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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 16 September 1913, Page 2

Particulars of the stock sale to be held by the Farmers Auctioneering Co., will be found in the company's advertisement on the front page of this issue. In addition to the list of entries published. a lint: of !iQ fat and.forward iij to 'lyr bullocks olf turnips will beoll'ered.

It is reported that Mr P. Clcnt. dealer, of Ilalclutha, recently sold a mob of 101 cattle to a Dunedin man at I*ls per head, which is stated to lie a record for New Zealand.

As showing the demand that exists in Te Puke for a decent class of house, no less than eight applications were received for a new four-roomed cottage advertised to lot in last Tuesday's issue of this paper.

Tin; following were the siu'eess fill numbers in connection with an art, union of oil paintings in aid of the. Povertv Hay Scottish Society, several tickets in connection with which were sold locally : Ist. prize, liOSo; 2nd, 11W ; third, ",081 ; oilier prizes in order, liSll, 1522, m, WO, i:ji:j. 1278, 575, •175, 3811, OS, 1001,3118.

•A;Hastings land agent is reportci'toll live scooped a commission of ,£IOOO on the sale of rural property that changed hands recently. 1

We are requested to state that the subject; matter of- the mock trial to be presented by the local Debating Society on the 24th inst. will not be a divorce but a breach of promise case.

On the motion of Cr Lally, the meeting of the Tauranga County Council last week, it was resolved that application be made to the Auditor-General to reduce the rate on the Te Puke metalling loan from one halfpenny to one farthing in the £.

In connection with the recent raffling of a motor car by the Waikato Winter Show authorities it is stated that while the car cost £GOO, some 4,000 tickets at 10s cach were disposed of, realising £2,300. The Association, therefore, cleared a very considerable siim.

The North Canterbury Board of Education has decided to make a trial of moving pictures as an aid to primary education. Matinees are to be held on Fridays for pupils in Standards V and VI. The programme is to be arranged by a committee of headmasters, and a charge of one penny is to be made.

The advantages of motor traction over horse traction on good roads were rather well exemplified (says the Hawera Star) when a five-horse team and a motor lorry were engaged transporting coal from Hawera to the Riversdale dairy factory. The motor lorry and the horse waggon each carried the same weight, but at the end of the day's work the motor lorry hadjdelivered thirtythree tons and the horse waggon ten tons.

At the meetingof theTauranga County Council last week, a letter was read from the AssistantSecretary of the Public Works Department, to the effect that a recent resolution passed by the Council urging the necessity of surveying and setting aside a strip of land two chains wide for a distance of about one mile between Te Puke and Paengaroa in order to avoid the necessity for two level crossings had been duly noted, and a report was being called for from the Department's engineer.

Reward amounting to JC2S is being offered in New Zealand by the Tasmanian Government for the recapture of Robert Carter, who escaped from Launceston Gaol recently while serving a sentence of two years' imprisonment for false pretences. The New Zealand Government's offer of .€250 for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons who caused the fire at McMahon's stables, Reef ton. during which five racehorses were destroyed is still placarded.

The pile of buildings which is being erected at Epsom for the Auckland Tramway Company caver two and a-half acres of ground, and will in every respect be worthy of the requirements of the company's rapidly extending business. The buildings are not as has been suggested to be 'new carsheds" or even to be a factory, but are designed to meet the demands of a thoroughly equipped repair depot. The property on which the company is erecting this latest evidence of its progressiveness and its ability to anticipate the requirements of a modern transport service, has frontage to Manukau-road on the opposite side of the most southerly of the One Tree Hill domain,

Rotorua's crack half-back, M E. Montgomery, was assisting on Friday morning in the removal of the building used as a fish depot, when his legs were badly crushed. It appears that he was arranging the rollers upon the baulks of timber, when the horse was started, the man being unaware that Montgomery was near The rollers caught him by the legs and ran nearly up to his knees, the whole weight of the building being on them. He was very badly crushed, and only the soft nature of the ground prevented his legs from being smashed. As it was, on being extracted which took some time owing to the jacks failing to lift the building at once, it was found that the small bone of one leg was broken. The full injurieg will not be known until examination by the X-rays, which will be done by Dr. Bertram at the Sanatorium. The injured man, suffering great pain, was taken to Edinburgh House, where he usually stays. Everything to alleviate the pain has been done. Great sympathy is felt for Mr Montgomery, who was looking forward to playing in severa important matches.

