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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 57, 19 March 1873, Page 3

Owing to a press of advertisements we are compelled to leave over an article on the desirability of a Bank for Tauranga, " la the Street,'' and several other matters of interest. There is little new to report respecting public •works in the district, Capta'n Turner returned from his inland tour on Saturday night The Cteamuri bridge will, we lei.ro, be "ooipleted about Monday next. The work of bridging the Rabapuka is about half finish ',. The Mangorewa truss bridge will la completed in a few days should all go well. The rock excavation in the valley has been the great barrier to the early completion of this cont et, and we are happy to learn the difficulty is now over. The survey from Rotorua to Tarawera h> been brought, to a eonelusion, and the Maoris in the vicinity will, we are informed, be shortly employed on the road Captain Simpson reports having completed eight; miles of the Opotiki aud Pover.'y Bay Koad on the 28th February. We learn by telegram that- Mr Bromley, the well-known eoniique, and Mr Margetta, a vocalist of good repute, together with Signor Ferrari's troupe of educated monkeys, are on board the Southern Cross, and, as announced in advertisemerit, will appear this evening at Fraser's Hall. The entertainment by the company is pronounced by the public Press to be of a most attractive nature, and as there has been a dearth of public amusement of late, no doubt the Hall, during a short season, will be well attended. We give below a list of the successful candidates for the district prizes. The scores are a great deal below average, and prove an immense want of practice : —lst Set: Capper, Opotiki Militia, Ist prize (31), £6 ; Q-rav»tt, Tauranga Volunteers, ,2nd priz* (29), £4; Acting-Captain Kelly, Opotiki Volunteers, 3rd prize"(2B), £3; Lieutenant Hill, Tauranga Militia, 4fh prize (27), £2 10s ; i olfe, Tauranga Volunteers, sth prize (27), £2 10s; .Lieutenant Rushtou, Opotiki Militia, 6th prize (27), £2; Stewart. Taurunaa Volunteers, 7th prize (26), £1 ; dp tain Tunks, Tauranga Militia, Bth prize (25), £l. 2nd Set : Lieutenant Thompson, Opotiki Volunteers, Ist prize (33), £4; Forbes, Opotiki Volunteers, 2nd prize (31), £3; Downey, Opotiki Militia, 3rd prize (23), £2 ; Chaplin", Tauranga Volunteers 4;h prize (22), £1 ; Connors, Opotiki Volunteers, sth prize (22), £l • Penny, Tauranga, Militia, G'h prizfc (20), £l. St. Patrick's Day passed over very quietly in Tauranga. It is the orthodox thing, we believe, for some admirers of their patron Saint fo testify their devotions to him at the shrine of the rosy god, but, save a few demonstrative M'tor.'s. Bacchanalian revels were not the order of the day. What a nice quiet and eminently respectable lot of people we are ! Bet urns of Cavalry prizes have not yet been received. We are utuiblo therefore to" publish official statement at present. Notices ah'tic:. .: the altar, the cradle, or the totub—births, deaths, and marriages —should always bear the signature of some respectable person, known in thn district, as a guarantee of genuineness and good f.iih. Mr BodelPs sale of stock, previously announced, w dl take phtce at the Cameron sale yards this horning, at 11 o'clock. At the invitation of Mr Samuels—promptly accepted-—we have inspected and digested a considerable quantity of beautiful white grapes, and verily they were good. This deponent desircth n"t to tantalise his neighbours with further description, and mentions the fact merely as a proof of _ the capabilities of the fertile land of Opotiki, in which classical spot they w t -re grown V'Uhout nny artificial means, and superintended ouly by D»ir,e Mature. We shall be glad to hear "' o,n Samuels again on the same subject. We have to acknowledge receipt of "Journals Auckland Provincial Council, scs.-ion 28, ly<2, with the Provincial Council papers and Acts appended."

