Bay of Plenty Times FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5662, 9 June 1911, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Matamala County Council has been informed Unit section 76, 0 l the Selwyn settlement, is to be set aside as a stock paddock. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening at 7, .o'clock, to consider the matter of m taking action regarding the building of the new (ire brigade station. Amongst those accompanying the New /..•aland League Footballers to Sydney is Mr C. E. Bonner, formerly of Tauranga. The team leaves Auckland on Monday. Mr 'C. H. Trigg, ) u r,d and estate agent, reports the sale of 100 acres of land at To Matai, on behalf of iur A. Lemon to Mr S. Serjeant, of Te Puke, who intends to ounu and settle on the property. Tho s.s. Ngatia,wa registered a smart ;run on the trip from Auckland last night. The vessel lert the Railway Wharf (Auckland) at 4.20 p.m. yesterday, and berthed at tho Town Wharf here at 5.55 a.m. today' . The auxiliary schooner Wuiapu arrived from Aucklund on Wednesday afternoon, and left for the North again at noon yosterday. : Captain Johannsen hopes to leave Auckland again for Tauranga at 2 p.m. on Saturday, weather permitting. On Wednesday wo had the pleuisure of receiving.'ai splenuid specimen of the Granadilla passion fruit, a native oi the; trollies, grown at the Tauranga Fruit Testing station. The fruit weighed nearly two pounds ami was oi splendid Uavour and fully matured. The Auckland Acclimatisation So-ei-ty received by the Mutatua yesterday a consignment of old EeglisA and Chinese ring-necked pheasants.' Out of 24 birds shipped from Lon don. 16 arrived in splendid condition. The birds will b^ forwarded t ( , the society's breeding place at Okoroire. A further shipment of cock pheasants 'in expected by the next boat. The Electric Biograph Co. advertise their neyv programme tor tomorrow night's performance at the Opera House. It looks like something good, and it will not be surprising if the hall is as crowded as it was last Saturtlay. Te Puke people will have an opportunity of enjoying this entertainment on .Wednesday next. The Harbour View, Grill and Supper Rooms, on the western side of Messrs Norris and Bell's new build- j ing, ;are now open to the public, me dining-room is a most spacious apartment overlooking the harbour, and furnished as it is in the latest style, bears a very presentable appearance. I The proprietresses of the estat'lishI ment—Mrs Rutter and Miss Pileher I —are determined to do their pat t in catering for the requirements of the public. ■Judgment was given "by Air Dyer, S.M., this morning in the assessment case in which 'P. Floyd objected to the assessment of certain allotments lease* by him from the Borough Council. Mr Dyer referred to the Act setting out that theannual value could not' be iess than 5 per cent, of the selling value. He said he. thought the valuer had followed the -Act on «. proper basis, and the valuation would be sustain- J cd. The assessment of the allotments is £60. | Wolfe's Schnapps, a wholesome and f palatable stimulant. 1 At the S.M. Court this morning, Mr Dyer gave judgment in the case Win. West v. A Ferguson, in which the latter was charged with wilfully obstructing Harvey Street, an the Borough of Tauranga. by erecting [ and maintaining a fence thereon. Mr ißyer stated that the case was practically narrowed to one point as to whether the Municipal Corporations Act impliedly repealed the section of the Offiences Act, hewing on the case. He hdd that the two sections were not absolutely repugnant, ami, therefore, there was not an implied appqil. He recorded a conviction and allowed costs £1 '8s to informant. 'Tis only a mother know the pair. Of hearing coughs again and again ; And children's coughs caus-' iryik'e cn-iucrh. Unless they swallow the proper stuff. Now Woods' Great Peppermi.tt Cure's the thing Which into tho nursery health can bring. B.; gi^e your children a ''ose etch nisiit. "Twill keep them well, .in 5, si rone. and brieht. 1"