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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 208, 2 September 1874, Page 2

Bishop Croko has been offered the See of Cloy ne, A report of the adjourned meeting of the Tauranga Fire Brigade held last night shall appear on Saturday-. On account of the unavoidable absence of Mr <X. A, Chadwick, the usual fortnightly Country f'oard meeting was postponed from yesterday until the 18th instant, Tn the Auckland Magisfrate’s Court on fc riday last, Mrs Sarah Cuimnings,of Ta imuiga, wns, on the evidence of Drs By an ton and Ellis, adjudged to be of unsound mind, and ordered to be sent to the Lunatic Asylum at tho Whau. Scandal would be rare if everybody were like tho Mahmmedan official to whom Mr Lavard, the eastern explorer, wroio for some statistics of th.e city of which lie lived. The oll'iei iEs reply ran as tullows : —My Illustrious Friend and Joy of my Liver, —-The thing you ask of mo is both di'bcult and useless. Although I luivo passed nil my days in this place 1 have neither c(Hinted the homes nor have 1 inquired into tho number of the inhabitants , and, ns to what one parson loads on his mules, and t lie ot‘tier stows away in the ooltoni of ins -ship, that is no business at mine. Lnf, above nil, ns to the previous History of this oily, Heaven only knows tho amount of dirt, and confusion lb.at the infidels nciy nave eaten before the coming of the gword of Tsiam. It were un profit able tor us to inquire into it. Omy soul! i) my la nh ! sc--k not after the things that concern thee not. Tin m; c mot unto us aud we welcome thee. Go in r-ca.ee.’’

At. Curin vi!ie, li'nmn-, a gud who recovered 10 d■ >li>ti - ' ir in a fellow for kis-ing hor against her will oil’- red him the money back a iew d ivh aherwirds ii he \v >u' I do i! agiim AI r s Ml iz \ Ann Young. Brigham’s legit imat a Wile, has be.-u lecturing on Morin mism, ami hAcreated a strong Seeling against, that sect. 15righam has made his will, be pimthuig tea chi dren to each of hi- friends. In t lie House of Representatives on Thursday last, Air \\ . Kelly a-l.e 1 whet bier the Crovernmont intended opening a coach road between T.turang i, To Papa, and Cambridge during ihe present year. ilr Richardson sard the Government were risen obtainitig information as to the best lino of road to select. A Meeting of tho Tauranga Cricket Club was Is eld at tiuj Court House on Sat urdav nigh! last M. M. Fdgcumhe, ID.-j , in the chair. Business : Making preliminary arrangements for the ensuing season and the o'ection of officers. The following were elected : Me-srs 12. Ik I. .Ed genuine, Presid'-m ; A, \\ . Burrows. Treasurer ; J. ii. Gritlh hs. Secretary j hi. Goidsnut h, A. F. Sisley. Woo.!, J. Thom.-on, Committee. After some discussion, it was decided j>n< Jh i that, the- season should commence on the Ist of September, and that a!! subscriptions, &c., be at once collected. We have been requested by the Committee to state that the club is now properly organised and on a sound foot ing, and we trust that the cricketing residents of the district will now come forward and give the club their support. John Mitchell, who was exiled for Fenianism, Isas been enthusiastically received on his return to the bon! hof Ireland. lie proposes to offer himself for a scat in the House of Commons. Ho repudiates the Homo Pule movement as not going far enough, ami maintains f.ho right of Ireland’s complete independence from .Britain. Ho asserts his intention of resting his claims to the suffrages of the people on those principles. The five newly elected members of the Tauranga Country Board are Gazetted. Mr Richard Sep'hton is also Gazetted an Auditor of this Board vice Mr J. H. McOuw* resigned. Mcs.-r< Spicring unci Mc.Cuw are formally appointed Auditors fur the Tauranga Town Board, and -Mr J. T. Bradley’, coll.ctor for both District Boards,

