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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 70, 3 May 1873, Page 3

Sixteen signatures have been appended to tho requisition to Mr Douglas, asking him to stand again for the Provincial Council. Tho district has been thoroughly canvassed, and the memorial bears date 16Lh April. We trust that the Church Committee will soon see their way m provide the schoolhouse with a harmonium for th© Sunday evening services. should imagine that no difficulty exists in the way of raising donations for the purchase of an instrument. Thursday was the day appointed for the firing match between the Opotiki and the Tauranga Cavalry Volunteers. We publish the score of the Tauranga Cavalry. Of course the result of the Opotiki firing has not ye u reached us Murphy, 4.J ; Eobertshaw, 43; Fleetwood, 34 ; Fitzpatrick* 38 ; Capt. in Chadwick, 32 ; Take, 39 ; J* Faulkner, 29 ; Q. Faulkner, 42 ; Saunders,’ 33 • Young, 27. Total, 357. The Tauranga Hotel has gone into a different management ; but although Mr Beunet has retired from the public business, we believe Tauranga will not lose one who certainly has not only rendered himself a popular man, but really', in a business point of view, did all be possibly could to forward the interests of the town in which be was located. Whilst wishing Cud speed to Mr Bennet, it is some satisfaction to know hi 3 successor is a Tauranga man; and we sincerely trust Mr Cook may be successful in his new venture. Mr Cook was the landlord of the hotel when it first opened, and consequently does not enter altogether as an untried man. We believe carpenters have gone down to Opotiki to build tho new redoubt for the Armed Constabulary. Bitherto the A.C. force baa been quartered in the Church, and we congratulate the inhabitants of Opotiki upon the probability of soon having their Church applied to its legitimate use.