Local and General.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 361, 23 February 1876, Page 2

Local and General.

Miv ß. o.' Jordan advertises • an- important, Bale of stock to be bold at the* Public ' Pouwdj on Monday, .the 28th inst; '

A*, very- pleasanb' social re-union, , in' ,theform of a dance, , wus. ; held at Maketu on • Monday evening, lasb, . at tbo ; - rosidonco of' one- of the- principal inhabitants. Danoing; was- kept> up till an. early » hour inthe morningy andias-suoh anaaisomenfcs come but seldom in theiwayof our Maketu friends,the evening's enjoyment, was- all the more app.rectiatedr

Mr Bodell will off^r. for sale,;- . to<day, ,flt itwelve ovclook, the u.iex-pired lease of certain lots ab the.corner of Springe,t^oet.and Cameron road, 1 wibhn buildings; thereon; alsd ' some crushing and -cutting machines.' .'"",'

Tenders'- &»e invited.-by Captain- iftfoorsom, of Kelston, for the. purchase of twentyreix and a-nalf acres -of .potatoes, now in the ground Particulars of sale appearing in another 'column.

An influential meeting .-was held at <3reer« ton on Saturday evening, in accordance with advertisement, to discusß the subject' matter of a letter . reoeived from the School Board relative to the G-reerton School. The feeling of the meeting was very etrong against the action taken by the School Board in the matter.

The important action against Captain G. B. Read, the member for the East Coast District;, for bribery and corruption during the late election, will be heard at the "Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday next. Mr Eee3, the-counsel retained for the prosecution, may be expected to arrive by the Rowena on Saturday^

We are sure that the comparatively re-assuring intelligence contained in the following telegram, kindly hand:d to us by Captain Turner, relative to the supposed loss of Mr Sydney, Haig at Poverty Bay will be read with a feeling of relief by Mr Haig'a many friends in this district :-r-" GHsborne, February 21.— T0 &.. 0. Turner, Esq., Tauranga.— Nothing definite of Haig. Ho is out with a mixed party of whites and natives. I do not fear anythiug beyond a little privation. Judge Rogan was »t Tokomaru last week, anl made enquiries of the. natives concerning the sur 1 veyors, and was told that they had Buffered some hardships, but that they were safe. Unfortunately he had forgotten JEfaig's name. I will send a special to obtain some definite information. — Hoeaob Bakeb, District Surveyor."

We are informed by Captain Turner, Diftriot Ec giaeer, who has lately been through to Ormond from Opoliki by the Opotiki and Ormond iioad, that the principal damage oaused by the floods is between the Mofcu and Ormond,' the Opotiki end of the line having sustained scarcely any damage. In the Waikohu Valley the river Wb entirely ohanged its courso. In several pla :es the bed of the river is now where the road used to be, trees and all intervening obstacles having been .swept away by the foroe of the water. Very ourious natural phenomena are also described by Captain Turner as having occurred in that part of the road where the effeots of the late tempestuous weather- are more distinctly visible. In eoaie places where the road is cut in the efde of the hills, the hills at some distance above the road seem to have parted, and the whole of the disjointed portion appears to hare slid down bodily, carrying the road with it, but without destroying its formation ; some portions of the road have thus been left some ten or twelve feet lower than the other.

Mr Bedell has handed us the following recipe for making peach wine, for publication, as having had so many applicant n■> for oopioa of it, be has adopted this plan for. the benefit of the community ct larje : — To make five gallons, get a 10-gallon keg or tub, and put in it nine gallons of well ripe peaches, well crushed by the hand ; add one gallon of water. Let it stand 48 hours, stirring about several times. Draw off and strain through ecrim (doubled) into a bucket or tub ; when well strained add two pounds of white sugar to one gallon of the liquor. Have a fivegallon keg on bilge and strain into it.' When the keg is full add a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, to be put in the bung-holo ; mix the same with the liquor, when fermentation will set in. Let it ferment seven days, filling up when required, and cork close. It will then be ready for use in three months, or it can be kept for years by adding an extra pound of sugar per gallon when making. When required for immediate use, put lilbs. of ginger per gallon. Let it ferment for three days, and bo.ttle off. . Ifc will then be fit for use.

The Anglican Bishop of Lid) field, England, made a very curious remark the other day, when he opened "the Episcopal Church Congress ab Stokempon-Trenfc, " The want of an infallible authority on earth,' 8- iri he, obliges every one of U8 to confess that whereinsoever he differs from his fellow-Christians, he may posßiby be wrong." This, is certainly an admission of the superiority of our Church, which has an infallible authority upon earth in the person of the Pope, and no member of whLh can ever confess that he differs from his fellows in belief, because the moment he does so he ceases to belong to the Catholic Churoh. The "Bishop" seemed to entertain some very queer notions concern* ing the Bible, which, he said, admitted of many interpretations, although it was manifestly given to us in order to procure unity. He even went so far as to ask if there was a higher warrant for the statements of the prophet Ezra than there was for those of Thucydides ? Assuredly, .so singular a question would never have entered the head of a Christian bishop.. : Ibis curious iri .this oonnection to obser.ve that for all the fuss made by Protestants over what they . chooSp to qM our neglect of 1 ; the Bible,: we are really the only body of- men claiming the Christian name, who bold it as directly inspired by G-od, and as such to be unquestionably true. " Christians are divided,,' said this Protestant Bishop,, "not ocly as to the meaning of the BiWe, Irtit about the truth of not a few of its obvious meanings." We must oonfess that wo are surprised to hear this statement from thelips of a bishop of any form of Christianity, and it confirms the Catholio belief in the wist dom of the Churoh in withholding the Bible from uneducated and half-educated people. When men who are supposed to make it the study of their lives can be induced to acknowledge (hat they doubt its truth, what is to be expected froia^thßilliterate:? < " Thfe want of an infallible authority, on earth "'iq matters of i ' faitli'and doctrine : must indeed be felt strongly in tho Church of which thia -Biabop is a chief. , — Catholic Review; . ...

_ : '; "fche Secret of Health".— Krat, keep cool; Beopndj eat 'regularly ,aud .Blowly ; third, main 1 tain regular bodily habita ; fourth., take early and rery • light supperst—or, better still, none at all ; fifth 1 , keep a. clean skin ; eixth, getplenty of sleep at night;, seventh, , keep oheerful and tespeotoble company; eiglith, kfeep out of debt j ninth, don't- aeb your mind on things -you-.dou'.i need, tenth; mind your own business ; eleventh," don't' Bet up to be a "sharp" of any, '. bind .j . twelfth, 1 , Bubduo curioßity..