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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The annual general meeting of members and intending members of Te Kuiti Racing Club will be held in Hattaway's Hall on Friday next at 8 p.m. As business is very important, a full attendance is urgently requested. Mr J. K. Graham has in to-day's issue full particulars of his Saturday's sale. We notice amongst the many lines, horses, vehicles, fruit, produce, pigs, fowls, turkeys, nice lot of nearly new furniture, and many other useful lines, The sale commences at 1.30 p.m. prompt. Entries for horse sale will be received up to hour of selling. A very useful practice was held on Monday evening by the members of the local Fire Brigade, eleven members being present, under Lieut. C. Sowry. The new members were instructed in the various parts of the manual engine, also in coupling, uncoupling and running out the hose, etc. A further practice will be held next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock, when all members are urgently requested to be present, as this will probably be the last practice before the new year.

Mr W. A. Thompson, late of Oparure, informs us that he is now running a motor car for hire at Rotorua. Ho is prepared to meet all trains and is running twice daily trips to the principal sights. Mr Thompson hope? that his King Country firenda will look for him when visiting Rotorua.

The .young colonial is credited with knowing more about the stud book than Ihe bible, and this is borne out by the experience of a Sunday school teacher who asked one of her pupils the meaning of "Absolution." The boy was (lie son of a bookmaker, and the paralysed teacher listened to the following :-- "Absolution, bay filly three year old, by Ncwminister from IYnilent: Penitent the dam of Penance. The colt lias run Carbine to a head ami bust.-oe-sclf up in doing it. Many remedies for codlin moth have been printed, but perhaps the most novel wan that by a writer in a newspaper recently that geraniuirs be rj'own under fruit trees. Mr A. Pickering, of Palmerston North, read the paragraph and has tried the experiment with, he states, successful results. He says his tree? arc now quite free from codlin moth, and he is a firm believer in the remedy.

A man named Hoare, in the employ of Mr F. Hattaway who was carting a load of timber in Te Kuiti on Thursday morniup, met with an accident which might easily have proved fatal. One wheel of the cart dropped into a deep rut and overturned the cart pinning Hoare Underneath in a very perilous position. Willing helpers were soon on the spot and with great difficulty buceeeded in releasing the driver. It was fortunate that the cart in turning over caught on the bank at the side of the road, otherwise the full weight would have rested on Hoare's body, and he would undoubtedly have been very seriously injured, if not killed. Dr Fullerton was called to the spot and found that the injury sustained was a severe sprain of the ankle. Amongst, the helpers were Mr Scott and i\!r \V. Fullerton, the former while rendering assistance was kicked on the shin by one of the horses, and Mr Fullerton had one of his fingers taken off :u the last joint through having it kicked while assisting to get out the horses. Both men were able to return home after being medically treated.

An amendment to the Old Age Pensions Act will be brought into force at the beginning of January, which alters the method of calculating on property. The new system will allow an applicant to possess £340 of property as his home and £SO worth of other property. The balance will then be taken into consideration and £1 will he deducted from the pension for every £lO worth of property the applicant possesses above the allowances mentioned. For instance, if an applicant possessed £350 of house property, which was his home, and £i)o worth of other property, he would be £2O above the allowances and deducting £1 for every £lO, his pension, if otherwise entitled to the full amount of .£26, would consequently be reduced to £2L

The luxury and comfort surrounding modem travel is astonishing to those who remember the conditions under which they were brought to New Zealand, say half a century ago. From the. New Zealand Shipping Company we have received a little pamphlet illustrating the latest passenger steamer placed on the run between London and New Zealand the Kuahine. She ia a vessel of .11,000 tons burden, with twin screws, and fitted with every convenience for the comfort of passengers. Her saloons, lounges, cabins. etc., are beautifully furnished and fitted.

A llawcra resident lias patented an improved method of ear - marking cattle. The invention takes the form of a piece of thin metal bent double, to one end of vjhich a small end ia attached, the other end being pierced by a hole into which the spike locks after being forced through the animal's car, thus making it impossible to remove the metal tag except by cutting it out. Canada in 1909 exported gold-bear-ing quartz, gold dust, and nuggets to the value of 455,119,592.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 318, 7 December 1910, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
874

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 318, 7 December 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 318, 7 December 1910, Page 4

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