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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 3 June 1913, Page 2

The annual ' meeting of the Bay 'of Plenty. Licensing Committee,takes place at Opotiki on Wednesday/and thatof the Taiiranga Licensing Committee: at Tauranga on. the following day. As the early train from Wan- • ganui was nearing Aromoho on Friday last, a pea-rifle bullet crashed through the window of a carriage occupied by Bishop Cleary, who was struck byjbroken glass. He was otherwise uninjured. The residents of Waikawa (says the Southland Times) have it that Sir Robert Stout, who owns a large block ef land in that locality, intends to erect a palatial residence on the part overlooking the bay.- 'It may be, adds our contemporary, that the Chief Justice finds the duties' of his exalted position weighing heavily upon him, and that he intends to take up his abode there. , During discussion of a transfer of a section at Pongaroa township, the . Wellington Land Board last week elicited the information that three drayloads of empty bottles had been taken off . the section. Pongaroa is in the Masterton "dry"area, and. the hotel is twenty miles away. : What is believed to be a record price for fat cattle in Taranakfl v 'was received by Mr Birdling, o| Waitara, for a line, of show fa|'[ stock, from a Christchurch buyer. The line consisted of seven heifers and five bullocks, arid the price realised was £15 Ts 6d pel', head. .. •: < A party, of' unemployed mk ' despatched from Gisborne 4a3s : week to undertake road work on ■ the Mot;u-Opotiki road. It ii ; understood (says our Whakatane 1

contemporary) that other me|n are being drafted from Wellington, and that the construction of this road is to be hurried on, according to the Minister's promised A number of business men hi Whakatane are stated to be com-, bining for the purpose of defraying the expenses of sending a number of defaulters under judgment orders to prison, as an example to others. A few of the more cunning debtors, know-', ing that the cost of sending them to prison would have to be borne in the first instance by the judgment creditor, have from time to time ignored the judgment orders made against them; and it is proposed, therefore, to show them that these orders cannot be treated with contempt. Wellington grocers, who recently formed an association, are intending to ' kick' against the record high prices now charged for bacon. At a recent meeting the question wss discussed it some length, and several members expressed the opinion that, in view of the price paid by the factories, viz., 4fd per lb.,.the price charged the retailers. Is per lb, was unwarranted, and that there was no justification for the recent rise of 2d per lb by the wholesalers. It was eventually''decided that a further

meeting be held and that the matter be exhaustively gone into. "I wo jld admit'him to proba* tionifl could," said his Honor, Mr Just ! ce Denniston, in the Christchnrch Supreme Court, when referring to a prisoner, "but he has been convicted of wilful 'and corrupt perjury, Perjury is rampant in the country. Everyone has to recognise that, in administering justice, it is treated in the very lightest way. It would be a serious thing to allow it to be thought that a man could permit perjury with impunity. I regret having to sentence this man, but I cannot allow -it to be thought that a man can commit perjury and escape by probation. I will treat the pres- ] ent case as leniently,.,as I can, and will impose a sentence that 1 is not a usual one for perjury. The prisoner will be sentenced to four months' imprisonment, and it may be thought that I have treated him with dangerous I leniency" ' , . '*

A 90-gallon Alfa-Lavai separa-' tor and a 50 gallon milk ,vat are t advertised for sale. The annual meeting of subscribers to the Te Puke Libra®:. will he held in the Mission H§/ on Saturday afternoon at 2.30. T The newly-constructed bridge over the Waimana River, at Tanetaua, is now open for traffic. The monthly meeting of the Tauranga Harbor Board will be held to-morrow. '■;; It is estimated that from 80 to 130 names have been placed on the Town Board electors' list during the la3t few days. About 1500' sheep are being brought through from the Opotiki and Matata'districts, by the 'New Zealand Loan ami Mercantile Company, ,to the order of Te Puke and Papamoa clients. .The meeting of the TePuke Road Board; on Saturday last,, was;held in the old orderly roonv--where the Board will in all probaP- J bility sit in future. . -*' v A Masterton resident, while enjoying an oyster supper last week-struck two small pearls in one of the shells. An expert states that the shells are of considerable value. Sir James Carroll, who has been laid uq with a severe illness, expects to leave the private hos- ■ pital in Wellington, where he. has - been staying; in 1 about a fortnight. He may not be able to 9 attend Parliament during its early stages, but is regaining his f health steadily. During April, 37 horses, 19 head 'of cattle, 1,024 sheep, and 16 pigs were exported from New Zealand. Of these 16 horsey went to Australia, and 21 to tlfc Pacific Islands; 18 head qf>cattl\ ' to the Pacific Islands. ano/tjfta,io' South America : 760' sheep to Australia, and 204 to the Pacific * Islands. ~" Prices for sheep will go sky- •, high next spring," said a Gis. borne sheep-farmer to a press representative last week.' There had been, he asserted, absolutely 1 ,no growth during the long'spell jof drought in the summer, with *, 'the result that the grass had.; been absolutely eaten to the last vestige. Particularly was this the case with regard to feed for cattle. '■„■ :•, ( The !mutton bird season has - now closed. A party of native* arrived dt Bluff from Stewart I '-~- Island last week with a consign*" ment of, between 15,000, and 20, 000 birds; Anlnvercargill : News- .

i reporter was informed the . season had been a vvery: ; success* ;|: • fulone, and that the ; birds were fi . in {better condition thaijwthey: have been for some time - past; /" , When fines were;, ; \ posed at the Police Court,; Auck J. land, in the cases of Defence Act • defaulters, the and a|i ' '. dresses of the em^ ployers were taken; as well ?p/ ; \ the amoun tof their weeklywageS'. ; This was in accordance wifeihe - ; new provisions under :the,De- :-A fence Act, whereby a defaulter's V fine may be recovered' ; from his employer, the; Defence authori- ■ ties being empowered to demand the employee's.;" wages beifore they are paid to him,. This" procedure [greatly' • lessens the. difficulty of collecting fines'. : ;,-:. The winner of the first prize in the Eight-Hours Art Union in ':■.■ Melbourne, Mr- flenry R.'Eilen. ■■■,-. bery, of Windsor, 1 is thanking the god of co-incidence.'On'theg Sunday evening before the'close 1 of the sale of tickets J called up on the telephone by. a CM girl friend. She told him she/ •j§ had dreamt that he had won £500 first prize. '.. Eileuberyff| laughingly replied that he hadi 1 not bought a ticket, and did, not 118 mean to buy one.' dream 'can't come ;true," he "? said. The girl was very persia. tent. She described the dream in exact' detail, and implored . him to buy a^ticket.: at last agreed to'get one'next day, and the ticket bought ! him in Collins street'caroied the winning number. \ ;. ..;