BRIEFS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3834, 14 April 1899, Page 3

BRIEFS.

Colder. Pine again. Sou-westerly weather. 'Fri-co mail arrived. < r r.ien fete postponed till 20th. < )rgan fund entertainment, Tuesday 25th. 8.8. Katikati leaves Tairua tonight for Tauranga. P.B. Terranora expected leave Opotiki to-morrow morning. Clansman as usual to-morrow ; departs 4 p.m. sharp. Special meeting Borough Council Monday evening. Native kumera growers complaining crops very bad this year. Scow Margaret off up Coast for a load of firewood. Powers don't seem to care much what happens in Samoa. Four yard red ensign flying this afternoon for testing purposes. Musical Society commences practice again Tuesday night, 7.30. Another syndicate been formed to go on with boring for oil, New Plymouth. Duke of Connaught accepted dukedom of Saxe-Coburg, a petty German state. Several Auckland mining companies' shares improving on London market. Scathing condemnation N.Z. railway mismanagement, in Bulletin, over Hakaia accident. The imposing granite monument which President Kruger desires to erect to commemorate the repulse of the Jamieson raid is now taking shape at the works of Messrs Bower and Florence, granite polishers, Aberdeen. The huge square block of granite will be surmounted by several figures, probably horsemen, and the cost will be over £10,000. Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, lays claim to the throne of France as well as that of Spain. He is the representative of the main branch of the House of Bourbon, and con- \ riders that he takes precedence of the Duke of Orleans. I