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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 72, 10 May 1873, Page 3

We have great pleasure in informing our readers that Mr Samuel Clarke, J.P., has, at the request of the local Board of Education, witharawn his resignation, and took his seat at a meeting of the Board last Wednesday evening. On Wednesday, at the Magistrate’s Court, before Major Roberts, Sergeant Naden charged two Maoris named respectively, J£ m and °Te Keweti, with furious riding in the streets. The ottenee proved by the evidence of Captain 1 links and Mr Warbnck. Dr. Armitage attended me Court as a witness, but was not called. The Magistrate remarked that he had power to inflict V; £lO, but as lfc wa3 the firat offence of the nd brought before him, he would impose only be nominal penalty of Is, with costs 13s 6d each. cautioned the culprits, who pleaded form,, , ey JT ere ° n tiie occasion riding no more ously than Europeans were in the habit of ng. it may be remarked in addition that the practice of riding on footpaths is an offence under tinn ™' cl P ai Police Act, and though the attorn * . pabdc baa already been drawn to the finii’ * caution seems to have been taken no in °n f° me gentlemen, and even ladies, beim* for R.mw b k °- f r° tres P asaifl g. It W in be well e to informed that the police intend to proceed against them in future. eonTf- SOm , etimea liave complaints from our 1 subscribers that oar papers are not quiefeT * dellvered - In our anxiety to forward as alwLf i possible our various editions, we have eith/r\ take ?,- eVerj opportunity of forwarding, eo OB ( 7 pu , bllc or private hands. It has just bad tr, ° ur bnowlsdge that a parcel of papers we the T l tCd t 0 SOme kind individual proceeding to psddnet *1 ?° Un . l yy* ivaa found pitched into a fc bank hi "'I 81 l- B ®" at6 P a * Wo certainly Won’t iug^hi hIS Car6 ’ a ° d Bincerel - 5r trU3fc he ?■ Pooth and Co. held their firat tnari’a , Ua Pt ain Gundry’s house, of that gentlerealiaed °a Se i h °v,v ef S iCtS * Tery good prices were most «„’»r nd , Boofc!3 acquitted himself in a auctioneer like manner.