THE The Bay of Plenty Times. AND THAMES VALLEY WARDEN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, Issue 2849, 1 July 1892, Page 2

THE The Bay of Plenty Times. AND THAMES VALLEY WARDEN.

'Ths Spirit of the Timas ihallteach me spsed. '• -TfagJe^ArfiT, __ FRIDAY, JULY 1. 1802. Wall papen,- cmckeryy vases, &c, &c, by auotfon to-morrow nft^n'oou at the Haymarket Owing to the pressure on *ur space oar usual ' To«tbail notes' are held over uuul uext issue. At the Mutual last night Messrs Parker and broke a lance on the question of the desirability of Government regulating the hours of labour, the first named supporting the oon'iention and the latter assailing it. The President, B. J. Gill, Esq., occupieclthe chair and having opened the proceedings in the usual manner, Mr Parker then delivered a lengthy oration supporting his views, to which his opponent replied. jThe following gentlemen took part in the discussion which ensued ;— For the proposition, Messrs Chappell, Walmsley and BevG. T. Marshall -.—Against, Messrs Gray, Gill and Rev C. Jordan. On the motion being submitted to the vote of the meeting the point was decided in the negative by a small majority . We must say a word in praise of the unusually expeditious and clear rendering of the Financial Statement furnished to us by the local telegraphists. The task of taking down tuch a mass of words and figures at such a rapid rate is a most fatiguing and difficult one, and we believe few offices in the Colony could have tnrned out better * copy ' than we have been fortunate enough to receive. A special Band practise is called for tomorrow night^ under the guidance of Bandmaster Hunter. Members are requested to attend at 8 o'clock sharp. A complete story entitled "How he won her,'* appears on the fourth page of this issue. The s.b. Waiotahi will leave Auckland on Monday evening at 5 o'clock for Tauranga and Opotifa. vi The B.s. Kahkati is timed to depart for Maketu at* o'clock on Monday morning. We regret to Have to record a rather serious accident to Mr Firth Wrigley by which the small bone of one leg was broken. Mr Wrigley was going up the 'somewhat steep path leading to his residence,, which was rendered slippery by the recehfruns, when he slipped, and fell, sustaining the injury mentioned. Owing to a generally expressed desire to have a full {report of the Financial Statement, which came "through by telegraph last night and during the "wee sma' hours" this morning, our leading article and a quantity of general news, is held over to make room for as much of the statement as it is possible for us to publish in one issue. The embankment portion of the Hairini bridge is falling mto a dangerously dilapidated condition, owing to the water washing the earth out from between the timber casing ; some very dangerous holes have formed on both sides of the roadway which require immediate attention. Mr Kelly, who for so many years has been known as a member of the Post and Telegraph staff at various stations in this district has resigned his appointment, owing, we understand to a satisfactory change in his private circumstances, and he bade adieu to his friends here last night and departed by the s.s. Waiotahi for Auckland, followed by the good wishes oi a numerous circle" of acquaintances. On Monday night the ordinary monthly at 7 p.m. One^matter of importance will come up for settlement, which was held over from last meeting, viz., whether the Impounding Act shall be enforced both day and night in a certain portion of the borongh. Public feeling as very strongly against the continuance of this Kttle 'tapu ' area, and the Council, will, we hope, carry out the wishes of the majority of the burgesses and^abolish it It may give some idea of the importance of the sulphuric acid industry, which is carried on in but few centres, among which Tauranga now figures, when it is stated that the London County Council alone, for sewage purification purposes, uses'upwards 860 tons of acid costing £25,500, annually. It is probable that the Postmaster-General will make a statement during the present week regarding the intentions of the Government as to the laying of a cable from New Zealand to Australia. It will be remembered that some time ago an ovejiand line was constructed from Mangonui to Kaitaia, in the north of Auckland, for the purpoaeof connecting with the terminal point of the cable, which it was then understood would be/at Ahipara. Mr Houston, the member for the Bay of Islands, has been making inquiries into the matter, and will ask the Postmaster •General a question on the subject. Very heavy mortality is said to be experienced in sheep in the Manawatu district this season. One settler lost half of a flock of 1000 hoggets. Letters from the North et .to that the in- ' fluenxaisvef^ preVa-tut amt: • tha catives in ! the HoJdanga district and t at there have] been several deaths through >t, the natives ! from their careless wso and defective stamina i being ill-prepared to Vesist tLi attacks of the dam*. From information n -cived ir..;u Gisborae Mr Ferguson, Auckland agent f the Labour Bureau^ is informed tL »t the ny a he scut down I are engaged in bush -effing *»t 25s per acre. ; Some bush felling coi -racts **re stall unlet fo about 800 acres. It is tated that the best war is for half-a-dozen men to jc'i togcuior, aad form a party working united?*-. < they oau do , tke work better, and also live \ io ; c dbaaply. Printing execut«din one, two, three or more I colons at taeoffi«qrf this paper.— Adtt. 1 y

The attempt to burn the Hamflton Borough Council Chambers, about half-oast two p.m., on Saiurday, will be attended with some loss to ft, ; Ch«n»ftble Ait! Board, from whoae office (the Mayor's room) tlto papers and documents wer«> La-ton tv th*? incendiary and placed in a heap, and with other combustible matter set fire to. Fortunately Mr Turner, the secretary to the Hospi<al Board, had occasion to go to the office, and found the fire burning, and extinguished it tefore it got a hold on the building. The man Lawlor, who went into the Council Chambers whiie Mr Turner was putting out the fire, did not hesitate in confessing the attempted arson, merely regretting that it had been discovered a quarter of an hour too soon. It will be remembered that shortly before his last cornmil tU by Captain Jackson, 8.M., to Mount Eden, Lawlor stated that if he got a short sentence he would return and qualify himself for a longer term by smashing the bank or courthouse windows. Returning from gaol in Auckland to Hamilton early last week, he presented himself to Mr Turner, demanding to be received into the Old Men's Kefuge. This, in consequence of his character when formerly an inmate, was refused, but he was given a dinner, bed, and breakfast on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, and the House Committee ordered him out-door relief at the rate of 4s per week.

The Onehunga Foundry Company is the only company which applied for the bonus of £1 per ton on the first 500 tons of pig iron produced in New Zealand from native iron ore or iron sand. The furnaces charged with Whangarei and Collingwood iron ore (no iron sand being used) were fired on 28th May, and will run for fir* or six weeks during which time it is expected that 250 tons of pig will be run off. Two Government officers relieve each other at the works day and night, to see that the manufacture is conducted in accordance with the conditions of the bonup, and that no scrap of old iron, of which large quantities have been collected at the works, is pat into the furnaces. After the first 250 tons have been run out, it is proposed to let the furnaces cool down.

A singular accident occurred on Monday at the residence of the Bey JV K. Davis, one of the masters of the Auckland Grammar School, who resides in St Stephen's Road, Farnell, in a dwelling formerly occupied by Bishop Sel wyn and known as " The Deanery," In the ground at the back was a little circular depression where the children were wont to play. His dog, while scratching about, suddenly foil through a thin crust of earth, being precipitated down a deep well, and was killed. Apparently the well, at some former period, had been covered over the top with some timber, and a layer of earth placed on it, and in the course of time the timber had rotted, leaving the thin layer of earth to wear away by the action of the weather.

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