Local and General.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 319, 29 September 1875, Page 2

Local and General.

| A leading .mice is unavoidably held over, To-day is Michaelmas Day. | We draw the attention of the postal autha* ; rities to the great inconvenience arising to ■ business men and others having correspond* q ec wish nil! owners at Mercury Bay on account of the want of direct postal despatch between Tuuranga ami Mercury Bay, It f appears that no mail direct lo Mercury Bay is made up .at the Tmiranga Post Office, but

that uii id ins for that part have first to §9 to Auc/:I:ind t and back from tbeo« This i; a most aloud and needless arrangement, and we are at a loss to imagine why it fall ever been in vogue. The Rowena calls re* gnlarly at Mercury Bay on her way from this port to Auckland, atd urquesliomib’y a uni! direct should h made up by her. In view of the rapi&J increasing business relations between tbe various settlements in Ino Bay of Plenty dii* trio and the .Mercury Hay saw mills, we trust that the postal authorities will do away with this most needless and vexatious delay in til? transmission of tlso letters. We {run that some steps will be takento establish a regular mail between Kalikati without farther loss of time. he! quite sure that the Government would see the necessity for eucn a service were attention called to the matter, asd W® shit? Mr Vcsey Stewart, on behalf of bis settlers, to memorialise the Genera! on the subject, feeling confident so reasonable a request would meet with tbd attention which the present Mioistry i* variably so readily accords to tn® ho*&J wants of the cut ’districts.

The District Engineer returned to &** from Opoliki and the Coast last eremafMr J. 11. Sheath may be expected next trip of the s 3 Rowena, ; We understand that the new | office in course of erection at Okinemo • I bo completed in the course of a fort » i three weeks.

, varv severe thunder storui, accompanied A heavy full °f hail, passed 0V( * r the town D o. im hv afternoon. Tho direction was S.N.W. r, ll3 t Saturday evening an Armed Con balary boat loaded with long Snider rides’ •A u',lv from Te Teko to Oliiwa, capsi/ml nj) lt9 " * c *.».'} I*. fi'i d all the arms, &c., were totally lost. Ihe 815 g were being taken down to Old vs a fur patent on board the e b Kowcmi, to be re* turned to store. •\Ve have to acknowledge from the printers, ~ s »-s Heed and Brett, Auckland, the receipt f a*pew ballad, entitled “Silver Threads Amon* the Cold,” flB eu . t g at 11.0 Piince of Walce'l'heatro by Miss Lizzie Morgan. The ; g a T ery pretty one, and should be found •fenny lady’s music rack. ]Jr K. C. Jordan will offer for sale to-day, t noon, at the Strand Auction Booms, the g ueS t sample of eating and seed potatoes, dthout exception, we have ever seer, in Tau\Ve recommend everyone in want of r either for seed or lor the table to fail 1 themselves of this opportunity of making a first-rate investment. The Jewish year 5036 commences tounor* ofl < and the day will be one of close observance throughout the known world.. The Jews, although scattered over the face of ’he earth, •Vtoalatain a secret and indissoluble bond of union aud common interest. At the present time are they not, to a very great extent, the arbiters of the fate of nations ? Maintaining, on the one hand, the bond between different. States by the mysterious power of wealth which they possess ; and on the other, loosening the ties of social life, and introducing or fostering ideas of change and revolution among various people? In the Jewish nation stirs the Nemesis of the destinies of millions! The musical raid literary world owes much to the Jews! Who composed “II JBavbiere?” Hoesini, a Jew ! Who is there that admires not. the heurt'stirring music of the “ Huguenots” nsd the “ Bropheto ? ’ The composer of both these superb operas is Meyerbeer, a Jew ! Wlio l.iu 9 not been spoil-bound by “Die Judin?” by Hulevy, a Jew! Who has not been enchanted with the beautiful fictions of lyric poetry, and charmed with the graceful melodies, so to speak, of one of Israel’s singers, Heine, a Jew ! Who has not listened with breathless ocatacy to the music of the “Midsummer Nigtil’s Dream,” “■Elijah,” '‘Baal and Stephen?” Do you ask who created those wondrous harmonies? Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who also was a Jew! We cordially wish our Jewish brethren and neighbours a happy new your ami many of them.

Of the inducements to join Ibo temperance Bocktie?, tho following is the most ellieaeious wo have as yet come across, and is one which we arc assured is found irresistible, and gains more proselytes than all the medals Father Matthew over distributed. Quaker ladies in the Maine Law States, says an American paper, still continue to kiss the lips of the young temperance men to sec if they have been tampering with liquor. Just imagine a beautiful young temperance woman, with all !ho dignity ol an executive oiheer, and the innocence of a dove, adddresdug yon with the charge of, “ Mr . the ladies believe vouo.i t' m O.iw hubil til to.tnj.iovmg wst.M liquoi, and they bavo appointed me to examine you according to our established rule; are you willing You nod acquiescence, She gently steps closer to you, lays her white arms round your neck, dashes back her raven curls, raises her 4 fjlph like form upon tip toes, her snowy, heaving bosom against your own, and her angelic features lit up with a smile as sweet as heaven, places her rich, rosy, purty, sugar, molasses, lily, rose-bud, cream-tart,apple-pie, peach pudding, apple-dumpling, ginger-bread, nectar lips against yours, and, Oh Jerusalem 1 bold ur, kisses you, Hurrah for the girls and the Maine Law, and death to all opposition !