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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 185, 13 June 1874, Page 2

The ladies of the Bazaar Committee be» to acknowledge with thanks, the following contributions, per Mrs Thomas W riglej ; —G. B. Owen Esq. £3 3s; Henry Mitchell, Esq., £2 2a. ; one’ parcel of perfumery, Mr J. N. Manning; one parcel of cuttings, Miss Alice jETentoo 5 one box of infant s clothing, Mrs Smith.

Captain Turner and Mr -Hopkins Clarke returned from their trip to Motiti on Thursday evening. Much opposition was at first shown by the Patuwai to the surveying of the boundary line between themselves and Papaunahi. Ultimately the line was correctly defined and laid on the plan. /Before leaving the island, Mr Clarke cautioned the Patawai against cultivating any of the land across the boundary. Messrs MeOaw and Waterson have satisfactorily completed their contract with the Town Board for draining and reparing Willow and a portion of Spring-street ; also the foothpath on Beach-road south, &c. The whole of the work has been passed by the Engineer, and their account passed for payment.

The Rev Mr McKee, Presbyterian minister, purposes holding divine service, to-morrow, at Traser a Hail, morning and evening.

We have been favoured with a view of the plans of the new residence shortly to be erected in the Government Paddock for the headofthe Telegraph Department in this district. The ordinary domestic stylo of architecture is adopted. The facade is relieved by a break in the centre of five feet nroiec, tion, around which the verandah is continued terminating at each end of the front elevation! Ihe plan consists of Dining-room, back and front entrance halls, parlour, kitchen, pantry, and two bedrooms. Ihe principal room will be the diuiugroom 18 feet long by 15 feet wide. The rooms are all described m specification to be panelled or match-imed, and the whole building is to be .substantial and finished in the best manner. ; The friendly chief Hori Ngatai has received s intimation, that the Provincial Government have decided upon erecting a wharf contiguous to the Tauranga Public Native School at Whareroa The work is to be undertaken immediately after the H|yent session of the Council. -Vj-.ssrs Lutnpus and Co. are making preparations to commence the bridge over the river at Ohmemutu This bridge, when finished, will be a great boon, as the present road is a long way round, and not at all afe in places.

It. is reported that the Provincial Government are having built, three steam launches for postal services withiivthe province. The first pile of the Wairoa Bridge was driven ou iuesday/last. A large portion of the timber is ou the ground, and the work of erection will be apidly proceeded with.

‘ Whistlings from the West ” writes to ns as follows “ Fire I fi re! Ore! will bo tiie cry some day or other., and then what a hurry scurry will ensue—few buckets, no ladders, no axes ready to hand. Wdiilst such necessaries are beitis; sought for by people in an excited slate, valuable uninsured property will bo destroyed - perhaps the greater portion of this wooden township. A fearful matter to think over is the vast quantity of inflammable material in the shape of kerosene, kerosene cases, pitch, tar, oil, shavings, &c., which lies about in disordered heaps in. yards and the passages between buildings. It frequently happens that persons who ought to know bettor consume rubbish of all sorts by lighting fires in the open air in close proximity to their neighbours wooden tenements. Sooner or later there will be a conflagration which will take people by surprise, and the blame will bo bandied about from one to another. Something besides talkinq must be done at once. I hope some practical people will just think over the imminent danger their Hoes and properties are in, and then, if they fee] disposed to seek for some protection at a cost of about from £35 to £SO, perhaps I may bo able to render a meful hint or two on the subject,” [We shall be glad to receive the “ useful hints'” referred to by our correspondent. On Wednesday we purpose publishing a few suggestions on the subject of extinguishing fires, with list of necessary implements, written by Mr Fire Inspector Asher, of Auckland, for specially publication in the Bay of Plenty Times.—Ed.]

We remind those interested, fchit tenders foe the erection of a residence for the Officer ia charge of the Telegraph “ration, Taurangi, and for the supply of certain rations for the Native Contingent, stationed at Niho Te Kiore, close on Monday next at noon.

We are in receipt, through the courtesy of Mr Thomas Corbett, of Fiji papers to May 20th, but they contain little or nothing likely to be of any interest to our readers. Good Te in pi ary is going ahead, and a large meeting of that body has lately been held to receive representatives from four different lodges of Sydney, Speaking of the probable annexation of the islands to England the Times says :— ,£ The difficulty of maintaining order will probably not be vary great, as aof government that is established will mike use of the authority of the native chiefs, but the financial difficulty will press for soma time. It is probable that the cost of Government can hardly, even with rigid economy, be kept within £30,000 a year, but in a few years wa any confidently expect that the revenue will look up. Confidence will be restored as soon as the British dig is hoisted; capital will flow into the country; property will be made secure ; plantations will bo enlarged and increased ; and the produce of the country will soon reach a point at which, out of its prosperity, a sufficient revenue will be furnished to pay currant expenses, and gradually extinguish the deficit. The amount to be risked on the credit of this speculation is a trifle to the Imperial Government. It would not be oppressive even to some of the colonies, if it had bean a duty to undertake the task, but it would have been obviously improper for any of them to be so quixotic as to assume the duty, and it has rested at last where it ought to have rested some time ago. The general feeling in Australasia has always been in favor of annexation. It has taken some time, however, and a peculiar set of circumstances, to bring about a result that was here foreseen to be desirable, if not inevitable.

In early life the late Mr Harris, of Leicester, England was employed upon the Leicester Herald , then conducted by Mr (afterwards Sir) R. Philips. It was at this date that an amusing incident occurred : —on the eve of publication an accident happened in the Herald office ; it was no other than the “squabbling” or turning into “ pie/’ or entire confusion of the whole mass of letters constituting a column of that paper. Young Harris was the unluckly author of this catastrophe. What was to be done ? The paper must be got ready for the post, or murmurs of discontent would come from subscribers in every quarter, far and near. A happy thought flashed across the mind of the ingenious Philips. He instructed the printer to make up a column of standing “ pie,” jumbled together in most admirable disorder as every letter was ; and at the head of the preplexing conglomeration, he penned a note to this effect:—that just as the Herald was going to press, an express from Holland had been received, which being in the original Dutch, the editor had not time to translate ; but he promised an English version in the ensuing week’s paper. It is needless to say that the translation never appeared ; although many years after the event, one of the Herald subscribers, living in a secluded village in Derbyshire, who bad preserved the paper containing the Dutch express (and spent all his spare cash in vain over Dutch lexicons), gravely requested Sir R. Philips to favour him with the promised translation. A recent medical writer says :—“ Sleep whenever you can—anywhere when you get a chance j the great want of the age is sleep.” 1 his is not always safe advice to follow, as one of our townsmen (says a Canadian contemporary) knows to his borrow. He was recently afflicted with a bad cold, and to cure himself of it resorted to the remedy of putting his feet in hot water, and drinking a tumblerful of strong whisky toddy, prescribed by an aged and respected friend of the family. Having got everything in order for carrying out the prescription, he sat down by the fire, his feet immersed in warm water, and a tumbler of smoking toddy by his side. In this condition a sense of enjoyment stole over him as he sipped the eshilirating liquid, and he fell asleep. Hia wife had gone to bed, and, on awakening about three o’clock in the morning, wondered why she was alone. Going dowu-staira she was horrified to find her liege lord asleep in his chair, the fire out, his feet still immersed in the water, over which a cake of ice was forming, and an empty tumbler on the chair besi.io him. Hia cold isn’t a bit better.