Local and General.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 337, 1 December 1875, Page 3

Local and General.

Mr H. G. Jordan advertises for sale a commodious fatuity residence in Tauranga. Several valuable allotments in town are advertised for sale by Mr if. G. Norris. MrJ. Bodell advertises a sale of stock to be bold on Monday next at tbo sale yards of Mr I). Bill. Ilia lordship tbo Bishop of-Waiapu. was a passenger by (lie cut ter Coralie, which arrived in harbour yesterday morning. A confirmation service was held at Trinity Church yesterday evening by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, when some twenty young- members of tbo Church of England were confirmed by Ilia Lordship. Wo remind members of the Tauranga Land, Building, and Investment Society that the monthly meeting for the payment of subscriptions will take place this evening, at half-past seven o’clock. We received a telegram on Saturday last from our own correspondent at Katikati convoying the intelligence of another tiro having occurred at the Katikati settlement. From the meagre intelligence to hand we learn only that the fire was seen from Bowen Town to break out at Mr Vesey Stewart’s, and that tour out of five raupo houses were burnt, M e » rain from making further remarks, until wc hear full particulars.

An esteemed correspondent has sent us the information that the piospectors for the Kaimai, who by telegram, in our a sue of the 2 Mli nit. it wna stated would leave by tho next trip of the Kowena lor Tauranga, had not arrived in Auckland from the Thames on the 27ih ulfc. Mr A.-W. Burrows, of the Public Works Department, proceeded to the Oropi Bush yesterday morning to mark off the work upon which the Constabulary aro about to be employed. Toulay Mr Burrows will lay off tho work on the Taiwan ga and Kali kadi Hoad, commencing at tho Wairoa mill dam, which will be carried on by tho Tauranga detachment of the Constabulary. We publish in another column Mr William Kelly’s reply to the influentially signed requisition from the residents in Opotiki that ho would allow himself to be nominated as a candidate to represent the East Coast District in the coming Parliament, by which it will bo seen (hat Mr Kelly has much pleasure in acceding to the request of tho gentlemen signing the requisition. , Mr H, C. Hoyte announces that be will open his chemist’s and druggist’s establishment to-morrow, and that ho will then be prepared to offer to tho public all the necessary articles pertaining to his business. Mr Hoyle has evidently spared no pains in making his shop attractive, and under the new regime it is quite an ornament to tho lino of business premises on the Strand, and reff-ds great credit upon tho tradesmen—Mr Koller, the carpenter, and Mr Clarebrough, the painter—who have carried out the necessary alterations. In the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Saturday,' before Major Roberts, K, M,, Patrick Mannix was charged on the information of James Bennett with using threatening and insulting language towards him (the complainant) on the previous day. The eusa arose out of a disputed settlement of an account for wages, and owing to the defendant not receiving the amount which ho considered due to him. It appeared, according to the evidence, that the defendant followed complainant into a shop on the beach where he used the language complained of, and also kept complainant in the shop, preventing his egress until he (tho defendant) had had his say out. The complainant stated that defendant owed him money, which, with the amount he had paid, squared tho account, but the evidence pro and con relative to the monetary transaction was not at all clear,- and as the language complained of was proved to have been used, and the defendant pleaded guilty, tho Court fined him the nominal amount of one shilling and costs, tho complainan'i having asked that a light penalty might be inflicted. Now is the time to subscribe to Saturday Night. Two SEWING MACHINES to be given to Subscribers, valued at Seven and Sis Guineas, for solving a riddle, or writing the best essay on the most enjoyable way of spending Christmas in tho Colonies. Agents everywhere. —[Advt.]