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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 2016, 23 December 1870, Page 3

' \f^LiiT9ii»»*Btraniito.' Society, No. 2.-— ■:\ The next meeting of this i society, which falls . on ;ihe evening :pf Monday: next, has been postponed; till Wednesday the 28 thy I. PabmAj*enspa%y Papers.-- We have to acknowledge -theireceipt of the first volume .bf the Appendix to the Journals of the House, 6f Representatives " for last session. NatiVe- affairs would seem to be unpromising. !The_ telegraphic news from Wajkata -is certainly not of a cheering character. ...-,... . ThevEurofean News, continues to be looked forward to with eager interest. For details ;6flaßt .intelligence, we refer our readers tp -the Neios of the World. f AjSfExcD^sipir Tbi? by the Rangatira was annpuric^ for yesterday, in connection withs|^^ the, Soutti.;^^^th^aunchi did not take .place, the pleasure tnp^al^o, was deferred. . '. , . : * VTjjTfl^i^p^^ will be iyforw^e^BQti^h by the Lord i£shiey,,.on : -f^Sfcer. w|^ta^^s^i^SUj^^lexjif cted pn or aboaj;?|;Tjiesaa^^;«ifext;'. \ ; There may ; be anothier pppbrtjinity, bjnfc this; is the only - ' certain £pe^/;presenfc '"' i_. > ... . „ .' . ' ; . . THB^Niws of.Vthk Wohld, printed in. San Francisco as a supplement to the Hawse's Bat Hebamd, and received per . last mail from is presented to , OMr^a^eW^wittir the current number of this journal, In future it will be delivered monthly; to paid-up; subscribers. Napibr Mdsicaii SociETy.-^-The next cpncetfc v ;of 'this ■ society is announced for Thursday next, 29th iust. The programme, which appears in another column, will be found to contain some choice musical gems, and tq f , v b»,-as. well, more than usually popular. in character.,. , ; The Mail Steameb.- — The memorial to the Government, praying that, the mail steamer from San Francisco may call at Napier, on the voyage from Auckland to Wellington, ;was forwarded yesterday by . the Rangatira. The number, of signatures affixed {obtained in a. .very short time) '--■: wai/626i "-'.'..";.,'".. ■.'■■. .- - - "" ' - • ;. Tjae ;%!Gt.iSH Mail via Suez was due in. Melbourne yesterday, and would be brought on to Hpkiiika by the Rangstoto. In ordinary course it is not due there till Thursday next, but we are hopeful that the Rangitbto.would leave promptly after the ar- " ma! ait the ; mail steamer, in which case we might- have .the telegrams., on Monday - .sight. l,l^^.\ _]'=]'.■'" ' - , -...'■ . Tsb Eakthqoakb in. Wellington on Sanday erening last, . is. thus referred ,to by ; the; Advertiser; .*—•" A. smart shock of -earthquake was, felt last evening, at.twentyfive minutes tp eight o'clock.;, It,.was very ; short, but <jui6k,.a,nd rather violent, v The ■direcUpn7wa| ; ?rpm N.E. to. S.W, '_. Several of th_e icqngregationa. worshipping, ..in the . yaripus ; ;Churjuhes, were, greatly disturbed, more particularly"^ in the Roman -Catholic Cathedral and the Wes.leyan Chapel, Man-L-liJ:^??i^feSSfe'. <£. la „_mftj|y, 2 hote^,. ..also, the shock waagplainly perceptible." ; RuMODB,ED:FINDING OF A SPECIMEN OF . •-. GoiiD.— A correspondent of whom we know : nothing thus writes from Clyde, under date 15th ihßty^"A-certainperßoh having rea- . son to travel across country from Mohaka via Putiri .&£ dropped accidentally across a fine specimen of gold^ impregnated with mlver bi«/f He stayed a few days at Waihua, and is one that has seen enough of both -gold 'and silver. '■-•-■ - ■.:•.■ : - Resident Magistbatb's CouBT.-^-On Tuesday : last the court was occupied in hearing two cases— M'Kenzie, master of the Flirt, p. Burford, a seaman, for neglect of duty and flssault; 1 and a counter suit, Burfordl ». M'Kenzie, " for wages due. Judg- . ment was given next morning. The ■ two first cases : were dismissed \' t as the offences alleged; had' hot been entered in the log book. The last was also dismissed, but without costs. There was no business yes- ■ :' : terday."-' ;V r "'■;!.-" The Resident Magistsate.-— Our readers will have observed correspondence which has recently appeared in the Herald, upon the subject of proceedings in the Resident Magistrate's Court, We would, if we could, have avoided ; printing so many and such severe critiques upon the mode of conducting business in any court of justice ; but we could not resist the pressure of public opinion., . .At the same time we gladly published letters written from an opposite . point of view, and gave very full reports of the more important cases (as we do in this morning's Herald) by way of guarding the public against any misconception of the . grounds upon which decisions were arrived at, thus doing our best to uphold the position of ,tbe Court. We were therefore astonished^jto jearn that that the Resident Magistrate threatened to proceed against :ihe propfjietor of the Herald for the insertion of certain of thie letters rtferred to. Had the intioiation. _npt come from himself, we could nothave believed him. to be so destitute of common sense... lie is welcome, if. - he sp chTO^es, to run tilt against the press ; arid, whatever the result, this much we. will venture to predict, that the Herald will continue to appear on; mornings of publication" long after' the present Resident -Magistrate has ceased to wear out the patience and tax . the forbearance of the HawkeY Bay public. " ]