LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 347, 25 March 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A meeting of the newly-formed Gun Club will be held in Mr H. J. Mussen's office on Tuesday evening. Intending members and sportsmen are cordially invited to be present. A very necessary and desirable improvement to the new trucking yards at Te Kuiti railway station would be the construction of a sheep drafting race. There- is one at Feilding, and it has proved an immense convenience to the farmers of the district. It would cost only a few pounds to put in and its value would be admitted by every dealer in sheep. The Auckland Education Board has accepted the tender of Messrs Hitchcock and Trevarthen for the erection of an infant school at Te Kuiti for the sum of £6SS. Four tenders, ranging from £658 to £776, were received. The new engine at Wilson's Siding will soon be ready to work. The power will then be capable of driving the two crushers and the whole of the plant, and leave a surplus for brickmaking, if local demand warrants adding bricks to the products. Eight chains are being added to the siding to facilitate the despatch of goods.

Tenders for a number of important County contracts are advertised to-day. The King Country Acclimatisation Society has just appointed a ranger. Illegal shooting has been going on, and the ranger has been given full powers to deal with offenders. Te Kuiti Bowling Club recently challenged Te Awamutu to play a friendly club game between the two best teams the clubs could raise. Te Kuiti representative team includes Messrs Power, Dransfield, Cochrane and Spencer. A second team will also play. The teams left for Te Awamutu by the express this morning. Messrs Mackay and Jones are buyers of cocksfoot in any quantity. Mr F. 0. R. Phillips, who was for some y?ars managing clerk for Mr T. 11. D. Lloyd at Dannevirke, has joined the iirm of Messrs Broadfoot and Finlay and will manage the newly-opened Otorohanga branch under the style of Lroadi'oot. Finlay and Phillips. The new Otorohanga saleyards will be opened on Thursday, March oOfch, and the event will be a red-letter day in the district. There will be a very large yarding of sheep and cattle, and the" three leading auctioneers, the Loan Co., the Farmers' Co., and Dalgety and Co., will sell on that date. The Directors have decided to hold a smoke concert in the evening, at which a large number of prominent settlers and others will be present. The Hamilton Athletic and Cycling Club holds a sports meeting on Easter Monday at which £26 is allotted for prize money, £l'd for the 100 yds handicap and kl'd for the two-mile wheel race. Further particulars appear in our advertising column. The Lux incandescent kerosene gas lamps are being shown for a short season in the Mercantile Chambers, Sheridan street, Te Kuiti. The lamp is a brilliant light giver, and has absolutely no smoke or smell. Lux lights, the company claim, are the only lights that have replaced gas or electric light in large cities and numerous business places have discarded other lights and adopted the Lux. The light is of great brilliancy, and has the peculiar advantage of showing shades and colour as distinctly as in daylight. The lamp is of artistic shape, and is made of the best white metal. King Country householders should make a point of inspecting the new light. It is a revealtion, Mr and Mrs Dowie wish to return thanks to all their kind friends for their enquiries and the kind interest taken in the illness of their boy Tom. Also to oiler their heartfelt thanks to all who contributed so freely to purchase an artificial limb for him, and to Dr Fuller-ton for his skillful treatment, also Nurse Hattaway for her kind attention.