DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 204, 1 November 1909, Page 2

DISTRICT PARS.

Attention is drawn to the advertisemnte which appears in another column of this issue where Mr S. R. Legg notifies the public of Te Kuiti that be has opened a tailoring establishment in King Street. Mr Legg will give his personal attention to all orders entrusted to bim and gau ran tees satisfaction. It is stated tbat some residents of Te Kuiti are getting very lax in the matter of keeping their surroundings clean and that the Inspector, in consequence, wore a worried look, during his last visit There arc whispers of surprise visits, and bits of blue paper, for anyone caught napping, a warning to the wise should be sufficient. People do not possibly realise that art-- no by-laws with j regard to giant it ary matters in the | township yet nte Public Health Act is ; in force all over the Dominion. At the la.st meeting of the Oiiura County Council the danger of the County being invaded i.y rabbit;: \va.~ referred to by C'r Wiiiarr.s v.-ho suggested that snmo Htc;.;-' should i" taller, to prevent n g^'

At Taumarunui on Th'.isntev tv a public meeting wa? hr !d i>- t/r • pose of ck , cti!::r a I was decided thul the- shou. c ■ sist of Foven m'-mh' r.- nr.-'. •'•••'- ing were elected a:VMessrs Ryan, Sarah, Hu::\ l".- v:'. Wilson, Rilches and S;> v. Mr Ryan was elected chain;,a:;. Mr Sarah secretary. Immediate st. are being taken to haw the racecourse reserve placed under the'control of the Board. A pedigree Jersey cattle sale was 'held at Stratford last week by Mr Newton King. The demand was keen and good prices were obtained. The top figure realised—l 3 guineas—was for the three year old bull Telephone, by Uncle Toby—Monopla, sold on account of Mr A. Buchanan, of Palmerston North, to Mr W. Bishop, of Waitui. Two yearling bulh by Telephone sold at 19 1-2 guineas and 17 guineas respectively. The cow Bella 11, by Royal Mail—Bella, also on account of Mr Buchanan fetched 31 1-2 guineas. The cow Carnation, by Caranation Fox —Clementine, sold at 25 guineas. Yearling heifers realised up to 15 1-2 guineas, and calve 3 to 8 1-2 guineas.

The Austral Uniscope Company appeared in the Town Hall on Friday and Saturday evening 3. On both nights there were fairly large audiences, and the company gave entire satisfaction, the pictures being all new to the locality, and also large and clear. The company is fitted out with a powerful electric plant. At the meeting of the Board of Education last week Miss M. D. B. Parkes was appointed assistant teacher for the Te Kuiti School. A return of the condemned stock slaughtered and compensation paid for the year ended 3?st March, 1909, shows that 2941 cattle and six pigs were so destroyed for which £5042 Is 5d was paid in compensation against which £9201 7s lOd was received in respect of the disposal of the carcase. The shipments of dairy produce so far made this season give an excellent idea of the increased production in butter and cheese owing to the exceptinoally favourable season From September 10th there were shipped from the Dominion 43,372 boxes of butter and 4610 cases of cheese, whereas this season the shipments have represented 659,57 boxes of butter and 14,308.0 ! »5es of cheese, an increase over the Shipments for the correspondng period of last year of no less, than 22,225 boxes of butter and 1917S casos of cheese, representing more thair fifty per cent, advance in production.

A correspondent of a London paper draws attention to a scheme of calendar reform propounded by a gifted and able Peruvian, Don Carlos A. Hesse, of Iquique. Briefly, it is to make 13 months each, the thirteenth month to be called Trecember. Thirteen multiplied by 28 equals 364, so there remains an odd day to be disposed of. Senor Hesse proposes to place it between Trecember 28th and January Ist, and to call it Zero day, and make it a general holiday. Leap years would also contain a double Zero day, also a holiday. Provided this system were commenced in, say, 1912, when January Ist falls'on a Monday, the first day of each month of each year and each century would be a Monday for ever and ever. The calendar would be known by heart, and endless complications avoided. The Prisons Department intend carrying out a new departure in connection with the Waiotapu Prison Camp. Heretofore it has been customary to house the prisoners in rooms accomodating four each, but now there are being erected a large number of huts which will have but one inmate. In lieu of the usual heating appliances which would mean furnishing each hut with a fireplace or stove, a scheme is under consideration to provide a recreation room, whereby the pirsoners may indulge in vigorous exercise before retiring to rest during the winter months.

The payments made by the N.Z. Dairy Association Limited, for butterfat supplied during the month of September totalled £15,464 14s Bd. For the same month last year the similar payments aggregated £10,397 8s 3d. Thus there is an increase of £5,067 6s sd. Pages of Australasian history which Dr. W. H. Fitchett is writing for "Life" seem to be creating an extraordinary amount of interest right throughout the Commonwealth and New Zealand. He is at present dealing with the exploits of the famous gang of bushrangers ed by Ned Kelly, and the November number, just to hand, contains the account of the sticking up of the little town of Jerilderie, on the eve of the most daring and sensational plunge into crime in the history of Australian bushranging. Side by side with this is a paper of great literary interest, giving the fullest account we have seen of the life of Adam Lindsay Gordon —that pathetic figure in the story of Australian poetry —in England. On the lighter side might be mentioned a number of capital short storic'3 and a thrilling ac- j count of how Captain Bully Hayes ! stole a gunboat. Kir John Madden's recent address on the "Gravest I'orilof Our Time'* appear.; as an article : under the Chief Justice's name, and there is also a very jiood article or. Australia's Naval Defence by Mr Howard W. Berry, vice-president of ■ the Chamber of Commerce, Victoria. A Uniti '] .Slates Consular report states (hat the first autoniafic telephone exchange system in Gtrrr.'-.iy.' has just been ii.;-tf:!lf.fl i:: lli/.!csk<ir ; by the Irr.f'cria! GYrrr.rsn Post 0:;:v>.. It rerpiri • ro "( '■ Mr:.!" :.k< ' Y <ie; "'