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

Wo direct attention to Mr liadoll’a sale of sheep this day at: Poike.

1 he Librarian of the Tauranga Mechanics Insti tute, begs to acknowledge Ihe presentation bv t hip tain Morris, M. P.C., of the Highway’s Act, Estimates of Province of Auckland, aud .Report, of Waste Land’s Committee.

“‘I see,” said a young lady, “ that some printers advertise blank declaim t ions for sale ; 1 wish I couhl get one.” *• Why?” asked her ne thcr. ” Because, ma, Mr G— is too modest, to u>k me to marry him and perhaps if I could fill in a blank UcclanUion he would sign it.”

No eligible tenders have been received by the N.ZS.S. Company for the purchase of their steamers, it was decided at a meeting of the dnvotors held last week to sell tho fl -el bv public auction. The steamers will therefore be sold bv Mr H. 0 . Duncan, on the 2-lth July. *

A correspondent of the Wellington Times states that Henere Matua, an influential Maori chief” intends starling a newspaper in the native i an l gunge at Wellington. The plant and machinery are on the way. Two thousand pounds have been subscribed for the purpose, and contributions are still coming iti.

Two cases of blood poisoning, says the Tuapeka Times, attributed to the use of blue mottled soan have taken place in tho neigbourhood of Have! lock within the last fortnight. We would therefore caution the public from using that article until the ingredients of its composition are more to be depended upon.

We have not got yet the following vigorous way of denouncing an unpopular vote. Our Colonial journalists are fearless and denouncintory enough | but they have never hit upon so efficient a plan of holding up the division list. One at least of tho journals of New York was most strongly opposed to the Inflation of the Currency Bili, as it. was called —or, in other words, a Bill fo sanction the issue of a large quantity of incontrovertible paper currency. The American Houses of Parliament—Congress and Senate . did sanction the measure, but. it was vetoed by the President. The SS'ew York lie,-aid publishes under the title of “The Koll of Dishonor,” and surrounded by a mourning border, the names of the supporters of tho measure in the Senate, with the following introductory remarks :—“ The following senators have placed themselves on tho record as the supporters of a measure which tho lathers of the country regarded as ‘the. bane of nations, the ruin of commerce, and the robber of the poor.’ ’’

Tauranga appears to be a place of some attractions just now. Already two former residents of the Thames 'nave settled in the district; air M, Brearley lias lately sold his business to east his lot. with the Tauranga settlers, and now we learn tuat another is about to depart tor his new sphere ol labour. The latter is Mr Rhodes, bootmaker; who after a visit to Tauranga, has definitely decided upon leaving tba Thames for the Bay of Plenty district, being satisfied that it oilers a'fin© field for enterprise. We do not begrudge Tauranga these accessions to the population ; we regret that the Thames (Joes not oiler sufficient inducement for the old residents to remain here. T/fames S (ar.

The Home Iseivo says:—“ The Messrs Garrard; of the Havmaket, are just oa the point of shipping lor Wellington, Me«t Zealand, a service of p*ate designed and manufactured to the order of certain residents in Dunedin, for presentation to Mr Julius Vogel. The service consists of a massive centrepiece and six stands. The centrepiece bears a suitable inscritption, testifying to the great worth and ability of Mr Vogel, and to the estimation in whDh he is held by the donors. The design is of the Hena>stance of Queen Anne, so that ilfew Z ealand will he in possession of a, specimen of the only purely English style of plate ornamentation. The set is exceedingly handsome, and does great credit to the firm by wham it has boon prepared.”

The London Tunes of the Ist Mar, says: ■‘l be absence of llor Royal Highness the Duchess of E Hiiburgn from the last drawing-room has boon very gee orally remarked upon, but so far as we know, the real, though obvious, causa has not been assigned. Wo believe that we have good grounds for announcing that Her Royal Highness has hopes of an event that will increase her own happiness and that oS the Duke of Edinburgh, and which would ho most welcome to the :oya 1 subjects of Her .Majesty, who arc ever delighted to greet every addition to Inn- family,” Ihe il lo'i’utiiff .Post adds W e are requested to state that the paragraph which was published by a contemporary on the Ist of May, respecting the Duchess of Edinburgh, was inserted without the knowledge or the authorisation of the Duke of Edinburgh.”

