THE Bay of Plenty Times AND Thames Valley Warden.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3837, 21 April 1899, Page 2

THE Bay of Plenty Times AND THAMES VALLEY WARDEN.

The spirit of the Times shall teach me speed.—Ei? Mi. Act IT. Friday, Apkil 21, 1899.

Judging by the contributed account, appearing elsewhere, of the preparations to entertain the Governor at Katiksti, the inhabitants of that settlement mean to give him a right royal welcome and their action in charging every Katikati man who wants to attend the banquet, one guinea, should cause a good many in Tauranga, whose position caused their absence from the local festivities a month ago to be, to say the least of it, conspicuous to consider whether thvlr internal conflict between loyalty and7s6d was worth the money. The rtaff «t the Te Puke Gold Reefs mine now consists of rnly two men pending further developments in connection with the option over the property which has been taken Home, we understand, by Mr Barry ot Wiiihi. Tb^re i* no <lou]jfc>-4bttf the present po ition^cf* affairs is more promising^Ean any for a long timg.gasfr'frijd we trust fh^ promises will be revised. Owing to the poor attendance in the Domain yesterday afternoon the Trinity Church Garden fete was not held and the Committee decided to put off the sports until Wednesday, May 24, the Queen's Birthday. Wednesday's coach Sergt. Murray proceeded to faerba in connection with the recent horse stealing case. Const. Hughes is at present in charge of the Tauranga Station., A number of Motiti Natives arrived in town on Wednesday to purchase a quantity of t^nbel", stores and sundries, being in pbsMSsion of a good deal of money paid them for maize. They anticipate another very satisfactory yield from the present 'season's cropv

Mr W. Wallace, thl contractor

for metalling the road across the Long Swamp, Te Puke, has several men at work getting out and breaking stone for the job. The total length of road to be done will be almost half a mile, the metal commencing 19 chains from the Tauranga end and being continued to the bridge. It is hoped that a further grant may be obtained to enable the whole length to be done before another winter, as heavy traffic is increasing every year, Mr Ranson, Manager of the Northern B.S. Co. was a passenger by the s.s. Waiotabi on Wednesday and has proceeded down the Coast. Kupa Himiona has been appointed successor to Wi Parera as Manager of the co-operative sheep farming industry carried out by the Natives at the eastern end of the harbour. Mr and Mrs Patterson were passengers by the s.s. Waiotahi on Wednesday for Motiti Island, where they were to be landed by the steamer after leaving this port. " These marriage laws are simply a remnant of the old savage state of man, when, as Leslie Staphen puts it, ' a man obtained bis wile by knocking her down.' " — Mrs Sievwright at the Women's Nationa Council. The General Manager of Railways (Mr T. Ronayne) has received news of the very narrow escape of a train on one of the Government lines in the South Isiamd the other day. While the train, running from Heriot to Waipahi, was between Kelso and Tapanui, a mass of rook, estimated to weigh about three tons, fell in "front of the engine. The train was a heavy one. The speed at which it was travelling enabled it to smash up the rook, and the cowcatcher cast the greater part of the stone clear of the line. The cowcatcher was broken, and' the train was delayed about three-quarters of an hour. Luckily no other damage wan done. At a meeting of the Public Works Committee of the Wellington City Council, the city solicitor gave his opinion on the question whether persons can be placed on the supplementary lists under the Municipal Franchise Reform Act, 1898, merely on the ground that they were not placed on tb ©original list, or whether they must acquire a qualification Inter within the meaning of section 71 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1886. His opinion was that to be entitled to be placed on the lists after they have been inide up, a person must have acquired a qualification he did not then possess.