LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Torday O'Otwns showed more, acf.vity than usual, being sold up to 6s lid, aiud! it is reported that a goodly numben of .parcels ohamged, hand®. Wa.ita.ngis also fiitmed, sales being made alt Is 2d to 41s 6d, and tiliere are (buyers 4s id. Wiaii6tah".s were done at 3s. May Queens 'had an upward tendency, lines 'being exchanged 1 at le 8d and Is 9d. Alburnias also were firm, sales ait is 3d. Caledonians were doin:e at 9Jd, aaid Southenn Queens s|d and -od. Phoenix were in better demand, gales b^eing made at 10^d. Other lineei showed no change.
The time lor receiving tender* for the erecltiion of a printing office at Paeiroa has been eafteud'ed to 5 p.m. off the 20th inst. '
The 'HWiraiki Band Minst-rei and Concerto Party will give a drawingroom emitertainmieint in. th© Odd'fel■liowtei' (Hall on July 23rd.
Oapt. Edwin <wire|s toniay: "Wind southerly; inwderate to citron? winds ; glass ipise slowl" • tides moderate; sea moderate; iprofoably very cold night."
A preliminary notice is in«wt«d by the No. '1 Thames Rifles who intend holding a ooncart atnid danoe in the Oddf el tows' Hall on ThuiiadaT, July 9ttu
On our first and fourth pages: — Northern S.S. Oo'« Time-table; M&'.l ■Notices; 'Mining News; Local tund General; The Football Seaeon; Engli«h 'Footballers; Latest Cubles and Telegrams.
The new quarters of Parliament are stall' far from being in a at ate of aieadvneasl if or the ; s©B|sii«|ii, and to have the pla'C© completed and cleared up by the end otf the mnomitih double gangs' of men will have to be worked. It iis (understood thfa will be done.
Tib many Coroimiandel friends of Captain Airtihiuir R.i.chiairdi9, Mining Inspector oni the West Coast, will be pleased to learm that he has practically recovered! (from his recent illness. Ha is expected to pay & visit to the Northern Goldifielde ait a.n early date in order 1 ito irewuiperate, and! leaves Weillinigtotai for the North, via. the East Ooast to-morrow. •
A' very fine 'criUectto'ii of films Of Niew Zealandi life and eioenery (esipe-. idilally of the Hot Lakes district) has been senib to Hfriei. Franco-Br'.tiish Exhibition, in order to fainiiiliarise the British' and Oontiinental v'.sitors with tne possiiibilitie'S of New Zealand ac a fcoiuntry Ifoi 4 settlement, ' commerce, sjKci'tb, and! for. retiuiperatiion iiin> eapecally beautiful aaid; healtEfuT surroundings.
At the :la.yim,g of the foundation stone of the Hokitnfca. Post Office the othler day, Sir Joseph Ward, who placed a bottle conitainrng coins, etc, in the cavity, remarked jocularl"- that the icoims would be a 'find' for someon© »m« day. The Prime Minister possibly (had in mind a finder -who inflight dig lhund,rede of years hesc^. The real finder knocked a brick or ti\vo o<u'it. the same nifght, and got away with, the bottled coin.
There hiaw bieten a good demamd for brown amd gi^eani dress materials this season*, and thee© colors are still selling well in both plaiin and striped goods ait W. S. Wylie's, wheire you can gelt hiiigh. cilass .goods at aibout wholesale prices.—Advt.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10441, 15 June 1908, Page 2
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