THE Bay Of Plenty Times. AND THAMES YALLEY WARDEN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XV, Issue 2219, 2 December 1887, Page 2

THE Bay Of Plenty Times. AND THAMES VALLEY WARDEN.

' The Spirit of the Times shall teach me spaed. —KINO JOHN, ACT IV. ; FRIDAY. IJECEyBER 2, 1887 Mr J. B. Gow has l/en elected Chairman of the Whakatane County Oouncil. »^A grand concert is to take place about the "New Year in aid of an Organforthe Catholic Church. /"^^SKfIFP?-.---r^Captain Amodeoj has" offered to teat the Te Puke coal on tpo lob a, if a few sacka are brought to him, I **The Rev. S. Griffith returns from the District meeting to-morrow, and will preach on Sunday next. Mossrs G. W. Atty and Robert Stewart have entered into partnership as coachbuilders and blacksmiths. Mr Chad wick kiudly gave the natives visiting Tauranga for the Regatta the use of his building at the corner of Harington Street and the Strand. At the R.M. Court this morning, before T. Wrigley,' Esq., J.P/, Ta Here, a native, was fined 5s or 24 hours imprisonment for drunkenness. The County Council meets on Tuesday. By the Act the Councillors hold office till their successors are elected, so the business may go on as usual. We have received the November number of Typo. This 'publication is becoming more and more interesting, and in Mr Hardin#'s hands it is the work of a'master in the printer's art. We have to thank Captain Norris, the local agent of the New Zealand Insurance Company for the Company's Alra*aao for 1888 which is very nicely pot up, ha /fag been published by Wilson and Horfcon. i^Mr J. H. Lee suggests getting the Government to send one <& their experts to report on the Te Puke Goldfield coal field. The suggestion is a good/ one, and the Prospecting Association shouln apply to Government to jypry it out. . rThe cutter Lee has been lying on the Makettl bar since Sunday, unable to get off. Mr Bodell has been asked for assistance. The vessel wa» on her way to Auckland with sulphur from Matat^. Mr Bodell was sending aid to-day when he received a telegram saying she was now safe. A meeting of creditors in the estate of James Kelly was called at the Court House this morning, No proofs were put in. The bankrupt, for whom Mr- Moss appeared, stated that he got involved through the Thames mail oon tract taken over by his brother through the similarity of names. The creditors at the Thames brought a test case against him, and succeded, and got a judgment summons against him, and he had fifed to save being sent to gaol. The liabilities were £losmoit of whioh were in* mured by bis brother. * During the last four vei»rs he fcftd been oat of employment half bit time.