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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXI, Issue 3268, 22 May 1895, Page 3

r- . ' ■ The Van Dfemen's Bank, lottery ia 3 a failure, only 50,000 tickets Haynoap been purchased, The drawings which takes place on Tuesday, includes the first prize mentioned on the schedule, , and 39 others. The shareholders of the bank regard, a call as inevitable. I A body, which has been identified as that of John Johnstone,, a settler, , of Pongarua, Pahiatua, was found 1 hanging from the bough of a tree near the township, where it must have been hanging for four or five ' weeks* When last seen, about wx weeks ago,- Johnstone 4 Was out *f work. '-.'•' r »' At the Paddington' (Sydney) Police Court, on tHe 9th 4 inst., the licensee i of the Unicorn Hotel was fined £26 ) for selling liquor purporting to oe whisky wbieh was not a genuine and wholesome spirit. The analyst's evidence showed that 'the sample* bought at defendant's hotel way compounded of illicit white spirit, flavour* mg essences, and tobacco; ■- One hundred and thirty stags have been secured in Nelson this 'season. Something like an gqual number havebeen shot and not secured; And now the sportsmen sayv— "Unless? more care is** taken in. the future, there will be a danger of exterminating the deer." A nugget of gold weighing 50on has been unearthed at Dunbflft V«v toria. THe prospects of tlie field axo excellent, and a rusH. has set in. There are now 1000 men on the workings. The German steamer Braunfels arrived at Honolulu recently from Oporto, with 732 Portuguese men/ women and children for the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Ofthe Portuguese immigrants, 392 are men, 180 womenj and 160 children. The number taken from the Azores was 734. There were seven deaths and five births oi^ the voyage. The Blenheim paper says: Carrier pigeons proved themselves useful during the receut storm by carrying a message to Havelock from Poart * Underwood, to the effect that the schooners Falcon, Clyde, and Huon Belle had taken shelter in that harbor. The Huon Belle had lost her ' jta&taui of timber in the Strait. .. . <tv?^ The £[pn."Mr Ckdiaan ..sayjs tfbnfc j Iss has scheduled all the old soldiers claicqfß* which are just and , equitable, and tjurih £66,000* will be required to piij '§&& ' off. Some legislation on the sjiojeet will be introduced next session. . ;* A mysterious disappe^xance from Dimboola, Victoria, is causing jnuch excitement. One night Police constable McPhail finished duty, and left the station in his usual health and spirits. He visited a local hotel, and since then no trace whatever can Be found of him. Every pen nin this district ahonM sent copy of the New Zealand Oboienr Book heirfnends. A mor^weful preeeooould ont be found.— A© vr