LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 231, 5 February 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Miss Pine's new quarter i'or music, painting, and infant school, begins on January 31st. —Advt. Dr Floyd Collins has been appointed medical officer of the Northern Ohura Medical Association, and is at present residing in the house of Mr W. E. Cocq, at Matiere, until his own house is built. The Association is hurrying on the bulding of the house with all

Our readers, and especially PJc people, will be glad to hear that this Pio Pio Dairy Co., Ltd., has received intimation ;that the freehold of their section has'been gazetted. The building of the creamery is to be started at

once, so that everything will be. in readiness for a start next season. We wish the enterprise of the settlers sSvery success, and hope other districts wi.U follow suit.' During the past year oyer banana trees have been planted ip jßaratonga. As th.c banana' tree bears ff.jijj, (line ni.optjiu after it is planted, it JH iiaVeijiulcd [pal JntarajLonga aione will be üblo to awamp J\'i;\v with fruit at the end of the yoar.

The times of the Anglican services at Otorohanga and Te Kuiti have been altered. A revised notice appears in this issue.

"Money is plentiful in New Zealand except in the collections," said the Anglican Bishop of Auckland when preaching recently. Buyers of fat lambs who are now operating all over South Canterbury, say that lambs are not in such good condition as they were at this time last year. Feed is getting scarce owing to the dry spell, and growers are anxious to quit at the earliest possible time. Mr B. Wolff, general commission agent and accountant, has commenced business in Mercantile Chambers, Te Kuiti. He has had conisderable experience and anything encrusted to him will ue promptly attended to. He is also open to post business books. Blaekberrie?are to be found in large quantities in and around Te Kuiti just now, ripe and juicy enough. Pity 'tis that no noxious weed inspector is here to check their only 100 rapid spread. Few readers are aware that wild Cape gooseberries are to be gathered on a certain hill above the town.

It is stated by Mr R. D. D. McLean, who is a large sheepfarmer in Hawke's Bay, and who is visiting Christchurch just now, that large numbers of Maoris have adopted shearing as a vocation, and that amongst them there are some of the fastest shearers in New Zealand.

A conference of the natives throughout Taranaki is to be held at Okaiawa next month, commencing on the 14th and lasting till the 18th, to go fully into the question of leasing of native linds. There is a great deal of dissatisfaction prevalent about the existing conditions. Sir Joseph Ward, Hon. J. Carroll, and Hon. Ngata will be present on the 18th. Some novel ways of raising money for missions were mentioned at the Priimtive Methodist Conference at Timaru. A North Island delegate said that the children in his circuit picked the wild blackberries and sold them, devoting the. proceeds to missions. Others collected and sold mushroom i when they were in season, and still others kept what was known a3 "missionary" hens, the proceeds of the sales of eggs from these being devoted to missions.

On Wednesday last Mr C J. Heard, of Aria, had a narrow escape from what might have been a very serious accident. Mr Heard, while riding what he deemed a quiet horse, was suddenly thrown heavily, the horse taking it into his head to start bucking. Two of Mr Heard's ribs were broken. The sufferer proceeded to Te Kuiti by coach, and was attended to by Dr Fullerton, under whose care he is progressing favourably.

"Shackleton's Dash for the Pole" pictures, under the management of Mr G. Spencer, were presened to a large and appreciative audience at Te Kuiti on Wednesday evening. The first part of the programme was filled in with a variety of films, including a splendid coloured moving picture of "Winter Sport at Mt. Kosciusko." This picture was very interesting, and in it the company have decidedly something out of the ordinary. During the second part of the programme "Shackleton's Dash to the Pole" was thrown upon the screen, and tho exploits of the landing party were portrayed in a very realistic manner. This picture is undoubtedly a "masterpiece" of moving photography. The rest of the programme was made up of interesting and comic films, and altogether the show is one of the best of its kind ever seen in Te Kuiti

The passengers on the evening train from Wanganui on Thursday had a most unusual sight. When the train was negotiating the Fordell rise it ran into a long mass of caterpillars which were making for a paddock of oats. Two or three times the train was stopped to sand the rails for the engine wheels to grip. The Palmerston North Borough Council has decided to call a public meeting to discuss the proposal to establish an electric tramway system for Palmerston. A proposal is also on foojt to obtain electric energy for Palmerston North by harnessing a stream in the locality with a view to attracting manufacturing industries. The reluctance qf young people who wish to take up teaching as a profession to take appointments in country districts was again discussed at the meeting of the Board of Education at Auckland, in the case of a young man who had been ordered to a country district, which prevented him from attending the University. Mr H. Greenslade suggested that hia case should be reconsidered, but the chairman took a different view. Mr C. J. Parr said this young man had had two years' frco tuition at the Training College. If, after that, he was not fit to take charge of a small country schocrthe sooner the Training College was closed- tije Ijettpr. How were the vacancies in cpuntry schools tp be filled if young fpllqws wore fio d'eclinp to go out, pn the plea that they wanted to attepd the University? kpsji young mpn objccfipd to go tp the county. " The Bpard decided that [\\c young ruati "i?« djucsfc-ipn must go tp j,l]p country as decided.