Local and General.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 312, 4 September 1875, Page 2

Local and General.

——4 —- air Bjgcumto jCsterday rcc&ivocl a tele gram from the Honorary Secretary of the :Vcsey He wart Kcccption Cotmiilce id

Auctlamlinforming him that the ment to t e special settlers vpill of a ball pd supper, to bo held i a the Hall, Syßondßlreet. The pn C Bof *JS is OxedafWf'tt-crown, and a l arge have beoi dreadj disposed of. RUla^lt

The nX English Mai! r/«San F» due in Mckland on the Oth instant !5

We nidtrstaml that Mr M. Hanm* * success in tenderer for tho supplJ to the Amed Constabulary stationatT? * for tho.?Esuiug twelve months.

We weld remind those interested a > tenders or alterations and additions il S* Distrietdcliool must he-gent j a i 0 ij k , mairoftim School Committee bv , j “eon Eg* day.

The district Engineer completed hV.v, tho tows ievcis yesterday. It will time bflb» the work is plotted out, plan lidded in to tho Town Board. ’ **

The 'nterprising proprietors of U le laml Sto- ar» taportin, a from Ingland capable of working off copies in hour. 3

Mr .Joss, tlm contractor for the erection 0 f the n 0 premises for tho Bank of i m Zealanl in Wharf street has commenced operates. The bricks for the foundation and a congderable quantity of timber are on tk grounr, and a large number of hands emplood. From the well known business churater of Mr Boss wo augur the rapid conipttiou of these handsome buildings.

It hs been decided by the Vestry that tb e seats u the new Church will be let at the rale 6 £1 for a single seat, ami 10s for each sent ever and above. Thus:—Single sitting, £1 ; wo sittings, £1 10s; three sittings, £2! Appfcatioiw will bo received •by the Vestry forcings in the Church up to a given dale,of which due notice will be given, when applrants will have to draw lots for priority of clfiico, and thereafter seals will be allotted to 01c h applicant in Older of application on Iho jrinciple of first come first served.

M Arthur Remington advertises today a Ion; list of articles bo is able to supply to the piblic, and a reference to the advertisement will .how tho reader that remedies for almost ever ill that flesh is heir to may be obtained at fc'e Dispensary, not excluding those.articles whih are specially in demand by the believers io tho ‘‘beautiful for ever. 1 ’ Of Mr Reaington’s perfumery it is almo-’t needless to imak as the honourable mention it obtain d at tho Paris Exhibition of 18G7 is sufibient guarantee of its quality, ami doubt* lea ere this it has obtained equally honorable min!.ion by all those who have tried it for tlumselvea and eohalcd the sweet 0 lour it cl fuses.

m American paper, in an art id; on " How Misakeg Happen in Newspapers,” figures up tile yvpo used in each issue of that journal ut 600,000; that is, the actual number of bits of metal arranged every day in preparing a newspaper of that size for the press. “We suppose fiw people think of the printing trade as 0 ic of the most exact and pailicular of all handicrafts, but it is. wiaffons that migld ’ jj oiV od in the finest .( ,«»laaa It is very rarely that typo furn shed by two pirate foundries can be used together without a great deal of trouble, though they try to make it afier the same standard. Wo read on ’o in a wh’e of a wonderful puce of cabinoi work, or mosaic work, <o darning 10, 39, 5C tho isand pieces, the mal e* of which has spirit months, or oven years of labour in producing it, and people go to see it as a curiosity; but the most elaborate and careful !y-filed piece of work of this kind ever made does not compare with that which tho printer does every day for minuteness of detail and accuracy of fitting. The man who docs the lint is looked upon as an artist —a marvel of skill—ami if ahmded of his pieces tire put in wrong side up or turned the wrong way, it is not observed in the general effect; but if the printer, i 1 fitting ten tirrrs ns many pieces together in a single day put oic where another should bo,or turns one the wrong way, everybody sees it,and is amazed at ‘ the stupid careletaness of those printers.’ ”