DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 84, 29 May 1908, Page 2

DISTRICT PARS.

Messrs Samuel Yaile and Sons, in conjunction, with Messrs Lorigan and Co., report the sale of Mr Rountree's residence at Te Kuiti.

Large entries have been received for the Loan and Mereantile's sale to be held at Te Kuiti, on Wednesday next, particulars of which wiil be found in our advertising columns.

Inspector Bennett, of the Health Department, has been in Te Kuiti this week, and has taken the names of all those residents who have already installed the night-soil service, and also those who 'nave so far failed to do so. The latter he intends to prosecute if the installation is not made by the end of the present month. The following tenders have been received by Mr W. I'rice, architect. for the erection of a residence for Mr A. Barnett, at Te Kuiti : —Maugham and Fisk, £1,248; Atkins, £1,2.10; Sheldon and Aitken. £l,oS8; J. MacIndoe, £l,oSo ; Hitchcock and Moody, £1,045 ; J. Lee, £1,020; Markv.'ick,£9oß.

The settlors in the Piopio district are continuing their efforts to have a public school established in the district, and a site of two acres is being surveyed for the building. Some time ago information was received to the effect that an inspector would report to the Education Hoard on the matter, but up to the present nothing furtiier has been heard from the Board. Both the settlers and the natives are anxious to have the school established as soon as possible, and a visit from the inspector is anxiously awaited.

The sheep market has improved considerably during the past week or two in Southland, and a I:; r;j.e amount of stock is changing hands privately at present.

The first important fixture ot the British Rugby Football team's tour was played on Wednesday last w hen the visitors met the Wellington provincial team. It was generally held that Wellington was not so strongly represented this season as jor several previous years, but after a strenuously contested game the local team won by 10 points to 13 points. As indicated by the scores both sides showed attacking' ability, and the result shows that whatever sort of team the Biitishers meet there will likely be big scoring.

The first cars for the Main Trunk Railway expresses, four large mail vans, have been completed at Pctone workshops. They a.re substantiallooking, and much more bulky in appearance. than the ordinary passenger co.'iches. as their width, vli lorn, is fXrcutor than that of the :.tand.ird type, and cynics eli'scly (•> the maximum which can be safely pirmilted mi railways of the New Zealand rr.ugc. They arc fifty feet Ion; . and iheir height from rail leve! is ii 11 ;dn.

Palmistry is an alv-uluu- absurdity. The whole thin;; is beneath cmili mpt, declared professor Stirling, I 'can ol the Medical Faculty and Proh-;:-or ol Physiology at Victoria University, Manchester, in the course ol a lecture at the Royal Institution. ' '' l!

your palms, and you will hud eei lam classical lines. These lines, tlu : < called lines of liic, heart and head, the girdle of Venus, and the bracelt is of life round your wrists, what oo suppose they really are:' 1 hey are nothing more nor less than creases oi folds produced by the action ol the muscles. The line of heart, I'"' instance, is ihc fie.'-.ture of the lour lingers, and the line of life is the result of the action of the thumb. All these lines (had have been given astronomical names by the palmists are characteristic (textures. on will find the same lines on the palm of an ourang-outang.

Otorohanga residents will be glad to learn that the District Road Engineer has received authority to proceed with the bridge over the Waipa river, and the work will be proceeded with as soon as the timber can be placed on the ground. The timber is now on order, and should be delivered forthwith.

Last week Mr J. W. W. Seymour, member of the Maniapoto-Tuwhnre-toa Maori Land Administration Board, paid a visit to Taumarunui, and was waited upon by (he members of the Town Board, who placed belorc Mr Sevmonr a number ol matters a fleeting the township Mr Seymour expressed himself as being in sympathy with the Hoard, and complimented the members upon (lie amount of work accomplished in the town, lie promised to endeavour to have the next sitting of the Board held at Taumarunui, and the residents could then pia.ee the various matters before the full Hoard.

On Wednesday, June 3rd (Prince of Wales' Birthday), the Te Kuiti Postoffice will be closed all day. Mails usually closed on that date will close at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2nd. Messrs East and East, auctioneers and estate agents, of Auckland, insert an advertisement in this issue inviting buyers and sellers of farm properties to communicate with them at once, as they have several Southern buyers waiting to be suited.