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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 15, 23 October 1872, Page 3

The Highway trustees for the Tauranga Highway District met yesterday to hear objections to the assessment roll. One or two objections as to acreage were heard and allowed. Some sectional were transfeired from second to third class, I Captain J. Chadwick objected to his rates on the ground that the annual meeting was not properly conducted. Objections not allowed. Notice of appeal was given. Captain Turner returned from Maungaroa on Saturday last. We are informed that the survey is being rapidly proceeded with. Mr Simpson has relieved Mr Haigh at Maungaroa, and the latter gentleman will shortly proceed to Rotorua, to take charge of the survey between that place and lapapa. We call attention to Messrs Samuels and Jacobaohn s advertisement, which will be found in another column. We are informed that the lease of the premises at present occupied by this will shortly expire, and they are determined to clear out their large stock at low prices to cash customers. Father Grange has requested us to acknowledge with many thanks the receipt, since our last issue, ot several donations towards the belfry fund from tpe members of the Armed Constabulary stationed he re. It is a pleasant task to award credit where it is justly Every time we pay a visit to the Mechanics Institute we find some little improvement has been made for the comfort and convenience of subscribers. In so far as method and order m the arrangement of the small library, newspapers, magazines. Parliamentary documents &c., are concerned, our little Institute will bearfavourable comparison with that of Auckland or any large town in New Zealand ; and for scrupulous cleanliness it would shame many of our housewives. Mr Walmesley, the librarian, deserves great credit for the efficient and zealous manner in which he performs the duties of his office ; and we trust that, as soon as practicable the committee will give a substantial recognition of his valuable services by increasing his present small salary. There is something new under the sun. In another column Mr A S her offers to supply the; public with “figure developing trousers.” Whv n,not name the new sit-do wo-upona “ the JSodell.” I'eCoc erm * 8 * oca l expressive.

A meeting of the members of the Tauranera Dramatm Club was held at Mr Bonnet’s Hotel on biturday evening last. Alter discussion, it was -emcled to reorganise the Club. Several new members were elected, and officers appointed. edition Tf I,i9truct « d ‘o Procure an acting de av ? Pie ° e ® f f om Dunedin without delay. We understand the Club intend com“uATtfe’VT 9eag ° li Bb * rtly - We hearthy wTh our little ihespian corps every success. B r B ‘ autlde l 9 w rhes to us to know “ what the lizards on Kaiewa Island exist on?'* We ? n nowr * _ Perhaps some of our readers can give the required information. We remind those interested that tenders for r ! p i E L m T l ? the,Whareroa school will close to-dav at the Civil Uommissiocer’s office, at noon. Mr Bradley, the obliging Secretary of the Town -board, has requested us to state that we were misinformed about Captain Austin’s appointment as referee in the dispute account for freight ; and w .° S' ad . to * earn fc hat there is every probability °* , tbe be i, n g amicably settled. A meeting ro 6 Board will be held this afternoon. Our favourite little steamer the Southern in-oss arrived m harbour yesterday, at about noon, after a splendid trip from Auckland. She was devalue— three hours at Mercury Bay. and thus made the passage in 17 hours. BU vT nO8 o ttien and dfkova will be glad to learn pat Mr. Sheath has been successful in obtaining permission from headquarters, for the arrival oT the English mail to be telegraphed at once to this station, and a notice to that effect posted outside the office for the benefit of the public. D. Asher offers the inhabitants of Tauranga and its s urrounding districts elastic side boots from 10s . also, men’s bluchers at Auckland prices.— {_Adwx.j * We have no news of any interest from Wellington, Ihe local journals are full of Parliamentary matters. A grand colonial race meeting is to be held near the Empire City in January or February next. From Napier, we learn that the Agricultural bhow held on Thursday last was a great success. Mr Colenso has been elected to the Provincial Council by a majority of one. The Scandinavians on railway work have struck for an increase of wages. They were in receipt of 5s per daj. In the House of Representatives on Tuesday mat our very excellent and attentive member, Mr William Kelly, presented a petition, signed by a number of the inhabitants of Opotiki, praying that the line of telegraph may be extended from Maketu to Opotiki. William Collier, convicted before the Supreme A ffS kladd » of Btea kng a pony, the property! of Mr W. H. Robertshaw, of Tauranga, was? sentenced by his Honor the Chief Justice to twelve months imprisonment with bard labour. • B X aprivate telegram we learn it is rumoured in Wellington that Mr Creighton will edit the Southern Cross at a salary of £SOO a year, in lieu of receiving a ministerial portfolio. , ? aeet i D S °f the ratepayers of Cambridge was held last week, when resolutions condemnatory of the late Government, especially as to their action as regards the confiscated lands, and refusal of aid to Road Boards, were passed. From late Timaru exchanges we perceive that there is a prospect of obtaining payable gold in that district. Bough gold mixed with quartz has been found ail along the workings. The criminal prosecutions and payments to jurors cost the Government of the colony for the last financial year £7,407 3s 7d. We have to acknowledge the receipt of another Parliamentary papers. Amongst them is Reports from Officers in Native District,” furnished in reply to a circular from the Hon. D. McLean from which we take the following : “At Opotiki the natives are recovering from the license and immoral habits engendered by Hauhanism, and are gradually devoting their attention to agriculture and other productive industries. Many of them lately in rebellion are now living quietly among the Europeans.” ° J There is a man in New Orleans—a recklessly improper man we think we should call him—who has written a poem entitled “ Golu,” Ifc, beams with these lines : “ “ Once I had a little sweetheart In the sand of the Malay— Such a little yellow sweetheart. Warm and peerless as the day Of her own dear sunny island, Kernilah—in the far, far East, Wffiere we sucked the luscious mango—■ Ah ! and many a sweeter feast.” The careless reader might, perhaps, receive the erroneous impression that the yellow hue of the poet’s sweetheart was probably due to biliousness, or to chronic torpidity of the' liver, caused by an excessive diet of sucked mangoes unrelieved by exercise. But, if we understand him, he intends to convey the idea that her natural colour was yellow. We shall not pause to consider the difficulty which a man of taste would find in learning to love a woman who was yellow, and who bore the name of Golu. We shall pass on to the next verse, in which we find the poet exclaiming:— “ And her eyes! her eyes were heaven! Changing swift from joy to grief. And her dress—ab ! ’twas no larger Than a lady’s handkerchief.” New, it is plainly manifest to every reflecting mind that Golu must have been exceedingly small, or that ladies’ handkerchiefs in New Orleans are uncommonly large, or that the conduct of Golu in the matter of fixing herself up for company was perfectly scandalous. We do not know any of the parties ; but it seems to us that it would he charitable if some of the missionary societies would send out a few sunny bags and blankets to Golu, with a fashion-plate or two for her to dress herself by. As it is, the situation is l deplorable ; and if nobody else will begin the movement in her behalf, we will start the contributions with a pair of gumshoes for her. Even those will improve the condition of things some-