Thus speaks llio Optild Herald : - " Local news just now is scarce, and the news vendor finds a difficulty in obtain ing good reliable pars. One raair is accused of stealing a cock and another had. his bull shot, so there are nothing but cock and bull stories to pick and choose from.' "Wo have great sympathy with our contemporary, as we are much in the samo plight ourselves, only worse, as we have to fossick out a daily dish of pars, while our friend of the Opotihi HoraU ba3 only to meet his clients twice a week,



ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, T HE Teachers of the Sunday Soliool and 1 the Members of the Choir will tender a FAREWELL SOCIAL to Mr J, C. Burrow in the Schoolroom, Kollcston-stroot, on FRIDAY EVENING NEXT. Tho members of the Congregation and other friends are cordially invited to attend. Admission, One Shilling, W. H.Y.HALL, Sunday School Superintendent. TENDERS. ' rnENDE RS arc invited, up to2iith February, 1 for CARTING to Waihi JOO,OOO PI! KT of-DRY WHITE PINE ; also 50,000 FEET to Karangahako, at per 100 FEET, to be superficial measurement of one inch thick. Carting to coramcuce soon. Lowest or any tondcr not necessarily accepted. '■BOBEBT GIBBONS, Kopu. ~~M!_TAIM! FOR SALE. TN LARGE or SMALL QUANTITIES 1 Apply to , C. SHORT, Cochrono street. SALE BY AUCTIOF FRIDAY, 88no Inst., at 11 o'Clock. Household Furniture and Effects, fpilE Undersigned, having received in -1 structions from Alex. Huog, Esq., will Soil on the. Prerniacp, corner of Grey street and Farawat Koad, the following: -



BOROUGH OF THAMES. SPECIAL ORDER,.' NOTICE is hereby given that at a SPECIAL MEETING of the Council of the Borough of Thames, held January 17th, 181)5, it was resolved :— "THATthe Council by SPECIAL ORDER adopt, pass, and make By-Law No. 21 for further regulating the use' of Bicycles, Tricycles, and similar Vehicles; and that the said By-Law shall come into force on the 31st day of March, 1895." • AND, 1 further give notice, that a SPECIAL MEETING of the above Council will be held in the Council Chambers, Albert street, Thames, at 4 p.m. on THURSDAY, February 21st, 1895, for the purpose of con firming the above resolution; and also that a copy of the proposed By-Law No. 21 may be seen at the said Council Chambers. Wu CARPENTER, Town Clerk. 