NEW PLYMOUTH

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 28

NEW PLYMOUTH

(From Our Own Correspondent.) On August 23rd Di’ Valentine and Mr Campbell, the Government architect, will visit here for the purpose of fixing on the site for the annex to the local hospital for the special treatment of consumptive©. The site, as far as I can at present learn, will be on the high ground on the east side of the hospital. Dr V alentine has been notified that .£I3OO will be available for building and equipping the annex. Oh Thursday morning the Rarawa, from O'nehunga, was brought into the port against the signals and some damage was done to the wharf and steamer. The harbourmaster reported the matter to the Harbour Board to-day, adding that great risk was run in the way the passengers were landed, and some ladies fainted. He also stated that one lady lost a purse containing £25, evidently owing to the way the landing wag carried out. At the Harbour Board meeting to-day it was decided to draw the attention of the Northern Steamship Company to Captain Norbury's practice of entering the port against the signals and to claim a sum of £3O odd for damage done to the wharf, etc. It seems that some misunderstanding exists between Captain Hood (harbourmaster) and Captain Nor bury (captain of the Rarawa). The Board's action will probably mean that the whole affair will have to be ventilated by means of an inquiry. Wednesday last was a "red letter" day in the history of the town, owing to the intense interest manifested in the football match Taranaki v. Britain. Th "special'’ of the “New Zealand Times” has dealt fully with the matter ao I need not ent.er into details here. The petroleum prospecting bore at. Moturoa is now down to a depth of 1300 feet, intermittent gas explosions being experienced. During the next fortnight or so it should be demonstrated whether or not oil can be struck in the bore. The general orderliness of a New Zealand crowd was demonstrated on Wednesday last, when the police had only to accommodate one person for drunkenness. There were about 10,000 persons at the football match, fully two-tliirds coming from outside the town, yet there w T as only one instance in which the police had to exercise their powers. This is striking proof that the average New Zealander knoAVs hoAV to conduct himself. The project of starting a co-operative bacon and pork retailing factory near Neiv Plymouth has been warkmly taken up by the farmers, and there is every rea.son to believe that the project will take concrete form in a feiv days. I understand a good and constant supply of pigs can be commanded by such a factory. Mr W. Stuart, formerly Resident Magistrate and Registrar here, is on a visit, and may re-settle here, as he has retired from the Government service at Wellington. The local hotels had a regular harvest this week over the football fixture.