LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 319, 10 December 1910, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Taumarunui Chamber of Commerce is disturbed at the flying visits of certain dealers in merchandise whogo off without paying any rates or being of service to the town, and yet are not obliged to take out hawkers' licenses. It is submitting the matter to the Borough Council. Mr J. R. Graham has been instructed by Young and Co. to sell 33 leasehold and 30 freehold town sections by public auction on Thursday, 22nd December, IPIO. This will be a splendid opportunity to secure a cheap section. An advertisement appears elsewhere in our columns. Full particulars may be obtained from Young and Co. or the auctioneer. Taumarunui Chamber of Commerce has decided to write to the Ministei of Railways asking for the concession of a passenger carriage on the goods entrain. Also to communicate with the Te Kuiti Chamber of Commerce requesting its co-operation in asking for a passenger carriage through from Frankton. On the recommendation of the Hamilton postmaster a late fee letter box is to be erected in the private box lobby of the Hamilton post office, to be cleared at 9.15 p.m. daily,_ Sundays pxcepted. A posting box is also to be provided at the Hamilton railway station.

Mr E. retirement from the Labour Department will take effect from May Ist next, but he will cease duty at the end of next month (says a Press Association message). Mr F. P. Moorehouse, who has just returned to Te Kuiti after a two months' visit to Canterbury, informs us that the trout fishing in the southern rivers this year is excellent. In fourteen days' fishing Mr Moorehouse landed 360 "fish, his largest bag for one day being 48. Every home that values cheerfulness, comfort and refinement will welcome the new Roslyn writing pad (copyrighted) 100 sheets fine ruled, tablet size paper. Obtainable from drapers and storekeepers at 6d each. At last week's meeting of the Auckland Land Board, Mr E. C. Stanley, of Marakopa, wrote asking for four or five acres for a site for the Marakopa Dairy Company s dairy factory, on a picee of land marked as a school reserve, on the Marakopa river. The board decided to offer two acres for the purpose. The meannes? of the poacher is the meanness of the. downright thief, according to Mr F. O'B. Loughnan, S.M. Several men came before him at Taumarunui on Tuesday charged with fishing without licenses. The magistrate said that no man calling himself a sportsman, would be guilty of such a thing. It was nothing short of theft on the part of those who contributed nothing to the heavy cost by the acclimatisation societies in stocking the rivers. The art of getting lost in the bush is not by any means a lost one. A fortnight ago an experienced bushman was making his way into the Rangitoto block, somewhere near Westmacott's place, and found himself lost. He was absent for over eight days, and during all that time nothing passed his lips but drinks - of water. He grew gradually weaker as he travelled, and at one point met a ferocious wild boar. Had the boar attacked him he could not have defended himself. He travelled down the Waipa to Otorohanga, reaching there last Saturday afternoon in a very weak state. It the extreme danger of any inexperienced person attempting to traverse a roadless bush country, when experienced men can lose themselves, as in tne instance mentioned, an! it fuither shows the wonderful adaptability of the human body which is_able,_on occasion, to go for long periods without food.

We are indebted to Mr T. E. Foy for the following details of the rainfall at Te Kuiti for November: —3rd, .19; Btb, -01 ; 9th, .49; loth, .70; 19th, .06; 20th, .07; 21 at, .12; 22nd, .07* 23rd, .74; 24th, .04; 26th, .01; *27tb,~1.17; 28th, .70; total 4.37 inches on 13 days. Readers are reminded that the British Biograph Company will pay a return visit for two nights only at tha Town Hall on Saturday and Monday, 10th and 12th December, when they present an entirely new programme of perfected cinematography. Lovers of good drama should enjoy the superb acting of renowned Continental artists who figure to perfection in the new Roman drama "Lucretia," which has created such a furore throughout Europe. The programme also includes a host of well selected subjects calculated to please all picture lovers by their intensely interesting nature. The British Biograph Company has already made its name famous through the North Island, by virtue of fact that it gives money s worth and for this reason enjoys a well deserved reputation. We have no hesitation in promising an enjoyable evening's entertainment.