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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, Issue 2873, 31 August 1892, Page 2

( In view pf the approaching oricket season, all who ajW interest§<Hii tha game are invited to meet a^Mr Humphreys, Beau Site, at 3 p.m, on Saturday pi consider cricket matters generally and see what steps can be taken to further the interests of the English national summer game. In our next issue, which will complete our 20th annual volume, we intend to republish a few extracts showing curious coincidences of past and present circumstances and other interesting retrospects. The s.s. Katikati will leave for Matata at midnight to-night. The s.ss. Australia and Waiotahi are both due here to-morrow morning, the former going south and the latter to Bay of Plenty ports. To-morrow the football ground will be occupied by the Town and Country junior teams and a hotly contested and lively match is likely to be played. The following will be the teams: —Countey, fullback, Winiata; |s, F. Lundon A. Matheson and Brabant; is, S. Darragh, J. Kerr and I. Yercoe ; forwards, C.- Me Naughton, D. McNaughton, N. McNaughtou, R. Matheson, Bramble, Coller, E. Mansel and Baiubridge. Town, full back, F. Allely; U H. Sheath, F. Norris, A. Mathias; Is W. Home, Rolf and Davoren; forwards, Walmsley, Huhne, 0. Norris. Maxwell, Blundell, Smith, Stewart, and E. Robinson. | Messrs Tanner Bros notify the public, through the medium of our columns, that they are reluctantly compelled to revise their price list owing to the rise in the cattle market. These prices, however, are considerably lower than in most other places, and as mutton is still being sold very cheaply the change will not be felt by many people. God's acre at Te Puke received its first occupant, whSu the remains of the late Misa Vercoe wej» interred on Tuesday last week. /A good deal of money just now is being iu--3 ik a good class of draught horses, and [I over £$0 was spht up to Auckland, we underj stand Irom TV' Pake for -the purchase of this I class of stocky which is increasing rapidly in i value, and it should pay some of our settlers § well, to go in for breeding a class of l" "fSf®li3rse than is to be seen here at present. An offer for purchase of the Kerikeri flax mill was made last week but the reserve price t being .£ 140, no deal took place. /"We leurn ihat Mr Bennett's flax mill is turn■n' ing put nearly one "fan of fibre par day, and ? thu/the con Li-actor for/carting it toMaketu for shipment has his hands full as the long road by ) the fingerposts is the only one yet available. j I- „__On Monday evening last our worthy Mayor D. Lundon, Esq., and Mrs Luudon, entertained a number of friends at a pleasant dance " in the Forester's Hall, the occasion being the coming of age of their eldest son, Mr F. Lun--3 don. g The Secretary of the Regatta Olub calls a general meeting for Friday evening next, at 3 the Tauranga Hotel, at 7.30 o'clock, to consider the advisability of offering a bonus for a new class of sailing boat, to be competed for at next regatta, on Nov 30. We notice that the Thames Advertiser is 3 getting credit for the' story of the recent birth of triplets at Maungakawa, to a native woman, which appeared first in our columns, from which our contemporary borrowed it. Mr Bodell gives notice that he has on hand 1 Hitchen's celebrated blood restorer, which from 3 his personal knowledge is efficacious in a number of ills the flesh is heir to. Mr Bodell also offers good household flour at 5s per 50ib bag. v "An evening with Cowper "by the Rev » Marshall is set down on the order paper for 1 the Mutual to-morrow night. The "evening" will consist of an introductory paper, and f several readings and recitations, one beiug t "John Gilpin, " which will.bo rendered by ? Mr F. Lundon, and to be illustrated by twelve " scioptican light pictures by Mr Yickery. Visitors are invited. * During the recent gales, a oj'fci^e Wougiug 8 to a couple of poor people it To Avohu, and which they had just completed, was entirely wrecked, the wife and children only escapiag a f minute or two before the building collapsed. B Subscriptions are being raised to assist them, g Very strong comments are being made by members of the Legislative . Council upon the condition in which Bills are coming up from f the Lower House this session. Nearly every Bill is found to be oharaoterised by such t' slovenly haudling in Committee, that it is turned out in a very crude and often inaccurate r form, needing verbal amendments in section F after section. This was pointed out to a member of the Lower House, who admitted the truth of the charge, and remarked that if one I of the two houses were to be abolished, it ought, in his opinion, to be the House of Representatives, which did such crude and slovenly c work, and not the Council, which did its work 8 so much more carefully and efficiently. 0 As showing the disadvantages under which j the proprietors of dairy factories in New Zealand?have to labour when exporting their pro- ? duce to foreign markets, the Taieri Advocate _ give an instance of how some butter is placed upon the market as < best factory-made butter.' r A short time back a well-known dairy pro* - prietor was in Dunedin, and while there witr nessed a man stencilling boxes "Bestfactory made—Qhau Factory! " Knowing that such c a factory was not in existence, he satisfied J himself that the sttmoilUug was clone with no r other object than that of misleading the. Home buyers, and thereby greatly injuring the dairy v industry, but as no Branding Act was in force, 1 and as no offence was being committed against 8 the laws of the Oolony—although commercially the offence was a henious ong— our friend I walked on and gravely pondered. i The vital statistics published in Thursday's 8 Oizett© show that in the four principal boroughs the births in July were 207, against 209 in June, a deoreas« of 2, The deaths 3 amounted to 111, agaiust 105 m June, an u>e crease of 6. There were only 10 deaths from gpSGific ferbile or zymotic disuses in July, against li in June, 17 in May and 21 in April. Influenza was fatal in 3 pases in Auckland last month and 1 at Chrisfechui-ca • in June, there was 1 death in Aucland. Diptheria and whoopr " ing cough, which were observed at Auckland Q and Christchurch in June, disappear in July from the cause of death. There was one death from typhoU foyer at Christchurch, d against 5 in June. The absence of deaths 0 from this last disease at Wellington is notioe--1 able in view of the mortality during the previous four months, which amounted to 19 deaths. The deaths from diarrhoea in the four boroughs were only 3; in February there were 38, The mopt^Uty from constitutional ? diteases for July (30 deaths) was much greater S than in June, when there were gnly 17 deaths, 7 The chief cause of the increase is found to. be phthisis, which destroyed 18 lives, an excep--1 tionally large number. Cancer was the next in order, causing 6 deaths. Fifty deaths are found to have resulted from local diseases, against 57 in June. Diseases of the respiratory 1 system were most fatal causing 14 deaths pf which no less than 8 took place at Auckland. S In Ireland recently a quarrel had taken place at a fair, aud a culprit was being sentenced for manslaughter. The doctor, howeTer, had given evidence to show that the xiotims stoill was abnormally thin Tbe prisoner, on being asked if he had anything to . cay for himself, replied, "No, yer honour; but I would ask, Was that a skull for a man to go to afairwid?" "Try Maxwell's. Cheapest Cash btjre in town. He is proving it daily! Call and ascertain for youraelf! Delivery vans daily.