THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. " The spirit of the times shall teach me speed." KING JOHN, ACT IV. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1874.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 200, 5 August 1874, Page 2

THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. " The spirit of the times shall teach me speed." KING JOHN, ACT IV. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1874.

The time has arrived for the successful ' prosecution of certain industries which at present we have not in our midst:— : first and most prominent stands that of ; a Flour Mint. We heard rumours ;yesterday that a steam mill for the purpose of grinding wheat and catting firej wood and chaff is shortly to be erected on jthe Beach at Tauranga. We have also 'been informed that the natives, with the assistance of the Government, are about to build a water-power mill at the Wairoa. From the Government statistics, we learn that about 12,000 bushels of wheat were grown last season in Tauranga. Surely this ought to be sufficient to induce private enterprise to erect a mill! On the other hand, should the Government mill be erected at the Wairoa—we call it the Government mill, as without Government assistance it would not be built—though it could not meet the requirements of the place, owing to the limited supply of water and its distance from the business centre, yet, as it would possibly absorb about one-third of the wheat produced, it would also probably deter private speculation—a contingency which should have due consideration at the hands of the Government. We would even go so far as to suggest that a portion of the foreshore should be granted to any private individual or company who would initiate so useful and much needed an institution as a steam flour mill for the district. We leave the subject for the present, trusting, that between two stools, we shall not fall to the ground.

Ths question of “ Smoking and Thinking” has bfen discussed in an article in the Builder, the verdict arrived at been decidedly adverse to the

use of tobacco. Some curious instances showing how smoking impairs the nervous system and leads to hallucinations are adduced. M.D., forty-eix years of sge, in apparent good hea th,

is one fine d«y walking in the eountrv, where the air is calm and the sun is shining brightly. lie is suddenly astonished to see a heavy ram shower apparently driven towards him by a violent wind. He extends his hand. No drops are falling - his clothes are quite dry, but he is seized at the

moment with a violent palpitation. He throws away his cigar, the violent beating of the heart

ceases, and tho vision disappears. Many times the phenomenon recurs. He abandoned tobacco, and the accidents disappear. Thinking himself cured, he commenced again to smoko, when the

symptoms return. Complete abstinence ia hia only safety. To test his theory relative to smoking, M. Bastillon resorts to a practical experiment, which appears to be relied upon. He divided the pupils of the Paris Ecole Poly technique into smokers and non-smokers. The cases of the

The result is worthy of the most careful attention by our colonial youths, who are most t f them, for good or for evil, addicted to the habit

possibly from no other cause than a belief that a pipe adds to the manliness of a smoker's appear*

ance. An appearance, it would seem, bought dearly enough, if, as Sir Benjamin Brodie and Dr Richardson affirm, tobacco acts by destroying the functions of the brain, the only organ in which w« excel the brute creation.

twenty who stood highest and those next to them stand thus in a tabulated form .— Smokers. Non-smoiers. 6 14 10 10 11 9 14 ... 6 13 15 5 18 4 17 3 102 5S