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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 182, 3 June 1874, Page 3

In the list of licensed interpreters under the new “ Native Linds Act,” published in last Gazette , wo notice the names of Mr J. O. Youn» Mr C. O. Gavig, Mr A. Warbrick, Mr H. O. L* Hoaj, Mr J. A. Wilson, Mr L. M. Grace Mr A. W . Graham, and others. ’ The letters of “ our own ” at Opotiki and Rotorua, in to day’s issue, should have appeared on Saturday. dhe weather on Saturday and Sunday last was remarkably severe. On Saturday morning and throughout the day gathering clouds and gloomy sky indicated a coming change, while a piercing southerly wind came sweeping over the ranges, - , u . t w hon night ch>6: din the full fury of the blast ted the township, whilst heavy curtains of dense doc Is obscured the distant hills. Throughout the whole of Sunday night, also, iade Boreas expended his fury, eapec' lly on 1 .bitMiona in exposed sii nations. No damage of any consequence has, we are happy to t y, been done by the gale, ®itncr in town, or country, or in the harbour. The barometer from Saturday noon to Sunday evening at six o’clock fell from 30.4 J to 2d.10 or an inch and nc irly three-tenths. An hour later it began to rise again rapidly. The weather waa undoubtedly severe on Sunday niwht especially in the “ dark watches of the night out a more beautiful summer has not occurred during the memory of “the oldest inhabitant,” and wo cannot grumble at having hud to “ pay the piper.” - t j