TOLOGA BAY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1084, 8 June 1882, Page 2

TOLOGA BAY.

(PHOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) June 3rd, 1882. I begin my letter this time feeling somewhat afraid that I shall be tired before finishing. I suppose there never has been a time previously when a correspondent in this locality has had as much to chronicle as I have to this time, and all occurring within the short space of one week. The Resident Magistrate’s Court sat during Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with a calendar of 54 cases—2s being by one individual. Then came the Revision Court, followed by the Licensing Court. This little township has been lively in the extreme, but is now relapsing into its usual quietude. The Revision Court was also held on the Ist June, but I was not present, and as the Court only sat a very few minutes, 1 apprehend there was not much to be done. The sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court this time has been short in time, only occupying two and a-half days, but the length of those days was considerable. On Tuesday the Court opened at 10 o’clock, and with only the adjournment for meals, the sitting was continued until 10 o’clock at night; on Wednesday it opened at 9 a.m., and sat until past 10. The Magistrate worked very hard, and certainly deserves the thunks of the public for the way he worked so as to get through the long list of cases as speedily as possible. The Licensing Committee, 1 notice, have granted licenses to several new public houses. Now it seems the highest piece of absurdity for the country to be put to the expense of taking the votes of the people, as to whether any new licenses shall be granted or otherwise, and for that expression of opinion to be utterly ignored by the Committee. Then comes another anomaly, the Act specifies that, publicans shall not supply liquor to Natives, and yet the Committee actually grant licenses to Natives to trade in spirituous liquors. If the Act has only been passed as an experiment. I much fear that we shall find it a most costly one. On the Ist of June a well attended meeting was held at the Tologa Bay Hotel, of gentlemen interested in horse racing, for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming a Racing Association for the East Coast. Mr J. A. Harding was voted to the chair. After considerable discussion it was decided to form a Racing Club to be called the Tologa Bay Race Club, and the following gentlemen were elected as officers : —Mr E. Murphy, President; Mr A. Reeves, Vice-President; and Mr W. W. Brown, Secretary and Treasurer. The annual subscription was fixed at two guineas. ,A good number of gentlemen enrolled themselves as members. A Committee of three was appointed to inspect the Wharekaka paddocks, and report thereon as to their suitability for a course. The next meeting was fixed for the first Wednesday in July, at which the Committees report will be given, and for the transaction of any business that may arise. A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the proceedings. Undoubtedly this is a step in the right direction, and will do much towards encouraging racing in this district.