THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. "The spirit of the times shall teach me speed." KING JOHN, ACT IV. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1873.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 136, 20 December 1873, Page 2

THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. "The spirit of the times shall teach me speed." KING JOHN, ACT IV. SATURDAY, DECEMBER

The editor of his journal had an interview with the Honorable Donald McLean prior to hia departure for the Lake district, regarding the matter of locating immigrants in the Bay of Plenty Mr McLean, as a preliminary step, at once telegraphed to the Chief Immigration Commissioner at Wellington for all particulars therefrom to be sent to us forthwith for publication in these columns, but up to the time of our going to press last night the in formation was not received. This may bo accounted for by the fact that the southern telegraph wires have been out of order for several days, ami yesterday only one wire was available. We hope to be able to publish “ a full, true, and particular account ” in our next issue.

TKS subject of native intelligence is not one whi< h, at tb® present tine, as much matter for J as It, ISO n<-w* ig o^OTcrbisillj good r.ew-, and wPn repaid to Maori matters in tne and, indeed, throughout* ? be East Coast all is going on eo s noothlj that rlie-e is really but little to say, except w hen some sensational writer or telegraph agent -i. movers a mare’s nest ami makes the most of his discovery, The latest news from Waikato rep-.r s ttmfc Tawhiao is paying * visit to Kaipiha, a spo: about two tmles from Alexandra, and that hit* son (Te Tawhiao) is about the European sert-lemeats. At Raglan, the opening of Hone te One’s new house has been the occasion of bringing together the friendly natives and several of Tawhiao’s relatives and adherents, and of giving them an opportunity to meet together more freely than lor some time past. From Taupo, we hear that the natives are very anxious t<» see the JJfatise Minister, and that the agents of the General Government are meeting whh success m their ate-.ti tiona for the purchase »na lease of extensive tract- f conotry. In the U-y of Plenty ji. is tr.tlyinji to find Hum the fist silt lug ol • iie Nai irn > tmi» Court at p it i- i. presided over by Judge Kogan, ij. JS beeu carried* in a m-at ortiei i> u. mn, r, sod has teni.i. atetl Hiiccessludi. aft.e*- ihe in v rst .* ai ion of cisunß n. s-.er 10-1.000 acres neg,.t. , f u.s fur .vhn-u have b eu carried on by Mr J A. Wi.son, for r lie Government, wit«. a view o the -**: i lenei.t ol the back country. ln Tauranga last week, the Native M inirter, hski's’ed r_>y Mr. Clarke, * fma dt ■- j po-eb of Severn* quotums win. the natives width j nifeht hereafter, il ielv n'mian p over, have p- ved | »n obM.rum.ion o I'oi-mi-aii.-in At' the Thant* s | the f-r-*>*p o»» t.f h, quiri-g land . nmcl. in j, mv. d, 1 Mr Mackay, the Governon r,; nt. is i eve.-y endeavour of w< i. h ms known cna.p,, is j cap* hie to aiti'D v,h- <ie-ir, d Provincial Council net*.and opened f. r | business on Tuesday, tin* l('i! i si .u.t. i t (>ij- • g I of twenty two t, en •*. „ v . session, and of twemy-ivi new mi, e r<. vir vV L. Euoklaiid, the n uch teept-cted member for Edeo, sc*y do*er®ed»y be entitled tUa Father of

the House, baring sat c -ntinuously froio the &‘ tt session up to the present, time. The following is nM ** nb * ,r # ; — J Bagnull, Thames ; W Mongonui ; J Brown, Thames; H Byron,, Waipa; W Carp, nter. Thames ; T Cheeseman, Newton ; J Crispe. Batnarama ; J M Dargarille, Auckland Hast, SirE Douglas, B*rt, Whangarei ; D Goldie, AucWand West, W A Gmham. Waikato ;JW Johnson. Turanganui; H Lloyd, Kaipam ; W P Moak, Wark worth ; Q B Morris, iauranga; W Ormiston, Wairoa and Mangapai ; r J R Feacocke, Pakuranga ; G M Reed, Taka puma; H Roche. Waipa; R N Bey burn, Tam»Si j T Wilson, Raglan ; R O Wood, Parnell. The undermentioned gentlemen who held seat* last session did not seek' re-election, tU Messrs Bassett, Brookfield, Creighton, Douglas, Djer, Mack ay, Maxwell, May, J McLeod, Nicholson. Ibe following sought re-election, but were not successful, vi* ; —Messrs Ellis, Gordon, Kerr, Lusk, Mitchell, Bey burn, Shanagban, and Stoney,

At the last meeting of the Board of Education hell at Auckland, it was resolved that the Christmas vacation for district schools in the city and suburbs be from Friday, the 19th December, to Monday, the 19th January. Au application was made, asking for the appointment of Miss Wyatt assistant teacher, and teacher of needlework, at Opntiki; and for a sun of £25 towards the teacher’s house.— he matter was deferred until after the session of the Provincial Conncil. The appointment of Mr Goertx as teacher for the district of Taumnga was approved of.

LATB Honolulu journals supply the following telegraphic items unpublished here heretofore : - Pope Pius is invited by the high clergy of France to com© over and consecrate Chamhord as Henry V . King.—M Thiers has written lo the Mayer of Nancy, declining to visit that town until the present crisis has passed. He says : “We of the Xieft must defend the Republic, the principles of 1789, without which a counter-revolution would bo an odious and revoluting lie’'—'dtniral Winslow, of the United States nary, who commanded the Kearsago when she sank the Alabama, died at bis residence in the Boston highlands.— Th® Pope, in an address to a delegation of 300 of the faithful lately, used tho following words: t, onfusion has filtered the enemy's c<tmp, and they strive to induce me to leave Home j but I never will.”