THE Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri FRIDAY, 12th JUNE, 1874.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1584, 12 June 1874, Page 250

THE Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri FRIDAY, 12th JUNE, 1874.

The fact of the Supreme Court and Provincial Council being simultaneously in session lias encroached considerably both on our time and space, and placed our report of the proceedings of the latter body in arrear. A portion of our full report, already in type, is, much against our will, displaced. As the proceedings of the Council this session have been of more than usual interest, we will, by devoting additional space to them in our next, endeavor to bring up arrears.

In the Provincial Council on "Wednesday, on the question of tenders, his Honor the Superintendent made certain statements relating to an alleged arrangement existing between this paper and the proprietors of our evening con« temporary on the subject of the tender for printing. The statements in question could not have been made from personal knowledge, and from whatever source derived, were simply untrue. We have a strong objection to bringing private matters into our columns, and we should have refrained from doing so in the present instance had not a public question been involved; but we feel bound to take this public means of denying an unwerrantable assertion publicly made to our discredit by an individual at present holding the highest provincial office. In our next we hope to report fully his Honor's remarks on the subject, which we regret are crowded out of to-day's issue. The whole matter of the tenders has very properly been referred to a committee of the Council, whose report, we anticipate, will differ in several respects from his Honor's statement. ..

St. Paul's Church bazaar, on Wednesday evening, was a great success. Mails for the Australian Colonies via Sydney, close at Auckland at 11 a.m. to-day. Mails close for Wellington, Southern Provinces, aud Australian Colonies, per Kangatira this day, at 10 a.m.

We would call attention to the fact that the favorite schooner Opotiki will sail for Poverty Bay at 4 p.m. this day, and not to-morrow, as previously advertised.

Rev. J. S. Smalley, Wesleyan Minister, will (D.V.) hold services in the Oddfellows' Hall on Sunday, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.