LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Otorohanga shopkeepers want the Saturday half-holiday, and a meeting ia called by the Town Hoard t<>r Saturday next to consider their requisition. Barton Brothers' huge circus is coming to To Kuiti on race night, 26th January. The show includes 40 star artistes, 00 ponies,_ liaises and mules, champion high-jumping dogs and numerous other attractions, and the whole show will be given just the same as in Auckland. In connection with the Anglican Church garden fete, contributions to the work, refreshment, produce, sweets and flower stalls win be gratefully received by the Ladies Guild and may be left with Mrs Lissaman, Rora street, or at the Vicarage. The various attractions of the lete will be fully advertised in the next issue of the "Chronicle." The Kaeaea settlers' picnic was held in Ratimu's paddock on January 2nd, when a large number of settlers and their familes gathered. Games and races were indulged in ar.d dinner and tea provided on the ground. Everybody thoroughly enjoyed the outing, which it is intended to make an annual one. A branch of the oung Maori Party was recently formed at Otorohanga, the following gentlemen being elected oilice - bearers: President, John Orrnbsy; committee, Messrs Morena Natanahira, Hari Hemara, Reti Roa, William Hughes, Nikora liauparoa, William Scarancke, Kiii K<itipa, Tutunui Tekanaura, lulunui, and John Ormsby juiir., lion, secretary.
Mr Harry Fear, who has been head storeman for Messrs Green and Golebrook, Ltd., Otorohanga, id about to sever his connection with that firm, and will be leaving in a few days. Mr Fearv is about to take over the management of Messrs Goodfellows new business at Te Awamutu, in which the friends he has made during his residence in Otorohanga will wish him every success.
To-day's issue contains "Notes for Women," by Patricia, on page 2; "A trip to Waimiha" (conclusion), on page 3; "Through the King Country, one of a series of descriptive articles by our special commissioner, on page 6; and our serial story on page ?•
A notice appears in this issue calling a meeting of shopkeepers in the "Chronicle" office, on \vedncsdav evening next, at ti o clock. fhe object of the meeting is to decide upon what (lay the half holiday shall be observtd for the Borough of Council to fix the half-holiday for the year, during January. It is hoped that all interested will attend so that the matter may be fully discussed. Mr F. P. Moorehotise, of Te Kuiti, wishes to state that the F. Moore house, who bus recently been charged with taking under-sized fish at Rotorua, is not in any way connected with himself. As Mr Moorehouse was not in Potorua at the time when the incident occurred, it wcuid be quite impossible for the charge to apply to him. Mr Moorhouse, who is an expert fisherman and a good sport, is known to invariably return all undersized fish. Before Major Lusk and Mr J. lanimadge, J.P's., at Te Kuiti Magistrate's Court on Thursday, a Maori named Tommy Tawhana was charged with refusing to leave the Hotel Grand and using obscene language. I'or the former offence he was convicted and fined £2, and for the latter convicted and fined 10s. The Mayor of Taumarunui has arranged a borough loan of £27,000 for the purposes of the following improvements in the town.•■- Water £13,000; sewage £3l So; street formation £3976; Matapuna-Taumaiunui road £1000; lighting, £4000; interest purchase of land,, etc., £2;;f>o; fire briagde, £3OO. A vote of the ratepayers will be required to confirm the loan. When an article is lost or found and is advertised for, if it is quickly recovered, the newspaper generally lets its readers know all about it. This happens in Auckland, I almeiston, Hamilton and elsewhere. The other day, in Te Kuiti, a subscriber mentioned that he had lost a coat, and was beginning to say he wanted to advertise, when a stranger standing near said, "By Jove! I believe I picked that coat of yoms up the other day at the railway station." And so it turned cut. He had picked it up and the advertisement that was to ha"'e been—well it faded away.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 328, 14 January 1911, Page 5
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692LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 328, 14 January 1911, Page 5
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