KEEP YOUB WEATHER EYE ,OPEN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3978, 28 March 1900, Page 2

KEEP YOUR WEATHER EYE OPEN.

A^d do not be deceived with imitations of Wolff's Schnapps The oiiginnl has ft fine flaTOur, and is an excellent stiinujajit. ;

In another column Mr G. A. Ward thanks the electors of the Bay of Plenty Licensing district for their support at the election last week.

Mr William Elliot's^property on Cameron Boad, lately occupied by the Rev. Mr Headrick, has been disposed of, through Mr W. M. Commonsr to Mr Frank Trigg.

In our paragraph referring to those ladies who made socks for the contingent, published in last issue the name of Mrs Commons should have been included and Mrs J. M. Roberts should have appeared instead of Mrs J. Mcßoberts.

■■_ As to-morrow will probably be tfrfflast day on which the Bowling Green will be open for play this season, it is hoped that there will be a good muster of members. It is contemplated to then close the grounds for top dressing and repaire.

Our Te Puke correspondent reports that Mr Hope, Dentist, is doing a big business in that settle* ment and his patients allseejDt^eiT pleased withjj^-eafeimtl treatment iie-vguws- Hfein. He is to arrive here on Friday fora week's stay at Mrs Norris's, Harington St.

Mr John Maxwell cabled from Sydney this week that be id stranded there, and that owing to the plague, the steamer that he was to have returned by has been taken off the trade. When he does return he will have to put up with all the inconveniences of quarantine. It would not seem that work is very scarce among those engaged in the "building trade as only one tender, that of Mr J. Brain was received for the repairs to the Old Cemetery wall. Ithas been forwarded to the Under Secietary for Defence, through whose Department the grant is made,- for approval. Our .diagnosis of the weather symptoms on Monday has been more successful than Capt. Edwin's and was, as we then knew, directly the opposite of bis, which was for moderate westerly winds. Easterly winds, as we forecast, have continued up to the present and were, last night and this morning, accompanied by heavy showers. The bore .for coal at Te Puna is now down a depth of 197 ft 6in. During last week it was sunk fifteen feet in six days, which is excellent progress, and is at present passing through a deposit of marine deposit and quartz crystals, which, according to Professor Parka's late report on toe I coalfields of New Zealand, is a most promising and encouraging sign. As will be seen by the final returns of the election for the Licensing Bench, which appeal elsewhere, the following gentlemen have bee,n appointed and stand in the order named: — M. Harrison, J. JR. S. Richardson, G, A. Ward, R. King, C. Jordan. There was a mistake in the earlier returns which credited Mr King with 44 votes instead of 3 at Morrinstllle. Messrs Alex. Aitken and Co. report as follows for last week's sales : — Potatoes, new kidneys, 3/3 to 4/- ; onions, 4/- t0 ,6/-;- oats, 2/4 to 2/6; maize, 2/5, c.i.f. ; wb/at, 2/3 to 2/6; chaff, 55/- to 60/- ; butter, prime dairy, 8d to 9d ; eggs, 1/3 to '1/4 ; bacon, 3d to od ; cheese, new farmers, 3£d to 4|-d ; lemons, 6d to 9d dozen, wanted ; walnuts, 6d to 7d ; roosters, 1/6 to 2/3; hens, 1/4 to 1/6; ducks, 1/6 to 1/10 ; pigs, small, 2/3 to 7/6, hard to sell. Best dairy pork, 3d. Mr G. Harding, of Gate Pa, sends us samples of Sal way peaches to weigh agaitist Capt. Tovey^Tennent's from the Maori seedling tree mentioned in our issue of Friday last, the largest turning the scale at 10 J ounces. One of Capt. Tovey-Ten-nent's however went an ounce better than this. We rather enjoy competitions of this sort, especially as they have a decided tendency to improve the breed of peacnes grown in the district. The siege of Mafeking is just now the principal topic of conversation and we here, who talk glibly about our mobs pf 150 and 200 head of prime beef, can probably hardly conceive what the garrison of the beleaguered town felt at the sight of the 26 head of veldt-fed cnltle captured by a- foraging party, as mentioned in lust night's news. After a diet of horseflesh, and a very sptre one at that, and bron bread, how the poor, half-starved men and women would appreciate such h changp, and bow it would inspirit them to a further resistance, can be better imagined than described. There seems to be a growing sense of dissatisfaction in this Northern part of the Colony at the manner in which men hive been selected for the war contingents and certainly from reports which have reached us there seems to be very good grounds iudefd for coibpUint. It npppars that j. many men were taken on who could neither ride nor shoot iv the most ordinary acceptation of the words, wl-ile others, like the young Browns from Tauranga, for instance, who could do one or both of tbese necessary things well, wfre passed over. We notice that Messrs Burton and Hitmuiond, solicitors, Auckland, are asking those who consider themselves aggrieved to communicate with them, with a view to having an enquiry made.