TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10881, 26 January 1907, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

Auckland, sailed 2 p.m., Mokoia, for Gisborne. One hundied and fifty passengers arrived from South by the s.s. Wimmera this morning. No fewer than live hundred cases are on the list before the Native Land Court now sitting in Wellington. Constable Cliisholm, gaoler, is under orders to transfer to Hastings, and is to be succeeded by Constable Davey of Ormondville. The new Publishing Company formed in Wellington has purchased a section for £8000 facing "Plimmer's Steps," on which it is intended to erect offices. The New South Wales bowlers arrived at Rotorua on Thursday, and were entertained by the Rotorua Bowling Club. They did the lake trip yesterday. A special haka was arranged for Friday night at Wliakarewarewa. To-day they engage in a six-rinks match with the Rotorua club. Mr Robert Sloper, a well-known Amberley farmer of forty years' standing, died at midday on Tuesday last, at his residence, Glasnevin, from the result of an accident the previous Friday, caused by falling from the top of a dray load of sheaves whilst carting-m from Jus harvest field. During their visit to Waikaremoaiia (says the Wairou Guardian) Mr J. Hunter Brown, Captain Kennedy and his son, secured 46 trout, weighing 2361bs in .the lake. The fishing was intermittent, as the weather wis wet and boisterous. Captain Kennedy got five fish in the Waikare-ta-heke, averaging 31bs each. Three were brown and two rainbow trout. The following, have booked passages for Southern ports per s.s. Mokoia to-nior-row afternoon : Misses Symes, Winter, Longargiin, Fonsonby. 'M. Fox, McDowell, Scarf e Tustin "Mollumby, Nelson, Hands-on; Mesdames Buelmnan and two .children, 'Lynch, D. Caldwell, Gould and child, Scarf e and infant, Ballantyne, Farmer, Denningtdn and 2 children, Taylor ; Messrs Symes, G. Grant, Sharp, Dyer, C. Alexander, Scott, Ranger, Clements, J. Winter, H. D. Nicolson, Cockerell, J. H. Bradshaw, Ballantyne, H. Bayly, Peacock, J. Blair, T. Sponce,- Clinch, McGinnley, Deunington, J. Burberg, J. Duncan. B. Smith, Pearson, Masters Gardiner, Holloway, Dramatic Company.