WAIHI NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 200, 22 August 1905, Page 2

WAIHI NEWS.

(By Telegrapn.— Own Corresposdent.) WAIHI, this day. At a public meeting last evening It wae decided to hold a two days' carnival to celebrate the opening of the Walhi railway in October. An extensive programme, consistIng of sports, etc.. will be drawn up, and question of holding a band conteet will also be considered.

The Harbour Board will call for tenders for the insurance of the Board's property. The policies fall due on September 6* and already the Standard, National, and South British Companies and the Government Fire Insurance Department have made application for the business. The Harbour Board to-day was recommended to let the charge for the docks remain as at present and to abolish charges for overtime for firemen and engineers at the docks. The Works and Tariff Committee of the Harbour Board to-day recommended that the plans and estimate for the proposed time-ball should be submitted to the City Council with a request that it should provide half the cost and a site for the ob ervatory in Albert Park. The cost of the apparatus is estimated at £280. The 27th annual drawing of the Auckland Harbour Board's £150,000 6 per cent, loan was held in London .on August sth, when sixty bonds were by ballot selected for paying off on January 10, 1906. About twenty masters and owners of small vessels plying in and out of the harbour sent a petition to the Auckland Harbour Board to-day for a buoy to be placed in the passage through the reef to the south of the Bean Rock light, as the present beacon was invisible except in daylight, and the passage was not easily negotiated by night without some such crnidanee. The Works and Tariff Committee will consider the matter, the Harbourmaster to report. Mr Pbilson suggested that a ligh. should be placed on the Rough Rock buoy. The New Zealand Shipping Co. is about to put a" third story on the building in Quay-street, and to-day submitted to the Harbmir Board plans fcr the improvements, which, indicate that a very fine three-storied building will be the result. The work is to be completed immediately. The Auckland Harbour Board's, suction dredger, which cost £6140 to build, has been shipped by the Ayrshire and Drayton Grange in sections, and will be put together in Auckland. The shipping charges bring the cost of the dredger landed her to £7272. The Drayton Grange arrives here at the ena of September. The statement made in our London cable news that the Atlantic and Pacific cabies are overwhelmed with Peace Conference messages refers to the Commercial Pacific route from San Francisco via Honolulu to the East. The route New Zealand via Pacific to London is not interfered with. At the meeting of the Harbour Board this afternoon the chairman, Hon. E. Mitchelson, stated that the Orakei Road Board had applied to the Government for a grant of £1100 in addition to the £750 granted last year for the purpose of making a road to connect with the wharf already erected by the Harbour Board for a cattle landing, also for building stockyards. The Public Works Engineer had been instructed to report, and Mr Mitcheison said he understood that the report would be an adverse one. He mentioned the matter because he con-e-hided that an attempt would be made to get the Harbour Board to undertake the erection of the stockyards. Mr W. J. Napier remarked: ,r We cannot do so." FRIENDLY CONSIDERATION. De Long: I say. old man, when Ar>? you going to pay back that 10 dollars I let you have six months ago?

Short-wad: Oh, in a few days. I would have paid it back long ago, only I was afraid. of hurting your feelings. De Long: In what way? Short wad: I didn't want you to think I tboughs yee seeded the money.