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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 96, 2 August 1873, Page 2

outward English mail leaves Melbourne on the 13th, and Sydney 10th instant. The Wonga Wonga ia now in Auckland, and will, on enquiry by telegram we learn, steam for Sydney early next week, in order to catch the outgoing English mail. Home letters should therefore be forwarded by the Southern Cross this evening. The * Theatre T >yal ” (Eraser’s Hall) was reopened last night. Amusements in JTauranga are like angels visits—few and far between. Innocent relaxation clears the cobwebs from the mind, improves the body, and sweetens the temper j we were glad, therefore, to see so largo an aktendan ■; 6 \- F‘ eces Were appropriately chosen —“ A —•achelor of (he) Arts” and “A Silent Woman’ turned out “a happy couple.” This evening the same programme will be presented, under the patronage of Major Rjborls and other well-known mdda res. In our next issue we shall endeavour to give “ a notice ” of the performance, and in the would advise “everybody (and his wife) to be present this evening to judge for themselves.

Major Mair was a passenger by the Southern Gross on Thursday last.

The Napier road from Pohui to Tapuaeharuru on the Xanpo side is reported to be covered with enow.

Wo are requested by the chairman of the Town -Board to caution persons against cutting or otherwise injuring 1 rees on the public roads. These tr. es, it must be remembered, are public property, aud any one wilfully damaging the same is liable to be prosecuted.

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.—[Aiivr.J

Very encouraging reports have lately reached us from Auckland to the effect that Tauranga in the approaching summer will be overrun with visitors on their way to the Lakes. This will doubtless be a most desirable occurrence, and tend to promt ethe permanent settlement of the place, but at present intending settlers find a difficulty in securing allotments of land in blocks of considerable size. The only way in which that can be done is by purchase .rom the natives, and there is a difficulty at present in the fact that the native titles to land have not geneially been individualised. .Were this effected, or the natives encouraged to p as their land through the Court, faculties for settlers possessed of capital would bo very greatly increased. Messrs Daniel Irwin (chairman), George Forbes, Frank Croon, William Kelly, and John Kelly are gazetted members of the Opotiki Highway Board for the ensuing year.

The following gentlemen are gazetted membri of the Tauranga North Township Board for Dm ensuing highway year;—Captain Thomas Tanks (chairman), Messrs E. G, A orris, L. Samuels, R. McDonald, and John Conway.

Pheasants are reported to be numerous a sho distance out of town in one or two directions. Our informant also states that cock birds are more frequently seen than bens. Mr Warbrick has courteously shown us a telegram received by him, announcing that Mr George Quick, of Auckland, will be down by tbe nest trip of the Southern Cross. We hear that Mr Quick intends establishing livery st hies both at Tauranga and Ohinemutu. The late deluge of rain left the level ' ”ounclß in the township for a while little else but a sheet of water, and tbe recently cut streets were slippe.y and at night dangerous for pedestrians. During the early part of this week traveller after dark had re son to congratulate themselves if they succeeded in reaching Ibeir homes without more than one awkward tumble. Tbe heavy fall of rin cannot fail render the Taupo Road d fficuit for the Napier coach to run, but Messrs Hannon and Co. are not, we think, to be daunted* by trifles, if we may judge from the unfailing regularity they have hitherto exhibited. On last Tuesday morning tbe coach started as usual, but did not return the same day, the mail arriving in the afternoon by a courier on horseback. It appeared that an accident had happened to one of the coaches on tbe Napier side of Taupo, and Mr Hannon, not meeting the relay at the accustomed place, drove through to Ohinemutu, a distance of 42 miles, where, having obtain 1 the mail, he sent it off to Tanrangaon horseback, arriving between two and three o’clock. The accident we learn, was not of a severe nature, and consisted in a breakage of tbe springs of the vehicle. No delay whatever did or will take place in consequence with the regular postal transit.

It is to be hoped that the Government will accede to the request of the good folks of Opotiki in the matter of a grant of land fora public library in that district. “Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence many properly informed might bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.” It is highly essential that all country townships possess a good public library witbiutfae reach of ai! classes, and we sincerely hope the Government will grant a suitable site at an ea**jy date. The State should admit (Wordsworth has written) —

An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey; Binding herself, by statute, to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains, The rudiments of letters, and inform

The mind with moral and religious truth, Both understood and practised—so that none, However destitute, be left to droop, By timely culture unsustaiu’d ; or run Into a wild disorder ; or be forced To drudge through a weary life without the help Of intellectual implement! and tools j A savage horde among the civilised, A servile bond among the lordly free.

