LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1199, 17 December 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

| Owners of race horses are reminded that | Saturday night next is the date fixed for I general entries in '..connection with Waerenga-a-hika Jockey Club Boxing Day Races. ...A conference of the County and Borough .Council, ?-e the Ormond-Gighome Tramway, will be held this evening, in the Oe__ty Council chambers, .where ive trust that sufficient data will be furnished to enable the two bodies to arrive at a definite conclusion as to the acceptance or rejection of the proposal for the construction of a permanent line. Opinions, we know* are divided as to the utility of the scheme, but after all, something may be decided upon, which will be of real advantage to the publio, and if so, there can be no doubt, that the opposition will be overcome, and the project conducted to a satisfactory issue.

The steam ship Tararua will arrive during the night. The last boat will leave for her at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning, * We clip the following from the Soutli' - land Times :— -Before the Waste Lands Board on Thursday appeared, in company with his father, a very young man, who had made the statutory declaration that he was over 18 years old in order ,tb secure a deferred-payment section, No possible convexity of spectacles could enable the members to see 18 years in the youth, who might possibly be a very ordinary grown I boy of 13. The father when pressed admitted he was not "quite" 18, a statement which was' endorsed, with a considerable" margin probably, by the Board. The amount of deposit, £16, was declared forfeited, and to add. the last drop of bitterness to the father's cup he was informed that, being a deferred-payment settler under the old Act, he could have applied for and got the land himself without using the boy. as a "dummy." Now that the holiday season is so rapidly approaching, suitable attires for such occasions as picnics, boating excursions, and the thousand-arid-one holiday employments, or, rather, as we should say enjoyments, mtist be procured, Parnell & Boylan^ advertise some specialities -ft), this way, which our lady readers will doubtless take an early opportunity of inspecting. (See Windows.— Advt.) ' -' v . . ,