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Tauranga Argus and Opotiki Reporter, Volume 1, Issue 22, 20 April 1867, Page 2

We would recommend thc Prevost Corporal of the lst Waikato Regimeut to try his skill at dog pbootiog as well as pig shooting, and we also labor under the impression that as there are six davs in the week some other time might be found for firing off arms. Last Sunday a pig had tbe presumption to invade a reserve, (known as Archdeacon Brown's) when the prevost corporal, with the aiin of Ross, passed a ball through the animal, and if any person had been standing at tbe other sideof it, weslfould no doubt have had to record the death of one of the inhabitants of Te Papa as well as that of an unoffending pig, the ball was seen to strike the water a hundred yards further on after passing through the pig's body. Mongrels of all deseriptions are constantlv attacking men, women, and children, and we think it high time that this state of things was put a stop to. We can give tlie names of the ovynersof those useless brutes if call'ed upon. It is only a. week or two ago that the wife of one of our settlers very near met her death by curs rusliingout upon lier, a miscarriage being the conseqnence. Ilad shedied, by law Ihe owners of these dogs could have been tried for manslaughter. The wife of the owner of the savagest oue, on being requested to tie the dog up, saluted the husband with a vollev of abuse and swore her poor pet would not do such a thing. These are Ihe pests that should at once be got rjd of and not the poor pigs. A subscription has o ng the rounds of the town, for the laudable objedt of raising snfficient funds to fence in the graves of all the brave fello.ws who fell in the late engagements with the rebels at Irahangi, Waiwhatawhata, and Wakamarama. We sincerely trust that every one in the district will coine forward handsouiely for such a worthy object. A great improv^ent has been inade in the appearance of the store of Messrs. Fraser and Co., a two strorey front has lately been added to it. We have often seen work turned out oi a superior description ; but can coufidently sav that the audition l;Uely mado nn'1 appenr^^^ tlie Auction Mart"."S[^^iJects tiie gi^Satest credit on OT. C. F. H»ley> tbe :i'PP*'cr and' cnr.-raetor," who has lately Coirie to reside amo i: gst u^. lle was also the contractor.of- the splendid buildiiig in Qneen street. known as Siichbury's Auction Iloom, for wluch he received the higliest eoiumendations from the Press of Auckland. We trust sdon to see manv of the townsmen follbwihg theexample of Fraser and Gog and when for the fiiture they are building, it will be brick instead of wood. Tlie twent}T five volunteers tbat were left at Rotorua arrived in Te Papa 011 Tuesdav last) together with 200 ot the Arawas, who we believe are to be stationed at Gate Pa, Judea, and tbe Omanawa. This will render the place more secure, and we hope alay tbe panic, not indeed without cause at present existing. The Hauhaus are said to have left Rotorua, and are • supposed to be at Wakamarama, a village about fifteen miles from here..