The annual general mooting of the Timaru Harbour Board is to be held at 11 o'clock this morning. Among the business will be the eloction of a chairman for the ensuing year. Tomatoes wero oDly raised for ornament fifty years ago, and were called lovo appleßi I and not thought fit to eat. Lust year about 72,000,000 cans wero put up. The balance sheet of the Atlas Milling Company bliowb t)hat during the year the sum of £5049 was oxpended m salaries and wages, — a good round sum to be put m circulation m the town m that way by one establish ment. The many friends of Mr Geo. Newey, of the Criterion Hotel, will no doubt be glad to learn that news was received from Dunedin yesterday that a change for the better was recorded, and that the hope ie now freely ex pressed that Mr Newey will pull through all right. A testimony to the quality of the flour turnod out by the Atlas Mill is supplied by a letter from Albion Park, New South Wales, stating that the prizes for homo-made bread, at tho Albion Park Agricultural Show, m January, were taken by bread made from tho Atlas brand of flour. At the Besident Magistrates Court, Temuko, yesterday, before Messrs Gray and Hayhurst, J.F.s, judgment by default was given m each of tho following cases : — Or. H. Mogridge v. G. Tomlioson, claim £7 5b ; A. B. Allan v. same, claim £3 6b 4d. Mr Sal mond appeared for tho plaintiffs. Wo are pleased to note that the suggestion made m these columtiß about tho establish ment of an athletic club is being taken up and supported. The intention wo believe is to establish a club not only for the purpose named, but to partake somewhat of tho char acter of an ordinary social club. His Lordship the Bishop of Auckland, and Mrs Cowie, arrived by tho express from the north yesterday en route for Dunedin. They, however, proceeded on their journey as far as St. Andrew's where they' will be the guests of the Bey. L. Caraley Brady for a day or two. At the Exhibition Dairy Show last week the Temuka Dairy Factory got third prizes for ton of cheese, 1 cwt, and 1 owt of loaf cheese. The Bruce Dairy fac tory took most firsts. 