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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXI, Issue 3267, 20 May 1895, Page 6

The Manawatu Times says ■:— "The Government have been backward lately in paying men engaged on cooperative works. The men on the Palmerston Courthouse were kept six weeks waiting for their money, and we learn from a private source that the wages of a party of workmen in the Pah jatua district are £150 in arrears, with a consequent degree of inconvenience amongst the lecal tradespeople. Oamaru has a mine of wealth under its foundations, say the North Otago Times, and as Mr Cadman will be here to-day and is on the look-out for A desirable object to help along, the people of of Oamaru might ask him to assist to develop a natural oil spring which has recently appeared in the Oamaru creek. For some time back what appears to be oil bubbles up and spreads over the surface of the water in the creek near the Severn street bridge. In a recent issue we gave an account of how in the up-country town of Scarsdale, in Victoria, the mayor and the local constable came to a disputation over a drunken prisoner the constable was locking up, the upshot of which was that the constable looked up the mayorj and the dispute continuing after hp was bailed out, locked him up a second time. The local police magistrate has adjudicated on the dispute, and fined them £1 each. The Sitnplon tunnel, which is to be constructed under the Alps, will be nearly 16 miles in length — longer than either the Mont Cenis or St. Gothard tunnels. In one place there will be .over 7000 ft. of solid rock above the tunnel. In 1850 in Australia an ounce of gold would buy 50 bushels of who«t. In 1^853^ the price of wheat rose to f our bustell per ourice of gold. Now an ounce of gold will buy about 35 bushels of wheat. The Hunterville Express records a disgraceful circumstance. It states that pigs are allowed to invade the Bangarara cemetery, and that in places there are holes a couple of feet deep which the brutes have torn out to get at the dead. The Koran says all flies must perish save one-^the bee fly. It now seems that all the flies in the vicinity labor under the impression that they are bee flies. The Customs returns prove beyond contra diction that Nelson, Moate and Co's fine tea are being appreciated by the majority, for in spite of the numerous firms in every part lin the Colonies thai are copying them, the turnover is as large as ever, sad the demand so great that tboy boU more Indian. Ceyon and bWa«d tc&sHfan tt© whole Of the importo vsd dealers put togother in lut quittwoCtb* Colour.