Notice of a land sale by auction is advertised, to be Vic’d on Tuesday, 29 lh September, of sections in the towns of Tauranga, Opotiki, Newcastle, and Cambridge blast, viiiayo of Taupiri, settlements of Pukekohe and Maketu, Williamson’s Clearing, Opaheko, parish of Opaheke, Ivuriotahi settlement, parishes of Tu ib.au, Alang.-uawhiri, Ivoheroa, Msramsrua, AV hangauiarino, Komakorau, Horotiu, Pope pc, Pukcte, Te Iva-pa, Tuhikaramea, Alaagapiko, Ngaroto, Pirungia, liautapu, Waipa, Te Pupa, Waimana, and Waioeka, Referring to i> burning the effigies” of the Auckland members, the 2s ew Zealand Herald writes ; —“ The demonstration on Sat urduy gathered strength in numbers by the circumstance of there being a bright moon, and that it was a Saturdav evening, when a 'urge number of boys were loose liuon the streets, and ready to join in any mischief. 'The parading of the Auckland members in effigy who voted for the Premier’s resolution? was duly curried out, together with the remaining portions of the programme ; hut aa a political demons: ration it was simply meaningless. A class of people attended for the ** tun of the thing” who should have known better, while the “ tag rag rind bobtail” of boys and the unwashed which formed so large a port ion of the gathering certainly added nothing calculated to give weight to the proceedings. Men even of Verv little reflection, no matter how strong their objections may be to politicians who do not entertain their convictions, are well aware that the burning of cdigics can have no other elicet than bringing ridicule upon those who adopt such methods for giving expression to their

,£e<4ing' a . Captain ITam'.ibal Marks, the newly appointed Pilot for this harbour, was a passenger by the Southern Cross on .Sunday. A boat for the plot service, also arrived by the same steamer: —her dimensions are 23 feet in length ; 6 feet 6 inches breadth of beam. She was built by Mr Bailey of the North Shore, Auckland, and is a credit to builder. Tea a 1. 1 'Rtisvr is becoming quire fashionable in London. For lids novelty society is indebted to the Duchess of Edinburgh.. It consists in the substitution of slices of lemon for cream, and no tei-tray is now sent into a fashionable drawingroom without a small glass dish containing slices of lemon cut with the rind on. Care must be taken to mix the beverage with due appreciation of the northern custom, which is thus described. The sugar dropped into the cup must he of the smallest size, lest the flavor of the le non should bo destroyed. A slice of lemon is then to be placed on” the sugar, and the tea pm red in. The Hobart Town filerntr// of a late date says : bv proper care and attention on the part of florists has been shown us by Mr Russell Young, by whom it was grown in his greenhouse, Inverpo >! street. It is the flower of the night blooming cactus. To horticulturists it may be unneeesva-y to ?av that an instance of Ibis plant in Slower is about as rare as its existence is brief. It springs into flower in a night, and in the morning it, is gone. The form of the flower of a cactus ia well known, bat. of none of the species can it be said that it is so distinctly and beaut iiuuy formed. 1 ne centre bell is of a brilliant white, the leaves from three to four deep. If ithin the bell are pehus of a lovely delicate yellow. Outside the bell are severa 1 "circles of an orange spiral funned leaf, the total diameter being not less titan twelve to fourteen inches. The flower is elated to have ’men the finest specimen ever grown in this co’onv. For two months Mr Young has nightly watched for the budding of this rare specimen, on ' of the onlv two on the plant, and the production reflects great credit on hts_ care and attention. One cannot look at such a lovmy i- st-m-o of the pride of flowers without a regret IV'Vit .h'nuldbUovery shm-MivM. While wo write it is a gem of the fairest ol nature s worKs. ;.n.,. ip 0 e Y e of the e irliest reader scans tuese Imc- in j vise, the flower wi!i ho a bunch ol Wl V: i( , ei leaves, and would have been cquany si leoi* i: Urn allowed to remain on id gaum