Th« appointment of Sergeant-Major , bnj« Uticket to bo Sub-Inspector, 2nd C.ass AC is gazetted. ’ * a P. nrate takTPatn from Nelson we learn that, on i hursday last an extra match took tr ace wi h black targets, centre and bull’s-eve vi.-üb’e only to tue marker, and'with ordinary sights. *“‘ erc " jD 5 ijT f ranges and five shots “at each range. The firing was repeated at the same ranges with white sights, a plan suggested bv Sergeant Souil, of Auckland. First- Mi™. I*3 Taylor. 46, 45—toUl. 91. Second prize! £4• Adams, 42, 46-total, 88. Third prize, £2: Uude, (i, 47 total, 87. Fourth prize, £1 : Wales, 43, 44 total, 87. The rain prevented anotner mutch of the kind being proceeded with. New Zealand Gazelles of March Ist, 4th, ami 6th are to hand and contain proclamations relative to the receipt by the Government of the Imperial Mutiny Act, prohibition of importation of diseased cattle, revocation of quarantine regulations under the Marine Act, 1867, not Du of introduction of Pubac Health Act in the province of Auckland and other rts of the colony, terms and conditions of sett lement of Scandinavian immigrants, memoranda relative to the resignation of the Hon. Mr Waterhouse (already pubhaheu), and other matters of minor importance* Toady-hater” writes to us- —“ J learn upon good authority that an old Pakelia-Maori longresident and well-known—perhaps a little too well-known iu Tauranga—is busby engaged in end . vounng f . swamp the electoral roll bv inducing large numbers of Maoris to register their claims > vote dur : g the period of registration. I sincerely hope white men will awake from their apathy, and register before the 31st. Do not let us surrender our boasted electoral privileges to the Maori, nor Jet this political meddler have all his own way.” Inspector Thompson, A. 0., has, we perceive by late Auckland papers, returned from hts recent official visit to Taranaki, We are informed that his mission to New Plymouth was to inquire into some suspicious circumstances aueut the selling of arras to natives by a» ! .reboeper. Inspector Thompson has deservedly earned for himself the reputation of being a most .zealous and efficient officer, and under his fostering cava the somewhat stringent regulations of the Act cannot fail to be carried out in their integrity. A correspondent of the Hawke’s Barf Herald, in describing a trip from Napier to Taupo, says:—“ I will now suppose that a traveller, or party of travellers, have arrived at Taupo. They will not be long there before meeting a singular looking character, whose name is Bdward Loffley, but who, from the peculiar costume in which he generally appears, is better known as the ‘Knave of Clubs.’ His occupation is tiiat of guide, in which capacity he gives general satisfaction. He is somewhat independent in bis way, and has a curious theory that those employing turn are bound to hear patiently' and believe implicitly all the yarns (and some of them are stiff enough in all conscience) with which be seeks to beguile the time. Jaq|c, as he is usually termed, is an old man-o’-war's* man (not so old either), and his favourite dress is one that recalls to memory the highly-coloured prints of * Mr T. P. Cooke as Long Tom Coffin.’ To those who recognise him as a character and humour him accordingly, he is highly amusing ; in any case he is useful, almost indispensable, to the intending sight seer. Whether your destination is iokano, Rotomahana, Tauranga, or any other distant locality, or whether you will be content with seeing lluka Falla, Crow’s Nest, and other local curiosities, Jack is quite prepared (for a moderate consideration) to show you the way and render all necessary assistance, either on footer horseback.” By our last American exchanges we perceive they have had a y«ry interest ii g breach of promise suit in Missouri We allude to it here for the purpose of supplying a warning to widowers The plaintiff in this case, a widow, testified that the defendant, a widower, ate some pie at her house one day, and while his mouth was full he suddenly remembered that the pie tasted exactly like the pie his wife used to make. This flooded his mind with recollections and feeling, and in the frenzy of the moment he burst into tears and proposed to the widow. The lessons to be deduced from this paii ■ fui incident are numerous. When your first wife makes pie do not, e-it any', and then you will never have these utiecti- g memories springing up at critical moments. When a widow offers y.m pie, either refuse it or wrap it iu your handkerchief to bo eaten when you get home. If you eat it, on the spot, and you think y«u will bo likely to cry, weep first, and put away the pie afterward. If you want to propose aid cry and tackle the pie, don’t undertake Un-m all at once. Distribute it more. A, man who declares his love while his mouth is full of pie and his nose is damp, presents a figure which, under ordinary i ireumsiancea, is not likely to touch a woman’s heart. Pie is well enough in its way, but it doesn't mis well with love’s young dream. A lady writing in the Ohio Farmer relates this incident, illustrating the provoking propensity of butter to spoil itself by absorbing noxious odours : wide!) a little blood flowed, which presently commenced to bo off nsh’e. The result, was, that a jar of butter which I was then packing smelted and tasted like spoiled meat.” Another lady, at. another time, oi serves that when the wind id in the right qu.rter, a note-elevating effluvium is borne from a stagnant pool—distant several liundre i feet—directly to her miT. room, and that 'his odour fastens itself in cream and butter. Bhe induced the men folks to drain the pool, and thenceforth there is no further trouble. No, sister, however, it may Vie in morals, in butter making you cannot give cleanliness any second place. The Arrow Observer, in its issue of the 14th February, does us the honour to publish a little poem winch appeared iu our columns under the head of “ Gossip by a Bohemian,” entitled, . uggest.ions for a mat rimcnal advert isement,” Why did not the Observer also do u-; (or rather, in this mat.nee, our correspond-nt “ 13 licmian,”) the justice of acknowledging the authority, after the manner of civilised journals who respect the laws of n.enm and iu-sm ?