The Bay of Plenty Times AND Thames Valley Wapden.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 3670, Issue XXIV, 9 March 1898, Page 2

The Bay of Plenty Times AND Thames Valley Wapden.

The spirit of the Times shall teach me

speed.— liig Joki, let IT.

Wednesday, March 9, 1898.

The impounding question was informally discussed at the Borough Council meeting on Monday night and it was evident from the views expressed that some of the Councillors hold strong views as to the abuse of the liberty conceded in allowing any animals to roam the streets unattended. There seems to be a common but erroneous idea abroad that fences are intended to keep animals out whereas the law makes it very clear that they are intended to keep animals in. In other words the onus ?of protecting any property from invasion by any kind of live stock, lies, not with, the owner of the property but with the owner of the stock, whether it be horses, cows, calves, geese, fowls, etc. Another, and even more common error seems to be that the Borough Council has power to allow stock to roam at large, whereas it has absolutely no such power. All it can do is to wink at the breach of the law and instruct its Banger, if it has one, not to impound certain animals, the Banger being its servant, not the Law's. . Its instructions can therefore take any form which may seem to best meet the requirements of the case or the wishes of the Burgesses, whether it be to allow milch cows only, or horses only, or pie-bald calves, or foals with a brass collar round their necks. But nothing whatever that the Councillors may do, nor any instructions that they may give to theic Banger alters the illegality of the act of allowing such stock to be at large on the public road nor does it remove from any person whatever the inalienable right to drive any such stock, found unattended on a public street, to the Pound and there incarcerate it. Owners of any stock whatever that roam the streets would do well to remember that it is only on sufferance that they have this privilege and, that if they trespass too far on the goodnature and forbearance of their neighbours in this respect, they may some day find they have gone too far for their own good.

It is intended to hold athletic sports oa Easter Monday at the Garden Fete in aid of Trinity Church funds. A prize fund is now being collected for this purpose. To-morrow evening, weather permitting the Tauranga Band will perform the following programme of music in front of the Monmouth Redoubt, commencing at 7 30 p.m. — 1, Quickstep, 'Fort Worth'; 2, Waltz, 'Blumen am Wege'; 3, Polka, ' Picnic ' ; 4, Quickstep, ' Fashion ' ; 5, Schottische, ' Silver , Bells ' ; 6, March, ' Only to see her' face again ' ; 7, Troop, • May blossom ' ; 8, Galop, ' Little Giant.' The weather continues unsettled and heavy rain fell for over three hours yesterday morning and the wind remains at present in the S.S.E., an eminently unreliable quarter, During the year 1896 the local post office issued money orders to the value of £2,092 os 3d, and paid out £2,668 19s 2d on money orders received by people here". The Post Office Savings Bank received £8,039 7s 2d, and paid out £7,282 9s lOd. Te Puke sent away £1,093 3s 6d in money orders and received £717 6s 7d, with £598 13s 4d deposited in the savings bank and £313 2s lOd withdrawn. On the authority of the Hauraki Tribune we learn that Mr Thos. Lawless is to take over the Koyal Mail Hotel, Paeroa, so long under Mr George Crosby's management. By the Chelmsford to-day Mr W. Raymond ships 54 cases of fruit, ,butter, etc., for Whaugapoua. This will be the second consignment sent by this firm, making it evident that Tauranga fruit is appreciated. On Saturday next Mr W. T. Raymond will sell on the premises, Grey Street, a quantity of old timber, firewood, etc., for removal; also, a range and two Colonial ovens. Mr Morgan, of the Thames School of Mines, paid a holiday visit to Tauranga last week. He mentioned that he had had to assay several samples of stone from Borell's, and in each case bullion was obtained, one sample sent by Mr McNaughton going over £6 to the ton. Pigs are becoming very numerous at the back of Te Puke, and pig hunts are quite common, the hunters rarely coming back without several porkers. Captain Sterling, of the Salvation Army, recently stationed here, has been shifted to Melbourne, where she takes a higher rank. The erection of the sluice boxes on the Te Puke G.M. Go's property is nearly completed, and it is anticipated that sluicing will be commenced on Monday next. Travellers to the Te Puke mines complain of a dangerous curve on the southerly approach to the Raparapahoe bridge. It is to be hoped that the Te Puke Road Board will attend to the matter before there is a serious accident. The whole of the stamps of the Victoria battery at Waikino are now at work crushing ore. The Waihi Company now have a crushing power of 190 stamps, so that next month's return should be a very large one. The output of gold and silver for the Hauraki Mining District for February was: Gold, £26,871; silver, £2,202. The B.S. Omapere arrived here from Auckland this morning about 11.30 and will leave for Gisborne and way ports at 5 p.m. It may interest some of our readers to know that Jupiter, the largest of the eight planets, now rises a little north of east about nine o'clock and sfaiues with great intensity a few hoars later. He will attain bis tyaximum brightness next month, while by the aid of an ordinary field glass his apparent size cfin be increased, one of the best quality showing at lease two of his satellites.

fh§ otli&r highfc Mr C. L jury;. bfl?ukengaki> met with a startling experience in the midst of the bush fires. He was liding homeward after seeing to the safety of the, stock, when the branch of a burning tree fell right across the loins of the 'horse he was riding, felling it to the ground. Mr Jury miraculously escaped with a few bruises, but the poor beast was so badly crippled that it had to be destroyed.

The Chelmsford arrived from Whakatane at 2 p.m. and is about to leave for Auckland as we go to press. A petition to the Minister of Public Works for the removal of swing gates and auch like obstructions, impeding free traffic, has been prepared by Councillor Stewart for signature by any ratepayer or resident who may wish to do so. Notice is given by the ValuerGeneral that the valuation rolls for Katikati and Te Puka Road Board districts may be seen at_the Road Board office, Tauranga, and for the Maketu Biding at the County Council office. Shortly before 2 p.m. to-day, H.M. sloop Torch, 960 tons, Commander H. Preedy, arrived in harbour. She carries 6 guns and is of 1400 horse power, capable of steaming 13£ knots an tour. She comes from "Wellington via way ports. Herother officers c.re : — First Lieutenant, J. R. Le Hunte Ward ; Paymaster, H. N. Dymott ; Surgeon, Charles H. TJpham; Engineer, Alfred E. Straw. Whitehoustt's Electrical Kinematograph will open in the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, and also show on Monday. The machine is one of the very latest, and a large number of recently imported views will be shown. Full particulars will be published in next issue. The postal department notifie 8 for general information that pri-vately-manufactured post-cards bearing pictorial designs on the back will be accepted for transmission on the following conditions : — The cards must be composed of paper on board not thicker than that used for postcards of the Government pattern. The size must not exceed s£in by 3£in. For inland transmission, nothing need be printed on the front or address side, but for transmission to places beyond the colony the cards must bear the printed words ' New Zealand Post-card.' The postage on such cards must be prepaid by means of an adhesive postage-stamp of the value of Id for transmission to places within New Zealand, the Australian colonies, and certain South Sea Islands, and l£d to the United Kingdom and all other places.