LOCAL NEWS AND NOTES.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 168, 19 February 1896, Page 2

LOCAL NEWS AND NOTES.

Tourists travelling between Eotorua and Auckland, can roly upon getting an excellent hot luncheon at the Frankton Hotel, Frankton Juncton, where the train stops 20 minutes.* Tenders are required by Mr C. E< Kusabs for clearing, ploughing and harrowing 7.1 acres of scrub land. The next regular meeting of the Town Board takes place on the 27th inst. Mr C. Crowther of tho Atiamuri Hotel is applying for the removal of his liconse to a house near crossing of the Waikatd river on the new Taupo-Eotorua road, At the recent Medical Congress in Dunodin Dr Hope Lewis of Auckland read a paper on''The New Zealand Thermal Springs." Dr Emily Brahierd Eyder, who has been lecturing on various social topic sin Auckland recently is about to pay a 'dsit to Eotorua.

We hav§ received twenty two subscriptions of one shilling each in aid o) the testimonial to Harry Giles. Those desirous of subscribing will please do so without delay. A subscription list has been opened in Taupo on behalf of Mrs Park and family. The officers of the Telegraph Deparment in Wellington and elsewhere are also subscribing fop the same purpose. Reference to our business columns will show that the Eotorua Brass Band contemplate holding Athletic Sports on the race course on >S't Patricks Day " in the morning." The evening will bo utilised by the Eotorua Joo'<ey Club who purpose holding a plain and fancy dress ball in the Pukeroa Hall. Mr J. McEae, of the Waverley Hotel Auckland, and so long identified with this district, has been whipping the streams hero for the past few days with considerable success. He obtained good baskets from the Ngongotaha creek and better still from the Tauknnaatara stream, Horohoro, Humours have been rife of late of petitions being got up for various purposes. Tho most unique, however, is one by the natives asking for the removal of the native policeman on the grounds that under his jurisdiction tho native women have a difficulty in getting their beer; that he wont allow them to knock about at night; and that he objects to women with babies (altering the Court-house. Harry Jeffs, jockey, who is at present training tho horse Wlritifor Mr A. Mnnro 'met with a severe mishap on Monday morning. Tho horse bolted with him at the race course, rushed along Fonton street and so on to the' lake shore where both came to grief. Jeffs was severely injured on the back of tho neck and shoulder? and though no serious results are anticipated he will ho confined to bed for a day or two.

Judge Gill returned from the Coast on Saturday. Ho spoaks highly of the crops between Te Puke and Tauranga. Mr mid Mrs Maunder who were taken to the Waikato Hospital suffering from the effects of the late fire, are now progressing towards secovery. Some thoughtless, individuals proceeded the other day to cut down the manuka tree's whioh,-on account of their size had been left standing for ornamental pin-poses in the outer Sanatorium grounds, hear Picnic Point. Notices are posted lip in the grounds warning the public against depredations of this sort and as in this case the delinquents are known action will be taken against them as a warning to others. It is as well to s!;ate no malicious motive actuated the wrong doors; they simply wanted a little firewood. The usual monthly meeting of the Library Committee took place on Friday night. Pre .sent: MoSßrsPuvcell (chair) Williams.Boord. McAuloy, Watt. Neighbour (hon. see.) The treasurer's statement showed a balance in hand of .£'2 17s lid. The idea of a promenade concert in the Sanatorium groua-li in ail of the funds was favorably considered. The Chairman said he woul 1 endeavor to obtain the consent of Mr M ili'roy and Dr Cinders, and on this being Secured the concert committee were iuipowercd to make arrangmonts for hoi ling an entertainment on February 28. Next to having seen the lost Pin't and White Terraces in all their wonderful beauty a view of the paintings ta'-en by Mr C. Blomfield. artist, is the best way to arrive at an idea, of these glorious specimens of Nature's handiwork. Visitors to Rotorua never fail to admire; thcr. paintings Whioh adorn the hall ways of La' e House and the Palace Hotel and it is therefore satisfactory to Know that duplicates may be obtained at the artists studio in Karangahape Eoad, Auc' land. We understand that Mr Blomfield is ma'-ing. arrangements for exhibiting other specimens of his work in Rotorua.

Professor Thomas of the Auckland University, made a trip to Taraweral ist. Saturday for the purpose of collecting fresh material for lecturing purposes. It is a little over nine years since Professor Thomas paid his last visit to the scene of the eruption, and the chancres in that time are most valuable from a geological point of view. Samples of waters from two of tiie cold springs on the Tarawera shore have been taken to Auckland for analysis as it is thought that til >y contain valuable medicinal properties. Mr H. McDonald accompanied Professor Thomas during his explorations. During the past week the surface-men have cleaned the drains on either side of the main road from the Pukeroa Hall to the Utuhina Bridge, and the water now meanders along the channels, sparkling and clear as the famous fountain of Bandusia;, though a triflohotter. A drain has also been dug along tin; Tarewa road to receive the outflow from the pools that still show signs of geyser action there. This, and the cutting of frees on either side, will tend to make the roadway per feetly dry. A road has also been made from the' Tarewa road along the railway line into Pukuahia-st. This will give the people access from that part of the town to the newly opened gravel pits. Mr W. E. Abbott, ;v recent visitor to Rotorua, writes to the Herald pointing out the manner in which the railway and steamboat arrangements clash to the great inconvenience of Australian tourists. His suggestion is that if Monday's Sydney steamer started four hours later persons could leave Rotorua on that day instead of the Friday previous. This would give them three days longer to view the Wonderland, which would bo a considerable inducement to those with only a limited time to spare. This, however, would necessitate the steamers leaving port aftor nightfall which is objectionable. A better way out of the difficulty would be to make Monday's express really an express and not a funeral procession—leaving here at 8 a.m. and getting into Auckland at 3 p.m. [A telegram received since above was in type notifies that the steamers of the Huddart-Parker line will in future leave on Mondays at 7 p.m.] According to a discussion which took place at the last meeting of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society it would appear that in face of the Gazette notice issued some time ago, by which the County of Rotorua was tacitly included in the Auckland district, .ve are still beyond the pale, and are in no district whatever. The Secretary of the Auckland Society is only now in receipt of a telegram from the Colonial Secretary's office stating that a proclamation would be shortly issued, including this district. It was determined, on this being done to put a stop to the wholesale destruction of trout both on the part of natives and Europeans at Rotorua. If such practices were permitted the Luke would be stripped of fish. It was also said that trout had been sent from Rotorua and exposed for sale in an Auckland fishmonger's shop, and proceedings which had been taken against him resulted in a fine of £2 being imposed. In a discussion on the re-adjustment, of boundaries it was agreed that the whole of the Country of East Taupo, to the south and east of tho Waikato and Waiotapu rivers should be transferred to the Napier Society, but that West Taupo should remain within the Auckland district. It was stated that fishing in tho neighbourhood of Okoroire, which at first had been unsatisfactory, had fully recovered itself :md excellent bags bad been made of late. "ABSOLUTELY PURE"

Tliis is disclosure of rigid scrutiny of analytical chemists and the bxporience of those who have taken Wolfe's Schnapps as a medical agent