WASTE LAUDS BOARD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 358, 23 May 1874, Page 3

WASTE LAUDS BOARD.

Thuesdat, Mat 21st. Present: The Chief Commissioner and Meßsrs. D. Reid, Bastings, Strode, Clark, and JButterworth. ' . Mr. Walter Miller applied to purchase 345 acres ori block Vl.,' Waitahuna East, under section 40, Ofcago Waste Lands Act, It transpired that a portion. of the land applied for was included in a prior application made by other parties. — Referred to the District Land Officer to give notice to the agricultural leases applicants that the application had been made to purchase the land, and to" ask them if they have any objection thereto. The consideration of the case submitted by Messrs. Connell and Moodie, on behalf of Mr. James Logan, for the opinion of the Attorney(general, was adjourned. Messrs. Webb and Fulton requested reconsideration of' the application of Messrs. Cotton and Henry to purchase section 13 a, block 111., Tuapeka East. — Adjourned ; no appearance.Mr. William Felton applied for a coal mining lease of section 63, block 111., Tuapeka West. — Referred to the District Land Officer for advice. , Messrs. Herbert, Mackney, and Co. applied fora reconsideration of their application for 160 acres of land for a saw, mill license. — The Board resolved that the application should be granted on -the usual terms, the frontage to be a :<j«»rter of a 'mile, and the applicants to deposit £160 ; the survey to be submitted to the Board within Bix'nionths, if not the license or. lease will bo-cancelled. Also, that. the contractor for ihe Beaumont bridge be' not interfered with in obtaining timber for the construction of the bridge. The Board approved qf the recommendation of Mr. Reid that an office should be opened at Roxburgh for receiving applications for land on deferred payments. The following applications to purchase agricultnral leases were approved : Wm. Sutherland, section 1, block VII., Table Hill ; Messrs. Sutherland and Poison, section 21, block X., Waitahuna East j and section 21, block 11., Table Hill. ', . , ,The following applications to exchange leases were granted : E. Tubman, sections 33, 15, 16, block 1., Benger districtMr. Haggitt, for Mr. Wm. Fraser, applied for bis pre-emptive right on run 355 b. — Resolved that the application should be granted ■Under the regulations of 1857, at 10s. per

•ere. r i • i . Under the heading of the origin of the term "Printers' deril" an exchange Bays — When Aldus Manutius set up in business as a printer in Venice, he came into possession of a little negro boy, This boy was soon known all over the city as " the little black devil," for, at that time, negroes were not often seen in Venice, and some of the most ignorant people believed him to be either an embodiment or an emissary of Satan, -who aided Aldus in the work of his profession. One day Manutius, desiring to .dispel this strange and spreading opinion, displayed this young imp publicly to the poorer classes, making this but characteristic speech : "Be it known to you, and to all Venice that I, Aldus Manutius, printer to •the Holy Church and 'the Doge, have this day made exposure to all of the printer's deviL. And if any think he is not like us, flesh and blood they may come and pinch him, and they will find though he is black, he is human." ' ' ' The editors of the two newspapers at Corotnandel are abusing each other in the style' of Pott .and Sturk, in " Pickwick." How that small community keeps two newspapers going ia a mystery. It is' thought thas one, not both of them, must "cave, in " shortly. The soil of Coromandel has not been hitherto favorable to the growth of literary property. The first paper started ■there, the "Argus," lasted only about a year. Its successor, worked by a company, had a still shorter, life, and cied in litigation. The ' " Mail " came next, and then the " News." both of which are still alive, but premature decay appears to be already stamped on their columns,— " Hawkes Bay Herald,"