LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 282, 3 August 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mr J. It. Graham notifies sale at yard behind mart at 12..'50 p.m. on Saturday, the usual sale of horses, implements and vehicles, particulars of which will lie found in advertising columns.

A dairy farmer in Taranaki averaged .UO a head for milk alone last season, exclusive of honus. The year before his SO cows , and heifers averaged .£l2, the factory payments being at the rate of Is per lb of butter-fat.

Mr J. R. Graham notifies in our advertising columns particulars of his Saturday Marl, sale, amongst which we notice a magnificent collection o( pines, (lowering shrubs and pot plants, produce, new and second-hand furniture, and many sundry lines. In today's issue appears a preliminary notice of an auction sale of furniture and eii'cets on account of Mr Hunt, at, his residence at Puketiti, on Thursday, 11th August, at 12 o'clock noon, Mr Hunt having sold his property, ho has instructed Mr,]. It. Graham, the auctioneer, to ell'ect a clearance. Details in next issue.

We are indebted to Mr T. F. Foy for the following statistics of the rainfall for Te Kuiti during July: July 2nd 1.2(1 inches, :>rd .0:5, -!th .09, htli ..".3, oth ..'l7, 7th .07, Sth .'.it;. Kith .07, 12th .O.'l. 1 Ith .OS, loth .el, 17th .')■■), lS'fh .d. r ), 2(»th .(!."), 21st .. r -i>, 22nd .<U>, 2:! rd .'■]'■). 21th .01, 20th .la. total 7.-10 inches on P.) days.

Pr Chappie, M.P. for Stirlingshire, cabled to a friend in Wellington on Saturday stating that as the Imperial Parliament was rising until the autumn, he intended leaving at once on a visit to New Zealand, via Vancouver. He should reach Wellington about the middle of September. Woman is indeed a mystery. There is no pleasing her. Recently, at Highgate, a woman applied for a summons against her husband because he squeezed her. Had it been another woman whom he embraced one could understand it.

Recently a walking contest took place between an equal number of representatives of the vegetarian diet and the meat diet. The course was from Feikling to the reservoir ami back, a distance of about ten miles. A beefeater was the first in, being bait amilc ahead of the next man. Some of the vegetarians could not last out the journey, and had to be given a lift home.

■Rev. W. Wooliass, Moderator of West Waikato Presbyterian Church, met a committee ol (lie local church yesterday to devise ways and means for the erection of a Presbyterian Church in this town. The. work is in the hands of a strong committee and is progressing favourably. The general committee have provided the necessary funds for a site. The life of the Parliamentarian is not always an enviable one. Their duties involve a very groat deal of selfsacrifice and discomfort. Pong' train journeys by night in cold, damp weather are enough to shorten one's life. Messrs Jennings and Lawry came up to To Kuili from Wellington to attend the Waitomo County Council banquet. Leaving the festive hall at one o'clock in the morning, they went, on to the railway station, when; their friends continued to talk politics to them till nearly two, after which the former took their departure, but the two members learnt. th"n I hat their train was an hour and a-half late. This meant their waiting on a deserted platform in the cold, dark hours of the oaifly morning till they con id oven mako a start on their long journey. Potter a little bush farm, one's own fireside, and a quiet pipe, thinks the Taumarunui "Press."