DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 43, 16 August 1907, Page 2

DISTRICT PARS.

The engagement is announced between Miss Ivy R. Vicary, eldest daughter of Mr W. Vicary, of Otorohanga, and the Rev. Sanders Spencer, Te Kuiti. In another column will be found a notice convening a meeting of residents of Otorohanga and surrounding districts for August 23rd, in the Otorohanga Hall. The object of the meeting is the formation of'a branch of the Farmers' Union, and an address will be delivered on the subject by Captain Allen Bell, Acting-President of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. Speaking on the "Maori Land Settlement Act, Amendment Bill " in Parliament, on Tuesday last, Mr J. Stevens urged that seven-eights of the purchase money for Native lands should be invested for the benefit of the Natives, in order to prevent squandering. Lambing has now commenced in earnest in the district and practically all the sheep farmers are busy attending to the new arrivals. The season has been favourable for stock generally and grass is now beginning to come away. A. large number of sheep were imported into the district last season, and the increase should be very considerable during the spring. The majority of the members of the "All Black" Professional Football Team left for Sydney this week, and the first match of the tour will take place at Sydney on Saturday. The. team includes several of the original "AH Black " team, and is considered to be nearly up to the standard of that redoubtable combination. A meeting of the Committee, appointed at the public meeting on Monday night, to assist in raising funds for the Medical Club was held at the conclusion of the general meeting. Various districts were assigned to the members to canvass for guarantors and considerable interest was manifested in the. movement. The next Committee meeting was fixed for August 20th, at /.30 p.m. I

: A football matchlhas been arranged < for August 31st between the Maniapolo Union representatives and a '. team consisting of members of the Jlctet and Turner families. The 1 family team is called (he Taniwharau. ; Th'j contest should ,",ive rise to con- ;' sidera.ble interest as an excellent coin- fk I binalioii lias been chosen to battle for * . the Taniwharau. It is interestinj; to , note thai twenty-three foolb illcrs can be called upon by the family team. ; The following have been chosen in the - final fifteen : • Full-back, I'. Turner; ; three-quarters, Ron Rata, J. Hotel., > Te Teira ; five-eights, H. Turner ; ; half-back, T. Hotel ; forwards, 11. Hotel, G. Turner, H.Gray, I.). Turner, I'. Turner, W. Turner, F. Tur- ; ner, C. Reynolds, 'J'. Ngaronga. The wrestling competitions adver- ' fised for Friday evening, to lake place ■ in Helot's Hall, To Kuili, have drawn 1 very good entries, and some keen contests may be looked for. In (he heavy weight division, six onirics have boon received, and the light weight simple has attracted four ; competitors. The Maori Cumberland competition should also bo well pat- [ rouised, and entries will be taken up to the time of starling the events. 1 The following are the European com--1 pctiiors : Heavy weights : M. Cox, ' H. Brooks, W. Wilkinson, G. Wilson, R. Turner, N. A. Burns. Light . weights: K.Kerr, H. McKinnon, |. . McAllister, J. Brown. It will be noted that the charges for admission have been reduced to 2s and is. The throe pedigree stud bulls, purchased by Ihe Department of Agrieul- • turc in England,.were due to arrive • by the Papanui this week. These animals, which arc of a guaranteed milking strain, arc imported with a view to improving (he dairy herds of" . the colony. They are insured for £556, a fact which gives some indication of (heir value, and it is to be hoped the experiment will result in widespread 'benefit to the dairying' industry. In any case the authorities are to be commended for their efforts to raise the standard of our milking slock, upon which 1 ho prosperity of the country so largely depends. The serious riots which were recently reported at Belfast, Ireland, were brought to a climax on August I.?lh, when the mob fought desperately with ihe troops. After vainly endeavouring to check the advance of the rioters, the troof**. were ordered to fire on them. Several rioters fell dead or wounded, and many were injured. A. renewal of the attack led to a second volley before the rioters retreated. The hospitals are full of injured, many officers and soldiers being badly maimul. Stones and bottles were the weapons used by the mob. In an article dealing with the butter market, which appeared in the Farmers' Union Advocate last week, it was stated that much of the co'on'al buiter was at least equal to Ihe Danish. The chief cause assigned for the higher price realised for the for-(.ign-r.iadc article was the fact that the merchants engaged in the industry conirolled the market judiciously, and the various companies interested co-opera led in regulating' the supply so that the highest: price possible was obtained. The last issue of the Government G:u'/.tte notifies the appointment of Messrs F. E. Low, C. J. Johnson, J. Ormsby, F. Forslcr and W. Vicary as members of the Oorohanga Domain Board under "The Public Domains Act, liSSI." The domain comprises an area, of nearly thirty-eight acres and the residents arc to be congratulated upon securing such a fine area for recreation purposes. " No man can work a farm and pay 10 to 12 per cent, interest," says the Taivinaki Crown Lands Commissioner. " We (the Land Board) refuse- to pass more than 8 percent, but 1 suppose thev gel round it somehow." With the advent of spring 'there begins to be manifested some degree of interest as.to whelher Ihe Te Ivtiili Dairy Factory is to be worked during Ihe coming season. Judging from the fact that a number of last year's suppliers have sold their farms, while others have disposed of their cows, there appears to be little prospect of the factory being able to work, For Children's Hacking' Cough at night WockL'Great Peppermint Cure. 1,6 & 26. A concert, followed by a dance, is to be held in Hotel's Hall, Te Kuili, on September loth in aid of (he Medical Fund. The Rev. R. Mitchell and Messrs 'Forsyth, Hardy and Elliolt have been appointed a committee to arrange details. The National Defence League is being actively promoted in various parls of Ihe colony, and is rapidly becoming a force which will make itself felt. The object is one which must appeal to all thinking people, and it is gratifying to see that the League is becoming so widely recognised. Among the Members of Parliament are some ardent advocates of the League, the Premier being' one of its most consistent supporters. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. ] /("> & 2/6. An experiment being conducted al Lincoln College was described to delegates at the Agriculural (-(inference last week by Mr Sludholme. A paddock was laid down in grass, different varitios being sown over equal portions of it. When ready for grazing stock were turned in, and particular notice was taken of the grasses most popular. It was found thai the sheep took more to cocksfoot (ban to rye, a grass they would not touch was Chewing Fescue. The experiment was to be continued and more definite information obtained. When in America Mr Sludholme found the most popular grass to be Timothy. The trapper in the lonely ranges grim ; The. miner gasping in the driving dim ; The horseman winding cattle o'er (he plains ; The farmer, husbanding his golden-) grain ; The pressman scorning' lime at dead of night, * The high, the low, and the cosmopolite; The shiv'ring beggar and the epicure New use Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, '

