Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5532, 1 August 1910, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meet inn "f ""' County Council will be hekl to-morrow. The ratepayers of Nnpier have voted in favour of the erection of a inimicipal theatre. Another small batch of workme wvvv put on the Tauranga-'l'e .l'vK» rail way last I-'riday. The Pacific. Cable Hoard proposes to reduce llio rate of phiin language messages delivered within 18 hours to 1 s lid a woiti. Last year 10 New Zealand steam ers, totalling 3.510 tons, and seven sailings vessels, totalling- "82 tons, were wrecked. It is reported that- important negotiations afl'oct-.i,ngi the commercial relation^ fVet'veoii Camilla and Ja*pau will ue entered into shortly. A special; meeting of Vive committee of the Taiiranga Athletic Glut) will he held in }lr Dowling's shop to morrow eveningl at 8 o'clock. .Mr C. K. Macinillan notifies that the Tauranga Co-operative Dairy Association's factory will open on the 15tJi iiist.. Tor the receipt of cream only. Tratlie on the CJisborne railway section is going ahead. Shortly there will bo 1.00 waggons and five engines in use. Three years ago (hero were only 27 waggons. Canada is increasing! its population at the rate of about a (quarter of a million a year by immigration, says Mr Bkidoe, its present population exceeding- 8,('(00,000. All interested in the formation of a chess club are lvntindetl of this meeting to be held in the Loan and .Mercantile Company's office at 8 o'clock this evening. One hundred and seventy-five ens^f of cured fish were shipped to Auckland la.st week. Consignments of produce, etc., included 2.V1 sucks of maize. 111 sacks of chalT, general farm produce, lemons, fibre, and ri } inu timber. j On March 3] last the number of sailing, vessels on the! -New Z.uaja.n'd register had decreased to 1262 from 315 the ' previous year. There are now 327 steamers on the Xew Zealand register, two more than; last year. Mr W. Howling, inserts a fresh advertisement in ihis issue drawing at tention to his stock of Christinas suitings and costume materials, which he has imported direct from Kngland. On Saturday evening- the IVux (under Bandmaster Howcll) player half-a-dozen items, on tile. Strand, which wore niuclii appreciated by tin public. The programme was well rendered, and a collection was tak<n up in aid of the uniform fund. 'Thirty bags of sugar, consignee irom Wellington to a storekeeper at Koputaroa, were the other day sent yip on one of the river steamers, and deposited on (h,. r j v ,.r bank al •I'aiqka. Ko.\t«,n, ready to he carle to the store. The sug-ar mysteriously disappeared, and the police are at present making investigations. The Labour Department will | v . pleased to supply married -workers in the chief centres with a book in which to keep a . record of their receipt.* 'ailn c-\i«>.nU.:u<riy for »h,, pur|»ose of compiling; information n«-g"i-«lin^ ihe cost, of living. Hv . thi.s ""•ans i, ~-„ Jlop ., d tf) (>l>tajii )-o _ cord.s irom a t .least 300(> workers in <">• diuVmu 4 , a rts of the Dominion. Tin- Japanese (iovermnent has or-<ler,-,i irom France four military airships, which are to l: e built according to J-rench design. with certain alterations suggested- hy the .Tapanj«c. An agitation has b wn sUl J t a^ to nurke okolwina a free port similar to Jlongkong. This means L »'»'".ti<».» of port dues and the re-"-cfon ofbghtering charge,. Thenew '!! v'T, 's llilT Comes illUt dTwt «» ')n\\ vl nij\t year. Acconlmg lv Lhc Tun , lluki n v the cha,nnan of directorsi of the T' ranaki IVtroleum Comp U n v has rt f-ivi-cl a later, .laird' j Ko, , 1I "'-« «t I'ai.amca 'V Tu >:" tC^ •Ustrici. asking «"'-i Uln" Sllrvpi' H«Mr.-i to ( | r . ? .;'; a; UIW fr '"» IK- »•"« to ~r, v U' in swaMl" Ia»«l. «■«>■ W..S ..2 ;r; lIllh:ti"ih«<■••«'----".ution. i; a , , ,-,Tr <lf -•- I woul.l |... ~,.". U)(' sw«ii»i, then, sid- ,„• ~„.:' dt'"l' '''-ains on each •"liouhj 1,. ... ' '•'in>t teni-tii. and! «t their ■ o ,v J U rx r; > Olt lh*ir "ra-ns s.'i'ivv.S'T. "try WrLPI-:s »'"r 1n1Ju,.,,,.., t! ,,.,, w iSTS Cure' X™K™ '«ih- " «-:

A lueet'ing of the Tauranga ,\"oung Moil's Club will 'bo hold in the Theatre li,oyal on Wednesday evening. The prizes were distributed to the scholars of Holy Trinity Church Suyday School yesterday; afternoon ■ by Mr To bin, wlio kindly officiated on ■oscou.m, of Vhq unavoidable a'l>senee of the Hey. S. Davics. Eigh-ty-eight prizes were given for work c-\tending1 over 10 months. Needless lo say the school is in v flourishing condition. Mr A. iPicMe qonUuvn-s tv d,how his failb. in Tauruug'a proy«rties us »i medium for luvestmeut, ha\ inij. purcha^tHl Fodks" six-roomed house -and hali-an-ucre of land, on the eastern side of Cameron Hoad. Mr Dickie boloiig« to the "solid" class of investors and has no|\v very considerable int>erests in tin 15or«ugh of Tauranga. •What is lahoiu- '? " asked the Teacher . Snid the school giil, sinnrl ami bright r "ft is Labour to Uo coughing1, As some people do, all uigiht ! •'What, is Capital V " he asked lu-r. Alter a brief interval. "Woods' Great Peppermint Cure!" she answered, "Mother says that's Capital:"l 7