JOTTINGS.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 125, 15 May 1895, Page 2

JOTTINGS.

Messrs W. Kelly and James Carrol, M.11.K.5, left for Auckland on Friday morning. Some paltry pilferer has annexed the current, number of Chamber's Journal from the Library reading room. Entrance to the Pukoroa Keserve on Saturday will he by ticket which will be redemanded on the field. The charge is one shilling. Ten degrees of frost were registered by the thermometer at the Sanatorium on Sunday morning. The rainfall during the week amounted to SO points. The temperature of the Priest's Bath for the past week ranged from 102 to 103; that of the new Sulphur Bath from 101 to 112. The hottest of the three baths in the lnen's side at the new bath house will in future he known as Sir Patrick's tub. They might call the big one " Gbvett's Leap " after his private secretary. It is about time that the barbed wire surrounding many of the street trees in the now township was removed. Some of the frees also might, follow suit. The former is a nuisance, the latter an eyesore. Unless something is speedily done to Tutanekai Street, in the neighborhood of the station the road will soon he impassible. The recent rains have had l>, marked effect upon it. A very handsome mantelpiece is ia course of erection in Mr Wake's billiard room. It is principally composed of carvings from the second Arawa canoe and is of totara with a shelf of polished rimu. Mr A. 11. Wilson, special correspondent for the Canterbury Times is at present up Ruotoki way, having proceeded then: in anticipation of complications which were expected to occur with the natives, but which have happily been averted. Mr Wilson may be expected in Itotorua ill the course of the ensuing week. There has been a plethora of politicians here of late of various lAres". The "Blue" bath is said to he their favorite one thougli many have tried, the " Postmaster," as i; that functionary were not already overburdened with work. It is well for (111 average parliamentarian to accustom himself to hot water. The difficulty it political life is to keep out of it. The Rev. Frederick Langham, Chairman of the Fiji Wcsleyan district, win with Mrs Langham spent a fortnight ;:' Rotorua recently spoke to a, Herald interviewer in the highest terms of praise o: the benefit they had both received by taking advantage of the baths here. " The; ! have worked wonders," he said. " and ' cannot, speak too highly of the restorativ virtues of your thermal springs."