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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 162, 25 March 1874, Page 2

Captain Turner, District Engineer, pay be expected to arrive here about Saturday next.

We understand that the Tokana (Lake district) road is to be laid off at once. Mr J. C. Yonnnative interpreter, and Mr Bold, engineer, paid visit of inspection on behalf of the Government last week.

Mr Floyd was a passenger by the Southern Cross on Monday. His mission on this occasion is to superintend the completion of the Opotiki telegraph line.

Mr Stephen Lari, of the Cate Pa, has lately purchased, for breeding purposes, a fine upstanding entire draught horse named Nelson.

According to the "Foetal Guide,” the San Francisco inward mail is due at Auckland to-day. Pbe next outward mail by the same route is fixed for leaving Auckland on the Bth of April. We have to acknowledge receipt from the Government printer of Statistics of New Zealand for 1872, with an Appendix containing the &Itural Statistics of the Colony in February, Excellency the Governor has been pleased pt the resignation of the commission held itain J. Chadwick, Light Horse Volunteers, signation of Inspector C. D. Pitt, A.C., is zetted as accepted. , mteer McCaw, Tauranga, made the score of 27 in the late colonial infantry match at Napier. Xn the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Monday, before E. M. Edgcumbe, Esq , and Captain Tovey, J.P. s, James Peters (a half-caste) was fined 5s and costs for drunkenness and 10s for assaulting the police. Sergeant Naden did not press the latter charge. The .Bench severely reprimanded the prisoner, and cautioned him that if he ever again was charged with a similar ofiance be would be severely punished. Now that the natives have finished harvesting the attendance at the Whareroa native school has greatly increased. Eighteen new scholars have recently been admitted. The Government have very liberally bui;t a house for the accommodation of children coming from distant settlements, so uthat we may expect to hear of the arrival of more scholars. The natives at Whareroa are purchasing fencing material for the purpose of enclosing land to grow wheat. The cutter Victoria delivered 200 posts lately to the order of Hori Ngatai, but the skipper declined to deliver any more owing to Hori Ngatai wishing to pick the best only.

The members of the Amateur Dramatic Club have requested us to state that “ owing to circumstances over which they have no control,” they are unable to give entertainments in accordance with late advertisements, but that they hope to be able to do so at an early date. A meeting of the Tuuranga Cricket Club was held on Monday evening last, at the Court House, when there was a good muster of members. The object of the meeting was to provide funds to pay for the new ground now being made, and it was decided that this extra expense should be met by making a call on each member to the amount of ss. Among other business transacted was the unanimous election of Mr Edgcumbe to the office of President of the Club.

Tenders were opened on Monday last for repairs and maintenance of the Tauranga and Katikati Road, Mr John Donnelly’s tender was the lowest—£63 10s.

It is reported (says the New Zealand Herald) that the approver Sullivan is, at the instance of the authorities, to be shipped to England. Doubtless, upon his arrival, he will find characters to work with in his profession congenial to his instincts. If such a ruffian is to be let loose upon society, England is perhaps the most fitting place for him. The gaols there will be sufficiently protected to guard him upon his first conviction, which we opine will not be long after his arrival. Wo learn that already Sullivan has trangressed against the discipline of the gaol, and has been placed in solitary confinement and on low diet by order of the governor.

It is generally supposed that, although illegal to sell liquor on Sundays to any but travellers it is quite lawful to sell it to them. The Licensing Act, however, lays it down moat distinctly that no liquor shall be sold at all on Sundays excepting to such persons as actually have slept in the house on the Saturday night, or are about to sleep there on the Sunday night. Hence the most thoroughly bona fide travellership gives no right to the purchase of liquor on Sundays, and as the law now stands unless the buyer be actually a lodger in the house. Any one desirous of shouting on Sunday must, as an imperative preliminary, first order his bed—which is absurd. The Australasian Sketcher of February to hand by last mail is above the average, and that is saying a good deal. It may be seen at the Mechanics’ Institute. The portrait of Dr Featherstone, Agent-General for New Zealand, is lifelike.