Tiiiiaru's artificial harbor (says an exchange) is withv.it doubt,, the most successful of all Ventures of the kind in New Zealand. Its woili.s were conceived and carried out in face of strong pessimism, nn.l some of the croakers who at the outset de clared it would become and remain an island lagoon, croak on ever to this day. Its advocates, however, have in the Harbor Board's recently publish ed annual report and balance sheet fads and figures which proved beyond

all doubt that the harbor is a paying enterprise, and what they originally anticipated it would he, "The mak ing if the town anb district," for without the harbor, the town of Tim am would not be the progressive

placß it is 'to-day, neither would the fertile and productive district which shares with it the necessary taxation to pay in terest on the Harbor loans.
Many public bodies in Rhodesia lave passch resolutions in iavutir of tic appointment of Dr Jamieson as ,Ir Rhode's successor on the Board of he chartered company.
A DANCING CONTEST.
