DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 27, 26 April 1907, Page 2

DISTRICT PARS.

Mr Langley Shaw, stock and station agent, Hamilton, reports the sale of Mr Charles Allen's Kiwitahi property (near Morrinsville), containing 1800 acres of first-class freehold land together with crops, and stock consisting of about 700 selected breeding ewes and 130 head of cattle, to Messrs Washbourne Bros., of Selwyn, Canterbury, at a substantial figure. Shooting season opens on Wednesday next, and already the local sportsmen are preparing for the strenuous days with dog and gun. There is a scarcity of pheasants in the King Country, in consequence, it is said, of the poison laid for rabbits having accomplished work among the birds. However, there is still some fair shooting obtainable in some localities, and, doubtless, the rattle of the guns will be heard to some effect on Wednesday. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London office : —" We quote present spot values for the following descriptions of tallow : —Fine mutton 36s 6d ; good beef 34s 3d ; mixed 32s 9d per cwt. Market inactive. Mr E. H. Buckingham, of Auck-

land, will give'his popular programme on Ben Hur cftid Life in Japan, with illustrated cdhcert, in Hetet's Hall tonight (Thursday) at 8 p.m.

The last Government Gazette notifies the opening, under the lease in perpetuity, of two sections of land in the Waitomo County. Section 8, block 14, in Aria Survey District, contains 739 acres of heavy bush land, and is valued at 9s 6d per acre. Sec--15, block 2, in the same district, contains 217 acres of light bush land valued at lOs 8d per acre. The sections are to be opened on June 19th next. The Auckland mayoral election, which was regarded as a foregone conclusion, resulted in the return of Mr Myers by a large majority. The successful candidate polled 4568 votes, and Messrs St. Clair 930, and Richardson 673, were the unsuccessful aspirants. The Hamilton mayoralty was keenly contested, and resulted in the return of Mr Bond by 64 votes. The polling was, Bond 335, and Bettley 271. The following Councillors were also elected for Hamilton: — Messrs Young, Fow, Bell, Barton, Davis, McDairmid, Tidd, Mason and Roche.

The completion of the Mairoa and Aria telephone connections will be gratifying to the settlers in the destricts named. The offices were opened for work during the present week, and the benefits will be fell during the coming winter. The question as to whether alcoholic liquor could be classed as dangerous goods in the King Country, was raised in the S.M. Court on Wednesday. His Worship suggested that considering the penalties attached to dealing with the article, it was not stretching the imagination to consider it dangerous. Mr Collins saw no harm in the act, the danger not attaching to the liquor, but to the fact of being found out.