SPLUTTERINGS FROM A QUILL PEN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 67, 23 April 1873, Page 3

SPLUTTERINGS FROM A QUILL PEN.

“ Tkh signs are signs of progress”—so saith the oracle of the commercial department of the Times writing on Tuesday evening last. I may hero remark that red tape is an article not used fay tho oracle of that department. Let us not be satisfied with this assertion of the said oracle of the commercial department 8.P.T., minus rod tape, but look around for ourselves. Mr W. H. Bonnot has erected a flagstaff,- Mr Norris an iron fence round hig yard, surmounted by a fine coping painted an ugly colour } 'tho telegraph turret (a la * loyd), at Hairmi, has been painted j Mr Samue’s hit the target the other day ; the Judea road is being patched ; tho Otumootai road is not yet begun, winter not having as yet quite set in ; Captain bkeet was seen digging the other day in ms garden; Mr Samuel Olarke keeps his pigs within his fences; the gohoohiiouso is decently lighted for divine service j a certain couple of young women did not laugh in church last ounday evening ; W, I. Booth and Co. hope to sell something some day, and have stated tho Ist May to bo tho looked for red-letter dav ; a. ?itr D ?^ rOUB^ r memorial leaves next mail for Wellington under the fostering oars of our future “Asmodous ” styles the “patrician candidate (why doesn’t ho drop all that humbug of patrician, blue blood, &c,, and say Edgcumfao ai once) ; tho Town Board is in debt, having relied on getting a certain £IOO, which money h resolved itself info a fancy motion ;Mr Codell aas taken two photographs in tho last six months • Mr Langbridgo walked as far as the butts the other day ; the stripes on Mr Edgeumbe’s shirts are getting broader and broader ; three people and a fowl were seen at one and the same time on the Beach Bead the other day; the.upper nozzle of the town pump is leased ; three licenses to sell blueatono, &c,, were granted at last licensing meeting ; Leahy Brothers have removed to more commodious premises; eggs and butter are not to bo bought for love or money ; all tho roads out of the town are ia splendid order, more especially the one opposite tho wharf; Mr Quick intends starting a tandem up to Botorua—Mr Bodell in the shafts, Mr Langbndge leader. Tommy Bod.