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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 334, 20 November 1875, Page 3

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(VBOM OITE OWN COIUIESrONDENT ) November IbTh. Since mj leaf; communication we have been kept pretty jolly with now companions from Europe and other quarters of the globe. f iho Land Purchase Officers have been busily engaged lately in endeavouring to complete their laud transactions, I understand they lately visited Galatea, Tawwora, ami other places, where the natives expressed their desire that the laud leased and coded should be at once surveyed and carried through the Native Lands Court.

Thie day has been an eventful one at Ohinemutu— Mr Isaac Wilson, late hotelkeeper here, possessing that little knowledge which is described as dangerous, took possession of Mr Hannon’s hotel, and quietly locked up the whole of the premises, leaving the occupants of the house to wunder at large for the best part of the day. Great inconvenience resulted, and its was only towards night that the gentle persuasion necessary in such cases was tried, and most successfully, for Mr Wilson n tiled after delivering up the keys, it is to be hoped, a wiser mum It is a great pity that people should so far interfere in matters which must of necessity result m much, bit tcrnces of feeling and no possible good.

Mr Maihi, the native candidate, is cor.fl« dint of success, and baa asked Sir Goor;e Grey not to come forward for the East Coast, a. be fS r George) would be too formidable ft omdidnlo !o oppose, Maihi is confident that ho will successfully contest the deed,ion against Kelly and others. Wo aro all pleased to beer that your reapedod townsman, T. D. Wrigloy and party, who left by tbo Glance, have returned all right. I am pleased to chronicle that a medical man {Dr Rose) has consented to remain in ibis district, where the services of such a goatlcman aro much required. He has been very attentive to a number of persona, native and European, since bia arriva l , and lam glad, to say, under jhis troatraent,’the best results have followed. It is the earnest wish of tbo entire population that the Government, will so far as possible accede to tbo vox populL