LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5499, 22 April 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

St. George's I>ay to-morrow. A. quantity of local neves appears on he fourth page to-day, including re>orts of the Tauranga Acclimatisation Society, Uinking Club, presentation at To luke, and the Uovernor's visit, together with commercial ami farm notes, and miscellaneous matter. The Government Meteorologist wires :— Northerly strong to gale ; expect unsettled and cloudy wx-ather ; rain probable ; glass fall ; sea considerable : tides croud. Messrs W. S. I-aurie and Co. announce nn alteration in the price of busic slag. Mr J. A. Clark, licensed land broker, publishes particulars of several desirable properties that he has for sale. A sitting of the Magistrate's C»urt will be held m Tnurangn n» May 5, and at To Puke the following day. The annual meeting of members of the Tauranga Golf Club will be held in Mr l'hillips' office at 7.30 p.m. to-morrow. A mail for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe will close at the Tauranga Post Office on Wednesday at 3 p.m. The Lyttelton Municipal Gasworks made a profit of JEfiSUO last year, out of which £500 has been utilised- in relief of rates. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, will hold a sale of timber at Canaan Landing at 2 p.m. to-morrow. ■ The Government has decided to send a ! representative to the Argentine Exhibition with a collection of exhibits of the chief products of the .Dominion. ,Mr J. 11. Griffiths notifies the various places where the electoral roll and defaulters' list for the county may be inspected, and that appeals must be made before May 31. The Comniossioner of Crown Lands notifies that Government is offering 1fi.700 acres of country lands and 100 acres of ) town lands, in the Hauraki J'lains for '< settlement. The factory cheques ar keeping up well in Te X'uke. The money distributed. Sn the district this month by the>-llay of Plenty Co-opecativa Dairy Association amounted to JEUOOO. Mr C. H. Trigg, lascl anfl estate agent, reports the sale oJ 218 acres adjoining the Ka.tik-a.ti township, on behalf of Mr A. Turner, to Mr A. Drown, of Kutikjativ Ratepayers of the Te Puna Hiding are reminded of the meeting to be held in the county office to-morrow for the purpose of ascertaining whether the ratepayers will consent to Morrow a sum of money for grading and forming district roads. At the Tauranga Police Court yesterday mrirning a first offender \ras brought up on" a charge of disorderly behaviour while drunk. Jlp was convicted nnd discharged, and a prohibition order issued against him for twelve months. With a view to considering- the advisability at dispensing with any limitation to home separation, an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Bay of Plenty Co-operative Dairy Association, Limited, will be held in Mr McDowell's Hall, Te Puke, on May 4. Speaking to a pressman in Gisborne, regarding the East Const railway, the Hon. Ji. McKenzie suid : "It entirely depends upon the amount of money voted by il'arliament, but I think this work could he put through from Motu to Waihi easily in ten years." We remind exhibitors in particular anfi the public in general that the chrysanthemum show takes place on Thursday. It has already been postponed a week to suit the "blooms, which are unusually late this season. We hop© those who profess to-be interested particularly in this show will come forward with whatever they can stage.- The season has told against these shows throi^g-hout the province. Auckland, according to press reports, had a poor display by amateurs, the professionals alone producing anything like a fair sample of blooms, and at the Waikato apparently only a few specimens were on show. Let exhibitors, therefore, take heart and make an effort to have as creditable an exhibition as possible under the circumstances.