BRIEFS.
Change. Cold nights. Yesterday perfect. Special meeting Borough Council to-night. Nominations School Committee close to-night. Road Board elections early next month. Some old piles, Town Wharf only 9 inches in sand. Expected Jockey Club's balance sheet show deficit. Feared that £50, odd, deposit, be nearly swallowed up. The Queen returns nome from France on May 6th. B.M. Court to-morrow for petty debt and civil cades. Plague spreading again in Hongkong, 43 deaths reported. Eight nominations in already forlocal School Committee election. German cruiser, bound for Samoa, got on reef near New Guinea. Subscriptions for flags still booming, room for plenty more shillings yet. - Three new steamers for San Francisco mail service to travel 17 knots; 6000 tons. The New South Wales maize and oat crops are reported to be very poor this season. Wheat crop of same Colony has only threshed out seven bushels to the acre. Twenty-eight Chinamen in receipt of relief, Dunedin, cost the public £6 lls 6d a week. i Boy at Napier in charge of trap fell asleep, crossed railway line, train shaved tail board ; boy slept on. New Divorce Act has received Her Majesty's assent ; some husbands had better mend their manners.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3835, 17 April 1899, Page 3
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