TELEGRAPHIC.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 15 January 1873, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

[SPECIAL to THE bay OB PLENTY TIMES PEU united pkkss association.] A’vkxand, Tue-sday Evening. k,rpsEM® _ Couki. —On Saturday, William Viigisy Moflitt, for obtaining goods under falsa i pretences from Lewis Samuels, Tauranga, sen- ! fenced to IS montbs ; same prisoner, for similar crime from Hone Woraheko, also 18 montbs. On Monday, Alexander McMillan, two charges of ■ forgery, was acquitted on both. Great agitation is arising against the Education household rate. John Williamson is a candidate for the Superintendcnoy. Several new flax mills are being erected at Whangnrci .A* Bonce Court to-day, David Mouldey, for smuggling tobacco from the Wonga Wongs) was fined £-5. William McLean, eating-house keeperr, \V harf, for receiving the same, waa also fined £25. , A society for the protection of settlers’ cattle at Wainui has been formed, dho Wong a Wonga sailed yesterday for Mel-bourne-with-. 25,170. ounces gold, worth £675,5-15j duty on safiie amounts to £3,077 17s 6d. V’v ic li, iNoxon, Tuesday Evening. W native has been arrested at Otaki, for assaultmg and attempting to rob a man named Peter Walsh. A, stowaway on board the Bebington, bound for London, detected. Hunger compelling him to show himself during the detention of the vessel. Captain Cruncher, of tho cutter Glimpse, has been drowned near Castle Point. The people of Wnirarapa intend to memorialise tho Government to form the district into a municipality; The Hun. D. McLean has left for Taranaki, to negotiate the purchase of eomo valuable native lands. Sir George Bowen will assume the Governorship of Victoria early in March. The Supreme Court calendar is very light, TaE-Ijtaici, Tuesday Evening. Mr Parris has been again sent for by the. natives regarding the Dmuroa robbery. The culprits offer to pay for the goods stolen/ Blenheim, Tuesday Evening. A terrific storm occurred on Saturday evening, A lightning bolt struck Mr Fell’s outhouse, but caused no serious damage. CnHiSTOinjacil, Tuesday Evening. Owing to drought crops will average 15 to 20 per cent, below lust, rear. I) uwbdik, Tuesday Evening. _ Fire in George*street this morning. George’s, lithographers ; Hobson, tailor; Gilchrist, painter; Algie, fancy warehouse; entirely destroyed. Coventry, tinsmith, partially. Damage estimated, £2,000; insurances, £1,525. Gkaixamstowtt, Tuesday Evening. 127 tons tailings from the Caledonian have yielded 470 z. Heavy floods here during last few days. Strong wind blowing up the Gulf/ <Joro.ua ndkl, Tuesday Evening. A parcel of lewt. of stone from To Hang a was crushed. It yielded lldwt, of melted gold. Them is considerable agitation about the Education rale.