THE HOT LAKES CHRONICLE AND Tourists' Journal. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1895. LOCAL NEWS AND NOTES.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 143, 28 August 1895, Page 2

THE HOT LAKES CHRONICLE AND Tourists' Journal. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1895. LOCAL NEWS AND NOTES.

The usual monthly meeting of the Band of Hope takes place in the schoolroom on Friday evening. The temperature of the new Sulphur Baths ranged from 98 to 110 degrees during the past week.

The local Football Cluh have issued a challenge to Maketu to play here on September 7th. The challenge has boon duly accepted.

Some severe cases of influenza are reported to have occurred amongst the men stationed near Whirinaki. The winter has been exceptionally severe up there. The usual monthly meeting of the School Committee took place on Monday night, but no business of public importance was transacted. The Town Board will meet to-morrow afternoon at 2.30 p.m., in the Courthouse. Mr G. Mueller arrived from Auckland last night and will bo in Rotorua for a day or two.

Guard Turner, who was so severely injured near Mamaku, last week, is, we are glad to say, progressing steadily towards recovery, and will be able to resume his duties in about a. fortnight. The Chief Postmaster. Mr ,S. B. Biss, in reply to Mr H. W. Neighbour, secretary at the late public meeting, regrets that, the Department cannot at present establish a letter carrier delivery at Rotorua'. The contests between the two local foothall teams, the Pirates and Sulphurs were continued last Saturday when the latter won for the first time by 0 points to nil. Polham captained the Pirates and Danscy the Sulphurs, while Wcra acted as referee. Mr It. J. Gill, land purchase agent, has so far recovered from his attack of influenza (hat ho is able to partially resume his office duties. The purchases now in course of completion chiefly affect the Rotomahana-Parckarangi and Mungorewa blocks, Mr A. Maunder is about to erect a 10roomed boarding-house on Wyuyard and Purchas' block which is very favorably situated between the old and new townships. Messrs Kusabs Bros., arc supplying the timber, a portion of which is now on the ground. The Native Land Court adjourned from Opotiki opened in the Courthouse this morning, Judge Wilson presiding. Mr Karaka Tarawhiti is the native assessor and Mr Hammond interpreter. On account of the. non-arrival of the latter gentleman, the Court was formally opened and adjourned till to-morrow.

Messrs Wadham and Sinclair, two South Australian artists, were staying at the Langham dining the past week. They were quite enamoured of the district, from an artistic point of view, and have taken numerous sketches in the neighborhood of the native pa, at Whakarcwarewa and Wiotapu.

The Rev. Mr Perry conducted Presbyterian service in the schoolhousc last Sunday morning and evening. On Sunday September Bth Mr Brackenrig, of the Auckland Y.M.C.A, will officiate, and, most probably, on the Sunday following. During his stay Mr Brackenrig will deliver a lecture which will bo illustrated by dissolving views.

Mr 11. H. McCiillum, tho contractor for tho Grand Hotel, proceeded to Auckland by Monday's train on a short -visit. The building, which is a credit to every one connected with it, is now having the finishing touches in the matter of decoration bestowed on it, and the furnishing will be commenced forthwith. Mr McCalluni may be said to have completed the work on the anniversary of his birth, and both events will be duly celebrated by his Auckland friends on Thursday. A party of six men engaged on the cooperative works on the Rotoiti-Te Teko road came into town last night having knocked off work. They are dissatisfied with the prices paid. These works are essentially relief works, and as long as the men do not bear this fact in mind dissatisfaction is bound to arise. It is incumbent, we understand, for those in charge to see that the men do not earn more than 6s per day, hence skilled workmen have to put up with low prices. It is for the Department to consider whether it would not be better to fix a ruling rate per day and see that each man worked according to his ability. Reports from Taupo during the past week have been most reassuring and show very conclusively that the accounts of the damage done there were grossly exaggerated. No new geyser has broken out at the back of Tauhara, and £lO would cover the damage done to the crockery and in the bar at the Terrace Hotel. A slight slip in the cutting is now being put right and the springs and baths are unaffected. The house and chimneys are in as good condition as ever. In regard to the Lake Hotel the report that the chimney came down into the bar and played havoc there turns out to be a picturesque piece of fiction, the outcome of a too vivid imagination on the part of someone who was eager to impart sensational information without enquiry into its authenticity. The expenditure of less than .£lO will put matters right. The mails arc carried from Taupo to Tokaanu on horseback, and the Government men and all other available labor are engaged in repairing the Napier road und the Huka Falls road to \Vairakei. At the latter place the direction of the shock was from west to cast, and as Tauhara is due west of Wairakei it is clear that that mountain was the centre of the movement. After the shock it is stated that the wuter in many of the baths became cold but has since resumed tho usual temperature.

Tree-planting is taking place on an extensive scalo within the railway grounds under the supervision of Mr Mills. In the neighborhood of Mr Waiuhouse's residence and near the offices a largo variety of flowering shrubs will bo planted consisting of fuchsias, Guelder roses, hydrangeas, lilacs, lavender, laurestino, myrtle, veronica, and Japanese privet, interspersed \\':'h shade and ornamental trees such as the larch, oak, ash, sycamore beech, cheshut, &c. Further hack, to servo as a sort of breakwind, forest trees will be planted. Most of the young plants are from the nursery belonging to |hc railway department at Frankton. IN ORDER THAT ANY MEDICINE Should achieve the results which it is given to produce, it must be easily assimilable to the stomach. Wolfe's Schnapps is such.