THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. "The spirit of the times shall teach me speed.” KING JOHN, ACT IV. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1873.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 109, 17 September 1873, Page 2

THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. "The spirit of the times shall teach me speed.” KING JOHN, ACT IV. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1873.

The sanatory condition of Te Papa will very soon require the attention of the authorities. The condition of allotments fronting 'Willow Street is at the present moment simply disgraceful. Just behind the sections occupied by Messrs Harvey and Kirk, and adjoining the yard of the Masonic Hotel, the water, which formerly found an outlet to the beach, in fine weather now forms large pools of the most highly impregnated liquid manure, very suitable for market gardens, but highly objectionable to parents desirous of rearing their offspring in a tolerably pure atmosphere. The recent deluge of rains which we have experienced has had the effect of merely diluting these cesspools and causing them to overflow through the premises of occupants of adjacent allotments, and in so far, mitigating the evil which an accumulation of stagnant water might ocf-n-ii-■-> g -g a nuisance cuaiiuc ue cumuwa very much longer. The health, of the

community depends to a great extent on its immediate removal. The Town Board may plead a want of funds and absence of power to carry drains through private property, and the visit of an epidemic of an alarming character may perhaps awaken residents to the fact that many necessary precautions have been neglected. While the state of Willow Street demands immediate attention; something ought to be said about those cesspools in the heart of the town, which are, under ordinary circumstances, brimming over with their unsavoury contents, and after heavy rains distribute their disgusting and unhealthy odours over a considerable distance. These things should not be. We have no Board of Health in Tauranga and the Town Board, therefore, ought to take some steps to remedy the crying evils we have-mentioned. ®

Ma Dabgatijlle held a meeting on matters relating to the Superintendency at Hamilton, Waikato, on Thursday night. It was well attended, and the candidate was attentively listened to throughout. Mr Dargaville’s “ platform,” we are ini formed by a private telegram, appeared to give satisfaction. At the close of the meeting a unanimous vote of confidence was passed to the candidate. Mr Dargaville leaves Cambridge to-morrow, and may be expected here some time during Friday. As will be perceived by advertisement, he intends addressing the electors of Tauranga at Fraser’s Hail on Friday night, and the settlers of Opotiki will also be afforded an opportunity of hearing his views on the following Monday evening. We feel sure that Mr Dargaville will receive from the Fast Coast electors a fair and impartial hearing.

We are informed that the telegraph line from Maketu to Opotiki will be proceeded with at once. Mr W. H. Floyd, electrician, has been instructed by the Q-overnment to superintend the construction of the line, and be may be expected to arrive here by the Southern Cross this afternoon.

Wb have no local native news. A large Maori meeting is in contemplation, to take place on the 31st instant, at Kuiti, in order to decide positively as to war or peace. It is said that the Hauhaus are planting no crops in the Waikato. If this be true the prospect is not encouraging, and they probably mean mischief; but oa the other hand, we learn from another source that nearly all the influential chiefs who are likely to attend the runanga are in favour of peace. Let us hops that they will “ beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, neither shall they learn war any more."