THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1909 DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 211, 25 November 1909, Page 2

THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1909 DISTRICT PARS.

. ♦ The opening of the Post Office at Otorobanga on Saturday next by Mr W. T. Jennings M.P. promises to be a fuuhction in which great interest will be taken by the public. In the evening a Banquet and Smoke concert will be given under the auspices of the local branch of the N.Z. Farmers' Union and it is expected that a large number of residents of Ootrohanga and surrounding districts will be present liisbop Neligan will nay a visit to Tc Kuiti at the end of this week, and will conduct services at St. Luke's Church on Sunday next. The Bishop will also preside at a meeting of the congregation to be held in Hattaway's Hall on Saturday at 7.30 p.m., when proposals with reference to turning the district from n Home Mission district into a parochial district will be submitted and discussed. Sii* Joseph Ward writes to the Taumarunui Chamber of Commerce:—"l am in receipt of your letter of 4th November, in which you urge that the Government acquire the Native land over the Ongarue from and adjoining Taumarunui township. I note the representatinos you made in support of the request, and shall be pleased to have enquiries made into the matter. Several thousand rainbow trout fry are to be introduced into Kawhia and distributed amongst the harbour streams next week. The consignment is under charge of Mr Spratt. Attention is drawn to the advertisement which appears in another column of this issue whereby notice is given that allotments in the town of Manga- j roa and village of Matiere, will be sub- { mitted to public auction for cash, in I the Mangaroa Hall on Wednesday. | December Bth at 11 a.m. Also eight j rural allotments in various ioeaiilie* will be open for apptictaion at th< Commissioner of Crown Land? nft'.ff, : New Plymouth up to S p.m. or, M-r • ; day, December 2«'th. Plans may rt< j seen at the principal oflice and J railwav .-tntiona in the district. |

A daylight express will be run on ! the Main Trunk railway during the I holidays, leaving Auckland each day at 10.35 a.m. arriving at Wellington at 7.21 a.m. daily from Tuesdays to Sundays inclusive. On the reverse journey the express leaves Thorndon, Sundays to Fridays inclusive, at 8.55 p.m., arriving at Auckland 4.40 p.m. Quail are reported to be in such abundant numbers in some parts of the Piako and Waikato districts that farmers are expressing an intent to lay poison for them if a close season is declared for next year. Reports of the abundance of these birds have travelled to Hawke's Bay, Canterbury and Otago, and the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has received inquiries as to the cost of trapping some of the 5e birds and sending them along to other provinces. At its last meeting the Society resolved to ascertain from various setlers of the quail were as plentifulu as was reported, and if so, in what manner and at what cost they could be trapped Out of 689 applications for the 102 sections made available for selection by the Crown Lands Department for the benefit of retrenched Civil servants, ex-railway workers, and unemployed, only seven applications were received from ex-Civil servants.

On Thursday the 25th instant Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited hold their special Horse Fair in the Ngaruawahia yards and will offer 200 horses of all classes including draughts, hacks and ponies, and light harness horses, also the throughbred horse Darkness a qualified hurdle horse with all engagements. The sale will commence at 9.30. a.m. with unbroken horses. Arrangements have been made for a conveyance to leave Messrs Dalgleish and McDonald's stable 3 at 8 a.m. on the morning of the sale.

The time has at last arrived when the old fashioned plain photograph and the old fashioned photographer are things of the past. However clear and lifelike a photograph may be it is not sufficient to suit the public of today. What is required is a likeness and a picture combined. The introduction of the mezzotint and sepia photographs have revolutionised photography and is the long looked for medium whereby the artistic public may procure what it has needed so long. Then again, the beautiful sketch photograph which, by the way, possesses nothing photographic in appearance, except in the perfect likeness of the sitter, is realy all that could be desired, and indeed more than the most critical of us ever expected from the photographer's skill. To produce these pictures is quits beyond the average photographer, and it has only been through a long course of patient studj' and correspondence with leading Americans that Messrs Gaze and Co. of Hamilton, are now able to present these pictures to the public. A photographer must be an artist to produce these pictures, and Messrs Gaze and Co. certainly merit public support for the way in which they have shown determination to keep pace wih the leading studios of big cities. The meeting of the Piopio Dairy Company, Limited, which was unavoidably postponed on the 21st inst, will be held at Paemako on the 28th inst., at 1.30 p.m.