Inspired Being (young and unmarried curate) came the marvellous instinct that prompted the minute being originally contained in this fragile shed to burst, the calcareous envelope that secluded it. from the glories of the outer world?'’ Chorus of Ad niring Ladies — i! Whence, O whence, indeed, Mr Honeycomb ?” Master Tommy “ P’raps the little beggar was afraid he’d bo boiled.”

A woman s whisuy war lias been commenced in Manchester. The fair ground at Knott Mill, whicii during the Easter week had been given up to the annual fair, was on Sunday the scone of a v f r J, different gathering. From a temporary platform, consisting of a lorry, about a dozen of working men's wives, addressed an attentive crowd on the evils of intemperance. Tho chairwoman said she had been a teetotaller 27 year-, and had never regretted it. Some of the speakers were member of Good Templar lodges, and were styled ( sisters, ’ and all had, in. some way or another, been brought over to total abalinenca through the terrible examples of drunken husbands or fathers. One woman introduced herself as ‘'no far away bird, hut the daughter of old Joo Blank, the drukenest. mini in Detmsgal.e another speaker, also locally connected, said she “ had bom 2L years drink cursed, having f„ r a husband the greatest drunkard that ever walked the 3! roots of •Manchester.” Tais woman’s husband, who was never without an excuse to thrash Sn-r, was now a reformed character. At tho close of the speeches a number of pm sons took the temperance pledge. It may afford Hie reader a lively, if not a very favorable view of the state of mining matters in Victoria at. present, when we sfat« that a late nuauser of the Melbourne Aryiis- contains a no! iheation o! no less than 1 15 calls, and only one CivK.enu. The .Melbourne - / sa%s Hint J,? no : period in the entire experience of T>.dorian | nm,in « has ihat : interest been so'much nr so long ;* ‘ 1 11 ' “*■ 1 tt is Dot us though one d!'!1•; -■ t was suder;. g from special or exceptional dullness. but j on every ride there is the same mriandr.iv st;rnaUou of markets and of enterprise.

Bv tiio last English ? 1 mil ii,;hgenc* was ro . ceivea m W t-Uington from S, r G U \j r .. v -Astronomer to the Gle t that thkEnmkh parry o! < >Ds.-r vut ion Hpimintr-d to watchl he of > cmi*, uould nrriv-* in JSVvv ■ durum the Wii ing month. Tim names of'the i persons Coin prising the stall' were not mven but i as is already wm! known, they will Lake’ the I ttirinuiuirch station Ineir hrad-.pnirt.'r* S'x otner -tot i m.- have been it, .pointed in various Otoer parts ut the colony. Welimgtun being m.y so that la the event, of the wear her beam uu>iivui'>ible tor übservat ion in r.nv particular kdk.it v aeomule ufeorvut ions wii! be made in another. i tie transit takes place on December 0. //'</. t<»ylon Titur- y. Tim bco/mi/ J/o Herald reports that on rlt . "'u flier escaped Couiimmist prisoner rarrivcu from iNouinea in the steamer Kgu.onf, 16 said that while the verse! was lying alongside me w hart he stowed himself away in" the afteinoid, and remained there until the rceel had been aDout, six nmirs at eea, when he came on deck Before vessel left it, was searched,acccording to the by Ihe lieutenant of the port and bis oiiicers, who _ were alt armed with long iron spikes, wit f* which they prodded the bales of cotton and other cargo in the loro-hold ; they However, neglected to go into the after-bold. it is reported that the escapee was a colonel in the C-omuumiat army.

