Local and General.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume V, Issue 428, 18 October 1876, Page 2

Local and General.

Meesrs Thornton, Smith and jSv'ih gnnoubce a ri-e oi 30* per ton on ffoujf all roundt We havp to acknowledge the receipt f^n* the Government Printer of a large baV^f Parliamentary iapers. *— T

The. street leading from McLean Street opposite the Market Reserve to Monmoutb. Street, has been named -.neon Street.

Mr Rhodes has shown us a fine speoiaien of quartz found in the bed of , the Beretukahia creek at Katikafj. We understand that Barry is still prospecting somewhere in the locality of Katikati, and that other parties are also out occasionally. The specimen we refer to was found by a stranger.

Late on Friday night, or early on Saturday morning het, another "lark" "(so. called, wft suppose), or malicious act was perpetrated by some unknown persona, on tne Wharf, by throwing the trucks, a ladder, a plough. & tierce of beef, and an empty aasfc into the water. The trucks were brought back afterwards by natives ; one baring been found at Maungatanu and one at the Mount ; the plough waspiofced up out of the water at the and of the wharf.and the ladder was recovered, but nothing h>i S been seen since of the tierce of beef, or the empty cask hie is the third time the trucks have been thrown into thewater in a similar manner, and on each occasion the lessee of the wharf (Mr Commons) has hart to pay for their recovery. We can only suppose that this malicious act, for such it is, when the serious loss is considered, roust h*ve been committed by some drunken roysterers, for what they termed a joke, as Mr Commons is too popular in his capacity as agent, and lessee of the wharf, to make it likely that actual injury to him wua mediated. If. does not really signify much, however, with what motive the act was done, it issufficient that a serious loss is the result, and we can only hope the offenders may be dis. covered.and punished severely as they deserve;

We learn that thirteen men of. *»,e Armed ConsfcabTifftry*" Pnrcg, "" under 'Sub^lnspaßtor Gudgeon, have resumed work at the Ormond end of the Orcaond and Opotiki road. The men arc occupied repairing damages caused by floods in the month of Junqary in' this year" on that portion of the road between the Mdttt river and about four milas this side of Ormond. We are further informed that the' timber for the Motu bridge, cut in the bush near the site of the bridge, is now ready, and that the erect.oa of the bridge will be com* menced in about six weeks.

Tlie Scottish explorer Cameron, who ret oontly returned from the heart of Africa, has orated a good deal of enmity and disgust among " apostolic circles" ,in England, by declaring, that the averige British missionary is v fraud of the first, water. '' Mosstof them," lie says, " are unfir for their work and despisnd by the h<-!it,hen. They go to. Africa, druw Jar^fl sii!ari«s, live i-o>nfortablj, drink Mioir cliai«p»orjß, and then in » coupln' of ypars come back fo tell a druadful tale of the hardships they hnve suffered !"

We «r» informed that the mpmbers of the Tuhourangi tribe reaidottfc at Wairoa. Lake Turawera, loft theii* settlement yesterday/or th" purpose of holding a lupge meeting' at NihoiO'tp-Kipiy, in relation to a lan.d disputebftw>»en them^alvea and ' The block in qiipsfion — Tmukau — has beeft^a--dispnto between • these ppople for a»greatnumhor of v«*nrs, and last year the disnute assume "imh proportions as almost to lestd to» . pun conflict, — a result only avoided by thet'melr miprvent'on of the land agents, whosucceeded fortunately in allaying the irritation.

A mepting of thoae interested in boating matters was held at the Commercial Hotel on Monday evening, to consider terms of the proposed rowing rout oh between Tauranga and Opotiki to decide the championship of the Bay of Plen-y. 'rOnmmonß pwsidedTjjSr the ohuir.and Mr HuJI/>tyieinaly&o*pd aßseoi-pfiry.* } The chairman e^xpltfined that the auegeetio^ eatne front Opotifei. and that the meeting wag | sailed to carry oat. ?,he. idea. Captain Marti. > roposnd, and it was' carried, "That acreW' from Tauranga b« selected to pull against an; i crew that, comes from ' 'po'iki to meet then) } the race to he pulled in Tauratisa Harbour."" | It was also proposed by Captain Marks and/ 1 carried, " That a challenge be sent to Upotiki to send any four-oared boat, whale<boat built, to pull a similar boat of Tauranga." On thfri proposition of Mr Young, the following {gentlemen were elected as a committee to carry pat the proposed arrangement, vis., MessrsCommons, Edgcumbe, ' Keefe, Marks, Bbdelf," Thomson, and KHia, The chairman suggested? that the challenge should be inserted in the Bay op PißNxr Times, and Mr Kdgonnlb#* Baid it would give him great pleasure toad?«v» tise it free. Mr D. Aaher "suggested thtf advisability of forming a Boating Olub, 'afiej said he would bring the matter forward again. Mr Edgoumbe drew attention to the natural advantages offered by the fine harbour of " Tauranga for boating, and wondered at the apathy displayed with regard to aquafcio^pqrfcs. The mee'ing wua then adjourned for a^^^kfi©. receive the report of (he Committee. -^83^^ meeting of the Committee held at thef coi&solu*ion of the general meeting, Mr Comtriona as agent of the s s StHfia,said that the orew and' their friends from Opotifei coming to see the boat race would be allowed ajtetarn. ticket foaihe pwod of the single farei.