Local and General.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 383, 13 May 1876, Page 2

Local and General.

To. day is tho anniversary of the birth of his Holiness Pope Pius IX, (1792). We learn that Inspector Scannell will leave Taupo on the 18lh, and may bo expected in Tuuranga about the 20th insti H. W. Brabant, Esq. R.M., left town on Thursday afternoon for Opotiki. He may be expected back in about ten days. Judgment in the Eowena and Vincent collision case will be given on Monday next. The enquiry closedyesterday afternoon. W. H.Floyd, Esq., (electrician), went down the Coast- on Thursday for the purpose of im specting the telegraph line and the Btations on the line. We draw the attention of fencers to Mr William- Kelly's advertisement in another column,' in which tenders are called for fencing and ditching 140 chains at Mr Kally's farm at ( ropi/ A large native meeting is now taking place at Whakatune, the Ngatiwhakaue being assembled for the purpose of holding a tangi over some near relatives of the old chief Apanui, who have died recently. Direct cable communication to England is still interrupted, caused by a breakage on tho Madras cable. All telegrams, pending the tho completion of the necessary repairs, have to be Bent via India. ! Herbert W. Brabant, Esq , the newly j appointed Eesident Magistrate for Tauranga, held his first Court on Wednesday morning last. A full report of the proceedings appears, as usual, in another columu. The ladies of the baziar committee beg to acknowledge with thanks the following com tributions: — Mr McLean, £1 ; Messrs T. and S. Morrin (Auckland), one keg fancy plated goods. The A.C. road parfy who have been engaged lately repairing the road across the Warn a mill'dim, htve moved on to the Waipapa bridge. One of the immigrant cottages is to bo moved up to Katikati for the use of the road party during the winter months, After May current, the sittings of t!ie Resident Magistrates Court will be held on tho first and third Wednesday in eaoh month. Police casea commencing at half^past nine, anJ civil cases at ten o'clock, or aa soon as tho police cases are disposed of. Mr B. C. Jordan will sell to-day, at noo'i, that freehold property at the north endbf £he Strand, consisting of two allotments and a commodious four'roomod cottage, with all conveniences. As the house is quite new and well finished, and its position a central one, we anticipate the bidding for it will bespirited. Wo would remind the members of the farming community that the meeting convened for tho purpose of discussing the advisibility of introducing ploughing matches, to take place at some early date, will be held at tho iMiisoiiio Hotel this evening at half-past seven o'clock. We hope to se9 a large attendance on the occasion, Wo have receiver! tho first number of a nsw journal, entitled The Evening Mail,. published in Oamaru. As indicated by the title, it is an evoning paper. It ia very creditably printed, and its general appearance is "healthy." We cordially welcome our new comrade in the field of journalistic literature We have been shown by Mr E. Gh Norris three very rich specimens, taken from tho " Young Now Zealand" claim at Waitekauri, bettor known as Parson's claim. It is estimated that tho speciraeus will turn out over ten ouncoa to tho ton. Mr Bidois, who is a shareholder in the claim, will pack the speci' mena from Waitekauri to Qrahamstown to be crushed. An important announcement; of land for salo is made by the trustees in the estate of the late Williu n '/ utty, full particulars of which can be seen by a reference to our ndvertising columns. A large proportion of the land for sale, which consists of both, town allotments and country blooks, ia situated in tho towns of Tauranga and Greorton, and in the parishes of To Papi, To Apata, and Te Puna, Cooks county.

