THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. "The spirit of the times shall teach me speed.” KING JOHN,ACT IV. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1874.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 196, 22 July 1874, Page 2

THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. "The spirit of the times shall teach me speed.” KING JOHN,ACT IV. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1874.

Ihe Premier, as Minister of Immigration, writes to the Agent-General regarding Mrs Howard’s little arrangement in procuring young girls from the Cork Workhouse to New Zealand. Mr Vugel is certainly plain, if not particularly'- pleasant, in the following terms :—“ It is difficult to believe that you could sanction such emigration; whilst, on the other hand, it is as difficult to believe that you could be unaware of the published proceedings of your agent, the woman Howward, whom, by-the-bye, you seem to have employed after informing me that you would not do so, vide your letter No. 551. of 29th November, 1872. At another Board meeting, a copy of report of which I also enclose, legal proceedings were actually threatened in your name to enforce completion of the miserable bargain entered into by Howard. I endeavour to think that you knew nothing about the matter ; but, it so, how singular must be the organization, of your department, that, with a proceeding so canvassed in the place, with a ship calling off the town, and, is it to be presumed, some of your officers in attendance to see the emigrants oil’, you should have to be informed from Ncw Zealand of what occurred under the immediate notice of your officers. 1 find it impossible to adequately characterise the indignation such a shipment produces, or the alarm which is felt at the intention which is apparent ot sending further similar shipments.”

It is generally asserted, on good authority that the approaching session of the Assembly is not likely to last above six weeks or two months, fiio Government business will, it is said, be very moderate, and the number of bills far below the average. We have, however, so often heard the same thing before, that we are inclined to believe that the session will probably last the orthodox t hree months, for the time of sheep-shearing in the South seems always to influence the duration of the session mare than any consideration of the business done, or to be done.