TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

Redstone and Sons' Coast and Tini-roto-Wairoa coaches all leave at .7 a.m. Monday. Forty of the immigrant families for. Queensland on Board R.M.S. . Omrah, which reached Melbourne last week, are said to have £30,000 cash among them. J. Peckover and Co. call attention to their advertisement of Mr Devery's property at the Point, and the easy terms on which it is offered. \ A first-class programme of musical and other, items has been prepared for the concert m Wesley schoolroom on Thursday evening next. A gentleman from Durban, South Africa, possessing considerable musical ability, will contribute a song. Although a very large addition to the berthing accommodation of the of Wellington is now -under construction m the shape of the Bang's Wharf, which is to cost over £70,000, it is understood tliat the Board will soon take into consideration the construction of another wharf of the same kind. Tiie new wharf will foe north again of the King's. The following have booked passages for southern ports per s.s. Waikare tomorrow evening : — Misses Hyde, Kirk, Laws (2), Mesdames Best, Kirk, Messrs Hanna, J. Steel, Davidson, Taylor, .Young, . Holdsworth, McCofh, Cato, Troup, R. Angell, A. Wachsman, Robertson, liyall, A. C. Steele, A. F. and F. J. Kirk, A. McKenzie, Teretiu, E. Hau, G. Elliot,. White, Laws, Simms. ■ The Maoris m this country, 6ays the Taranaki .News, have< steadfastly declined to take delivery of ratecards posted to tbem, When one of these demands arrived there was never a man known by the name of the addressee, andj the ratecards never reached their destination. But an envelope with a big blue cross, denoting registration, is always eagerly looked for, and seized with the greatest avidity. The other day a batch of these landed at a, post office down the coast, and there wa6 no difficulty m disposing of them. When opened they were found to contain demauds for payment of rates! Mr Ellis, the country clerk, had scored. Here is a little tale which has at least the merit of being true. A worthy colonial Premier was invited to one of the universities and was made much of by the students of a certain college who" owed their residence to Rhodes. Among the beauties of the 'Varsity to which they drew the Ecemier's particular attention was an oak tree said to be over 600 years old. The Premier looked at the tTee for a minute and remarked, "Six hundred years old, is it?" "Yes, sir," said his cicerone, "quote that." "Uumph!" said the Premier, "Six hundred years olil and — let's see — about sixty feet high. Why, now, m Gippsland we've got trees that ain't been planted more than twenty years, and they're over eighty feet high. That knocks you, eh?" It did.' Ministers (says the New Zealand Times) are long-suffering. The deputation craze has once more set m, and with a vengeance, too. People who have grievances are always inconsiderate. -They think, during the session, that Cabinet Ministers' time is entirely at their disposal, and they talk' not for minutes but lor hours. Oh, Monday the Minister of Labor withstood an assault from 9 p.m. -until 10.40 p.m. Yesterday the Premier had very little chance to take his seat m the House. One deputation occupied him from 12.30 until close on 2 p.m., and another from 4:30 until 5.30. In the evening the Minister of Labor listened to a deputation from 8 o'clock until ten minutes past IU. It is high time that people— and m this category members of Parliament are in-cluded-—became more reasonable, for the deputation had been reduced to an absurdity. At the meeting of the A. and P. Society this afternoon Mr Symes said the meeting should be held on June 5 according 'to the rules. — The President said the books were not ready for audit. — Mr Anderson (one of the auditors) resent, ed this, and said they were waiting for the books.— The secretary explained that the delay had occurred through the absence of Mr Kennedy, peri_ing the appointment of another auditor. He explained also that it was necessary to try. and get all the money m they could before closing tbe books. The President : Yes, that's the main thing; get the money m. — Messrs Anderson and. Symes thought the books could be closed earlier, and Mr Anderson referred to what was done m Hawke's Bay.— The secretary said that there the secretary devoted his whole time to the work and could go round and collect the money; he did the best he could under the circumstances. He would be pleased if it were impressed on members to settle early so that the books would be closed earlier. Votes of thanks were accorded to the secretary, auditors, president and committee. The president referred m very high terms to the way 'in which Mr Porter had carried out his duties, and the motion was carried with applause.