TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

Messrs Redstone and Sons' coache ; for Wairoa, Via Tiniroto and Morere, and also for the Coast, leave toAvn at 7 a.m. on Monday.

Several bee-keepers m the Wairarapa district were prosecuted recently and fined for not complying Avith the instructions of Inspector Jacobsen m the matter of destroying foul brood.

An entertainment of high; merit will be provided by ';the i City,- Band in '"tho Recreation Ground to-morroAV afternoon. Mir Lighten,, who has only- had the band for three weeks, has selected some classical music . »' .

Tlie plebiscite of ratepayers m regard to the tramway proposal for Petone re-, suited as follows: For municipal tram-, Avays, at an estimated cost of £10,000, 117 A-otes; for syndicate tram Avays, 273 votes ; informal votes, 27. There are about 1000 ratepayers on the Petone roll.

A children's carnival is to be held at Mangapapa next Friday night, the fixture being so arranged that children Avill have the benefit of the moonlight when out. It is anticipated that there will bs a large attendance. Tlie juvenile portion of the. entertainment ceases at 10.30. On Thursday night the fortnightly social for adults will be held.

Mr Reeve, A*ice-president of the Auckland Hotel Employees' Union, Arho has been on a visit to Gisborne m connection Avith matters affecting the Gisborne branch,' returned to Auckland by today's steamer. At a conference Avith the three proprietors Avho were not bound by the agreeement, a satisfactory agreement was agreed to, whereby all the hotel proprietors are now parties to the agreement.

At the Axemen's Carnival at . Raitaratahi this afternoon, additional results were : Handicap standing block. — W. Wilson (12seec handicap) 1 ; 0. BloAves (14sec) 2; W. Beck (scr) 3. Time, lmin lesec. This Avas a good go, and ( the placed men Avere very close. Double-handed sawing. — W. Wilson and McKay (6sec) .1; Grantham and Olsen (scr) 2 ; W. Beck and W. Blowes (6sec) 3. The logs fell almost simultaneously.

Mr Allan Stewart writes from Argenl tina to his father, Mr George Stewart, of Binnawee :— "Tine great excitement j during this week Was the water being i cut off. As a result, there is a fearful I roarj. and 100 rockets were fired into the j air m one part of the city to draAV a I crowd. A monster meeting was held, at [ which it Avas decided to blow up the municipal buildings and bomb the officers unless Water Avas supplied m their homes. The people got what they de-manded—-and fever with it, that being the reason Avhy it was cut off."