DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 145, 5 April 1909, Page 2

DISTRICT PARS.

Mails for United States of America, United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, connecting with Vancouver steamer, leaving Fiji,close here Tuesday April 13th at 7.30 p.m. No special address required. A meeting of the Te Kuiti Fire Brigade will be held at the "Chronicle" office on Wednesday evening, April 7th. at half past seven. Important business in connection with organising the Brigade is to be dealt with, and all members and intending members arc requested to attend. The retirements under the Civil Service reorganisation include Mr D. Barron, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Otago, and brother of Mr A. Barron, who is also being retired from the position of Lands Purchase Officer. Report says the Public Health Department will lose the services of Dr Mason, Chief Health Officer, and Dr Pomare, Native Health Officer. Local inventors of aeroplanes have been quietly at work during the last few months in Wellington completing what they hope will eventually turn out a profitable investment. The aeroplane, which was the invention of Messrs Forrester, a recent arrival from England, Ellis, Baldwin and Rayward, is now being constructed in the workshop of Mr Peter Ellis, Wellington, and the work is so far advanced that it is intended shortly to give the machine a trial. Its length is about ten feet, having an equal width, and original ideas have been embodied which the inventors have reasons to believe will prove successful in accomplishing their object. Thg details of the invention are at present known only to the originators, who anticipate at an early date being able to take the public more into their confidence.

Thorougbgood and Pearce have signed articles to row for the championship of Australia and £IOO aside on the Parramatta River on May 29th. The Hon. A. W. Hogg, Minister for Roads and Bridges, will arrive at Te Kuiti by the afternoon train today, and will be entertained to a dinner, under the auspices of the Te Kuiti Chamber of Commerce, at Mr H. E. Kerr's Boarding house at 8 p.m. The chair will be taken by Mr Boddie, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and Mr Jer. Ormsby, Chairman of the Waitomo County Council, will occupy the vice chair. The members of the Auckland Crown Lands Board returned to Te Kuiti from Awakino on Sunday evening, and proceeded to Auckland by train this morning With the approach of winter footballers are beginning to get ready for their favourite game. A meeting of the Te Kuiti club is called for Thursday evening next, when the programme for.the ensuing season will be discussed. Mr J. W. Ellis, promoter of the South Auckland Association, and chairman since its inception, was presented, on Wedneday night at Hamilton, by members, with an illuminated album, and address by the directors, and with a pair of field glasses and a Native-made greenstone tiki, as a recognition of his efforts on behalf of the association and of work done in the interests of the timber trade of the North Island generally. Mr Ellis is about to visit the Old Country in company with Mr P. R. Colebrook, of the j firm of Messrs Green and Colebrook, j Limited. * I

In conference with the Director of Technical Education and Manual Training the offer of the Cambridge Borough Council of land for the site of a manual training school was considered by the Board of Education at last meeting. It appeared that the Board could Acquire the land on a 66 years' lease, and this they de£jdpd to do. With regard to the proposed Agricultural School at Hamilton, the chairman said that the Board did not see its way to approve of the action of the Department. If they were to have anything at Hamilton at all they wanted a properly equipped Agricultural College, not a High School. It was resolved to close with the offer of land which had been made, and pay the £2OO asked, on condition that the Board was supplied with a clear title to the site, it being understood that the Board would use i»uch site f.Qr Educational purposes. j

The new accommodation house at Waitomo is almost finished. Thestructure, which is being erected at a i cost of £2,000, will be fitted throughj out -.viMi hot and cold water, electric ; light and other appointments designed : to make it a com fort able abode. The situation of the new building is almost ' idea!, and the accommodation house I should be a wondi-rfu! attraction to the i Caves, which are rapidly growing in popularity. The traffic to the caves during the past summer has been easily the greatest on record, and provision for the j-.r-'p-r .v.-joirmoaatson o: visitors was urp-ni.y needed. At the i!it-'.-ling of tkf V. aikato Hospital and ("hari'.ai Aid Bottru Ik-.u at HamflV'n . :'day. Mr I-com-mented ia/'L;'- a::.eu:.t e: y paid in ss'.s u vs r trypan t Wei Vv He tr.oUg/.t the Board had th'.- ya- in r-vgard ;o F<Children's Ht»uvtn«s s CoU£h at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure-, ■ Is Gd and 2s Gd. i

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Te Kuiti Lodge Manchester Unity of Oddfc-i-ows, was held in the ledge mom. Congwgational Church, on Thusrday. Amd: Ist. It v.-as cea morh's time, to give a.. Oou:e:!ows in the district an orrcmnrity of a soci&l re-union. Further notice will ho advertised, and it is hoped that every Oddfellow will be present and thus further the interests of Oddfehowshin I throughout the King Country. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d. Attention is drawn to Mr W. Cole's new advertisement in this issue. Mr Cole having purchased at great expense an up-to-date refrigerator is prepared to provide fresh fish daily. Every house in Te Kuiti will be called upon twice a week, and it is to be hoped that his enterprise will be supported by the public. The Ohura settlers are anxious to have a steam launch run on the river between Matiere and Tokerima and a short time ago petitioned the Government, through Mr Jennings, with the object of having the river cleared sufficiently to make the launch service possible. Mr Jennings has received word from the Premier that a report is being obtained from the Taranaki Commissioner of Crown Lands on the matter. In connection with the extension of the telephone line between Aria and Kaeaea the petition of the settlers interested was forwarded by Mr Jennings, member for the district, to the Minister in charge of Telegraphs. A satifactory reply has been received by the member to the effect that the work has been authorised, and instructions given for the line to be proceeded with. In the Maigstrate's Court on Friday W. G. Day, S.M., delivered judgment i Tin the case F. Emerson v. Ranigtata Road Board, in which the plaintiff, a settler, claimed £2O for damages sustained in a trap accident, owing to his horse shying at a fallen signboard which was lying on one of the roads under the Board's jurisdiction. The Magistrate held that the Road Board was liable, and allowed the plaintiff £7 6s 6d damages. Leave to appeal was granted. Last month New Zealand exported 44,044 ounces of go! 3, worth £156,522. In March last year the export was 41,* 585 ounces, worth £166,276. 204,008 ounces of silver valued at £20,343, was exported last month, as compared with 89,038 ounces worth £9051 in March last year. The annual meetings of householders for tlje purpose of electing school committees, are to be held on Aprli 26th.