THE Bay of plenty Times

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4188, 19 August 1901, Page 2

THE Thames Galley Warden.

/Tie spirit of the Times shall teacn me speed. — Kii?Jobn, Act IV.

Monday, August 19, 1901

Attention is drawn to a number _< alterations in Messrs Mann and Co advertisement on the opposite pag Mr P. Munro, having decided 1 close his Te Puke branch store, offe the whole stock at an immeo reduction for canb, holding a speci sale on Thursday and Friday of th week. Owing to the great pressure < our space caused by our summary the Financial Statement, a go< •ieal of other matter is crowded 01 including ao account of the Soci last week at Te Pake, which w tppear in out next issue. The projected meeting of membc of the T.M.R. to form a Couiniitl to hold a Volunteer Ball, fell throuj ou Saturday evening, only .soi half -dozen; of the men and none, the officers turning ujs afT'the J til appointed. On Saturday morning the remai of the late Miss Lily Faulka< eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. '. Faulkner, were interred in the Ne Cemetery in the presence of t bereaved relatives and a number, friends, the Key. Chas. Jord officiating at the grave. Oar local fishermen were roui with a largo haul of fish this mor: ing, Messrs Haua and Linton havii had an unusually good time amoi the schnapper outside the Hea with hook and line, catching iddition a stranger believed to 1 identical with the English skat Messrs Cook and Sons were also the fore with a big catch of herring | It will be rather a knock to t Prohibitionists to learn from t Colonial Treasurer's budget that >i sign of the buoyancy and pro perity of the Colony the duty < spirits increased last year by ££2,8 while 'My Lady Nicotine's ' iucot ilso went up to the extent £24,900 ; from this last item it woo j"em that a good deal of our aileg prosperity only ends in smoke. The Tauranga Juniors met with i defeat at Waibi on Saturday by 1; to 3, having to face the second tean instead of the third, as expected The Waihi score was made up of tw< tries, (one converted), one goal fron field and one from a penalty kick Che team speak in glowing terms o the hospitality offered them by Hos Pilling who made the members al bis private guests during their stay A. short account of the match wil appear in next issue. We have to thank the officials o the local Telegraph Office for th capital copy of the Financial State ment they have given us, the takini of which- involved the sitting up o the majority of the staff the whol night long on Friday. Each yea the budget seems to obtain large and larger proportions and as barel one newspaper out of every^ tea i the Colony can publish more tha; about one quarter of it, it would b an immense saving of time, worr and money to both the Telegrap Department and the Press, if th Colonial Treasurer would issue ai official summary, of reasonabl length, which would be also o infinitely more value to the reading public than the crude and iin per fee ones the press is often only able t s^ive, owing to the hurry and pres sure of other business. A Tauranga gentleman now ii Wellington wired to ■us to-day •bating that be has bad an inturviev <*ith Mr Jackson Palmer, M.H.E for Chinemuii, who had promised t tssist our Member in connection witl th* bridges On the Tauranga-Katikat road, as being, of importance to hi own electorate as well as this one Accordingly on Saturday a depute tion consisting of the Hop. TV Kelly, Messrs Merries and Palme waited on the Minister of Lands am received a satisfactory reply to thei request that a sum will be placod oi 'he estimates for these bridges Further assistance was also promis.et for the iC'iimai road and £150 t< renew the Native Hostelry, at Tau ranga. Our correspondent was als( informed tbat the Tauranga district will be added to thp East Coßst bi regards the working of the Nativ* Land. Administration Act.