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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 156, 27 November 1895, Page 2

Owing to pressure on our advertising space the usual instalment of " Ancient Maoriland " is held over. Geyskui.axd. Gi.acieki.axd, Fiordl.AN'D- -An Illustrated Guide to the Beauty Spots of New Zealand. On sale at the Chronicle office.* C. Birss runs a wagonette between Lake House and the Baths, morning, forenoon and afternoon. Fares, Gd and !)d.* A concert in aid of the funds of the Catholic Church will take place in the Pukeroa Hull on December 20. The Town Board invite tenders for the erection of a post, toprail and wire fence round the football area on the Pukeroa Reserve. Tenders must be lodged by Tuesday next. Lieut.-Col. Roberts will hold a court at Taupo on December 18, and in consequence of this arrangement the next court here will sit on Mondav, December 23rd. The Rev. C. Worboys of Opotiki conducted Presbyterian service in the schoolroom last Sunday morning and evening. He will officiate on the next two Sundays. It is stated that Lord Glasgow intends to pay a visit to the Urewera country early in March and will in all probability tour the Hot Lakes District at the same time. Mr T. W. Maunders of the Hamilton Furniture Warehouse notifies in another column that ho is prepared to supply wooden and iron bedsteads, mattresses, paperliangings &c., at surprisingly low prices for cash. According to those who are in a position to judge there is every likelihood of a rise in the price of Hour soon. Advices from Australia show that Victoria and Now South Wales will have to import largely. x Mr Fred V. Kirby, brother of the late editor of the Napier News who recently paid a short visit to tins district, is about to publish a book on African Sport, the outcome of IS years' experience in the interior of the " Dark Continent." The Cliristchurch Press states:—"MiReeves will be remembered in time to come as the author of a small number of very good poems, and a largo number of very bad bills." Commenting oil the above the H. B. Herald says : —" Would that the bills were bettor and the poems worse." The Government has completed arrangements for throwing open 10 sections of iand in the Maraeroa-Oturoa Block. The land is at present covered with mixed forest, and the forest is described as light and suitable for grazing. The areas of the sections will vary from 118 to 518 acres. The land will be sold by auction. Mr W. Rogers, of tin; Hinemoa store, draws attention in our business columns to an array of Christmas delicacies which he has provided in anticipation of the demands which will bo made on his resources during the approaching festive season. Shoals of fish have been observed in the lake by several people of late. They have on several occasions been noticed pursuing the inanga or native white bait, but it has not boon ascertained whether they are white fish or trout. In consequence of the damage done to the young trees by horses which are allowed to parade the streets at all hours the Town Board have signified their intention of prosecuting the owners of such. According to the Police Offences Act the owners of animals so straying are liable to a penalty up to £lO. The unfortunate man O'Shea who was scalded to death at Tokaanu last week formerly worked for Mr Crosby late of the Rotorua Hotel. He had also, previous to working for Mr Strew, been engaged by Father Smeares in the erection of the Roman Catholic Church at Waihi, about 2 miles north of Tokaanu. Mr Gavin, the chairman of the Tc Arolia Domain Board, in objecting to the way in which the local paper had alluded to the Government favoring Rotorua in opposition to To Arolia, expressed the opinion that if everything were taken into consideration Te Arolia had received even more money than Rotorua. Mr James Mills writes to the Waikato Advocate to the same effect. As briefly mentioned in last issue Mr Phillips has completed the standard and alignment survey of the town, having repegged every corner and permanently adjusted the building line. Levels have also been taken on longitudinal sections and all cross sections of the area included in the town belt. The plans of the whole survey have been forwarded to the Auckland office and residents will shortly be ble to obtain any information they desire in refesence to their building levels. Mr Phillips has departed for To" Arolia, for survey work in that locality. On Saturday last a team of bullocks attached to a dray and left unattended bolted down Tutanekai Street and before they were stopped succeeded in uprooting several trees and " knocking to scatteration " their attendant treeguards in Tutanekai and Haupapa Streets. Constable Murray arrested the team and placed it in the lock-up yard until those supposed to he in charge put in an appearance. The team turned out to be the property of the Horolioro natives and was under the care of two lads named Hare Piripi and Hemopo. The parties will be proceeded against under the Police Offences Act.

