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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 88, 5 July 1873, Page 2

It Trill be perceived, by advertisement from «.• 9 Chairman of the School Committee, that an evening school, in connection with the XhstrK School, will be held on Mondays, Wednesday*, and Fridays, commencing at 7 o’clock eash evening.

"vVe bear that the timber for the Beach Road •11 be down next week. The mills hare so many wt , g to complete that the contractors are f rtunate in being supplied so soon. Something • Tkefcwo million feet (an order from the South) is t ire( j f rom the various mills at Mercury Bay. Ibis lo oljß well for the timber trade of our province. We are pleased to learn that the members of .. Tauranga Dramatic Society will shortly give 1 performance at Fraser’s Hall. “ The Bachelor fHearts " and the “Silent Woman” are in rehearsal tor the occasion. Mrs Worthington, a lady amateur, of whom the Auckland, Grahams* t oW p and Coromandel papers write in terms of praise, will then make her debut before a Tauranga audience.

We remind the good folk of Opotiki that the annual meeting of the Highway Board will take olsce on Thursday next, the 10th instant, at the Masonic Hotel, Opotiki, at 2 p.m.

There has been no business of any kind in the Besident Magistrate’s Court since our last issue. An entertainment will be given on Tuesday evening next, at the District School House, by a number of lady and gentlemen amateurs, in aid of the Church of England Building Fund. The programme, which is a most attractive one, will be found in another portion of our paper. Mr Walmsley requests ua to publish the following: —“The Librarian of the Tauranga Mechanics’ Institute has great pleasure in acknowledging the following presentations:—Pictorial—‘Churches of Rome,’ edited in the time of Pope Innocent XL, Mr Bennet; Australian B Jcetcher, Messrs Penny and Co. * Wide, Wide World ’ (Miss Wetherall), Mr Ball. .Header, go thou and do likewise.”

A large number of East Coast natives have lately forwarded a request to Tawhiao, Esq., requesting him to give up Sullivan’s murderers to the authorities peaceably. Mr Stephen Dobbyn has forwarded us a letter for publication, requesting Captain Tovey to “ stand ” for the Provincial Council at the next, election ; but as Captain Tovey has authorised us to state that he does not intend to allow himself to be put in nomination, the publication of the letter in question is unnecessary. Captain Tovey indignantly asserts that the report published by an Auckland contemporary to the effect that he would be a candidate for provincial honours is utterly without foundation, and that he never had the slightest intention of coming forward.

Several letters and other matters of local interest are unavoidably crowded out. “Silver Pen,” a lady contributor, writes to us : —“ Accuracy of terms is of great importance in literary composition, and of this your paper a few issues ago exhibited a most memorable example in a paragraph containing the substance of a memorial on behalf of a worthy individual lately fallen into misfortune. The memorial said, “We have known and been acquainted with Captain.” Persons generally are under the impression that they could not know a man without being acquainted with him, and that they could not have an acquaintance with him without knowing him; but it appears they are mistaken. There is evidently a shade of difference—not perceptible to common eyes, but transparent to the intensely accurate drafter of the memorial. It must be in this wise; you must fh*st know a man before you can become acquainted with him, or else you must make yourself acquainted with him before you can possibly be supposed to know him. I puzzled my head about this nice distinction till quite bewildered, then gave it up, and read on ; but directly after tumbled over the words, * we each, severally and individually.' Really, it was cruel of the writer to set us such hard tasks as these. I was completely at fault, and sought the dictionary to help me. I there found that * known’ meant to be no stranger, while ‘ acquainted' meant'to be known to.’ I found that ‘each’ meant ‘everyone, of any number, separately.’ * Severally’ meant ‘ separately,’ and ‘ individually’ meant ‘ separately’ ; so I got no satisfaction. If, Mr Editor, you will be so good as, in future, to translate such paragraphs into the vernacular for the benefit of those who are dull of comprehension, you will greatly oblige.” The second number of the Australasian SJcetcher ta to hand. It abounds with well-executed engravings of colonial interest, and is the illustrated paper par excellence of the Southern hemisphere. It must command an immense circulation.

Coffee! —Brown, Barrett, and Co.’s Standard Coffee is both delicious and strong. Brown, Barrett, and Co.’s Excelsior Coffee deserves preference to any Coffee on account of purity and distinctness of flavour. Note the brands ! Sold at almost every Grocery Establishment in Town and Province.—[Ax>vx. ]