Bay of Plenty Times WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5485, 16 March 1910, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Reports on military cemetic/ and wh; ri matters appear on the fourth Pay:. To-day's weather prediction : Light and favourable wind?, south-easterly moderate prevailing ; indications for ar weather ; glass little movement; tides gocri ; sea moderate. Whakatane races will be held tomorrow. Messrs Morris & Bell, land and estate agents, report the sale of - a 200-acre fcr.n at Omanawa, on behalf of Mr Fowler, to Mr W. A. Bennett, of Papamoa.

At. Te Puke to-morrow. evening, St. Patrick's Day will be celebrated 'by a progressive euehr? party and danc.* in the evening in the Town Hall, and a most .enjoyable time is - anticipated The proceeds will be tlevo-tetd to the Catholic Church iunds. We give a reminder that to-mor-row evening asocial will beheld in aul of the funds, of the newly-formed Tai.Pa/nftfa Brass Band. N-aod I/ess -iio say a large attendance will be very welcome, and therefore the public should take the hint. In passing the .r remises ol Mr H. L. Jones to-day we notiosd a very foci combination pair manufactured from mottled -totara. On inquiry we wire informed they were made in Mr Jones' factory, and they certainly reSect £.r*at credit on his workmanship. The pair will be on view for a few" days. At a special meeting of the School Commits this morning, two names submitted by tho . Education Epard —Misses Eenner -and Coombe— for the position of jnistross of the Tauranga Disirict High School wese considered, and the Cdmmittee resolved to rccom- .j mer.d Mss Coomb*, of Feilding, for the position. Owing to an unfavourable wind, the course of the model regatta,' which Tauranga boys had decided to hold on Saturday afternoon last, had to Ye altered to a course, from the wharf to the baths, where the judge waited in a dinghy... The starters were :— O. Dailies' Dart llusec sttrt ; L. Quinton's Kapai llOsec ; A. Griffiths' Rose. 90sec ; E. Beach's Viking, BCs;c , C. Watson's Britannia, fio £ ec, F. Hopkins' Maud, ser. The Dart, which was the first to pass the judge's boaty was being quickly, ovtrhauled by her big rivals Britannia (second) a»>d Viking (third^. The boats all continued their course and ran lapround -a mile up the other side of the hsrbour. Fr T. Stuart's- 1 laur.ch kindly gave all a tow back. Weather pi Emitting, It is proposed to continue the racing every week and the boys want gentlemen to volunteer as stark rs and judges.