THE Bay of Plenty Times AND Thames Valley Warden. The spirit of the Times shall teach me speed.—King John. Acts IV.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3502, 22 January 1897, Page 2

THE Bay of Plenty Times AND Thames Valley Warden. The spirit of the Times shall teach me speed.— King John. Acts IV.

Feiday, Janttaay 22, 1897. Both the local bodies of this district seem loth to re -tackle th( furze and briar question. Th( matter is a thorny one in tw< senses and while we can understand that the members are reluctant t( enter further into a matter whicl must certainly cause some feelings of unpleasantness, nevertheless we cannot recognise this as a valic excuse for not doing so. Indeec to the more progressive and intelligent of the ratepayers both ii town and country the presen •upineness of the Councils seems reprehensible. It means that o: the large expenditure of money labour and time incurred eighteei months, ago in clearing roads o: noxious growths by far the large: proportion will have been absolutely wasted unless the work, onci begun, be carried on systematically year by year becoming steadily lighter and lighter according to th< heartiness with which the mandate of the Council is carried into effec either voluntarily or under com pulsion. It is deplorable at tin present time to see the way v which the past action of the Coun cils is being stultified by presen neglect in many localities am unless some steps be very speedil; taken to sharply enforce the orde formerly* made the last state of th roads will most literally be wors than the first. Many owners o property are probably oblivious o the fact that the order of the Coun cils to cut down the plants grow ing on the roads abutting on thei sections is interpreted by the Ac under which the order was made t mean * cut down and keeping cv down the stem and root of an; plants so as to prevent their throw ing out any leaf, offshoot or flower and the word ' plant ' is stated t include gorse, sweetbriar, black berry, acacia, broom and fennel Oblivious or not however it cai hardly be expected that thi secondary portion of the work wH be generally earned out even b; residents in the district especiall; when they can see fo,r them selves that the first part of th order has not been rigidly en forced and tha|t for some reasoi or other the growth of ten o twenty years is still towering big] in several spots on the roadway of both town and country. Then may be, possibly, difficulties in i few instances in enforcing thi order without incurring urecover able expenses to the local bodiei but we cannot admit this as an] excuse for neglect to do rigid am impartial justice to all and unti every provision of the Act to en able the order to be enforced hai been called into operation anc failed the Councils cannot b< exonerated from blame iov thj present condition of laissez faire. Horse races are to be held ai Rotorua on March 17th. Mr T. C Urquhart has been appointed secretary and treasurer of the newlj formed Jockey Club. Mr John Thomson, our newl] appointed clerk of Warden's Cour and Receiver of Gold Revenue, proceeds to Paeroa for a week to inak< himself conversant with the businesi prior to the opening of the Cour here. * The Northern Company's nev steamer Wabatere is to be put oi the Tauranga trip for the races. At the Warden's Court at Paeroi on Tuesday last the following applications for special < lniips wer< granted :— Alfred Shepherd, Riatanto No 3; and Charles Fletcher. Far North claim, both at Katikati. Messrs Wildman and Lyell, bookselters, stationers and importers oi fancy goods, Auckland, advertise a price list of new volumes and periodicals. Mr K Dames. of the Bay oi Plenty Wood Factory, intimates that he makes all kinds of joinery, re-seats chairs, and executes repairs to agricultural implements. It is not to be presumed thai this in? eludes the whole of his trade, as he has the most complete jobbing plant in the Bay of Plenty, and any job entrusted to him will be executed in ' quick time.' Hares would seem to be pretty plentiful in some portions of this district at present in spite of the relentless way they are hunted all the year round. We have heard of two or three good bags this week which will no doubt be good news to those farmers or orchardists who may have suffered from their depredations.

Entries for the handicap events in the forthcoming race meeting are due in the hands of the Secretary to-day and a meeting of Stewards will be held at the Commercial hotelthis evening at 8 o'clock to deal with general business. A wonderful change has come over the face of the country during the past week, tbe copious rains having changed the colour of the pastures from a yellow-brown to a vivid spring-like green. The weather continues unsettled and a low and falling barometer with wind varying from south- west to north-west seems to indicate further showers. There has been quite a butter famine in Taurauga during the present week. Milk is rather scarce * owing to feed being burnt up, and the hotweather causes buttermaking, without special facilities, to be a somewhat difficult undertaking. A 8 will be seen by reference to L another column the entries and 2 nominations for the Otumoetai Pony i Sports are fairly good, and it is 1 anticipated that the whole will be t starters. f The privilege to have a refreshr tnent booth on the racecourse at 3 Otumoetai next Friday will be sold > at the Hay market to-morrow. The entrance fee to the course has been fixed at Is per head and 6d each for horses. On Monday last on Clark's Freehold (Blackett's), Te Puke, a large reef was discovered by Mr J. A. Clark, jr., who has been prospecting the property for some time. The stone is of good quality, and the reef _ was opened out by trenching for about 12 feet. A drive is now being put in some 60 feet below, and will I give about this amount of backs when the reef is cut. The drive will probably have to be put in . about 50ft and it is anticipated that c the work will occupy about two weeks; as only two men are at - work. Mr McNaughton, assistant teacher - at No 2 School, is to be removed to - Opotiki, bis place here being filled c by Mr Walker. c Mr R. C. Fraser has now taken o charge of the Matata Hotel, and anticipates a visit from Tauranga 0 people during the shooting season. h Messrs Lundon and Raymond ■g have been favoured with instructions c from Mrs 6. Cuinmings to sell at j her residence on Thursday, February , 4th, the whole of her household " furniture and effects, the yacht " ' Eliza,' and the house and laud. *? Some jovial prisoners make the 1 assertion when leaving the dock lS thdt they can take their sen'teuebs >f out on their heads, and it is pro7 f bably the case that they would have n ample time to do so in Oamaru. } f Yesterday the gaoler was observed T industriously trimming a rather nice looking microcarpa hedge, while a y couple of strong able-bodied broad!e arrows were patiently picking up y the trimmings as they fell. After y all there is not much in ' fourteen ie days, with hard labor.' — North & Otago Times. Jt A wretched New Zealand journal- list has gone into hiding and three te infuriated brothers, armed with n stockwhips, are searching for him. Poor fellow, he meant well, but he i didn't kiiow. He was sent to report -. a wedding, and he spread himself d out in style. He made inquiries v and was told that the bride's dress sr was a lovely ' creponne,' a very ie elegant fabric. But he reported ie that the bride's dress was ' cretonne.' )f Seeing that cretonne is generally ): f used for window curtains, covering chairs, sofas, etc., the feelings of the bride and her relations can be better ." imagined than described. Fools *? rush in where angels never tread, ct and why will reporters who have to not yet reached married bliss atit tempt such dangerous feat 3as y describing wedding dresses? — Kur _ inara Times. •' A London correspondent of a )q Sydney contemporary writes that .. Dr Temple's age (75) is the one j drawback to an appointment which gives universal satisfaction, but the n work at Lambeth is said to be soinels what less onerous on the whole than 11 that at Fulham, and hit strength is >y not failing, nor is his Grace's eyey sight failing in the ordinary sense. [. The malady is of a peculiar nature, ie preventing him from focussing objects which lie below a given line (inconvenient during reading and 11 writing), but allowing him to see )r clearly all objects, lying before him h on a high level— rather a beautiful rs disease, surely, for an archbishop ! •c and it will not interfere with his a work. :e A queer story comes from London j. to the effect that Henry M. Stanley, )g the African explorer, is gradually turning black, as a consequence of \ the transfusion of negro blood into Jr his veins in order to prevent jungle "■ and other dangerous fevers of the L - Dark Continent. 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