King Country Chronicle Wednesday, July 13, 1910 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 276, 13 July 1910, Page 2

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, July 13, 1910 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Ladies willing to assist_at the forthcoming Fire Brigade ball are requested to attend a meeting tomorrow, as advertised in another column. f We . have been informed that the Government have purchased .an area of 240 acres from the Natives at Marakopa. The area includes the township site with the exception of about 20 acres, which is under offer to the Marakopa Sawmilling Co. The price paid is reported to be £26 per acre. Mr J. R. Graham will sell as per advertisement on Thursday at 2.30 p.m. in the Exchange yards 50 head of poultry; Saturday at 11 o'clock, horses and vehicles, and at 1 p.m. in the Rooms, furniture, produce and general merchandise. Entries received up till the hour of sale.

The Fisk_ Jubilee Singers were greeted by a bumper house in Te Kuiti on Monday evening, and every item was vociferously applauded and encored, the audience being well satisfied with the entertainent. Collectively, the singers make one of the best combinations of harmony, which have ever visited here, besides being, individually, artists of no mean order. Mr J. R. Graham, auctioneer, of Te Kuiti, has been appointed agent for the Alliance Fire and Accident Insurance Co. and for Messrs Barraud and Abraham, Ltd., the well-known seed merchants of Palmerston North.