CLEANLINESS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3783, 5 December 1898, Page 2

CLEANLINESS

Brings comfort and health, adorns living, and gives existence a charm. Enjoined with Wolfe's Schnapps it imparts real enjoyment.

We have seen an extended panoramic photograph of the town and harbour of Tauranga just completed by Mr T. E. Price for the Auckland Exhibition. The photo is three feet long by one high and is taken fro&i the redoubt. On the left, hand is Matapihi and the Maungatapu estuary and in the distance the hills where are situated the Te Puke mines. The centre is taken up by the wharves, with steamers, and the Pingal on the slip in the foreground, to the right is the town as far west as the Government Buildings. The whole is turned out in a most artistic manner and is certainly the finest view of the town and harbour that we have seen. An advance copy of the Chrisluift* Number of the Canterbury Times has reached us. Beginning with what first naturally meets the eye, we find the cover a striking and artistic production in brown, green »nd bronze, the centre being occupied by a female head. The contents consist mainly of stories and illustrations, the former from such able l>ens as those of Or. R Sims, Maaville Fenn. Richard Dowling, Robert Buchanan, etc., while the latter embrace views of some of the most beautiful and striking scenes in the Colony to lh« number of over a ! hm.dred with descriptive letterpress. Nothing could be more appropriate ni send ojs a Christmas souvenir to i'»j>nf?sin other parts of the world •iiul tins !et them see not only. what lv-nnMful s <n«<ry onr country iftssttSs. 1 * Int aUo- *hat spltinuid >rorfc e*n bti turned out of our ; "'.■»» • ffi-'^s-

The. last three days of last week and yesterday also a strong wind prevailed from the eastward, at times amounting to a gale but was unaccompanied by rain except a few showers, the heaviest of which fell last night. The wind continued in an easterly quarter to-day with a slightly falling barometer. On Saturday we received the following telegram from our Member, Mr W. H. Herries, M.H.R.,— ' Compliment Tauranga and Bay of Plenty on exhibits ; one of the best displays in the Exhibition.' News has been received from Matata that tha cutter Lea is ashore about a quarter of a mile to the entrance to the river. She has about forty sacks of maize on board. | A number of Mbtiti natives have been in this district for the past week, paying visits to their friends and relatives at the various settlements. At each village a crying mntch and feast took place. There was no particular occasion to have a tangi, but these natives could not get away when some deaths occurred, as they were busy maize planting. That now beingoversome impromptu tangis were held. ' A wake without a corpse.' The s.s. Waiotahi arrived from Ohiwa yesterday morning, and left for Auckland almost immediately. She had on board a full cargo of maize and two tons of cheese. Mr Smith, Government surveyor, is at present engaged in making a flying survey of the route for the proposed East Coast-Rotorua railway. From one end of the Bay oi Plenty to the other the new maize is looking well, and if the present favourable weather continues the yield- for 1899 will probably be a record. In some places the maize is quite 18 inches high. On Friday last the B.s. Waiotahi ran an excursion from Ohiwa to the Ruarima islands, but owing to the unfavourable weather the passengers were unable to land. A native land court is to be held at Taupo in January next, when a large number of cases will come on for hearing, principally applications on Government behalf for survey liens. This will be the first land court that has sat at Taupo for many years. Mr A. O. Field, for many years with the Kauri Timber Co., has leased the yard at the rear of the Haymarket, where he intends conducting a timber yard. We are informed that at the annual meeting of the Bay of Plenty Licensing Bench an application for a new license, for the Halfway House, will be heard. The contract let by Messrs Searles for clearing 120 acres of bush land at Oropi is now finished. It is said that another contract for clearing a like area will be arranged shortly. On Saturday lastthe s.s. Clansman, in addition to her usual cargo, shipped four young ostriches. The birds were brought from th« Rev. Kattern's farm at Katikati by the s.l. Result. We learn that the way in which the Newton Bank robbery was effected was as follows : A man entered the bank premises and informed the manager that there was a gentleman in a buggy outside who wished to speak to him. The manager went out for a moment, and when he returned the man who had acted as messenger was non eat.

Shortly afterwards it was discovered that £930 in notes had been abstracted. By the Ngunguru this morning about half-a-dozen Motiti natives proceeded to Whakatane to attend the land court now being held there. It appeaas that a trick has been played on some local people by a man and his wife who travel for a sewing machine firm. The game is played as follows : The canvassers for orders tell the customers that during the time the Exhibition is on a great reduction will be made in the price of the machines and when the customer agrees to take a machine a printed order form is produced for signature. The order is for a machine at the ordinary price, but it is ten to one that the customer will not have read the printed matter. Three Chinamen were received into the Baptist Church by public immersion at Christchurch on Sunday last, in the presence of a crowded congregation. Eradication of the small birds pest in Southland seems to be within measurable distance, for the County Clerk has received hundreds of communications from settlers, the effect being that the pest is rapidly dying out. The Council resolved to obtaiu the opinions of farmers in .various localities as to the efficacy of the poison supplied and the results achieved. A cricket match will be played on Thursday next between teams choseD by Messrs B. H. Griffiths and A. Mathias. The following players are to be on the ground punctually at 2 p.m. Mb B. H. Griffiths, s team:— Messrs B. H. Griffiths, Sharp, Lewis, Southey, Ciemson, Walker, Oliver, Halme, Kerr, Goodyear and Prank Jordan. Me A. Mathias's TEAM. — Messrs Mathias, J. H. Griffiths, Hoyte, Chisholtn, McCallum, Wayte, Fred Jordan, Darby, Gordon-Cumming, Bull and Sheath. Messas Milne and Choyce, drapers and milliners, Auckland, have opened up fresh shipments of blouse silks and novelties in dr«ss materials. Mr R. Seddon will hold his next monthly sale at Te Puke on the loth inst. The winning numbers of the Hon. Mrs Rowley's art union are published in our advertising columns. The drawing took place -on Saturday afternoon. A notice appears in the Gazette declaring Section 37 and 42, Block viii, Katikati Survey District, o%vned by Mr J. Thornton of New South Wales, and occupied by Mr J. Boyd, to be infected with phylloxera, and the removal of plants is prohibited without the direction of an inspector.

Dr Baker is not a eantfilate for Sanatorium at Botorua. He will return to Tauranga and resume practice as soon as appointment is made.— Advt. His was an expressive face, a face of the vegetable marrow type; aj month, well it might have been cut. with a hay spade, and such a voice, something between a leaky cistern and. a foghorn, but he had sense and eigh teen-pence. He says to the storekeeper, now, nave you got a bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and culds; nothing else will do form?} it beats hofcpir i tals. He got it, - • r- j