LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 293, 10 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

To-day's contents include Kings and Clowns, by "Empedocles," the clever writer who is known to many of our readers by his articles, Fancies from Waikato. He will write weekly for the "Chronicle" (page 2); Random Remarks, by "Onlooker," and an interview with Dr Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone (now in New Zealand), are also on page 2. A report of the Native Townships Bill protest meeting and commercial and other news is on page 3; "Patricia's" Notes for Women and Farm and Garden are on page 6; and Broken Bonds —our serial story —on page 7, The annual income from the Monte Carlo gaming tables totals a sum considerably over £1,500,000. There was last year an increase of 2054 in the number of paupers in Scotland, of whom 305 were lunatics. Cholera is making steady headway throughout Russia, and many districts are now reported as dangerous. The ordinary dividends of the British railway companies this year average 3.15 per cent., compared with 2.99 last year. For the position of parks superintendent which the London County Council is advertising a salary of £7OO a year is offered. One million copies are to be printed of Mr Roosevelt's book on "African Game Trails." This, it is claimed, constitutes a world's record. A Chinese publisher is about to start the first evening paper in Pokin. It will be printed in red, which is symbolic of happiness. A fire which destroyed a cinematograph theatre at Tilbury, England, was caused by a pet monkey which was in the habit of striking matches. The Cunard liner Luaitania, which sailed from Liverpool recently, for New York, had on board 3(3 boxes of bar gold, valued.at £305,000. The poll taken on Thursday to raise a loan of £38,000 to complete the purchase of the Hamilton gas works from the company by the Hamilton Borough Council, was carried by 183 votes to 11 votes. We understand that a movement is on foot to ascertain what support a branch of the Druids' Lodge would recieve in Te Kuiti. There are several members of the Order in this town, and a meeting will be held in the course of the next week or fortnight, a notification of which will in due course appear in our advertising columns. Attention is drawn to an advertisement which appears in this issue notifying the fact that the Ohuni Gymnastic and Boxing Association are holding a musical social and dance in the Mangaroa Hall on Friday, 16th September, at 8 o'clock. The proceeds are to be used for purchasing apparatus for the gymnasium. No doubt a very large number will be present, if, for no other reason than the fact that the proceeds are to be devoted to bo laudable an object. A detailed list of Mr P. Beck's clearing sale appears in to-day's issue. As he has bought a farm in Hawke's Bay the auctioneer has been instructed to effect a clearance, full particulars of which appear in our advertising column. With Mr Beck's consent the auctioneer will receive a few further entries of horses, dairy stock, etc. The house and land will be offered at the same time. The property is L.1.P., but the new Bill now before Parliament enables it, if so desired, to be made freehold. Full particulars and cards to view at the Exchange sale rooms. Mr J. R. Graham will conduct the sale. In connection with the civil busincßß at the Supreme Court sittings at Hamilton on Thursday, Mr H. T. Gillies, Crown Prosecutor, mentioned the case of Hawkins v. Zobel, in connection with which he stated two medical men from Te Kuiti were In attendance. He asked his Honour if possible to fix a time for the hearing of this case, so as \,o allow the gentlemen in question to return home, ss during their absence there was a great lack of medical attendance in the King Country. His Honour said that in view of the protracted criminal sittings he could not fix a day for the hearing, but he said the case would not be heard before Monday next. Mr Justice Edwards has no particular regard for medical terms which do not convey a clear meaning to those unlearned in medicine, and during the hearing of a case at Auckland, in which several of the witnesses were medical men, he made one or two remonstrances against the use of strange words. One of them was "haematoma," of which neither he nor any one of the special jury hearing the case knew the meaning until one of the counsel engaged gave the following lucid explanation. "It's what you get when you hit your finger with a hammer."