LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 352, 12 April 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The annual meeting of Te Kuiti Football Club will be held to-night in the "Chronicle" office. The rain-fall at Marigaotaki for March was: —On 2nd, .31; <?rcl, .20, 19th, .I<s; 21st, .10; 22nd, .15; 23rd, .2—total one inch on six days. Owing to Ea9ter holidays, Mr Graham's usual weekly mart sale will be held on Thursday. Particulars i appear in our advertising columns. The monthly horse sale, will be held on 22nd inst, a week later than usual, t on account of the holidays. j A conference of all Government valuers in charge of districts is to be held at Wellington on Monday, 17th, to discuss matters in connection with land values, etc. The conference is convened by the Valuer-General, J. H. Flanaghan, Esq. Mr H. A. Ellison leaves by the express on Friday morning to be present.

The funeral of Mr. F. C. Shaw took place on Tuesday at Cambridge. A number of friends from Te Kuiti attended, and a brother of the deceased, together with other friends. Attention is drawn to Mr D. J. Young's advertisement appearing in this issue, wherein it is notified that Mr Young has taken over the wellestablished business of Messrs Larritt and Young. Messrs Stevens and Trust, of Te Kuiti, have gone into partnership as general carriers, and will from May I Ist next be prepared to cart goods to any part of the district. They will have three waggons in service, and in summer a fourtli or even a fifth if necessary. A committee of the Borough Council consisting of Cr3 Stevens and Lusk, visited the site of the proposed borough offices yesterday morning, and selected lots 9 and 18 for acquisition under the Public Works Act. The land amounts to about half an acre, and runs from Rora street to Taupiri street. It is admirably adapted to the erection of borough premises, a (ire station, and any other municipal works necessary. At the meeting of the Auckland Crown Lands Board this morning Mr Trounson, the settlers' representative, said that out of the 70(H) tenant;* controlled by the Hoard there were only one or two who oll'ered any grit;varices. It was, he said, ver\ xuui»factory.