting so much per tail for their labor—and the three hundred skins are from the choicest, and as to distance, most convenient of the animals killed. These wild pigs are a curse to the station master, destroying not only large slices of country through grubbing up the soil in search of roots, but also the wild boars are not over scrupulous now and again about helping themselves to a bit of lamb. In the London market pig-skins command a high price, and if, instead of, as customary hitherto, shooting the wild pig on the up-country runs for the reward offered per tail shepherds and others would only take the trouble to skin their quarry, and send the hides to the market, they would find repayment for the extra labor." A few clays since a fisherman at Wanganui hauled in 250 kawai fish, the weight of the whole *' totted " up amounted to 1000 lbs. A. late London telegram states that there are seven hundred desertions monthly from the British army.