TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9487, 26 July 1902, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The To Anau left Auckland for Gis borne at 1 p.m.

The Cook Memorial Committee this afternoon decided to ask Parliament to vote £500 to the fund.

A sad accident happened at Wahnate on Wednesday to a two-year-old child of Mr Blac.dey. While playing in the father's yard a horse kicked out, and struck the child on the forehead. It is not expected to recover.

The following have booked passages for Southern ports per s.s. Te Anau, leaving at 5 p.tn; to-morrow:—Misses Williams, Valentine ; Messrs Dewing, Busham, Burrows, Godart, Hood, Kruger, Sullivan, Meyers, Graham, Shaddock, and Kenway.

It is a grim satire on our boasted Health Department (says the Bruce Herald) that no effort lias been made by the powers that be to compel all banks to issue clean notes. At present some of the banks issue notes sufficiently "smellful" to bring an envious sigh from a decayed dust heap, and turn a myriad microbes, in a plague hospital, green with envy.

The railway revenue for the colony for the four-weekly period ended the 21st June was £142,286, and the expenditure £91,191. The revenue from the different sections whs as follows:—Kawakuwa, £172 ; Whaugtirei, £1308 ; Kaihu, £150 ; Auckland £15,715; Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth, £33,870; Hurunui-Bluft1, £77,858; Westland, £5544; West-port, £717; Nelson, £772; Picton, £815. The percentage of revenue expended for a twelve-monthly period to June 21st was 67.30, as against 62,29 to the co-responding date of last year.

A curious circumstance is l-elated by Mr B. L. O'Brien, Gaoler at New Plymouth, in his animal report to the Inspector of Prisons. He writes:—"The tradesmen here, or at least some of them, liave evidently an understanding between themselves as to who shall tender for supplies to the prison and who shall not. For instance, the only tender received for meat was at 5d \kv ration. This is at the rate of 7d per pound. This, I consider, au extortionate price. I afterwards interviewed some of the other local retail butchers to try and induce some of them to tender, but they very politely declined ; in fact, one of them admitted to me that he did not care to supply the prison with meat even aa an ordinary customer, let alone to tender for it. . The same applies to the chemists; not one of them sent a tender, although they were all invited to do so. During the ensuing year, however, I hope to arrange for a supply of medicines from Wellington, and brforu next December the local chemists may think better of it."