chargedbyiV esSrs Crawford aqdi Lally, J's.P. yesterday on V; charge of stealing a coat, vest, : and.watch, valued at £2, from, Captain McCloud. , ' v ? . 'I- V'-V , \Ye give a reminder to member of the farming community and public generally of the addresses to be delivered in the Mission Hall to-morrow evening by Messrs Dempsey and Collins, of the Government Dairy and Live Stock Divisions, respectively. The lectures should contain a great deal of valuable information that can be turned to account by local farmers. Owing to counter attractions (writes a Paengaroa correspondent) there was not, as large an attendance at the meeting, convened for the purpose of forming a branch of the Farmers' Union, on Friday night, as wa3 expected. Some twenty representative settlers, however, have signified their intention of becoming members, and judging by the enthusiasm shown at the meeting the Union should become a great power for good, and help to bring this district into its proper place in the forefront of any in the Bay of Plenty. It was decided.to allow the election of officers to stand over until the next meeting,to be held on October 10th, when it is anticipated that there will, be a large attendance.

"The School-teacher and the Waif," was a pathetic dramatic picture giving an illustration of every day life, and shown by. the Elcctric Pictures at their usual weekly picture entertainments.. The picture in its initial stages depicts a young girl being subjected to the brutalities of a tyrannical and drunken father, and who,»on. being sent to the village school, is made the butt of ridicule by:her playmates. Finally she resolves to elope with a quack medicine man, who is on a visit to the dig. trict. Meanwhile, the schoolmaster, who has taken a deep interest in his pupil, has missed, her attendance, and wends his way into the village to make inquiries. The delinquent is discovered about to take her departure with the tempter, but by a clever ruse and persuasion on the teacher's part, she is led from temptation's lure, and restored to her place in the school. The programme also contained amrni; bar of comic and dramatic films/

The Tauranga Harbour, Board last > week, by five votes to four, t declined to pay an account of'£9 53 3d, forwarded by the Chamber of Commerce, comprising £3 ss. 3d cost of advertising the Harbor Board Bill, and £6, half of adele2 gate's expenses to Wellington to! defend the Bill in its entirety against the opposition of the Kati| kati delegate. Messrs Sharp and Tudhopc, the Board's solicitor?, forwarded an opinion that ex§ penses incurred in constituting the Board could be legally, paid? One of the members, however, Mr Grant, produced a legal opin*' ion from Messrs Earl and Kent? solicitors, Auckland, to the effect that the expenses could not be charged against the Board.

We are informed (says, the Picton Press) on reliable author! ity, that a blight has been discovered that plays havoc with the blackberry pest, and several property owners in the Sounds are cultivating the blight with considerable success. It is said to be in reality a blight that afj' lccts rose trees, and by introduce ing it among blackberry patches it immediately gets to work and devours all the sap ■of the branches, leaving them dry and lifeless. On Mr Dakin's farm aft Port Underwood, it is said, acres 1 of the pest have been thus destroyed. Samples of the blight and the result of its work have been forwarded to the Agriculi tural Department.

A considerable number of people were attracted by the announcement that a display of feats incidental to life in the western states of America would |ake place in Montgomery's paddock on Saturday afternoon, atid a very good audience assembled in the enclosure erected for the exhibition. The programme consisted of buckjumping, throwing the lasso, rifle shooting, and bowie knife impalements. In each of these feats the principals (Captain McCloud and Mr Jack Ashton) displayed considerable proficiency, and received rounds of applause. Some disappointment was evinced at the nonperformance of certain items billed such as the roping and tieing of a wild steer, but this was due, it was stated to the time havingbeen too limited to allow of thp cattle being yarded.