Amongst the changes which a e taking place amongst us we have to notice the intended departure of Mr Fr derick George, who has for soma years been a resident in the district. Mr George came here shortly afler the Imperial troops, at which time he had contracted to erect a comfortable dwelling hou for the Civil Commissioner, Mr H. T. Clarke a er which be bull on his own account atleatre on the beach, and was i '■struroental in the formation of two dramatic clubs amongst men of the 12th Regiment, then stationed here under Colonel Hamilton. So successfully did he eater for the public amusement, that rarely a week passed without acme theatrical performance of a highly creditable kind, in which Mr George invariably appeared to advantige. Subsequently to this, Mr George put up a very much more spacious theatre within the lines of the camp, which remained till the 12th Regiment finally removed from the district. Since then he has been concerned in nearly every public movement which has taken place |in the district, and is known as a very ready and telling public speaker.

At 8 o’clock on Tuesday morning last Joseph Eppright, convicted at the last criminal sessions of the murder of G-anity, tb : rd mate of the barque Rainbow, while lying in the Bay of Islands, suffered the extreme penalty of the law at Mount Eden Stockade, Auckland. We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a number of Parliamentary Papers from the Government Printer.

In the Upper House a petition has been presented from 53 chiefs of the Ngatirangi tribe, resident in the Tauranga district, praying for representation in the General Assembly. We learn that the successful tenderer for the erection of a monster hotel opposite the Union Bank, is Mr J ordan, an Auckland man—the same, we apprehend as has been engaged so creditably in the erection of bridges over the Waikato. It is said that the amount of his tender was £4,2 and that some of the others were for sum ranging at or over £5,000. The work, we understand, w ill be commenced immediately, and is to be completed in the short period of four months.— ilv irke’s Bay Sera Id. ~*"N,

Resdd H ? j ft" 19 - Cia " kt> ’ the ourtoous e'erk to the month‘ a "’ s *; ra ‘ o’s 0 ’ s Court, having obtained » month s leave of absence, will be a by IIS; t',’ c r* % islands. The duties of the office Mr Clarke h'dds ,b„» wil! , especially, being, we should imagine, at times dious to a degree. We wish Mr Clarke a pleasant holidav.

s?.::"’’* ra »** fro, ° .. n p eie graph . The announcement in ;„ f 8 speech lint measures will be introduced m the Genera! A -srmbly for the reconst action of the Legislative Council, will be received with s i isfaction, provided those in arsuros convert the Council from a nominated to mi elecLve body. As long as Lrgislative Councillors regard their sea*-as permanent positions of honour, w netbir their actions in public or private life are honourable or the reve o, they can treat with contempt the opinion entertained of those actions r An a , lteralion in t}ie constitution o t-. e Council by which members are elected in tbe same way as to sees in the House of Representatives, would relegate some honourable Councillors into tl e obscurity of private’life fom which they would not speedily emerge” When Irollope in one of In’s novels, spoke of a bride having twelve dozen pocket handkerchiefs, he considered he hud reached the ver»e of probability. But M : 59 SuthschiU who" not very long ago became M;s K. Yur e, dVI cu iHoe hersei: to bandkerc Yfs iu dozen dozens. A BeH t paper - iys ihe Bond S;, ret milli er i o whom the order for the i ou-x-t.u w give bad instructions to provide twelve ch -.etT every article which it was within tne bounds of p, bility for a lady to r quire. Pen and n .vvers au to pourtray tbe piles of dresses, mantles. U -eu, shoes, &c. Tbe cost happily concerned oniv the Rothschilds, but it must have been considerable, for one of the evening dr es alone won id be requir'd fijty yards of sUb. Such b life—in London. Ihe young Ksdy for who a ail this mass of finery w provided was the bst peteoa who would have been expected to indulge iu it. She it was who, with her sister, complc'rd, about two years ago, a translation of the old T meat Script u>rs, but which was print d only for private circulation. Jt was the work of several years, during winch tme the translators almost altogether chewed f b'enable life.’’

“It will, we suspect,” says the Hawke's Hay Herald t “be some time before the last is heard of the Mon. Mr Casey’s tour in Sew Zealand, and the wonderful account of his experiences he contributed to the Me observe that Edward ijollley, alias “ Jack the Gru de,” has recently taken up the cudgels in self-defence. He says : ‘ Referring to the Hon. Mr Casey’s letter, which appeared in your paper of the' 24th instant, I trust you will allow me space to contradict some statements which it couth to myself. In the first place, I never had the honour to see Mr Casey during Ida visit to tfds district, therefore could not have told him stories kept for credulous tourists. On the contrary, I believe he had the honour of being accompanied on his journey by Colonel Harington over the rough district he so much complained of. This terribly rough road several ladies rode over two years since, and surely if ladies found it fit for travelling over, the Hon. Mr Casey need not complain. And allow me to inform “ A Waikato Settler” that I am not in the babit of misleading tourists when they pay a visit to the Lake district. Being an old sailor, 1 may sometimes tell yarns to amuse ladies and gentlemen when taking'lhem to see the hot springs, &c., but nothing more.”