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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 163, 28 March 1874, Page 2

Our special correspondent’s letter, containing an account of his Excellency the Goveraur’e visit to Rotoinahana, shall appear in our next. We remind members of the Taursnga Light Horse of the dismounted parade of the corps to take place this afternoon at 4 o’clock, at the usual place. We learn on good authority that it is the intention of the New Zealand Steam Shipping Company to place on the East Coast trade, at an early date—calling at ail the various ports between Auckland and Wellington—either the s.e. I aranaki or Pbcebe. Our old friend Captain Gnndry appears to have gotten himaelfainongst the Philistines. We take the following telegram, published in a recent issue of the Whanganui Herald from its Hawera (Patea district) correspondent : —“ March 7. The natives, with tomahawks in hand, drove Captain Sundry’s survey parly off yesterday. 5 ' Captain Skeet is al=o stationed at Hawera. The matter could not have been a very serious one, or we should have heard more about it long before this. We perceive that Mr Henshaw has been appointed agent for the Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Hew Zealand. The following gentlemen are gazetted as Licensing Commissioners under the New Act for the Bay of Plenty district:—Edward Mortimer Edgcumbe, JP, Samuel Ludbrook Clarke, JF, Alexander Charles Hughes Tovey, J P, Tauranga ; Rotohiko Haupapa, Wiremu Matene Te Hunks, Te Whikiriwhi Te Tauha, Maketu ; Hira To Popo, Fiancis Simpson, Thomas Edward Wyatt, Opotiki. Settlement (says the Poverty Hay Herald) is spreading rapidly along the East Coast district between Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty. Messrs Espre and Goldsmith, wa hear, have taken up the run at Tologa Bay, advertised for some time past In our columns as an “unstocked run, 8,000 acres in extent. 5 ' Mr Cartwright Brown also has taken ap a block considerably further north, and other settlers are turning their eyes in the same direction. The country iiT, much of it, all that could be desired, if only the difheuity about titles and the scabby sheep could be got rid of. An important fact (says the Scientijlc drncricai.) has been discovered by physiologists, namely, that the saliva of an infant, before it lias its teeth, is incapable of converting starch into sugar. This explains at once why all attempts of substituting farinaceous food in place of mother’s milk in the cise of infants invariably fail ; such children cannot digest starch, and are underfed, O' even starved, dying finally of marasmus s Starch, arrowroot, tapioca, &c., are useless, because indigestible for children before they have cut their teeth.