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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 12 December 1913, Page 2

Athletes are reminded that entries for the Tauranga sports close 10-morrow. Mr Dowling will receive local entries.

A lad is required -,to assist on a dairy farm. The address may be obtained at Times Office. The New Zealand' Loan and Mercantile Company advertise their next Te Puke stock sale for Tuesday, December 23rd.

Messrs Wallace and Co. announce a great cash clearing sale of drapery. The particulars, to be found elsewhere, will no doubt be of interest to ladies. Mr'T. R. Roydhouse, who has just retired from the editorship of the Sydney Sun, has decided to take up farming in New Zealand. ' Mr .Roydhouse is a native of the Dominion.

The suppliers of the Wairarapa dairy factories have decided to levy themselves to the extent, of jd per lb on the November supply of butter-fat. The money thus derived will go towards the Far mers' Union and Defence Committee's expenses..

Georges Carpentier, the French boxing champion, met Bombardier Wells, champion of England, in a return match on Monday last. The Frenchman proved that his previous win in the , fifth round was no fluke, by knocking out his big opponent in the first round. The fight lasted 73 seconds. ■' 1

. At the Central Show, held at Stratford on the 3rd and 4th of this month, Miss Webber, late of Te Puke, rode the horses that were awarded 2nd and 3rd places in the Ladies Hunter Competition and 2nd in the Maiden Hunter Class. She was also placed.3rd in the class for the best lady rider in divided skirts.

Major Lusk, who is in command of the "Specials" camp at Auckland, is a sprightly veteran of 82. Speaking at a festive gathering in the camp the other evening, he remarked that exactly fifty years ago he was engaged driving Maoris out of Auckland, while that day he was engaged driving farmers into Auckland.

Sermons and addresses on behalf of the Bible in State Schools League will be delivered on Sunday next, 14th inst., throughout New Zealand, in the Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches, and at the meetings of the Salvation Army, and special collections will be taken up to aid the funds of the League. A list the services to be held in this district will be found in our advertising columns.

Messrs Wilson and Robbins, auctioneers, notify that they will hold a great Xmas sale, of seasonable goods in McDowell's Hall, To Puke, on Tuesday and Wednesday, 16th and 17th insts., .at 1 p.m. The articles to be sold comprise cutlery, saucepans, preserving pans, brooms, clocks, scales, portmanteaux, e.p. ware, bridles, crockery, etc., also pte fruits and jams. The firm solicii entries of poultry, produce, etc. Green peas, usually a luxurj at this time of year (says the Wellington Post) are at' preseni selling at 2s a bag of eight oi nine pecks, whereas in Marlborough, from whence they are im ported, the average price nov l-dling is lOd a peck. Tlx anomaly is explained by the fac that for the past two or three weeks there has been : but. an in termittent steamer service be tween Marlborough and the Wes Coast and Cauterbury, at whicl places there is a ready marke' for this particular kind of pro duce. The effect has > been t( glut the Wellington market—ant the consequential lowering o: prices to clear the stock. Tin peas are being disposed of at i dead loss to the growers, fo: many of whom the present sea son will show a big debit bal on on

. The Dominion should'be proud of the part played •by a number of Akaroa girls in the recent strike, says a Southern contem porary. The Cygnet, the boat trading' regularly to Lyttelton, had not made the journey for a month, so that she arrived at Akaroa the other day with a full cargo, and a heavy load of cheese was awaiting her there. The young men who ordinarily deal with the cargo were acting as special constables in Cnristchurch and the problem presented itself of what should be done, a very important question for the settlers. So the girls of Akaroa volunteered to do the work themselves. They were at good as their word; the cargo was unloaded, and some three hundred case 3 of cheese were shipped, besides a quantity of other goods, as well as the men could have don.3 it. As the boat left the girls gavs it a send-off with a series ofh?artycheers. |

It is gazetted that on Thursday, December 2oth, Friday,' Decern- • ber 26th, Saturday, December 27th, 1913, and Thursday, January. Ist, Friday, January 2nd, ind Saturday, January,3rd, 1914, the Government offices throughjut New Zealand will be closed.; Mr W. J. Chynoweth, agent for Messrs Dimock and Co., notiiies farmers that he will receive pigs at Canaan Landing on Mon-, - day next up to ll o'clock. ; ■ 'v ;i A meeting of the local Court. of Foresters' will be held in the y Mission Hall on Monday evening " next, at 7.30. A large attendance i is requested, as the- business to ; transact is important. The sum of L 4,360 will be paid . out to suppliers by the Bay of ■ Plenty Dairy Association, for the month of November, as soon as - : the advance is received.This is an increase of L7OO on the • amount paid out for' the corresponding month last year. The individual amounts 'range from LlO to LlO2. .Seventy-four boxes of butter: per, day are'now being. manufactured. ;; /'-■■■• The picture programme to. be... presented at. McDowell's^ Hall\ this week is as follows The Prisoner of War," star drama ; ' " Love's Messenger," comedy.; '•' The Mountebank's Daughter, " drama ; " Scenes in Morocco," scenic; " Gaumont Graphic,'' latest topical; '' Bonifacio has a bit of Luck,'' comic; " Papa's Letter," drama; "The Victorious Army," comic ; " HelpingJohn," comedy ; "The Tangled Web," drama, The number, of > letters and other articles posted in the Do- ? minion during the last twelve' months is estimated at«161J. ,: mil-' lions. Of these 'nearly .22 millions were sent from the Wellington' Chief Post Office, which .received 20| millions. Nearly' 9£". millions of the articles : received;; at Wellington were dealt with by the letter carriers, the balance ' being disposed of through the medium of the private boxes, the' delivery counter, and in other .ways. ; ' • •• The first consignment of mer- • chandise to arrive in TePuke by rail came to hand yesterday for; Messrs Robt. King and Co.; Finding that their stock of flour was very low, the firm communicated with Taurariga and ' requested that a quantity be sent via Canaan Landing. A reply was received that owing. to the rough weather a boat would not leave' for . the Landing for some, days, and, further, that the carrier had already left town. Not to be beaten, Messrs King and Co. asked '.that a boat be secured, if possible,' to convey the goods across the harbor .to the. Mount,, meantime making arrangements with the. Public Works Department for their conveyance by rail to -Te Puke. Everything worked ( without a hitch, and the goods' came safely to hand yesterday morning. To convey the consignment from the station to the store occupied but very little time,- especially when compared with ; the time it would have taken in cartage from Canaan Landing. The trial was further evidence of the necessity for the speedy completion of the wharf, and of the immense convenience it would be if goods , could be railed into Te Puke direct from the : steamer's side..