LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 258, 11 May 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A memorial service to the late King will be held in the Town Hall on Sunday afternoon when everybody is invited to be present. The social to be given on Friday, the 13th inst., by the Te Kuiti Bowling and Croquet Club, has been indefinitely postponed owing to the death of the King. Owing to the death of the King the "At Home," which was to have been given by the Mayor and Mayoress on Thursday next is postponed until further notice. A general meeting of th 3 Maniapoto Rugby Union will be held in the "Chronicle" office on Tuesday evening next at 7.15 o'clock sharp. Delegates from the different club 3 are particularly requested to be present. The contract for the building of the Waitomo County Council's office, at Te Kuiti, has been let to Mr Gordon Reynolds. The building is to cost £278, and the work will be proceeded with without delay. In our advertising columns a notice appears calling an indignation meeting at Pio Pio, in Green and Colebroook's store, on Saturday evening next, 14th inst. The matter to be discussed is the removal of the local schoolmaster. All interested are requested to attend. On Saturday next Mr C. B. Lever will sell by auction without reserve at his mart a quantity of furniture, etc., on account of a gentleman leaving the district; also a lot of drapery, onions and sundries. The advertisement which appears in another column is worth perusal. As illustrating the apt way in which a friend in England describes the "Chronicle" we may quote the address given on a recent newspaper sent us. He addresses it to "The Settlers' Paper, Te Kuiti, N.Z.," and this is what we aim to be to the many readers in and around the Counties of Waitomo and Ohura.

Messrs Gaze and Co., the well-known artistic photographers of Hamilton have just removed into their fine new studio, next Bond, the stationer. Their "Lithotone" pictures are perfect works of art and sepia enlargements are also a specialty with them. In addition they do artist proof portraits and black and white photographs, and make a feature of photos of stock. What is possibly the most important function in the history of Pio Pio, will take place on Saturday next, 14th inst., when it is proposed to lay the foundation stone of the new butter factors. Mrs O'Dwyer, the wife of Mr P. O'Dwyer, chairman of directors, has been asked to perform the ceremony of laying the stone. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to be present on this memorable occasion. Arrangements are now being completed for the unique musical and elocutionary competitions to be held at Hamilton from Monday to Friday of next weak. The entries from Auckland, Thames, Waihi, Cambridge and Hamilton are mo3t encouraging to the promoters. There will be f«.ur hundred and fifty competitors and the nine concerts will be of a high order. The classes are interspersed so as to give variety at each concert and cater for the public. Season tickets at 5s each are being secured by many patrons, and popular prices will be. charged for the separate concerts. Special trains have been arranged from Thames and Cambridge on Wednesday, 18th inst., and from Cambridge on the day of the prize-winners' concert, May 20th. Medals, diplomas and cash prizes will«be presented by Mr H. J. Greenslade, M.P. Writes a correspondent: "Te Kuiti is not going to be a solemn borough town,", so a new arrival from the Auckland end would say, for, on leaving the limestone quarry he sees, to the left of the railway bridge an elaborately laid-out bowling green and croquet lawn, and it is hoped that the tennis courts will be congenial enough to locate themselves in the same quarter, so that it will be typical of Te Kuiti all in :i nut-shell. Th ';."., again',' on the left, after passing the public school, is seeon the sports grounds, where football, cricket and hockey matches and very creditable sports are held, and the belt of ornamental trees give promise of acceptable shelter in the earning days. Next on turning to the right may be seen the golf links, and in £he foreground, lately imported racehorses, suggestive of races, and more in the centre of the fast growing town, he finds that billiards are greatly indulged in, and the Town Hall, often so named, is frequently taxed to its utmost, by both local and visiting functions. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Miss Pine's new quarter for Music, Painting and Infant School, commenced on April 25th. *