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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7932, 4 January 1906, Page 6

While in New Zealand Mr T. Bruce, Mayor of Adelade, is on the look-out for a discarded dredge which can be secured for use at Lake T6rrens, where constant dredging ft required. The Glasgow Town Council,during a discussion on the report of the Housing Commission, ex-Bailie Battersy said the drink bill of Glasgow was £3,200.000 per annum, or £4 5s per head, and two thirds of that was credited to the working classes. A highly interesting account of Lionel Terry, who, it appears, was partner in the London Arm, Messrs Terry [and Co., estajbe agents and mortgage brokers, appears in a London taper. There is good reason to suppose that his father, through one Edouarql Terry, was related to the great Napoleon. An. illustration which brings home to one the extent [of ithe electorate which Mr W. T. Jennings, M.H.R., represents:—Some of the ballot boxes issued by Mr T. Buobanan, returning officer, had to be sent via Auckland and Taumarnnui to their respective destinations, and then returned, a total distance of 780 miles. In ooneotion with tho New Zealand International Exhibition the Christchurch Tennis, Bowls and Croquet Club is laying out magnificent grounds in H&gley Park, r a few hundred yards distant from the Exhibition site. Oue of the bowling greens anfl several lawn tenuis courts, are already playable, and the work of extending them is being pushed ahead in order that they may all be in tournament condition by this time next y«ar. A bandsome Marseiles-tiled pavilion containing dressing-rooms, lavatories and afternoon tea-rooms, 1 has boon erected near the bank of the Avon, and it is a happy fact that the grounds can be reached just as easily, and almost as quickly- by pleasure boat as by road. As most of next season's summer sports tournaments are almost bound to be held in Christchurch the wisdom of providing these magnificent grounds is obvious.