We notice that the Town Board, is making, improvements in the Devonporfc road>- fi'om Spring Atreofc to the corner of Captain funks' residence. The surplus earth is being carted awiy.by Mr GHinore, who has obtained permission to remove it for the purppsb of filling in his allotment adjoining MrPieroy-8 yard, where, wo believe, Mr Gilmore intends' erecting a commodious smithy, and the satisfactory result, as far as the public- is ooncerned, will be that a good level pathway will now bo made along oae ol the principal thorough fares. We leirn that Mr Jankins,- of 'the Provincial Grand Lodge of Auokland, is expected' down by to<day's steamer, on bnsineas coc T neoted with, the opening of the Tauranga Masonic Lodge. The installation of officers will take place on Monday evening, .after which the inaugural banqqeb will be held at the Masonic Hotel. Host Montgomery, it is unnecessary to Bay, will do the fullest justiceto the order given him, and will, if possible, outvie his well known recherche-atyle. Captain Marks and th.c crewof'the pilot bo-at returned from their first work at marking out the Kitikati channel on Thursday afternoon. Captain Marks informs us tta^rheha9 staked off about a mile and a qua^Sr of' the channel approaching the' mangroves. Altogether there are about four railed of shallow channel approaching and skirting the maugroves which have to be marked off ; and as fast as his duties will allow him, and asfar as the money advanced for the' purpose will permit, Captain Marks intends proceeding with the work without delay .- The inaugural dance of a Beries to be held' during the winter months by a Quadrille Club which has been Btarted by the young men of the town, was held at the Temperance Hall, on Thursday evening. The dances are to take place weekly, we believe, and if the success attending the- first attempt may be regarded as a precedent, we must congratulate the promoters of this agreeable source-of amusement upon their chance of spending one pleasant evening at any rate in each week during thelong winter evenings to come. We have nodoubt that we shall bo excused by the members of the Quadrille Club for referring to what is* to a certain extent a private affair perhaps, but as we have lately referred to the dearth' of such amusements in Tauranga, and do boalso in a leaderette to>day, "we are pleased to be able to niJtice that the spirit of reoreaiion as evidenced by the assembly onThurslay evening has not yet quite departed from among us, A s Mr Peter Grant' wa» returning home to-Q-reerton on Tuesday evening last, with his dray loaded with timber drawn,, by threehorses, a dog belonging to one of the residintsat Greerton rushed out from his house aathe dray was passing by, and barked at and* frightened the horses to tl 1 at extent that they bolted straight through the G-reerton township, round the corner on the Oropi road, and again round the sharp curve at the corneropposite the boundary fence of Mr Chadwick's' farm ; about this place, however, the twoleaders got unshackled from the dray, but the shafier continued his gallop until arrivingnearly at Mr Fielding's farm. As soon as the hor.es bolted at Greerton, the male portion of the inhabitants, arousod by the uproar, all turned out of doors, and as far as laid in their power, rendered, any assistance they could. Fortunately no one was hurt; Mr Grant wasleading the horse 3 at the time, and was ableto clear out of the way when they boHed, though he did not do so until he had madeevery effort to prevent them running away,. ! This is not. the first accident that has occurred through dogs running out of houses and frightening horses, a-id in cases where people have dogs which are in the habit of acting inthis way they should take some steps Jo restrain them, or otherwise some fatal accident is almost sure to occur sooner or later. A " Palangata Smoker " who evinces some interest in the discussion on smoking, whichensued amona the members of the Mutual Improvement Sooiety last week, forwards us the" following paragraph on the subject taken" from the Family Herald, in that, journal'sanswers to correspondents : — " Intellectual men who were smokers ! Why, their nameis legion ! Kaleigh, Ben Johnson, probably Shakspere, the wise and witty Fullerf — all men of great intellect. The great DoctorBently, the first of classical scholars ; Hobbes Levithan Hobbes — a man in some people's' ideas as great a^ Paoon— ha used to have sixteen pipes by hi« side whan he retired tostudy ; the sreat Porson the Greek scholar j Erasmus, Schiller, Heine, and numerous Gorman metaphysicians, and Biblical scholars, Poushkin, and Gogol oFE»uß3ia,0 F E»uB3ia, Byron, doleridge, Crabbe, Stevenson, Brunei, .who was^ seldom seen without a cigar ; Maddiaon,. Daniel Webster, and Lincoln, Americans ;: Dickens, Canon Kingsley, and to mention two now living, the poet Laureate*/ and O. H. Spurgeon, these we jot down as they occur. Thore are at least thousands of others; but their habifr or non'habit proves nothing, except tliafc ' aol.ive brains naturally seek a narcotic" — . Exchange. When will American invention reaoh aclimax (saye the Wellington Argus), By the last English ship Dr Lemon received one of the new American writing machines which completely supersedes the use of the pen. In appearance it resembles a Bewing machine,, excepting that it has a key board like a piano, and is in action very similar to the musical' instrument. The lette j required are shown on the keys, and the oporator has merely to touch the keys .while conaj 'ng his friendly epistle or business letter" It 's said that a. wiier who has- once lr d the use o-f the apparatus might- with moderate dexterity tli row off from it t 1 irty or forty words a minute,, while a. Lite ry I'tz or Goddard could turn out as mf.ny as s'xty. At this rate a brilliant perfo:meron the writing machine would produce sufficient matter to occupy a . column of a newspay ;r in twenty minutes. Printers will profit by t/e new invention.-if it should ever be generally adopted. The writing machine gives forth, not the familiar sorawl which the French "ill pattes de mouche^ but printed characters rs unniistake-.hle, right or wrong, as notes from a keyed instrument. Atr present more than one of the London morning papers have their correspondent's letters written in Paris and- delivered printed, word for word as the telegraph has transi mit ted it in London; and it is also stated that Farjeon, the welliknown novelist, composed duplicates of his last novel for simul* • ianeoua production in England and America, Mr R. HBartletfi, Photographer/; Queen Sireet, Auckland, will* for a short period take cavte-de-vißite photographs at twelve shillingspsr dozen. — Adtt-.

The Newspaper — \ newspaper is a window tli rough 4 which men look oub on nil thai, is going on in the- world'; without a newspaper, a- man is- shut in a- small room, and knows little or nothing of what is happening outside of himself. 1 In our dny 4 tho newspapers keep pace with history and record ifc A nowspaper will keep a sensible man in sympathy with the ■world's current history. It ia an enfolding encyclopaedia, an unbound book,, lor ever issuing and never finished.