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

Tenders are required by Major Heberts, the officer commanding the Armed Constabulary in the Bay of Plenty, for the supply of certain timber (particulars of which will be found in our advertising columns), to be delivered at Opotiki 20 days of acceptance of tender. Tenders c.ose at the A.C. Orderly Boom oa the 30th instant.

*\. w ¥^? ri Kln § s »ess«nger has returned from the East Coast eettlements. The invitations sent to the various chiefs to be present at, the forthcoming; meeting at Maungatautari have not been responded to by the principal men. Nearly ail toe important chiefa hare stated that if it is* the desire of the Government tkat they should attend the meeting they will do so, but they positively decline to go on the inyitatkm of the men who brought them into trouble in yeara gone by. A few individuals of secondary importance left this district yeaterday for the purpose of attending As we previously mentioned, Mr Cotnuiissioner ~.&r<se has received a pressing invitation, and we thmk it highly probable (indeed, only proaer) that he will be present. * ' We *? all attention to an advertisement elaawhe-re from Mr Edgcumbe, respecting the next election for the Provincial Council. We learn that an amateur entertainment will shortly take place at the school house, Cameron Road, in aid of the Sunday School Fund. From what we can hear, the entertainment promise to surpass any former " soireV* of a similar kind. We are requested to mention that the annual meeting for the election of the District School Committee will be held this evening afc 6 o'clock, at the school house, and not to-morrow eveaing, as preyiously announced. Mr Mackay has for some time past been negotiating, on behalf of the Government, for the purchase of the Whangamata Block. We are informed by a gentleman (well acquainted witk native matters), whohasjmt returned from the Katikati, that a friendly Haub.au chief, named Kaukoti, arrived at that place on Tuesday last, bearing the welcome news that Mr. Mackay has entirely succeeded in accomplishing the object he had in view, and that the ownership of the Whangamata Block by the Government ia now an established fact. A meeting will be held this evening at the new school to elect trustees for the coming year. Considering that a new Education Act has been framed, we think the meeting should be adjourned till a copy of the said Act can be procured, so that it might be laid before the audience and discussed. Education is of such vital importance that we do not deem it advisable to do anything in connection with it in a hurry, end aa far as we can learn no one in the district has a copy of the Act. We have telegraphed for one, and expect it by the steamer, when it will be at the service of the School Committee or anyone else who chooses to call upon as in the matter. [Since the above was written, the Act has arrived.} It will be perceived that Mr Bradley, as Secretary to the Town Board, has satisfactorily explained the apparent neglect on the part of that body in not replying to a certain public memorial. " Mistakes; will happen in the best regulated Hoards" A trifling coincidence was suggested the other day in the course of conversation between two settlers in Tauranga, one of whom, on feeing informed that Mr Barry, who has lately retired from business, had taken up bis residence at the house of Mr Redmond, remarked that curiously the name of the Chief Justice of "Victoria'was'Sir Kedmond Barry. On repeating the circumstance, the same individual was reminded of a former settler named Tapley, who had a " chum" entitled Mark, the two together furnishing the cognomen of one of Dickens's moat popular charactersMark Tapley. A correspondent, signing himself " Church of England," writes as follows: —"Sir, —I would not trouble you on the following subject did I not know how anxious you always are to promote the intecesta and wishes of the public. 1 desire very respectfully to draw the attention of our new Incumbent to the exceedingly inconvenient hour at which divine service has been hitherto held, and to suggest that it be altered either to 11 a.m. or 6 p.m. At home (at any rate in the diocese in which I resided) the 3 o'clock service has long been done away with, and an evening service substituted. I believe one reason for thia change was that, people, as a rule, diise in the middle of the day and dread going to church for fear of going to sir-ep there. This, in itself, I hold to be an all sufficient reason. In this country, and ■especially during the summer months, 3 p.m. is tbe hottest part of the day, and even supposing the -eh arch to psasess good ventilation (which it certainly does not) a building of its size is bound to be very close. By adopting either of my suggestions the reverend gentleman will meet the views of the greater portion of his congregation, and do a courteous action. I hope in a short time we shall be in a position to build a church, when I sincerely trust ladies and gentlemen will come forward and form themselves into a choir, with one organist, for nothing tends to spoil good singing sooner, or more, than a change of organists, as is at present tbe case. Had I the ' honour of Mr Jordan's acquaintance, I would I have suggested the above vive voce," In another column we publish a letter from " A j Ratepayer" calling upon Mr Douglas, M.P.C., j for an explanation respecting his nconduet during tbe last session of the Provincial Council in withdrawing his tabled motion for a grant of money to the various ivoad Boards in tbe Bay of Plenty. We agree with our correspondent that the matttr requires explanation, and we have not the slightest doubt "out that Mr Douglas's reply will be prompt and satisfactory. The Australasian s&ys these are ropy times for sheep farmers. One of them not very long; ago bought out his partner's half interest in a station for £50,000, and within a month sold the entire property for £127,000, which was not a bad profit for the period, and easily calculated. A correspondent of the Chemical News calls attention in a recent n&aaber of that publication, to the fact that sulphate of lime exercises a x€rj remarkable influence in arresting the spread of the decay in potatoes 'affected by the disease now so prevalent. In ore experiment, he says, this salt (which has been long applied in preserving meat) was dusted over some tubers, partly sound and partly affected, as they were being stowed away. Some months afterward?, the potatoes were found to have euflVred r.o further ir.jury. A comparative trial with powdered lime waa much lesa successful.

We hear that the Bishop of Waiapu hi* left Napier for Auckland ®n his way to Tauranga. On his arrival steps will bo taken to erect Tauranga into a parish. At the present time, though we have a clergyman (just arrived) there is no church constitution. We behove, however, that the provisional Church Committee are making arrangements for two services on a Sunday—one in the morning at the Mission Chapel, and one in tho evening at 6 o’clock at tho District School ia the Quarter Acres. This will be far more convenient than the present afternoon service at 3 p.tn. The Provincial Government Gazette, of the 10th in«taut, announce* the appointment of Air John Sheehan us Goldfields Secretary vice Mr H. H. Dusk , resigned. t “ Tauranga in Futuro !” The local Rip Van \v mklo is not yet sufficiently aroused to feel that the eyes of Europe, or at least Tauranga, are upon him; hut sufficient signs of consciousness aro apparent to enable us to promise our reader* the stupendous prophecy on Wednesday nest. , business of any kind has been transacted in the Resident Magistrate's Court since our last.