LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5486, 18 March 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr B.i c 5 wires f o day : Southrasterly moderate to strc rig winds, veering c isterly, raot'e.-ate to strong ; indications for fair weal her, glass lit le nio/cment, sea moderate, tides moderate. At Pidinerstop, the Australian cricketers defeated Manawatu by an innings and 104 tuns. A correspondent writes, asking what is being done with the town dlock that it is silent bo often ? Messrs Norris and Bell, land and estate agents, report the sale of lot 505, town of Tauranga, on behalf of Mr VV. M. Commons to Mr A. Ferguson. Those on the lookout for a cheap and useful engine for farm work should take notice of Mr L. Cassrcls' advertisement, which appears in another part of to-day's issue. Tauranga received a good advertisement at the recent Rotorua Show, when Miss Snodgiass, of Ofcumoetai, was awarded first prize in the class for lemons. In the collection of dahlias Miss Snodgrass also won first honours. "

At the Rotorua Show last week Mr R. Hynds, of Grcerton, secured three first and two second prizes in the fruit division. The competition was keen, there being eight and ten entries in some of the classes. Mr Hynds was awarded first for collection of cooking apples, collection of pears, and plato of dessert; peaches. He took second prizes in dessert pears and in lemons. Mr Hynds added five acres to his orchard last year, and reports that the young trees are doing remarkably well. We hear that other extensions arc likely to be made this year throughout the district, and no doubt an effort will take place in the near future towards establishing a canning factory.

Mr iPkrpout Mfrngan, the mUlionaire banker, has purchased Karl Marsel's famous collection of early watches and decks; th? pr.ee paid being £75,C00. An outbreak t»f typhoid has- occurred in the Maori pa at Jerusatem, up the Wanganui river. Six cases have occurred up to the present, and several deaths have taken place. A suicide, which is thought to be the outcome or a love affair, occurred at Kopan'gi, ivaai, Tola^a Bay, the ether day, when a Maori girl named Ivy Pomare, 18 years of age, hanged 1 herself .with a handkerchief. She left a note bidding her friends good-bye. The Minister for Industries and Commerce has received advice of a contract fcr the supply of £00,000 ft» of frozen b?e& afvd 200,000jlt> of frozen, {mutton for the United States' forcrs at Manila, for the year tending June 30, 1911 f Tender's- close at •Manila on April 5 next. , It has been decided to relax the condition wbioh prohibited holders of land in tho village settlements of Wellington land district from holding more than one allot went. In future It-tire is .to -fee Ho such limit/ in number, but the total area held by one person must not exceed fifty acres. The latest return, of co-operative workers employed by the ."Government shows a total of 3555 artisans and labourers, and 826 are employed on roads, inaking a total of 4381. On the railway's, Stratford-Onffar.ue -cjn. ploys 516, North Auckland 4-14, Ka-wakawa-Grahamstown 371, GisborneRotorua 354, Midland, various sections, 592, • Greymouth-Pohit Elizabeth 288, Oatlin's 462, Westnort-In-angahua 80, Ngaheie-Blackball 103.

The Government has decided to have investigations made into 't,Jn» [Cause of the disease which has 'affected tho trout in Lake Rotorua. Probably the immediate steps will bo to regulate spawning by eliminating +Jhe i'nforior' ••ti*out from tho spawning grounds. Some scientific examination into the whole matter will probably be necessary, and, although a largo number of suggestions have already been made, further opinions will probably be obtained from authorative sources.