THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, AUG. 26, 1909 DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 185, 26 August 1909, Page 2

THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, AUG. 26, 1909 DISTRICT PARS.

Mails for Fiji. Canada. I'r.iteci .States of America, Unit'd Kin.edon:, ant: Continent of Kurr.j e, ] c-r s.s. >,avua, connecting with Var.r:C'MYc.-r steamer leaving Fiji, close at Te Kuiti ofnc? on Tuesday, August .'iLst at 7.30 p.m. No special address required. DueLondon October oth, 1009. With good music and splendid floor, Mr? Cross' dancing classes and assemblies are becoming very popular, ar.d on Tuesday night last about twenty five couples graced the floor. The music, of a very high order, was supplied by Messrs D. Hetet, piano; Morgan, Cross, violins; and Lever, Piccolo, while Miss Grattan favoured ; the company with an extra. After a thoroughly enjoyable evening the dance | terminated at about 11.30 p.m. Mrs j Cross intends to hold an extended evening on Tuesday, next, and the dancing public can be assured of a real good time. In a paragraph which appeared in the "Chronicle" on Monday last it was stated that "The daughter of Mr and Mrs Irvine of Taumarunui had recovered from her illness, and the series of operations performed by Dr j Zobel at Te Kuiti, for disease of the | skin, had bpen a complete success." ! This should have read " disaese of I the shin-bone." I Attention is drawn to the advertisement which appears in another column of this issue, notifying the fact that the sale of Phillips and Co's. stock is now being held at their premises in I Rora Street. Accounts owing to Mesj srs Phillips and Co can be discharged j at the shop, when a receipt authorised j by the Official Assignee will be given, j It mav not be generally known that | there is a society in Auckland comj posed of ordinary workers and wage- ] earners, who give their talents in proj viding benefit concerts and performj ances for deserving cases of stress and unemployment. The society is now I known as the Auckland Benefit Concert Company, and has, during the I last three years, distributed no lesi j than £BOO. | The following will no doubt give I our local golf enthusiasts something i to aspire to: —In the course of playing I in the North Berwick tournament on | Saturday, W H. Home, of Chertsey, ] drove the ball from the thirteenth tee j to the edge of the thirteenth green. ! The distance from the teeing ground J to the hole is 476 yards, and the length |of Home's drive was 469 yards. This extraordinary drive constitutes a re- ! cord in driving by over 100 yards. At I the thirteenth hole at North Berwick j the ground is level, and Home had the jad vantage.of a slight following wind, j The growth and prosperity of any town and district is always emphasised by the expansion of business. With I the approach of Summer, and the daily j increasing population "The Te Kuiti | Mineral Manufactory and Hop Beer | Brewery" shows its appreciation of 1 past public patronage by not only inI creasing its staff, but by adding to an i already costly plant the most up toI date machinery procurable from BarS nett and Foster, London. The manage- | ment have decided to import real Bel- | fast Ginger Essences, which should I be a guarantee of their sincerity to j produce a really saleable, and palatable refreshing drink. Mr George Asthey, holder of the gold medal and diploma for brewing, awarded to brew | hop beer in New Zealand, has associ- ! ated with him in the control of the Factory Mr Ray Astley, who for some time was foremun for Mr A. Hyde, Te Awamutu, and Innes Bros., Hamilton. During the coming week the factory will be enlarged in order to cope with Summer requirements. The management will be pleased at any time to receive a visit from local residents interested in the welfare of the town, I and consequently in the fostering of new industries. Why should anyone in Te Kuiti go elsewhere when catered for so well locally? Orders will be delivered by cart at the shortest notice. An advertisement appears in another column in reference to the factory. Professor Park, of Dunedin has been commissioned by the editor of the i "London Mining Journal" to contribute a special article on the history and progress of mining in New Zealand for the jubilee number of the journal, which will be issued in London soon. The jubilee issue will contain special articles by well known writers descriptive of the latest improvements in mining and metallurgy in all parts of the world. The system just adopted by the Auckland Education Board in connection with the grading and promoting of teachers is commended by the Minister of Education, the Hon. Geo. Fowlds. The Minister thinks that if the education boards generally would fall into line, and also adopt a scheme providing for the interchange of teachers between various districts, the teachers as a whole would have been conceded what they had long been asking for, while the boards would retain the power of control and supervision. The Acting-Prime .Minister who was waited on by a utation oi Maori.* j at Gisborno. {--poke plainly a:/i stror.u'y J to the Natives, civiarir.g that the tnr.e I had come v.-he-:: ;r jar.-:? must | made liable t,, rating. the- same as I European lands aim. He also staUa * that be wyuM !»• wa.mi: to he.p the i Natives by providing tV"> towards ' the purchas- of row.-, ior.g as they ' left the quest i<>:i "f pun-basin- th<stock in the ban ;.- oi the Nuka.-;a Dairy Company, te ensure the selcc* tion of a good cia.-s. He wouid !•> glad to give them any reasonable time to repay the amount. The following new scale of cha.'-gcs for residence, medical attendance, medicim , nursing, and baths at the fiotoroua Sanatorium appeared in, a recent gaz-'tte - . Patients anm i 11. ; Kt-gulatmn per weely .i 1 Is; patients admitted under Regulation <"•, per week V2 2s; patient- admiUtfi • under peculation 7, free. For Hacking Cough at night, use Woods Great Peppermint i Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d. j

