LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 346, 18 March 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A meeting of To Kuiti Sports (.dub is called for Tuesday evening ne\t, 21st inst. As the business is of an importat nature, it is hoped that the committee will all attend. The inspector to the Auckland Education Board is investigating the application for a school at Tannic.; this week. The amount of the grant tor the Awakino road metalling turns out. to be only £250, and against this is a liability of £BO. If the money la*t this week out it is about all it will do. It is to he hoped strong representations will be made in tee proper quarters as to the miserable inadequacy of the sum granted. A young man named .1. Armstrong, son of a Ratanui settler, had the misfortune to intlict a very severe cut on his ankle with an atlv.e on Wednesday. Armstrong was dressing some timber at the time. Speaking about rural education in the Auckland district this morning, Mr C. J. Parr, chairman of the. board, said that we. are behind the. South in matters of that kind. The headmaster who neglected school gardens Would find himself in trouble later on. In the Magistrate's Court on Thursday afternoon during the hearing of the ease of Lorigan and Co. v. McNaught, when the statement for claim waa by being discussed, Mr F. O'B. Loughnan, S.M., said that he wanted litigants and solicitors to know that technical points were not going to be dealt with by the court like a game of poker or bluff. Technicalities were the great defects of the law. The Court would not be prostituted by the raising of technicalities and he never would be a party to assist in the oppression of the other man. He was being asked to use the legal stick and hit the other man and would not do it.

The first contributor to the National Provident Fund in 'l'e Kuiti opened an account at the Post olliee on Thursday. The fund deserves every support from young men and especially married men. Contributions are received at any money order office from anyone with an income, at the time of joining, of not more than £2OO a year, and the benefits include a pension at ti(), weekly payments of 7s (id to the wife, and for each child, if the husband is incapacitated, and absolute Hecurity and protection of the funds, which are returnable at 12 months' notice, if circumstances call for it. Miss Honan announces that she will hold a children's dancing class every Saturday afternoon, and that the term commences next Saturday Plain and fancy dancing will be taught, also all the latest callisthenics. This is an excellent opportunity for young people to learn exercises for the purpose of promoting gracefulness as well as strength of body. During the hearing of a case in the Maigstrate'a Court on Thursday night when the question as to the existence of a contract was being argued plaintiff stated that a verbal agreement existed whilst the defendant denied its existence. The Magistrate to plaintiff: "I would advise you to have a scratch of the pen with it in future." Plaintiff: "I will take your advice for the future, sir." Mr Jacobson, who has been residing in Te Kuiti for the past nine months as Presbyterian missionary student, is leaving on Friday next. In Dunedin be intends to renew his studies at. Otago University, going from there, after he finishes his course, to Knox College. Sinci Mr Jacobfion's romirig to Te Kuiti a church site has bten purchased in Rora street. lie had intended to have overseen the building of the church himself, but unt'orseen circumstances hindered its jirugivss, so the work remains to be taken up by his successor, the Rev. Armstrong. The timber for the church is all stacked upon the site, and' the committee is only awaiting certain arrangements before the building will in; commenced.

There was a great exodus from Te KuiH by the early goods yesterday morning. The Ngaruawahia water carnival was the attraction, and fully r.oi) people must have travelled in the cattle trucks thoughtfully provided by the railway department. 11. looked like rain as the train slowly moved away, too. A plaintiff giving evidence in the Magistrate's Court on Thursday night, in emplaning the termination of a disagreement, stated that the defendants said "To Hanover with the cows; jx,li te expression for something else, yur Worship." His Worship; "Well, 1 suppose it is, and it start 3 with j the same letter." Plans of houses of from two to eight rooms, which under the new Workers Dwellings Act are available for buildin" on a deposit, of UH> with the Lahour Department, are being litho- ; "r loin"! now, and in a few days' time hi 1 ! !>■• open for inspection at the ~ , .■ io i! i'osL Ollices. i.l '.-lii. Wednesday night a most, en- . i , i>de dance was giver, by Miss f ,0 dances and dancing classes. Deijiite the warm night a fairly long L pie gramme was gone through. The H ||,„ir was in splendid order and ftlr J. W li supplied the music in hi ; usual Sj t> i.iing manner. A rei ro.Uiin.; in • ' ; ii . i'.ioii was til- scri ms of ice ,i Kiis during the • veiling, which was ii.ii a appreciated, "-'upper was sei'Vet! In 1 :a a ;'i |: l. 1 e etltsade ie- hall, whe'S' lh , h dainty of jellies, fruit salads, i. ! iiuh'S, etc , were provided by Mr F. " J 1 iioni psou.