LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 353, 19 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The syndicate which has acquired the Mokau Mohakatino block of land intends, if possible, to place 20,000 acres of it on the market in about a year. The last number of the Journal of Agriculture again serves to emphasise what those farmers who fail to subscribe to it are missing. It is only half a crown a year post free, and the cost is saved over and over again by the valuable hints given and advice and information furnished. Take the experiment in ploughing for turnips. A farmer sows two plots and ploughs one in September and the other in December. The former gave nearly a hundred per cent, better crop than the latter. Another farmer manured his turnips when sowing, and found one fertiliser gave 104 ibs of roots per piot, while the other only gave 221bs. Half a crown a year for such information as this is not an unprofitable outlay surely? The annual general meeting of the Maniapoto Kugby Union will be held in the "Chronicle" office on Thursday svening, April 20th, at 7.U0. AH Interested are requested to attend.

Messrs A. Elliott, of Waimiha, P. Floyd, Te Kuiti, P. Gavin, Taumaunui, W. Hattaway, Pio Pio, W. Hoffman, Te Rau-a-Moa, and Schnackenburg, Kawhia, have been appuinted Justices of the Peace. