DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 100, 2 October 1908, Page 2

DISTRICT PARS.

Complaints loud and doe]) are to he heard from all sides of the House with regard to the larjre amounts appearing on the Estimates ff<r Auckland province. Even some of (he Northern members have been heard to grumble, but Members .lemiinirs and ibveusladc are radiant with smiles and are always prepared to justify the voles allocated to their districts. Attt ntion is called to the tact that a Roman Catholic Church service is to be hold in the old hall. Te Kuiti. on Sunday mornine- ; u I'.-'IO a. m., when tlie Rev. Father Molloy will celebrate ?dass' In criticisms: the Maori Land Settlement account in r Hemes pointed out that the amotmt for i/and Purchase Otiicers had Ulrn reduced b> .i'eoo. and asked who was the oli.c •• for wliom the amount was voted. Tl'r Native Minister said ihe-ofiicor rel'erred to was Mr W. Crace. whose salary was £3tm.

It is stated that the Session-will end very close to the date mentioned by the Premier, namely at the end of thi3 week.

The Rev. Mr Morse is expected to officiate at St. Luke's church on Sunday next. We are informed that during last year the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa Maori Land Board leased, on behalf of the Native onwers some 40,000 acres of land in the Rohe Potae, bringing in an annual rental of upwards of £3OOO.

Although the construction of the Northern Main Trunk line may not be finished before Christmas, the coach service will be discontinued, and a regular train service run between Wellington and Auckland, from November Ist (says the Dominion). It will not, however, be the nineteen hours service, which is ultimately intended. The time table is now in course of preparation, and pending its completion it is not known how long the trip will take. The provisional unnumbered supplement to the Taumarunui electoral roll is now to hand.

A number of political supporters of Mr W. T. Jennings met in the Town Hall, Raetihi, on Wednesday night to further that candidates prospects and all present were formed into a committee on his behalf.

The band contest which is to be held at Hamilton on October Bth, 9th and 10th, promises to be a great success. Special trains will be run from various places so that people from the country will have every chance of hearing some good music.

A case of some importance was heard at the Magistrates court Hamilton last week, when two billiard sallon aroprietors were charged with allowing the games of "muff" or "Devil's Pool" to be played, the facts were admitted by the defendants, but Mr Northcroft, who appeared for the defendants, contended that the game was not one of chance but of skill, and witnesses were produced in support of this contention. The Magistrate, Mr Cutten, stated that he was satisfied that the game was one of skill, and that the question to be considered was that of profit. He reserved his decision.

The total number of Crown tenants is 24,179; number of Crown tenants holding ordinary Crown lands under lease in perpetuity, 9926; number of Crown tenants who hold ordinary Crown lands under occupation with right of purchase, 6638; number of lease in perpetuity tenants who h;;ve sold their interests -to others, 3187; number of occupation with right of purchase tenants who have sold their interests, 2143; number of land for settlement tenants now in occupation, 2581; number of land for settlement tenants who have sold their interests toothers, 1419.

A line of 4000 sheep, bought through the agency of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co., will shortly arrive at Te Kuiti from the south, these sheep being bought to fill the orders of some local graziers.

Notices appear in a recent Gazette declaring the Te Kuiti and Otorohanga native township to be subject to the provisions of the Native Townships Local Government Act 1905.

Mr W T Jennings, M.P,, has received word from the Postmaster-General that section 5, block 8, in the Township of Te Kuiti, the site originally selected, has been taken under the Public Work 3 Act for post office purposes. Tenders for the erectiou of the building have now closed. The Post-master-General has also informed Mr Jennings that in accordance with representations made by the sett(er3, it is being arranged for postal notes to be sold at Nihoniho, Ohura, post office. The Minister for Railways has stated in reply to a request made by Mr Greenslade, that he will look into the question of running a late train from Ohaupo to Te Kuitl on Tuesday evenings.

A meeting of settlers is called for Saturday afternoon next at 2 p.m., in the Loan land Mercantile's office, Te Kuiti, when the question of forming another road from the present Mangaorino road will be discussed.