DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 42, 9 August 1907, Page 2

DISTRICT PARS.

_ The successful tenderer for the Congregatoinal Church at Te Kuiti is Mr R. Taylor, the price being £lB6. The building will probably be started early in September, and is to be completed before the end of October. The second !match between the New Zealand football team, and an "All Australia" combination, took place at Brisbane on Saturday last, and resulted in a win for the " All Blacks " by 14 points to 5. Coupled with the victory of a New Zealander in the World's Championship Sculling Race on the same day, the result was received in the various centres with great enthusiasm, and natives of the new Dominion are feeling compensated for the defeat of the " All Blacks " at the hands of New South Wales. For Bronchial Coughs take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 cv 26. The suggestion that the Government should take over all main or arterial roads in the colony and maintain them, was made by Mr Massey, as a member of a deputation to the Premier on Monday last. The proposal, which is somewhat on the lines to Major Lusk's motion at the recent Conference of County Councils, was sympathetically received, and the Premier promised to.obtain all the necessary information to enable him to deal with the matter. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 & 2/0. The Maniapoto-Tawharctoa Maori Land Board is offering township sections in Te Kuiti, to the number of sixteen, for sale by public auction on August 2/th next. The (enure is , leasehold for twenty-one years, with the right of renewal. The Board is . offering twenty-four Taumaruni sections for tender on the same day. the tenders to be addressed to the Prcsi- ( deni of the Board at Te Kuiti. : Sing a song of Peppermint, The cure that's made by Woods, For one and sixpence worth 01. cost A sovereign's worth of good. A When the bottle's opened, 1 It's praise all people sing ; Tis certain such a sovereign Cure 1 Would set up any King. J

Kallierintfs arc in the Tc Kuili atmosphere at present. An entertainment, in aid of (he Church of Fn;;land, is projected for next month, and a school oonoerl is on tapis. A smoke concert under the auspices of the Maniapolo Rii/'.by Union, is also fixed for ,Sept emher. A disaslrous railway accident occurred on the Koloiiia line on Saturday las.i. 'I he engines were uncoupled from (he r.oods train near the top of the steep incline a! Mainaku, and the carriages and trucks broke away in consequence of (he brakes not holdini',. The cars rushed down the incline at a tremendous speed and left the rails at a sharp curve, Guard Lowe was killed, and several were more or less injured, while many of the trucks and cars were smashed to pieces. During the past month 2780 bales of hemp, weij;hin<; ,\.\,\ tons, and valued at about £II,SOO, was waded at the port of Auckland. This is an increase over the corrcspondinj; period of last year of 5.(3 bales, or 47 tons. The present season has been an unusually dry one in this district, and all preconceived notions of the weatherwise have sustained a severe shock. Dunn;; the past two or three weeks there has been practically no rain, and wind has blown from all quarters. The unusual experience of frosts, succeeded by threatening cloudy days, and thereafter a return of frost has been met with. In reply to a deputation, representing the dairyin;; industry, Sir Joseph Ward promised 1o consider the request that the Government should subsidise, to the extent of one-ci.i'.hth of a penny per lb, shippinj; companies carryin;;' butter to South Africa. As a result of an application by Mr Grecnslade, M.H.K., the Minister for Education has agreed to;;ranl thesum of £196 for the erection of a new school buildin;; at Wailctuna. It was stated that the present school building was unhealthy, and that if it were inspected by the health ollicer it would be closed. The Tohun?;a Suppression Hill now before Parliament has had a new clause inserted fix in;;' the penally for a first offence at a line not exceeding £25 or a period of six months imprisonment, instead of a line of £lO or three months imprisonment in all cases. A billiard saloonkeeper, named Thomas He;;;;, was convicted at IJunterville S.IYi. Court, on August 3rd, of sly-K'ro;;' scllin;; at Utiku, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment, without the option of a Jine. A Maori, named lliu lieu 'lawhiao, who was charecd al the Supreme Court, Auckland, with the theft of £S_S in notes ami a cheque for £lls Ids, the properly of Win Whi Mokau, at Kihikihi, was convicted of common larceny and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Dummyisin " was (lie subject of a discussion, according, to the Gisborne Times, at a recent mcclin; 1 ; of the Farmers' Union al that place. One speaker declared thai in his opinion every applicant for land should swear before a niar.istrale that he was a bona-lide settler, as nine out of ten who participated in ballots were dummies, in that, liny had nol the remotest idea of setlli n;.;\ In comiiV" lion wilh one section submitted, il was freely staled that the successful drawer could obtain £IOOO for his interest, in addition to rceeivin; l £3 per week to look after the place until sufficient time had elapsed for a transfer to be effected. It was contended that the Government should do somethin;; to prevent " Ira flick in;. 1 ," in land, but no action was taken by Ihe meetin;;'. A representative of an F.ir'.lish linn of butler buyers in formed a Taranaki News reporter thai he thought per lb., i'.o.b.. would be aboqi the piling rate paid for the best New Zealand butter in the com in;.; season. lli.s principals wcrcof Ihcopiuion that New Zealand producers would not, in the next live or six years, /.vet such prices I as ruled last year. I The advocates of Biblc-rcadinj; in Schools are ma kin; 1 ; a stron;v endeavour to have the system introduced into the public :-chools of the colony, and a plebiscite is bein-; taken 01 the various School Committees for the purpose of obtainin;.; Ihc general feelin;; on the subject. At a meeliii.; of the iV Kuili School Comniillce on Tuesday eveniue;, a motion against the introduction of the system was carried. Dr Rowlands, of the Ohura, has been ;;'a.",ctled Public Vaccinator, under "The Public lleallh Act, 1900," for tlie Man/varoa - Mamvapechi district. Anion;;' the Tc Kuili township seclions, which are to be disjiosed <i\' by public' auction on August .''/111, F included the site which was offered to the Department for a Posl-oflicc. The upset annual rental is fixed at £,| 10s, but it is safe to prcdiel that the section will fetch several times Ih.i; amount. A wrestlin;;' coni]ietitiou is advertised io be held in Nelel's Hall, Tc Kuili,on Friday cvenin; 1 ,, Au.eust Idlb. The compelitions are limited Io IF.hl and heavy wei;;hls in Calch-as-Cafeh-Can style, with a Cumberland class for Maoris. These compelitions are widely popular in many dislricls, and with a decent entry lisl on Friday next then 1 should be some excellent sport provided. Handsome medals will be presented to the winners in (he various classes. There is evidently a misunderstandin,!;'on Ihe pari of the authorities as to the elate upon which (he sale of Tc Kuili township sections is to lake place. The adverliscmeni notifies the dale as. September 3rd, 100;. bnl the Sazetle notice fixes \ii"(i-.| / il|, P)o;, as the sale <,\a[i'. I'u miii,. blv .he date uazetled will ck adlun civ N Woods' (I real I Vppci mini ( ml (01 Joushs and Colds neve 1 t ul 1 ,d 1 V'ou often sin;; of Fn;;land, \nd c.f Ireland, 100, and Wales, Vnd'the '' Ihaes of Hoqjiic Scotland," A-itii her stirrin; 1 , Border Tales; hit don't for;;ct New Zealand No other skies are bluer), \.nd its famous household remedy foods' Great Peppermint Cure,"

