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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 204, 19 August 1874, Page 2

The Librarian of the Tauranga Mechanics* Institute begs to acknowledge the presentation by Mr W. 11. Bennet of a fae simile of the warrant for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. The Australasian Sketcher for August to hand last mail is an excellent number. The sketch of liotoinahana Lake and Island, drawn by Mr John Gully, is not only well executed, but truthfully delineated, and this is the greatest compliment we can pay the artist and publishers. _We observe from the European Mail that Lieut.-Colonel Harrington, formerly Inspector of volunteers in Now Zealand, was presented at the late levee, by the First Lord of the Admiralty. On his birthday lately, His Holiness the Pope received upwards of one hundred thousand letters from various parts of the Christian World and above eight hundred telegrams. Mr Goldie announces in another column, that he will b e> happy to tune pianos. This is not Mr Goldie s first visit to Tauranga if we remember correctly. M e would call the attention of our readers to the programme in our advertising columns of to day of the entertainment to be given on Friday evening ucxl at the District ticbool-house. We hope “° 9ee a lar S e attendance on the occasion. Luo District Engineers recently published report ! ' e Luhlic Works done in this district during the 1:131 financial War, shall appear on Saturday. '

Erratum.— A mistake occurred in Mr Grace’s letter, published on Saturday last. It should have road “as this Board is constituted illegal. In order, Ac., according to ‘'copy.” A brief account of the life and death of Rawiri the Great Ngaiterangi Chief is unavoidably crowded out of this issue. Owing to a pressure upon our space by important telegraphic intelligence, a report, of the v -' oun kry i>oai d 1 lectiug, ]*e 1 d ye> 1 e rda y , a \lll oilier interesting local matter is’held over. It is hardly necessary to add that everything, as a matter ot course, has to give way to telegrams. By a private telegram from Wellington, we learn that Air C.Naden, was yesterday morning appioimed Chief Police Officer for the district of too Bay of Plenty, - Air Naden now holds the rank of Sub-Inspector, A. C. His head quarters will be at lauranga, and ho mav bo expected herein about a fortnight, dhie tinal obsequies of the much respected chief Rav. iri jluaia took place yesterday about eleven o clocK in the Te Papa cemetery : the grave was selected near the fencing, abutting on to the ‘brave’ who fell at the Gate Pa and Te'ftanga. All the liapus of Tauranga were represented, find concentrated on the wharf ti meet the mournful cortege as it arrived from' Whareroa. Enoka te Whanake had charge of the boat containing the corpse, and ilori Ngatai with Parira, Hamiora Tu/and Tupaea’s sons were present on the occasion. On the coffin reaching the end of the wharf it was received by Mr Hopkins Clarke, of the Native Office. The pail bearers selected were gentlemen to whom the deceased was well known .and respected for his bravery and humanity • —Messrs. S. L Clarke, Thomas Wrigley, A. Warbrick, 'and Captain lurnor. ine natives seemed much a hoc ted, and everything passed off quictlv, though Caere could not have been less than three hundred present.— (Communicated.) By the Juries Act, ISGB, at present in force, several classes of persons are exempted from being called upon to servo on juries. During the present session of Parliament Mr Macancfrew the Superintendent of Otago, has introduced a’ bill, entitled an Act to Amend the Juries Act, TSuS, winch, if passed, wid exempt a number of other persons from serving upon juries. The Act at present in force exempts from serving on juries constables, doctors, solicitors in practice, clergymen, &c. ; and by the new bill it is intendedNo exempt all members of fire brigades. The Librarian of the Tauranga Mechanics’ Institute begs to acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of the following valuable books, as a grant from the Provincial Council : “ Light Science for Leisure Hours,” “ Other Worlds than Ours,” “ Franco-German War,” “Electricity and Magnetism,” “United States,” (Mackenzie) “Huiey’s Physiology,” “ Guess at Truth.” (Haro) ‘ Spectrum Analysis,” (Rosooe) “ Theory of Heat, ‘ Critiques and Addresses,” “ Sanitary Science,” “ Gustavus Adolphus,” “ Constitution of man.”