Miss Amy Vaughan and her troupe of Amazons, who have been drawing crowded houses in the Auckland City Hall on Saturday nights for some time past, will appear in Rotorua during the race week. Messrs Wynyard and Purchas, banisters and solicitors, have removed from High Street, Auckland, to Bank of New Zealand Chambers, Queen Street. The firm is agent for that block of land on a portion of which Mr Maunders is erectmg his boarding house, and wo understand that the remaining allotments tire f;tsi being taken up. Tourists in search of greenstone ornaments or otli('r mementoes of their visit to this quarter of the globe will do well to call on Mr E. Spencer on Queen-street wharf, opposite the railway station. Luge assortments of New Zetland curios j of every description are kept on hand and i an inspection of these will prove of the greatest interest. Messrs Thos. Cook and Sju, whose names are familiar as household words in every quarter of the world penetrated by tourists, insert their business announcement in this issue. Those desirous of travelling by land or sea with as little personal trouble in the matter of arrangements as is possible will find their difficulties smoothed over by application at the Auckland office in Queen-street. Messrs Cook and Son will ojr-n a branch office here next month. On account of the indisposition of His Honor Judge Wilson there was no' sitting of the Native Land Court on Saturday. Business was, however, resumed on Monday. Since the opening of the Court Judge Wilson's labors have been most engrossing, many of the cases requiring the closest scrutiny. Mr Hammond has also had to bear his share of the burden but he has been affjrded some relief by the appointment of an assistant, Mr Sheridan, who arrived on Monday night. Mr R. Wake has now completed the alterations to his store in Fenton street, opposite the Grand Hotel, and in another column publishes a digest of the goods which he offers to the public. Mr Wake's stock is a most comprehensive one, and selected with a discrimination which cannot fail to attract purchasers. A perusal of the list is sure to be followed by a visit to the store. The Herald states : —" Some surprise has been evinced at the old man Duncan Campbell being sentenced at Rotorua to six weeks' imprisonment in Mount Eden gaol, for having no visible means of .support, although without hard labour, it appears that he lias been several times in the Costley Home, but had voluntarily cleared out. He was rather eccentric in his conduct there, and yet had a good deal of method in his eccentricity." The Surveyor-General, Mr S. Percy Smith, arrived at the Geyser House, Whakarowarowa, last night after a very disagreeable journey from Taupo. He will, it is expected, remain hero for a few days. One of the objects of the Surveyor-Gen-eral's present visit is to report upon the sanitary conditions of the town with a view to their improvement. The desired increase, in tin: Bath accommodation and other matters will also receive attention. A party of officers from the Italian warship now in Auckland harbour, including Prince Luigi of Savoy, and Signor Corte, Italian consul at Sydney arrived here or: Monday, putting up at the Grand Hotel. Undeterred by the storm yesterday, the party, under the guidanceof Mr Warbrick, visited Tarawera and Whakarewarewa. At night alialra took place in the Pukeroa Hall which was witnessed by the strangers with much interest. The party loft for Auckland this morning. At a general meeting of the Presbyterian Church congregation held after service on Sunday evening last the vexed question of a suitable church site was finally decided. It was resolved by an overwhelming majority to adhere to the site in Pukuatua-stroet, the lease of which was secured at the last land sale. The section at the rear which the Government were induced to put up for competition at Friday's sale will therefore not be required, unless it may be decided to secure it as a suitable location for a manse. Reference was recently made to the erection of certain small cottages by the natives on the Turoekuroe section Whakarewarewa for letting purposes. A visitor describes them as a " congeries of tin shanties" and avers that they neither improve the landscape or appeal to the sympathies of those in search of a limitation. Perhaps the present visit of the Surveyor-General may expedite the completion of the Government title to Whakarewarewa when these exeresences could bo obliterated. There are also, it is understood, one or two native interests in the new township unbouglit. The following alterations in the railway service will take place from Monday next, December 2: —On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays the Auckland train will arrive here at-1.00 p.m., and on Mondays and Wednesdays at 8.40 p.m., instead of 7.15 p.m. The hour of departure for Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's trains remains as before, but on Tuesdays and Thursdays tiie hour has been altered from 4.45 a.m. to 7.30 a.m. To suit this arrangement mails will be delivered at the Post Office counter on the early train days at 7 o'clock, and on the late train nights on the following morning. Mails close at the local office on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6..'10 a.m.; on the other days the hour of closing will remain as now, viz., 8 a.m. Mr H. Piper, of Akaroa, Canterbury, who has been in this district for the past few days has returned from Galatea. He acquired a large interest in the Waioliau Block some years ago, but owing to some complications with the natives he has never been able to take possession. His recent journey was undertaken with the view to effect a settlement, hut in this he was only partially successful, The area claimed amounts to 3,500 acres which is held under a land transfer title, twice removed. The natives allege that the original owner obtained the land by fraud, and have never allowed Mr Piper to put a foot on the ground. There is a native settlement on the other portion of the block. On arriving there last Thursday and again on Sunday much discussion took place, the outcome of which was that matters should remain in abeyance until the Premier came up in January. If a satisfactory settlement is arrived at then the natives will give Mr Piper peaceable possession, but if the Premier thinks it advisable that it should be settled by the Supreme Court they will go there.