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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1845, 2 June 1885, Page 2

We direct attention to the notification about the deviation between Waingaehe and Puharinga bridges on the Tauranga to Botorua road via Te Puke. We acknowledge receipt of the new song entitled "The Old Flag" juet issued from the publishers. The words and music aro spirited, and the eong is one which will bo deservedly popular. We have been asked to direct attention to the fact that several of th« -carters have not taken out their licenses for the year, and they -will be proceeded against if they do not comply with the bye-laws thereon. Tenders are invjted by advertisement for telegraph station at Katikati county of Tauranga, returnable up to noon 12th June. Conditions and instructions to be obtained at the Poßt Office, Tauranga. Steangb Insuiibohdiwation. — Who has not experienced a sort of malady when all the faculties seem in rebellion, and labor is absolutely impossible ? It is a condition of nerves and stomach and brain that can only be cured by the use of that irresistible remedy. Hop Bitters. Read

Captain Edwin wired at 2.12 p.m. yesterday: — "Every indication of very low tides (Luring the next 24 hours, and frosts tonight." An election of Auditors for the Borough of Tauranga took placo yesterday, and at the declaration of the poll, in the evening 1 , the Returning: Officer declared Messrs J. C. Clark and John C. Adams duly elected. Colonel Haultain has been appointed to proceed to Sydney to represent New Zealand Government in congratulating the New South Wales troops on fcheir arrival from the Soudan, which i 3 expected to take place on tht-Hth instant, A striking incident occurred yesterday indicative of a sound healthy feeling, and affords a practical example of independence of opinion in this community. The election for Borough Auditors was going ion when A met B, and A remarked ''I am going to vote for so and so ) who are you going to vote for f" "I am going to vote for the opposite." The old ring system is on the wane. .We acknowledge receipt from the publishers of the May number of the interesting and excellent magazine "Once a ntonth." This number i 3 particularly interesting and the > art notes are particularly worthy ol notice* The local rifle club were out for pi'actise at the butts on Saturday last when the following scores were made at 2, 3, 4, and 600 yards :— Goldsmith 34, King 58, Ward 68, Duthie 52. These scores were out of a possible 80. Mr G.A. Ward's score is the best on record for Tauranga. The sixth annual, meeting of the Tauranga and Kutikati Permanent Building and Investment Society takes placo this evening at the Company's offices for the business of the annual general meeting. A meeting of the directors will take plaoe immediately after the annual meeting. At, the t)unedin Police Court on Friday ten little boys ranging from 7 to 10 years ■were charged with stealing raisins. The parents were ordered to chastise them. The father of one suggested that parents should have been summoned as they wotild be having babies in court next ! The Napier Telegraph of the 19th May states that Government have resolved to dispense with the services of three of the Native Lands Court Judges and appoint three other gentlemen to the vacant offices. The retiring judges aro said to be Mr H. T. Clarke, Mr L. O'Brien, and Mr E. M. Williams. Those whose names are mentioned to fill the vacancies are Messrs T. McDonnell, J. A. Wilson, of Tauranga, and R. J. Gill, of the Native Office. Our correspondent telegraphs as follows : — Christchurch, 29th — In considering the determination of the Postmaster- General that mails by mail steamers should leave Lyttelton every fourth Sunday, the Harbour Board resolved that unless under special circumstances of emergency, neither the Harbour Board, Pilot Staff, nor steam tug will be made available to take steamers out on Sundays. The Board also resolved to support the action taken by other Harbour Boards to have an alteration made in the Harbour's Act so that Government should be required to pay wharfage on mail material imported by it. The War Office authorities will not allow the publication of the sixth volume of General Gordon's diary which has already been received, until the remaining five volumes come to their hands. The counsel retained for the defence of Lucilla Dudley, the Englishwoman who shot at O'Donovan Rossa, has made an application for a Commission to receive testimony in England in proof of the prisoner's insanity. The application has been granted. In the meantime the criminal proceedings are stayed. 1 The world-renowned composer Franz Abt, whose songs are sung wherever the German tongue is spoken, died at Wiesbaden on the 31st of March, at the age of 66. The deceased was a native of Eilenburg, in Saxony, and was for over a quarter of a century *' Hof kapellmeister" in Brunswick from which post he retired in 1881 with a pension. On the Stock Exchange on April 9 a panic raged with scarcely any intermission from the opening to the close, the serious news from Af ofhanistan having lead to enormous sales of all the leading securities. The funds fell i^ per cent., Russian and Egyptian bonds from 7 to 9, Hungarian 3 to 4, and Italian, Spanish, and other European stocks 1^ to 2£. English railways, deolined 2 to 3 each, but did J not close quite at the worst. The only market which showed strength was the American. Gold to the amount of £37,000 was taken to the Bank of England. It is estimated that 140,000 acres of land in California are planted in vineyard, and that 2926 persons are engaged in the grape industiy exclusively. A Melbourne Age cablegram states that Sir James Fergusson, ex^Governor of Now Zealand, is seeking election to the House of Commons, and has announced his candidature for Manchester. Skill in the Workshop. — To do good work the mechanic must have good health. If long hours of confinement in close rooms have enfeebled his hand or dimmed his sight, let him at once, and before Borne organio trouble appears take plenty of Hop Bitter*. His system will bo rejuvenated, his nerves strengthened, his sight become clear, and the whole constitution be built up to a higher working condition. Read