Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1517, 26 December 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1872.

Yesterday, being Christmas-day, was observed as a close holiday; and to-day business will again be laid aside, to give place to general enjoyment. The Bazaar in aid of the Trust Fund of the United Methodist Free Church, Waipawa, opens to-morrow. For particulars we refer our readers to our advertising columns. We hope the efforts of our Waipawa friends on behalf of their church, will be rewarded by success surpassing their most favorable anticipations. The Napier Rifle Volunteers will, we learn, commence class-firing this (Thursday) morning, at the Tutaekuri range. Those wishing to go over lo the range on Ibis occasion will fall in on Clive Square at 8 o'clock.

"We understand that a return rifle match between chosen teams of the Napier Rifle Club and No. 1 Company Dunedin City Guards will take place on an earlv date. it The New Zealand Herald fears that, now that the strike epidemic is abroad, we may hear some day of it spreading to the telegraph operators. They are required to be well educated, and to have attained a thorough mastery of the telegraph instruments; yet they are very much worse paid than the postoffice officials of the same grade of service. A post-office clerk only sees the outside of a letter —a telegraph clerk knows the contents of every communication which passes through his hands : and there is- good ground for the general complaint that the salaries paid to operators throughout the telegraph service do not average more than a journeyman caipenter or blacksmith receives in weekly wages. The Auckland summer race meeting will take place on the Ist and 2nd of January, 1873.

In Wellington, the streets are now watered with salt water.

A letter from Vienna gives very encouraging details regarding the prospects of the Universal Exhibition of 1873 in the Austrian capital. The building makes rapid progress ; a great part of the principal gallery, as well as of the four transverse gallaries, of the Palace of Industry being already covered. The last day of the reception of the exhibitors' demands for admission was the Ist of July. The reside surpasses all previous precedents. More than 15,000 Austrian exhibitors have announced their intention of taking part in the exhibition, and from Hungary alone have come 3000 requests for admission. At the first London exhibition, in 1851, there were 7,381 English Exhibitors ; and at the second in 1862, 9,387. At the first Paris Exhibition, in 1855, there were 11,000 French exhibitors; and at the second, at 1867, there were 13,000 ; so that the number of Austrian exhibitors is considerably higher than the highest at any similar show of the kind. The German Em pi re will bo represented by 8000 exhibitors, Belgium by 800, while Italy, Switzerland, and other European countries will .send their products in large quantities. Of more distant countries, the United States, Brazil, China, and Japan will be represented, and the Porte as well as Egypt have taken the requisite steps to ensure the participation of the East in the universal competition. Large enclosures are being prepared in theenceinteof iheExhibition for the accommodation of Turkish and Egyptian products. There is every prospect, therefore, that the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 will not prove inferior to its predecessors. 1, Archbishop Manning has been speaking on the question of temperance, and justly he remarks:—"lf fathers and mothers would only begin early setting the example themselves to induce their children in childhood to love the taste of water, and not to know the taste of other drinks, they would save them from a multitude of sorrows and a multitude of dangers. Abstinence begun in child hood makes abstinence not only easy but sweet when they grow up to youth, and it gives them htrength and joy in persevering to the end of life. Renounce intoxicating drinks altogether, and renounce them upon the highest of all principles. Don't do it because you will have better clothes or a better home. These are very good motives to be used by some people, but we should never do acts of this sort, which involves self-denial with any degree of purity of motive or firm perseverance, unless we do them upon the highest motives of all, and therefore, I hope all parents that hear me will allow me to give them this short advice : -Try and teach your children from the beginning to do without these things altogether; spontaneously to say, 'I would rather never know anything about them, never taste them.' So 1 believe the multitude of total abstainers will be continually growing in the midst of us, and if drunkenness in any class, and in the working class especially, is to be diminished even; or if it is ever to be put down, it will be by the moral influence of those who have absolutely and altogether renounced the use of these things."