LOCAL NEWS AND NOTES.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 155, 20 November 1895, Page 2

LOCAL NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr Phillijis has now completed the survey of the town and permanently adjusted the building line. School Committee will meet on Monday night to make arrangements for the breaking-up picnic. Mr John Hull has been appointed census enumerator for Tauranga, Whakatane, Rotorua, EastTaupo and adjacent islands. Tenders are invited in another column for the supply of stores, &0., to the. Sanatorium for the? year 1896. Two polled Angus and one short-horn bull purchased on behalf of Mrs Troutbeck of Galatea at the late Waikato show went up last week in charge of Mr Robertson. Mr J. H. Richardson, Government Insurance Commissioner, accompanied by Mr Speight, Auckland district manager, arrived from Tauranga on Sunday, putting up at Lake House-.. They went on to Wairakei on tho following day. The leases of certain town and suburban lanbs in Rotorua amounting in the aggregate to tvi.'i acres will, according to uu announcement in another column, be offered for salt! by public auction at the Lands Office, Auckland, on Friday the 29th inst. Mr R. J. Gill, land purchase agent, returned from his visit to Te Whaiti on Thursday last. The object of his journey, which was to obtain the consent of certain natives to the appropriation by the Crown of a native school site, was fully accomplished, no objection whatever being offered. Five: acres close to tho settlement have been set apart for the purpose, and it now rests with the department to proceed with the erection, of the building. Mr W. Kelly, M.HLR. arrived in Rotolua on Wednesday. According to Mr Kelly the following sums have been placed on the- Estimates for this district in addition to those formerly published :—Ox-ford-Rotorua road, £4OO ; Maketu-Roto-rua road, £200; Rotorua, Galatea and Waikaremoaiia roads, £5,000; "Works ufs "Whakarewarewa, £250. The £2OO for water supply is merely intended for what is urgently needed', and when the- Minister of Lands comes up in January water extension and other matters will receive his .attention. On Saturday a weary wayfarer who gave his name-as Duncan Campbell was) brought before Mr C. Malfroy and Dr Ginders, J.Ps., charged with vagrancy. It appeared from the evidence that the accused was at one time an inmate of the Costley Homo, but had left that institution and had gravitated up this way in an effort to reach Napier, where he had friends. When "he arrived in Rotorua he was in an exhausted condition, and Mr Boulton of the Grand Hotel having become acquainted with the fact afforded him a shelter for a day or two. Campbell stated to the Bench that ho was an ex-officer of the Imperial service and had been attached to the 90th Foot. He was in receipt of a pension of 5s per day, but an embargo had been placed upon it up to January next by order of the Auckland Hospital authorities, of which institution he had been an inmate. He had tramped all the way from Auckland. The Bench considered it singular that a man so situated should he in such straits, and remanded him- to Mount Eden gaol for six weeks, to which place he was forwarded under the care of Constable Murray on Monday last.

At the police court on Friday Lust before Mr C. Malfroyaud Dr pindfflS, J.Ps., a-prohibition order \r;*s granted against John C, Young for T2 months. A concert in aid of the Presbyterian Church building rond takes place in the Khoolhouse on Friday night. An excellent programme has been arranged and a goor] attendance is anticipated. Notice of the dissolution of partnership existing between Messrs F. Mcllroy und I. M&rchesseau appears in another column. Both of these gentlemen have bit>n associated with the coaching trade of the district for many years, and their relinquishment of business will he viewed with general regret. The plant, &c, has been acquired by Mr E. Robertson who will in future conduct the business in conjunction with Messrs' Paterson and Go.' Auckland. Itotorua has for so long been unvisitod l>y a really capable company of entertainers that there need be no hesitation in predicting tliut on Saturday night an overflowing house will greet the appoaxahde of Mr \V. Mackenzie's Concert Party. Judging by the programme enclosed with this issues very pleasant evening's amusement may bo anticipated, Mx Mackenzie's reputation as a vocalist and humorist is firmly established, and his previous visit to this district in combination with the Bessie Doyle Company is favorably remembered. Since then he has achieved fresh laurels, and now comes to us in conjunction with a company ou whose performances the highest encomiums have been lavished. Miss Jessie Glover is a highly-gifted contralto and character vocalist, Miss Louise Aylett a charming soprano, and the male members of the Company, Messrs W. F. H. Mackenzie, character darner, Alfred Pearson, reciter, and AV. J. Hooloy, accompanist, all render valuable assistance. Tin; entertainment will com hide with a highly humorous musical comedietta. As the company will not arrive till the evening of the performance the hour of commencing is set down at 8 o'clock. RESUMPTION OF CHEERFULNESS,

*■— Undisturbed and more refreshing sleep, arid a hearty appetite are .speedy effects resultingi'n mi the use of Wolfe's Schnapps.