LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 240, 9 March 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The output of Auckland export butter during the past fortnight amounted to 13,000 boxes, worth about £35,750, as against 9637 boxes produced during the corresponding period last year. We beg to draw tt)e attention of builders, and the pubjic generally, to the alteration of Ellis and Bupnand's advertisement on page 6, a cajrefqJ perusal of which be to their advantage, Mr, C, B, Lever advertises a quantity of blocks and chips to sold on the Sports Ground on Saturday afternoon at 8.30 o'clock. A reminder is also given of the clearing sale of furniture to be held by Mr. C. B, Lever at the Brewery to-morrow afternoon on account of Mr. G. Athey.

Cheap excursion tickets, including admission to the Regatta, will be issued to Ngaruawahia on March 16th, from Taumarunui, Te Kuiti and intermediate stations, available for return up to the 18th inst., and on March 17th from Mangapeehi and intermediate stations available for return the samp day only. A train leaves Mangapeehi on the 17th for Ngaruawahia at 5.45 a.m., returning from Ngaruawahia at 6.50 p.m. The Public Works Department notify the taking of about 17 acres of land under the Public Works Act for the use and convenience of the Waitomo Caves House. This fine resort has been greatly improved lately, and jtfte additional grounds to be acquired will make it onp of the most attractive resorts in the dominion. The ne\y accommodation is particularly fine building.

The nominations for the various events in the Ta Kuiti Racing Glub's programme may be considered excellent. All arrangements in connection with the meeting are well in hand and the committee feel, that though it is unfortunate that the meeting cannot be held on the Club's own course, yet everything points to a very successful day's sport. It is hoped that the Club's funds will be augmented by the 1910 meeting, and that next yaer the Club will be in a position to hold a meeting on their own course.

The programme for the Ngaruawahia Regatta —described as "the greatest aquatic carnival of New Zealand" —has been issued. The gathering will be held on the Waikato and Waipa rivers at their junction on March 17th. The events include canoe parade, war canoe race, canoe hurdle faces, "He Kawhaki' Tamahini" (anpiept Mapri race for a bride), and a number of rowing races under the auspices of the Auckland Rowing Association. Hakas and poi dances will also form part of the programme.

The Rev.G.H.Morse has been removed from the Home Mission district of Te Kuiti to the parochial district of Waiuku, and the Rev. C. F. R. Harrison, of Waiuku, has been appointed to the district of Waitara. The Rev. E. S. Wayne hag been appointed to the Home Mission district of Te Kuiti. Mr. Morse leaves Te Kuiti at the beginning of April.

It is said that the only way to avoid risk of accident is to stay at home, but this is not the experience of Mrs Evans, wife of Mr. T. Evans, of Paemako. She and her husband have just returned from a visit to England, travelling all those many thousand miles without mishap, and as she was riding up to her house, and when within a few yards of it, she was thrown from her hors? and had two ribs broken. There was a furntiure van following behind, and this frightened the horse she was ridinsr. Dr. Fullerton wa3 sent for and quickly attended to the sufferer, who is now getting on most satisfactorily.

During the hearing of a noxious weeds case in the Magistrate's Court at New Plymouth, the inspector remarked that he did not wish to bring too many cases of this nature against farmers. "Jj think you should bring them all up, if they're guilty." replied Mr. Fitzherbert, S.M. "I'd have to bring up half Taranaki in that case, your Worship,'.' rejoined the inspector. "I don't see why you shouldn't It's the only way to get rid of the trouble," said his Worship.

"Mercutio" writes in the Auckland Herald: —What do distinguished men do with all the public addresses that are thrust upon them? Lord Kitchener must have had a couple of hundred presented to him in Australia and New Zealand. Lord Plunket's portmanteaux must be bursting with them. What becomes of all these precious documents, the preparation of which involves so much time and expense? Are they thrown overboard, or burned, or sold to the waste-paper man when he comes round for rags and bones? Or do the recipients like Lord Onslow, our former Governor, paper a room with them?

The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. D. Buddo, is a warm supporter of classes of instruction in wool classing. In the course of his address at the opening of the Rangiora Technical School last week he said that he fully recognised the necessity for such classes. There were many men, who had never received any rural training, who were taking up land with the object of making a living. They had not the necessary knowledge to enable them to use their land to the be it advantage, and the difficulties with which they would meet in one direction would be removed by such classes. .

One of the visitors to Dargaville at the end of last week was Mr. Aperhama Reupena, of Hokianga, one of the Young Maori Reform Party. Aperhama was through that district in tha early part of last year, and gave several lectures in the Maori kaiangas. His mission is to induce natives to give up smoking and drinking, especially the women. In the course of a chat with a reporter he stated that the Maori women in past years used to smoke pipes, but nowadays the girls go in for cigarettes. It was, he said, surprising the number of Maori girls who indulged secretly in cigarettes, and it was the mission of his party to point out, among other things, the great evils attendant upon cigarette smoking. In referring to a visit to Kawhia, Aperhama said that a Maori Council was very badly required for health reasons and the district suffered very much in comparison to Hokianga and the Wairoa, where the natives now went in pretty extensively for improved sanitation, etc. He contended that at Kawhia, the influence of Mahuta was still very much in evidence.