LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 259, 14 May 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

♦ - Monday next being Whit Monday the Banks in Te Kuiti will be closed for the day. Tenders for additions to the Bank of New Zealand, Te Kuiti, are invited up to noon of May 28th. Plans may be seen with the Manager of the Bank, Te Kuiti. Messrs Cotter Bros, cut up a remarkably large bullock yesterday. It weighed 13121bs and was grown by Mr Time Koinake. The Pall Mall Gazette considers New Zealand's mijitary arrangements an eloquent object lesson to the people of England. "Of course our railways are not perfect; no more than anything else. But if there are any in the next world I hope they will be run as well as ours in New Zealand."—Remark by the Prime Minister at Levin on Thursday. Last week the bush camp at Pukepuri, in connection with Ellis and Burnand's sawmill at Mangapehi, was destroyed by fire. The men lost practically everything, one losing £l2 and others smaller sums. The cause of the fire is unknown. Messrs Chandler and Co., Ltd , of have recently issued an interesting booklet dealing with the Auckland mining area, and containing maps and other information likely to be of use tq intending investors. Copies will be supplied free qi charge on application to the firm. Mr John Black, speaking at the conclusion of the All Black concert on Thursday night, said Te Kuiti was the most prosperous-looking town ho had seen in the Dominion and during the past four years he had come across no place which had shown the same rapid growth. Mr D. Campbell, who has recently been with Mr A. B. Jordan, Crown Lands Ranger, Te Kuiti, has received notice of his appointment as Crown Lands Ranger at Whangarei. Mr Campbell goes to Whangarei to take up his duties there, at an early date. The Rev. Dr Neligan, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, who is suffering from a nervous breakdown due to overwork, was reported to be a little better, though still on the advice of his medical adviser confined to his room. Mr H. W- Northcrqft, who many years was on the Magistrate's Court Bench, and was formerly engaged in connection with the Maori wars, has been awarded the New Zealand Cross for meritorious service, states a Presg Association wire from Wellington. In continuance of its policy of regrading facilitating and cheapening the handling of traffic, the Government decided on Wednesday to expend £7500 upon the easing of a big grade on the Waikato railway, near Tuakau station. Miss Pine's new quarter for Music, Painting and Infant School, commenced or, April 25th. * 1

The Commissioner of Crown Lands notifies that an application has been received to purchase 222 acres (unsurveyed) Crown land, being Kinohaku East No. 2 section Otanake survey district, which will be considered at the meeting of the Land Board on May 26th. The Taranaki Land Board election takes place on Friday, the. 27th May, and not the 13th, as erroneously advertised last Saturday. Voting papers whether delivered or posted must reach the returning officer at the Lands and Survey office, New Plymouth, not later than that date. Tenders are to be invited at once for the installation of a wireless tele- i graphy system in New Zealand on the lines indicated by the Prime Minister in his Winton speech. The specifications include the erection of two stations of high power and three low power stations. The Prime Minister is of opinion that if suitable offers are obtained the whole scheme ought to be working within twelve months. An Onga Onga resident has taken the Hawke's Bay Herald into his confidence. In a note to the editor he says: —"Halley's comet was plainly visible here this morning at 4.30. A local resident measured its tail with a log of 4ft firewood. It was 19£ million miles long " At a meeting of the inhabitants of Taupo and surrounding districts it was decided to bring under the notice of th \ Minister for Defence the peculiar advantages possessed by the district that recommend it as a suitable place for the establishment of a military training camp, under the provisions of the Defence Act of 1909. "Hamilton" butter advertised in another column is a Waikato product, produced from home-separated cream pasteurised at the factory. The cream comes from all parts of the Waitomo and Waikato Counties. Four thousand five hundred and thirtysix pounds or two tons of the butter was sold in the counties last month.

Owing to the funeral of the late King being fixed for Friday, May 20th, the "Grand Prize Winners' Concert" will be postponed to Wednesday, May 25th. A special train will be arrranged from Cambridge for that evening. The conteat3 for Monday to Thursday, May 16th to 19th, will be proceeded with according to the official programme. Messrs J. S. Fry and Sons preparations of cocoa are so well known that it is almost superflous to say that any new production from their celebrated works necessarily demands the attention of the public. Reference is made in our advertising columns to a new pure breakfast cocoa, which has been prepared to meet the popular taste, and which from its purity, flavour and economy its use will tend to make it in the highest degree appreciated in homes, and in fact wherever a health giving and gratifying beverage is required. A leading London wool-broker, in the course of a private letter to the head of a New Zealand house, says: "I fancy we shall have a firm market now for the remainder of the year. The consumption of wool, especially in Yorkshire, is immense; but I think America is a bit stuck with dear merinos." The reference to the conditions in Yorkshire will make pleasant reading for New Zealand wooigrowers. The Waipa County Council is contemplating erecting a new steel bridge at Pirongia. The plans have been prepared by Mr S. B. Sims, Hamilton borough engineer, and the estimated cost is £3500. The Government contribution of £ISOO is considered to ba too small, as the bridge is a necessity and gives access to large areas of Crown lands. A committee of the Council is to report on the existing conditions of the district, and how far the Counties of Waitomo and Kawhia likely to use the bridge. The arrangements in connection with the Memorial service to the memory of our late King are now complete. The service will be held in the Town Kail, Te Kuiti, to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 2.30. The boys attached to the Cadet corps will be stationed in the hall. A service form will be handed to each person present, containing the hymns to be sung and the order of the service. Short addresses will be delivered by the Revs. Mitchell and Wayne. The Choir is asked to be present by 2.15 p.m. and public bodies by 2.25 p.m. A collecttion will be taken at the close, to defray the expenses of arranging the service.

The street collection taken up by a band of ladies at Auckland last Saturday resulted in £203 17a 3d being handed in to the Knyvett Defence Committee to continue the fight. Mr J. S. Dickson, chairman of the Knyvett Defence Committee, states that he accepts the result of the collection as an earnest desire on the part of the Auckland pijblic to carry the campaign into the southern electorates. The committee accordingly proposes to hold indignation meeting 3 at ijamilton, Te Kuiti. New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wellington, and probably Christchurch and Dunedin. We are glad to know that Dr Fitchett, who has written so many brilliant pages of British history, is completing'in "Life" a history of Australia and New Zealand. About the value of the story of bushranging days there may . have been some doubt, though its interest was manifest. But about the worth, as well as the interest of the section with which Dr Fitchett is now dealing, there can be no two opinions. It is the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Australasian exploration. The first instalment appears in "Life" for May, just received, and is entitled "The Siege of the Blue Mountains," and it forms a chapter as unknown to f!he' average' man as it is romantic This articje- -which is finely ' illustrated —is apparently the foretaste of an abundance of fascinating reading. The teller who'd nearly "passed in all his cheques," And had suffered a dangerous chill. Now gazed with "drawn" face on "figures" complex, That made up a great doctor's "bill." And he then made a "note" that he'd have more sense Next time ho got in a "draft" sure, And though he "paid" up, he saved eighteenpence For Wooda' Great Peppermint Cure,