LOCAL AKD GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5488, 23 March 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AKD GENERAL.

Mr Rates wires : Minds, south-east-erly moderate to strong ; <"00l «nd changeable weather ;• probably a very cpW night ;" glass rise slowly ; sea moderate ; tides good; Methodist Church services, for flood Friday and Easter Snioday. are adveHised ill this Issimv The Labour Department has decided to institute proceedings against the men who wont oh strike «t the buuthdown Freezing Works. The Tauranga Co-operative Dairy Association has purchased from Mr J . C. Adams a residence aiid one acre of land adjoining the tiutter factory property, and at present occupied by Mr J. BlomquJst'lhi Government paid Mr Puff some £43,608 for the Clyd.*«'nk Estate, <Gisborne district, of which. £10,000 was represented by. Government debentures. ' Messrs Cooper ain.d Macdenm^tt fam* \*iry iteadly. last nfght fn\ the matter of weather "and nfi a, residt their audience was not a large one. However, those vrh!o> were present saw and enjoyed a good c-nterttain-ment. Lievjßirto, the lanious AmerUsm juggler appearing With, tile Lyceum licturo Company te-'nieht. has 'appdttred lyef^ire the Prince aMd'Frtacesfj of Wales, and Ha still preserves -a, memento of their Royal Highnesses' appreciation. The lattraJcttfo'iMj on Easter iM*:>nday are the regatta at Tauranga and the Te Puke ClixVs athtetic sqiorts. The hiaindVii;ps for the splorts appear ia anotker column. Fiiye weather seems to (be the only thing aiecesgary to make the holiday enjoyable. The firm of Murray* .Roberts &, Cp.^ W to be,tuntcd into n> private limited company as Irom April 1, foidividual interests luting preserved as they now exist. The capital is tj ; b.d at quarter ol a million sterling, with £200,000 paid up. The change is purely internal. The public are reminded of the Fire Brigade's .social Ho be held \inl tihe Theatre Royal on Uie evening, of Easter Monday- Dance music will be provided by the brass band. Mi Carstws (piccolo), and leading pianists. Songs will be contributed at intervals, and as t-he corttmitteo are assrdotfsly, :workfng, ®ji enfOyftLle evening is promised to patrons. "~ „ The Herald sta,l>es< th'at schflKkfles" arq being prepared •in conWefction for selection' of liS.OOOI acres on <the Haurrki Plains, and they will be revised at a. meeting of the I/and Bojard, on the 81st inst.i A date will then be fixed upon which applications will -be returnable. It is understood that the optional pur* cltase tenure system will foe adopted.

Great Interests i^i hjoiing tjoktfl in the forthcoming poll on the proposal of the Napier 'Harbour Board to borrow £300.000 for the completion of the breakwater harbour. IVints for and against tHe breakwater and Inner harbours are 'betnjg keenly discussed. An interesting feature is that" offers have hem .made Jjsyprivate persons, one to carry out an Inner harbour scheme fonder certain conditions, and th* other to complete the breakwater bartrtwr.