Local and General.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 329, 3 November 1875, Page 3

Local and General.

A leading article reviewing the late cession of Parliament is at the last moment unavoidably hold over. It will appear on Saturday. We remind members of the Tauranga Land Building and Investment Society that the monthly payment on shares are due this evening, and will bo received at the secretary’s office between the hours of half-past seven and nine o’clock. Under the supervision of Captain Marks, harbour-master, the buoys and beacons in harbour have lately been given a thorough overhaul and a good painting all round. They now present a much more respectable appearance. In our last issue in the advertisement re ferring to the approaching quarterly licensing meeting for the districts of Tauranga and Te Papa, the date should road Tuesday, the seventh day of December next instead of the 17th. We hare seen some very fine specimens of new potatoes grown by Mrs Robertson, of the Dcvouporl Road, two of which weighed nearly on?) pound. Wo are informed that the potatoes wore grown from seed obtained from natives in the district, -Owing to the stormy state of the weather on fchturday last the cricket match which was to awe come oil between the “ Civil Service and Armed Constabulary” and the ” Town and Neighbourhood” was unavoidably postponed. B the clerk of the weather permits, the match w dl be {Bayed next Saturday afternoon. We notice the following amendment to the Marriage Act, 1854, dated October 12, 1875 : "■“That the Registrar shall be entitled for eyery marriage which shall be solemnised by him to receive from the person married the sum of £1 instead cf the sum of £3, as pro l vided by the 24tb section of the Marriage Act, 1854. ” i Notice was given on Sunday last that the P'-shop of-Waiapu would visit Tauranga during present month to consecrate the Church. We have it on good authority that the Bishop •A 3 fixed Sunday, the 14th, for the coosecra‘joo, and intends to leave Napier by coach on w® bth inst.,, speodiig Sunday, the 7th, at Lwp 0 . coming on to Rotorua on the Monday, / Siting the Lake district on Tuesday, WedResclay, and Thursday, arriving here on the -nday by Mr Hannon’s coach. We underbis Lordship purposes paying Opotiki a visit during his stay in this district.

Mr ihomas Sander#, of the T.vo Pines Nursery, has already a flue show of strawberries. We sampled some yesterday after* noon, which ware of excellent flavour and quite ripe. Doubtless the sheltered post•ion of Mr Sanders' garden conduces greatly to the early maturity of all kind# of vegetables and fruit.

As announced in our last issue, the pro gramme of the entertainment to be given on Friday evening next, for the purpose of raising funds to furnish Trinity Church, appears in our advertising columns to-day. We feel sure that on perusal it wit be found as attractive as we intimated might be expected. We need hardly and anything to what we have already laid on the subject of the entertainment, but trust our predictions as to its success may be verified in the utmost degree. An accident occurred on Monday afternoon to one of the carpenters employed at the new buildings of the Bank of New Zealand. John Man no x, the man injured, was, it appears, standing on a piece of board lyinu across the floor joist a while in the act of putting up iho lining to one of the rooms, when the board on which he was standum tipped up, and, causing him to slip, he fell os. his stomach across one of the flooring joists. The accident, though happening from such s trivial cause, and in what was cons:’em! a perfectly safe place, was at first considered to be a serious one, but we are glad to learn that iho man is now progressing favorably.