LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLI, Issue 5969, 9 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The fortnightly meeting of the. Borough Council will be held this evening.

A lirst offender was charged on Saturday before. Mr C. C. Norri?, J.P., with drunkenness, and was lined 10 s.

The annual meeting of the Tauranga Railway League will he held in the Coronation Hall on Wednesday evening at 7.3" o'clock.

Mr D. J. McEwen, County Chairman, left for Auckland by steamer on Friday evening en route to Welling ton, where he will join the delegation that is to wait on the Hon. W. 11. Herries this week in connection with the queston ot* rating of Native Lands.

The numerous acquaintances of Mr Bernard J. 'Macdonnell, second son of the late Mi B. Macdonnell, of Tauranga, will be interested to learn that he was married at Onehunga last week to Miss Eileen Hilda Quarterman, youngest daughter of Mr E. G. Quarterman, of Thames.

A very debatable matter, and one that will probably claim the attention of residents of Tauranga in the near future is tho question of letting municipal work by contract in preference to day labour. At a recent meeting of the Wangdiiui Borough Council the following resolution was carried: That the Council affirms the principle of letting all borough work above a given sum by contract, and that it be an instruction to the heads of each department not to undertake a^y works without first consulting their respective committees as to the advisability of letting such works by tender."

The Domain Board might with advantage provide a better means uf egress from the Southern end of the Domain. The present trap gate is hopelessly inadequate to empty the ground after football matches each Saturday.

Mr Austin and Mr Jolly, of Dunedin, are spending a few days in Tauranga, and are staying at the Tauranga Hotel.

The earliest recognition of political equality between the sexes was in Sweden, where taxpaying widows and spinsters have had municipal franchise since 1862. ■ The second was in Bohemia. Women who are over twentyfour years of age and pay taxes and all women of the learned professions have been allowed to vote by proxy in all of its municipalities except Prague and Liberec, since 1864. They are also allowed to vote in the same way for members of the Diet of Bohemia, and are themselves eligible for election to that body. They have not the right to vote for representatives to the Central Parliament of Austria.

A man who was rescued from the Seine at Paris was recognised as an individual who made a comfortable income out of pretended attempts at

drowning. Charitable people who saw him saved always gave him money. The imposter did not deny the charge, and the crowd gave him a sound beating and threw him back into the Seine.

Mr Mirrielees has still some Hot Water _>ags at the same very low prices.*

The Rugby football match on Saturday for the Hancock Cup between Omanawa and Whakamara'ma mill teams resulted in win fur the former by 3 points to nil. Notes on the game are held over.

The work of phntir.g fruit trees is being pushed on in Central O'Jtgo. Last week 45,000 frees reached Dunedin from Melbourne, and were all .^despatched to the Central.

Splendid for strengthening children's chests—Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, made up by Mr Mirrielees 4s Gd (part bottles.*

For Chronic Chest Complaints Woods'* Great Peppermint Curt. Is ftd &n<l _• fid.

\Vnlfc\s Schnapps ;j<T-; liuceHy ;nj.| pleasantly upuii ihe hl.iddn and hid ucys.

re morrow is th e an /^^ I ■ llmo I(Hh, 18RG. hW r^R I h; ,r uftas biils to-r^to, I re ?>!ty. "^rnw, 0f f ?j> Wk The New Zealand lio . r> P tile Agcnrv Co. | h 4n'»ilL ft? tvmorrow, n-hon in }l ' St fit-red. u?n'oj %v» W I Tht> mo »inu and ewnir, fe j taken by the U, H < p' lcr^^ ft iof At rkUitul. atMl' 2 A" Kir**** ft ? i-«-'.■». A^'u^y;! |-yon, Wa? "l;* *f.. ft Isr.R-nr. M'Kirv.-no' ' s^; §| puleorduct an ev» n e »: f W< I making for hD sub^t u^ »'ft ( jot t»-e hymr^f tt-o rocept * I Alexander Mi-sion will L U*»*i- * j ins; the service. sUnK t, | Owing to the hoc'.ev QroiM , l-'upiedu Thuv^v/tf H^ " ; \oung Ladies v. $, ho , ( ,p- ■ game between the Tru, d,, S' ft. I Tain-nnua Men', {<Mms b«J; * | eventual, ll OWinco ;^,L >cc Let ween these two f takepk.ee, w en a fall n,u<t? V E quested, as a discission \n? fe place, to ii x a suitable (U l(J t " gfc ney to Roturua, in fact it , s p K >;' that a team can he so t a*» ft Thursday week liUh ist ad v » ftbeing taken of the full m-Vuo^ft the return ;ojrnuy thi same evepp ft. bast week (JnmmansTanrartra E - shipped 107,000 ft of timber to *; X land per the vessels Ma\ \\^ ft« Caed iMillc Fail the. and Kahu - fi& Tauranga SawmiMing Compam "■£ consigned a quantity of ruru »-..'* ft^ May Howard. ' Judge Brown will arrhe here » _P evening to conduct the sittir^pf. ftNative Land Court eommmcL ,W 1 morrow. He will h v sta in, al ~|" t Tauranga Hotel. r ; A public meeting to cinsider matt^ in connection with the railway \r\, < ~ across the harbour, will be held <n'ft§* Coronation Hall on Friday evtvipe II ' A ladies' handicap bogey matchw S ' be he'd on the golf links on T^p,l- m ' June 12. Entries--with entrance i\|l Is to be handed into the SecroUrft before 3 p.m. on Wednesday, pj-1 will be drawn and posted in ihe cl f house. There will also be a nif^l" handicap bogey match on i£a"turc_ fL June 11. for a trophy proiciitel \< £ Messrs Mountfort ard Baker. Entr ft close at 3 p.m. on Friay, June r ? <. The championships will eminence ■* * the middle of July. There will \t ~ two classes for men and ore {> * ladies. For dispensing with ptitc higkf*. J quality drugo, irrespective of cost— ™ - Mirrielees, Chemist.* |-