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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1840, 19 May 1885, Page 2

Captain Edwin wired at 3.41 p.m.— Bad weather approaching between north-east and north-west glass further fall and within 12 hours much rain. The sale of lot 149, Section % Town of Tauranga, by Messrs Turnner and Buddie yesterday, resulted in the mortgagee buyin°in the property for the sum of £135. Special attention is called to the report of Mr Sheehan's meeting at Katikati as telegraphed to us by our special correspondent. The Kelly party are very foolishly descending to personalities, and if the opposing candidate once begins to lay on the lash their chances will be reduced even more than they are now. Independent men are going to vote for Sheehan straight. The young half-caste named John Fanlkner, charged by the police yesterday with larceny of the sum of £29 was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supremo Court, Auckland, to be holden on or about the 6th day of July next. At the Police Court yesterday before H. W. Brabant, Esq., E.M., Mrs Sims was fined in the sum of one shilling for hindering the Poundkeeper in the execution of his duty. Professor Rice, the eminent Jmind reader, and Mrs Rice, the favourite contralto, arrived late last night from the Thames, and will give a series of their wonderful performances, due notice of which will appear. j Some warm discussions took place yester- ' day at the Borough Council meeting on the conduct of the Mayor in reference to his refusal to accede to the petition of three Councillors who requested him to call a special meeting re the opening of the Victoria Wharf as a free wharf. Matters got very warm indeed and His Worship although sheltered by his own arbitrary rule did not shine in the dignity of his office. The complaint was a perfectly just one, but the amusing part of the programme was that the discussion was immediately followed by the request of the Fire Inspector that firo extinguishing grenades should he purchased by the Council ! No action was taken. Tenders are called for in another column for further Government building operations at Eotorua, and we again call the attention of the Tauranga builders to these works. There are now two contracts advertised for, while others are still to follow, and these facts should he a sufficient inducement for any parties willing to take part in the competition referred to above. A magnificent specimen of fruit was left at our office yesterday. The sample consisted of a pear weighing one pound ton ounces, and was takon from a tree now in full bearing atTuthill's farm, G-reerton. The tree has some three hundred peare on it and they average 1 one pound each. The question of allowing girls to attend the medical classes of the Otago University was under consideration on Thursday last and though no distinct resolution, was approved a suggestion was made by the Chancellor that it should be stated that all medical classes were open to both soxe3, which suggestion was adopted without dissent. A proclamation has been issued by tho Governor of Tasmania absolutely prohibiting the importation of sheep to that colony from New Zealand. It is understood that men liable for service as first-class Militia are to be oalled out, enrolled in companies and officered. Tho company rolls will then be kept up regularly bo that the force or any portion of it will be ready for drill at any time such step may be deemed desirable. After the war excitement an unnatural calm pervades the scene generally, and the anxious faces who were wont to acquire for 'more news ' have assumed a look half hope- | ful, half uncertain, and the latter half ia I perhaps the most justifiable of the two. Our Wellington correspondent telegraphs : — " It is considered probab'e that the question of Civil Service reform will be brought under consideration of Parliament in tho shape of a Bill during the approaching session. Government will rely on the reductions they have made in variouß directions, and or yet further reductions which the proposed changes in the system of audit may render possible without attempting to alter the system under which the Civil Service now exists. At Dunedin the Women's Temperance Union have resolved to petition Parliament against the employment of girls as bar-maids in public houses. No trace haa yet been discovered of the | four missing 1 men supposed to have been drowned at Wellington some fortnight ago, while employed at the defence works. The police have been and are still actively searching the shores of the harbour for any trace. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received a cable message stating that the R.M.S. Bimutaka will leave Plymouth on the 23rd May and make Auckland the first port of call.