Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, MARCH' 14, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5484, 14 March 1910, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, MARCH' 14, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Bates wired to-day :— Northerly moderate to strong winds, veering to westerly, strong to gale ; expect showery and changeable weather ; glass fall ; tides good ; sea mocterate.

The annual jnceting of the Tauranga Boating Club will be -held at 7.30 to-micrr.«r evening 1 in like Comnurcial Hotel.

A posting box has now i^een placed* at the corner of Devonport Road and the Eleventh Avenue, and will be cleared daily £t 6-45 a.m., ,and 3.45 p.m.

The exports of butter from the factories in this county last week were as under :— Te Puke 231 boxes; Tai:ranga 81 boxes ; K-atikati 19 bo>es. Other supplies were fcrwarded +0 Rotorua and Waihi.

Te Puke farmers ship}>edi 100 fat pigs to the firm of >Mtssrs J. Adams <&Co., Auckland, last week. The animals were conveyed. from Te Puke to Tauranga per the ketch Viclory and were then transhipped to the steamer A\ipouri. >

The circuit stewards of the Methodist. Church arc in cciiaimunieaticri with the chairman of the district urging the advisability of Rev. A. Hopper being retained here. A meet-* ing in support if tliejT action will 'be held in the church on Tuesday night at the close of the Sunday School anniversary meeting.

Mr A. Skeates, of Auckland, will offer his 8 h.p. Darracq motot car for sale to-morrow". The car may he inspected outside. Messrs Davids Er.>s. 4 premises to-nKJrnow TOormnj; between 9 and 10 o'clock. The car cost £325 and will be offers! for £l2r>. The 'owner guarantees it in splendid trder and the opportunity of securing a first-class car is one that is seldom inert with.

Tauranga fruitgrowers sent away by hoa.ii last week .nearly TO cases of fruit, in addition to supplies overland to Waihi and Rotorua. The farmers of Tauranga and Te Puke shipped 82 sacks of maize to Auckland for the same period. Exports of fibre and tow were over 41 bales. The Tauranga Sawmilling Company also shipped a quantity of sawn riimi by the two outward vessels.

Very successful services were held at the Methodist Church yesterday in; celebration of the Sunday (School anniversary. The Rev. A. G. Wedderspoon was the special rr^acher, morning and afternoon, and gave most appropriate and acceptable addresses. The evening service was taken by the minister of the church. The musical portion of the servic sf was effectively led by the combined church and Sunday School choirs. Proceedings will -be continued tomrrrow evening, when after the scholars' tea a public meeting will be held in the church, when a varied and interesting programme will be pr3sented.

During the last night or two the launch. Spray, while lying at her mooring below Mr Train's fclip, has been somewhat badly damaged through being run into by- another launch evidently travelling at full «peed. The Spray wast struck on the quarter and her deck *ut> into for about three inches. There are marks of three other blows along the belting. The Boat is (moored well in from the channel, and has been there for the. last three years, so that her whereabouts is well known. Hetf owner requests us to ask bis fellow launch owners to exercise a little care and $o avnjd inflicting damage upon •otihers. The. Spray has been brougbtrin to Mr Brain's for repairs.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A thanks notice. is inserted. Methodist Church.— Public .meeting to-morrow, evening. T. Cullen.— Annual meeting^ Boating Club to-morrow evening. G. Maxwell.— Has prime chaff for sale. 1 A. Skeates.— Motor-car for sale. A driver wants a situation. Public Trustee.— Notice re unclaim- j ed land. j