i t M. and Madame Maurice Mapterlinck ' are planning a wondrous performance J lof "Macbeth"' for next August. It j •' I will not bo an ordinary "Macbeth.'' it : - i will be almost a rc-ai life "Macbeth," a "realisation o: Shakespeare.'' There will be no properties, scenery, naste- . board landscapes, or limelight. All the surround in which the tragedy will be enacted \vj:l be real. M, ann Madam" Maeterlinck live in a wonderful castle at St. Wanurlile, in Normandy. It has great courtyards, and banueting halls. mediaeval battlements, and suites of Louis XV. apartments, and moss jrrc.wr. ruins. "Macbeth" will realised in and near the castle. Spectators of the tragedy will not remain in one place, but win move to different parts of the castle and grounds as the scene shifts. Some time age Mr S. Irwin f 'roons, of Auckland, wrote to Mr Wane, Premier of New South Wales, stating that he had been empowered to bring before him a new system of wireless telegraphy. It had, Mr <"roo!:s stated, been submitted to the War Office for testing, and that extensive trials of a most satisfactory character had beer, made. The system was a most economical one and would enable the establishment of a wireless telegraph station to operate within a radius of SOU to 400 miles, at a cost of £275, as compared with a cost, according to the Marconi system, of £2OOO. Mr Wade has forwarded a communication to the Postmaster-General, who has decided to submit it to the Commonwealth representative in London, Captain Collins, who is to have the system investigated and reported upon by the best wireless experts available. The rural outlook in the Argentine is said to be anything but encouraging at the present moment. For over two months the whole of the agricultural zones of the Republic have been suffering almost continuously from drought, intensified by frequent falls of hair frcst. Owing to the lack of pasture and the intense cold in many places, cattle and horses are very thin. Stockowners are very busy in their efforts to sell their cattle at any price, and large droves are being taken to the northern districts to be offered at the different fairs. At one point no fewer than forty head of cattle died within the space of forty eight hours, and many deaths are reported from outside districts. Some of these deaths are said to been cuased by the cattle eating a species of thistle, having no other pasture on the land.

The Minister for Public Works, speaking at Dunedin, said there had been a slight depression in the country recently, but he thought, at the same time, that rather too much had been made out of it. However, that depression was disappearing, and things were becoming easier. In this connection he remarked that he, as Minister for Public Works, with between 9000 and 10,000 men in the employ of his department, held a position of very great responsibility. Mr. Millar, as Minister for Railways, had also in his control a department that employed a great many workmen, and he had therefore a similar responsibility. Between them they had to control a great many thousand men. They endeavoured to treat everyone with the utmost respect and fairness, and if they could a-ssist anyone they were pleased to do so. Cobalt Camp, Ontario, which has been destroyed by fire, is one of the romances of mininer. Larose, a blacksmith, was working on a railway six years ago, when he threw his hammer at a fox and hit a rock disclosing silver. He sold his discovery for £6,000, and the man who bought it became a millionaire. As much as 30,00 ounces of silver to the ton was discovered in rock which was being used for railway ballast. Cobalt Camp produced last year about £2,000,000 worth of ore. It is the largest producer of silver in the world, yielding as much as any two States of th ; United States. Mr. Kirk, Government biologist, who is in Tasmania investigating the potato blight, cabled to the Minister for Agriculture that the outbreak there is not so serious as was anticipated, and that there is much sound stock there. The Minister states that no Tasmanian potatoes -have reached here since the end of June. At the conclusion of an address on "Maori Warfare" to the garrison officers in Wellington recently, Dr Buck spoke of the decay of the Maori race. In the old days, he as id, the Maoris lived in fortified pahs on the tops of hills with a natural system of drainage and sanitation, and free to all the winds that blew. Then there was the hard system of military training that developed the magnificent physique of the early Maoris. Since civilisation came the Maori had got fat, and was not so strong and enduring. If the earlier conditions could be restored to some extent, or some system could be devised by which the Maoris could receive regular military training, and get actual practice in methods of sanitation, the decay of the race might be arrested. The exer- i eise of drill and discipline would be ; beneficial to the people. He hoped that there might come a time in the near future when they might utilise . the Maori for nation;'.! .it-fence, or at all even is give him a chance.--Ap-ph-.u-e. "At present. " said the doctor. Irishman or a somewhat no v«-ry distant date to send Kerr, the ehampion walker, and Woodger, the is <u-:pecteb to lake 'k-finite steps before long. In the sunshine and rain, o'er hill. On his way the driver proceeds, With whistle and song he meanders While- tile hero contentedly feeds. For staiwart and tanmd he has at command, An air which is heaithy and pure, But should such e'er fail and a sickness prevail, He takes Woods' Great Peppermint j Cure. 1