Building operations at Te Kuiti are still active, and several houses are in course of construction on each side of the river. Two houses for Mr Hattaway are well under way by Mr Taylor, and the same builder will shortly be engaged upon the Congregational Church, and a residence for Mr Baker on the Awakino road. Messrs Mordaunt and Baily have almost completed Messrs Lever ©Bros, shop and residence on Rora street. Several other buildings are projected including an auction mart and Church of England, and the industry bids fair to continue in a thriving state for a considerable time. The contest for the World's Sculling Championship, which took place at Sydney on Saturday last, resulted in a decisive win for Webb, the New Zealander, who defeated Towns by five lengths in a fast race. A slight foul occurred during the race, and Towns entered a protest, but after due consideration the umpire decided that no blame was attachable to Webb,, and the result of the race was not affected by the happening. Great enthusiasm exists in Wanganui over the result of the race, and the next contest for the World's Championship will probably take place on the Wanganui river. The Taumarunui Racing Club intend holding another meeting in November next, at which £IOO in prize money will be provided. This means an increase of £2O on the amount provided last season, and a successful gathering is confidently anticipated. The winter season has, as usual, brought its annual crop of epidemics, and measles have been prevalent in the district during the past four weeks. The attendance at Te Kuiti school was reduced by about 50 per cent., but has now assumed its ordinary state. Influenza has also been widespread, and one or two cases of whooping cough have been reported. " It is rumoured that trouble is impending in connection with the sale of sections in a recently much-boomed township. It is said that all the front sections have a wide creek running down the middle of each section. By some ' unfortunate oversight,' however, the lithographed plan gave no indication of the existence of this natural feature. If the rumour is correct, the feelings of the purchasers who have bought desirable township sections, of which a large proportion consists of creek-bed, can be easier imagined than described." —Wanganui Chronicle,

In connection with the recent Parliamentary banquet at Raetihi, it is stated that the Commissioner of Police has issued instructions that the Committee be prosecuted for selling liquor without a license. In reply to a deputation which presented requests from the Agricultural Conference to him, the Premier expressed himself favourably on the clearance of noxious weeds on railway lines, careless fires, and regrassing of runs, but was guarded as to subsidies for Royal shows, the relief of societies from the rates and the prohibition of the import of hay, because of the fear of ticks. He assured members that railway rolling stock was being added to at a great speed, but they could not spend ten thousand in providing sheep trucks with doors at both ends. He was willing to give the fullest facilities fop extending telephones. At Taumarunui, on Friday last, before Messrs Ryan and Laird, Justices, two men named George Hennessy and John Lonergan were charged with having no visible means of support. Constable Maher prosecuted. Both accused are young men, supposed to come from Australia. In their swag was found a drill, cards, loaded dice, double-headed pennies, etc. They disclaimed ownership of a brace of revolvers found in a separate parcel. The men were remanded until next Friday next, at Taumarunui. f"he constable and two townsmen had aa exciting chase after" the accused, who were captured about I a.m. on Friday.