King Country Chronicle Wednesday, June 8, 1910 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 266, 8 June 1910, Page 2

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, June 8, 1910 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The recent Waikato musical and elocutionary competitions resulted in a credit balance of £2l 10s 7d. On Saturday next Mr C. B. Lever will sell by auction at his mart a lot of poultry including some purebred silver Wyandottes. Particulars of the sale are advertised in another column. A petition lies at the "Chronicle" office for signatures by bona-fide settlers in connection with tne obtaining of a trial survey for a railway from Kawhia to the Main Trunk railway. Although the daily average number of patients in the Waikato Hospital during the past month has been 83, the rate of mortality has been exceptionally low, no deaths having occurred for six weeks. A site on the Waiinarino plains, close to Waimarino station, has been selected as the training camp for the North Island. The South Island camp will be located on the bank of the Waimakariri river, about six miles from Christchurch. Owing to the failure of the lighting at the Town Hall, Te Kuiti, on Saturday night, the exhibition arranged for by Mr Pearce, the JiuJitsu expert, was not given. A number of disappointed patrons had to have their money returned. On the recommendation of Dr Douglas, supported by a statement by Dr Vajintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, the Waikato Hospital Board decided on Thursday, to enquire the cost of an X-rays apparatus, for probable installation at the hospital.

A start has been made on the piercing of the Whangamomona Saddle tunnel on the Stratford-Ongarue railway from the Whangamomona side. On the Stratford side a very heavy cutting has to be carried out before the tunnel can be approached. The Puniho (Taranaki) toll gate has been removed from its hinges, carried some distance away, chopped up and burned. The County Council has decided to place the matter in the hands of the police, arid to offer a reward of £lO for such information as will lead to a conviction. Te Kuiti has a reputation (undeserved to some extent) as a wet district. A comparison of the last month's rainfall shows Te Kuiti had 3.69 inches on 13 days, while Hamilton had 5.1 inches on 20 days. An extra weeks' fine weather in autumn is something to be grafcefu) for. The following are. the sitjting? of the Magistrate's Court for June: — Taumarunui, Tuesday, 14th, 10 a.m.; Te Kuiti, Thursday, JGth, 11 a.m.; Hamilton, Monday, 20th, 10.30 a.m.; Cambridge, Tuesday, 21st, 10.30 a.m.; Matamata, Friday, 24th, 9.30 a.m.;* Kawhia, Wednesday, 29th, 9.30 a.m. When the express from Wellington came down the Raurimu spiral last nigfot; a passenger was found to be missing. It gjsems the man had gone out of the comparfcrueat Jo stand on the platform, and it is assumed he fell off the "train. He was not missed for at>D9t ipinutes —too late to nidLfe-m up,

The Rev. Wra. Ronaldson, who ia preaching in the Anglican Church on Sunday morning, is one of the few surviving Maori Missionaries who lived among the Maoris throughout the Maori war and did so much both for the Maoris and Europeans, by their efforts for peace in the Wellington province. Of later years he has been better known as the Grand Secretary of the Masonic Order and one of their cKaplains. The Waikato Winter Show Association's schedule of prizes covers a wide field of operation, and is calculated to make the show of interest to every class of the community. Women folk will doubtless be interested in the display of plain and fancy needlework, for which over thirty classes are arranged. The competitions set out for scholars attending State schools should also prove a pleasing portion of the general display.

Building is fairly brisk in Te Kuiti at present. The new County offices are being rapidly completed, and fully a dozen residences are in course of erection, or just built. At the south end of Rora street the whole street line will be filled up within the next few months. Mr Mabbett's two shops, Mrs Sinton's shop for Mr Lissaman, two shops and a billiard room for Mr G. Prime, and Mr Dunning's twostoried building are amongst the prospective work in front of the builders.

Dairy questions are receiving more attention in Te Kuiti just now than hitherto. A feeling exists that some move should be made at an early date to come to a definite conclusion as to which method of operating would best suit the needs of the district. We understand that one or two prominent dairy experts are to be invited to visit Te Kuiti and address those interested. Further information will possibly be available during the next week.

At a meeting recently held at Marokopa a matter of importance to the district was discussed, namely, the dairy factory's financial aspect, and a small committee was set up to make inquiries in this direction. It is understand that there will be no trouble in getting the sum required at a fairly moderate rate of interest. It is probable that there will be about 250 cows milked during the coming season, which number will be very considerably increased the following year. The home industries classes at the Waikato Winter Show are always interesting, and competition usually keen. The Winter Show Association has drawn up a very liberal prize list for these classes at the coming show. A number of the competitions are restricted to farmers' wives or daughters, and good entries from the King Country should be received, A schedule of prizes will be posted to any address on application to this office.

The fact that there are nearlj 40,000 foreigners (including 8000 Germans) in our mercantile marine is a standing reproach to Britons (says a Navy League publication). The league in the Old Country is doing something towards the removal of this reproach by the establishment of several additional training brigs on rivers in some of the inland districts. Already over 500 boys have been sent to sea from the Liscard establishment and the sea-training brig at Windsor.

The next session of Parliament opens on June 28th, when the Government proposes to bring down a large number of Bills, including one for the extinction of the public debt in 75 years, another for introducing the post-audit system of dealing with public accounts and a Bill for dealing with water power and expending half a million a year in its development. Anti-trust legislation is foreshadowed, and Bills covering National Annuities, land legislation, gaming, tramways, harbour-board amendment, betterment railway and electoral are al3o promised.

Residents of Pirongia and Ohaupo will regret to of the death of Mr Thomas Finch, wheelwright, of the latter town, which took place on Monday morning. Deceased had been ill for about a week with pneumonia but a fatal termination was not ex* pected. The late Mr Finch had lived most of his life at Ohaupo, where he was generally respected, and the deepest sympathy will be extended to his bereaved wife and relatives in their affliction. The body will be interred in the Pirongia cemetery this afternoon.