A committee meeting of the Te Kuiti Football Club was held in the Chronicle office on Monday evening last, when a challenge from the - Mangapeehi Club was considered. It was decided that the Secretary be instructed to write to the Mangapeehi Club accepting the date offered (Aug?V- ust 24th), and stating that as there were several Union matches coming on shortly the Club would like to play as many representative players as were available from other clubs. The sale of town sections at Raurimu on August Bth was very successful. All the sections were sold for cash, the highest price realised for a town allotment of 30 perches being £44, and the lowest £ls for I acre. A suburban section of I acre was secured by Mr Ward, as a site for a Presbyterian Church, at while two other suburban sections of 6a. 2r. and la. or. 14P. respectively, brought £4O each. Transactions in land in Southland, which have produced substantial profits to tlje vendors, are of almost daily occurrence (says the Southland News) but one which took place a few weeks ago takes a foremost place. The vendor had been in possession a little more than 12 months, and sold for £10,500 bej'ond what he paid for it. The purchaser was a Northern farmer, who intends carrying on the pastoral industry. Another transaction worthy of record was the sale of a farm a short distance from Winton, also to a Canterbury buyer. The vendor , bought the land four years ago, when it was in tussock, for £2 13s an acre, and sold the other day for £lllss. _ Residents of Te Kuiti and surrounding districts will be pleased to know that a building for the Bank of New Zealand is to be erected at Te Kuiti in the near future. The plans are being prepared by Mr F. E. Smith, of ; Hamilton, and it is expected tenders will be invited in a week or two. The building will comprise a banking r chamber, manager's room and other accommodation, and is to be built so that it can be added to when necessary. ~_,.,.:-• Te Kuiti is fairly free as a rule from undesirable characters and confidence men, but occasionally business people are left lamenting. Just now several of the residents are makinganxious enquiries at to whereabouts of a recent arrival who cut something of a figure, antTdrew cheques on an imaginary bank balance to liquidate liabilities incurred. It is said that a motor bicvele figures in the list as the medium of a questionable transaction, and the details of the case are likely to be disclosed in Court, should the whereabouts of the missing person be ascertained, MrTownshend. who is promoting* the erection of the Aria Dairy Factory visited Te Kuiti this week. He expects to be able to have the factory in working order this season. The main difficulty .was the state _of the: roads for the purpose of carting -the machinery to the site, but in view of the favourable season experienced it is confidently expected that the project will be carried through successfully. Mr Townshend intends returning to Te Kuiti next week. An unusual occurrence in connection with lambing is reported from Kaikoura, A fine ewe, within about a week of lambing, was found dead and a oost mortem revealed five fully developed lambs, a fact never previously bought under notice of the owner during a lengthened experience. " I have now lived close on thirtythree vears in the Condobolin and Forbes'district," said Mr N. A. Gatenby, of New South Wales, in the course of an address to a* local Agricultural and Pastoral Society, " and the result of observation through that period has convinced me that had our landholders put;by food for stock in good years, as provision against the bad ones, the scores of men whom I have known ruined, and scores of others heavily mortgaged—myself included—need not at this time have owed a shilling to anyone." Mr Gatenby pins his faith to ensilage. For Bronchial Coughs take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 & 2/6. The Taihape and W r aimarino News calls attention to what it describes as "the absurd and stup d method " adopted in the transit of mails from north of Raungakaupo. It says:— "Messrs Crowther and McCauley s coaches are running daily between Ohakune and Raurimu, carryingmails for Raungakaupo and Horopito. Although Makatote is only eight miles from Horopito, and Raurimu—the present northern railhead —22, all letters and parcels are sent round by way of Onehunga, and up the Main Trunk line to Raurimu, and thence by mail coach to Makatote. The gap between Makatote and Horopito is not provided for in this important overland mail sendee. • Persons residing at Raurimu or Makatote wishing to communate with places south of these districts have the cold comfort of knowing that their correspondence is sent round by way of Onehunga to New Plymouth, and thence by rail to Taihape and Ohakune. iThis is a scandal that has entirely escaped the attention of our vigilant member—Mr A. E. Kemmgton—who surely must be ignorant of the vexatious delay that mails for places south of Makatote are being subjected to. Two daily coaches are running between Ohakune and Raurimu, and yet the Postal Department suffers letters to be carried over 500 miles, when the addresses could be reached in less than 30 miles. The Postal Department is evidently ignorant of the geography of the country. Now that we have pointed out this weak link lin the otherwise strong postal chaim of the Dominion of New Zealand, we hope to see tenders invited for the conveyance of mails between Horopito and Makatote, and thus secure for the Dominion an un- , broken inland mail service between Wellington and Auckland."