FROM CORRESPONDENTS.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1754, 17 August 1874, Page 2

FROM CORRESPONDENTS.

: Cobokandbl, Thig day. i Tierhari and Heenan's claim (next the Plutus) on the Waikoromiko is: turning; out good specimens; V* The directors' action in Harbor View-— ■ letting the mine on tribute without calling a special meeting of the shareholders, is much talked oK . " \- : ; TltjittJiKGi, Saturdays Monahau has received/two, Law one month's imprisonment for pig stealing at Opotiki. ' . ■•■/,■. ■.-.■^■.-■■- iL -«>;. -,' .; The Bay of Plenty Timeris vigorously ladvocating immediate formation of the; Thames and Cambridge roads to Tauranga, denies the statement of the Minister of Public Works that any; Native difficulty whatever existed, and strongly urges the continued co-operation of the Thames and Waikato people. Eeferring specially to the Cambridge Road the Times has an able leader this morning. After pointing out the benefit to the three districts, Napier and the whole' colony generally, and the splendid lands which would be opened to settlement by a road from Cambridge to Tauranga via Whakamarama, says that as a military scheme it would have the effect of confining the Natives to a much smaller; space, and when the long promised Thames and Tauranga road was opened the Natives ever after would become im-" potent for evil; they would be surrounded by roads over which a military; party.could advance to any portion of the Native dominion in about four hours after news had been received at the Native' Office in Wellington. Captain Tunks' appointment as immigration agent at Tauranga is highly satisfactory to the settlers. Depot cot-!, tages will arrive next week for occupation by families on their arrival in Tauranga. A petition praying for the extension of the Tauranga Magistracy jurisdiction to? £50 is in course of signature. The Church of England baxaar will be held in the New Government Buildings, next month. The Times states that nine-tenths of the settlers on the East Coast are delighted

at the justly-deierred honor to the Native Minister. It is in mixed districts like the Bay of Plenty that Sir Donald McLean's great power of judgment and influence is felt hourly. In no part of New Zealand wns the announcement of Mr. McLean's knighthood received with more general satisfaction. Nineteen members enrolled in the Tauranga Fire Brigade.