Breent commercial reports from Jerusalem con,mii t he general opinion that it is now one of *he least industrial Cities in the world. Its population i* estimated at 18,000, of whom about G.OCO are Mahommemms, H.VOO to 0,000 Jews, and the rest Christians o t various denominations The chief native industry is the manufacture of soap and vvnai is called “ Jerusalem Ware/* consisting of chaplets, crucifixes, heads, crosses, and the like made principally of mother of pearl and olive wood, and sold to the pilgrims who annually ' i,e li( ? 1 y Guy to the number ox b.OUO to B,o* ;0. No mines are woi ked, alt.hough it is known that sulphur, bitumen, and rock salt are found on (he shores of the Bead i Sea; but security and capital are wanting, and so Jop.t a « these are absent the probable wealth to ”be abstracted irom these regions will become unavailable. No factories are to be met with. The employment of the people is almost wholly agricultural and pastoral. The road between Jaild and Jerusalem, never of the best, has been allowed to fail into such disrepair that none but the roughest kind of vehicle could now traverse it. Ihe other roads of the district, ate of a wretched description. Wit}, these improved, more complete security established against t he predatory Bedouin tribes inhabiting the omsinrio G f the distract, and certain ui n. misuas ive r-.. forms, whereby encouragement would be given to bring under cultivation the vast. Him fertile plains now only partially tilled, and there tan be no doubt that the counTv could support a population many times larger than its present scanty number ~f Dover! v-M: riekeo in habit ants.

By from Of a 20 we learn that Du- conduct of u large number of the Asia's immigrants has proved absolutely intolerable, borne ot them have spread through 'the province, and their progress bus been marked by a’series of thefts and outrages of all descriptions.* In Dunedin, the energies of the police have been taxed to the utmost in looking after these “ Asiatics,” and Mr Bathgate, the Resident Magistrate, is said to be perfectly exhausted by ihe labour of signing wai rants for their committal fimo after time? Bie gaol and the lock-up have both proved i n sulucient for Ihe ac c* o mmodation of these exceedingly undesirable additions to the population, and at last the Provincial Gove nment lias arrived at t!ie conclusion t hat the best and cheapest mode of meeting the difficulty is to ship the worst of the lot back to the place from whence (hev came. It is said seriously that, the Provincial Government, «t its own expense, is making arrangements for tne emigration of about 80 of the Asiatics back to England ar. d Ire timi, most of the feminine "undesirables being ex-inmates of the Cork He forma torv.

Lci'idon newspapers give further illust ration of what tempt ranee by Act of Parliament really amounts to. Ibe Commissioners of Inland Be venue, in presenting their annua! report, r« marked upon ihe larger figures it contained as follows “Wh believe that sue!, an ext raordmary increase, purely from natural growth of revenue, as that shown above, has never before beer, recorded in the acc-nnts of our department. 3*. is derived almost entirely from spirits and beer. . e <-xtM " se Antics on spirits show an increase during year £1,474,047.” Publicans, it would appear, sell more umler the new Licensing ct tn«n under Uie old one ; or there is more British gin sold by the grocers ;or perhaps it T nav be, as 1: inich suggests, the consumers, limited us to tune for tippling, are thereby incited to make the rnoft of their time.”

.Some of the reports that hare leaked out about an autographic telegraph just patented in Washinglon but withheld from publicity until patented fu Ollier countries, intimate, says a contemporary, an improvement that, must be very convenient' and sometimes fxcceuingly so, and may lead to a radical change in lelegniuhing. The principle is apparently aua'opous to that discovered by a Mr Kakewcll in England several \ cars ago, and that has been employed with imperfect success in France—perhaps elsewhere. At each station a cylinder is attached to the transmitting and receiving instrument. i lie manuscript to he sent is wrapped round one toad ins'unHy duplicated on the other, no matter how di-tant* The process is aiuiost un equivalent of pilotography, and is just antfuicn-f. It is percept ihlo at a glance that long dc-pat clito now sent at so much cost would be f'3t ii uriufl D 3 tiiis means n? cncaply as the shortest, as they won id occupy no more time nor any nunc lain. nr. It is rather fearful to Hi ink what amount of crude news w-dli ail the worthless ( elm's, may be shurried about when this 11 ■ ell iGUisln<pc■ amo1; • Hut ' nfci 1 is an t q. \ j valei 11 in the t Xp» ctiif.on 0! receiving Prcsidcntal mesSigcs, Koval speeches, official and business reports and statistics in accurate form and without delay, Somm hint like ltd- has been needed. If the American impr- Venice! or disco very surniomtls the Km- an d nieiih ics, it will not. he JO!;e te-tnre it wiil revt lut ionite llie existing state of aiT.rirs.