TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6265, 29 September 1891, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

Our Panevirke correspondent writes today _«A meeting of the Fnendly Societies' Sports Committee was held last and Shugav judges, and Mr Orallan referee. It was decided to give £62 5s mi prizes. The meeting then adjourned to October Bth."

The North Otago Times says that there is expected to be a considerable falling off in the extent of the area under potatoes in the Oamaru district this year. Usually between 3000 and 4000 acres are planted, bat -this season the area is not expestfid to exceed 1500 acrea. Potatoes Have for Heverai years past been anything but a profitable crop, and the prospects for -wheat are remarkably rosy, so that the difference is accounted for.

The Hinemoa, with the Governor and suite, left Wellington for Lyttelton yesterday morning. Yesterday's N.Z Times save ■—'• The Government steamer Hinemoa ■with'HisExcellency the Governor Lady Orwlow and party on board, left for Lyttelton about four p.m. yesterday. Alter netting about three or four miles outside the Heads, Captain Fairchild advised His Excellency to return to port, as thero was every prospect of a long and rough voyage. His Excellency agreed, and the steamer accordingly returned to port, reaohing the Bailway Wharf about six p.m."

On and after the Ist October, 1891, in addition to the entrance foe of £1, the charge per annum payable in respect of the hire of any telephone instrument connected •with a Government telephone exchange shall be as follows:—To every subscriber for ft single wire, £5 per annum as from the date of connection. The above rate ie for connection with a telephone exchange of warehouses, stores, shops, and business Blaces not more than half a mile from the exchange, and of private residences not more than one mile from the exchange. For every additional rail* or fraction thereof, for each year commencing from the date of connection, and for evory_ following yoar, £1 "Where any connection with an exchange is over two miles in length, the apXaSt will be required to hold the same for five vearo, and where the line is two miles and under the term will be one year. If a connection, with a telephone exchange ««7.» fla itftteß the eroction of a new line beyond the two miles, then tie adS cCge for every mile after the eeS mile will be at the rate of £2 10s for every eucb. mile or fraction theteoi In the S of such line being used for additional wTres a proportionate reduction will be made to the original subsenber for_ every 3f» erected but in^. «. f U themj-