COUNTRY NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 330, 21 January 1911, Page 5

COUNTRY NEWS.

Own Correspondents. Ohura. Since the New Year building has ben going on rapidly, and besides the addition of a new boarding-house (Miss Hill) we have also an up-to-date shaving and hnirdressing saloon, eected by Mr W. Simpson, late of Sydney. Mass was celebrated here last Sunday by the Rev. Dean McKenna, to a large congregation. The rev. gentleman referred to the urgent need of having a Roman Catholic church erected in the Ohura. A meeting of the congregation wa3 held after Mass, when a strong committee of ladies and gentlemen was formed, and it was decided to make the social, to be held next Thursday, a financial success. It was also arranged to have a large marquee erected outside the hall, to be used as a refreshment room, and also a card room for the use of nondancers.

It may not be generally known that we have in our midst Mr Louis Robertson, champion catch-as-eateh-can wrestler of Scotland, and New Zealand (light-weight). This wellknown gentleman has for the past month or two been athletic instructor to the Ohura gymnasium, and several of his pupils are already showing great promise as wrestlers. Mr Robertson has generously offered his services in aid of the Town Hall funds, when a grand athletic entertainment will be held in the hall on February 18th. One of the features of the entertainment will be an exhibition wrestling match between the Scottish champion and Joe Prechner, of London, the Tiddish feather-weight hercules. Mr Robertson will ateo perform his famous box trick, when tightly roped and nailed in a box he undertakes to escape. This should, therefore, draw one of the largest audiences to the district ever yet seen in the annals of Ohura.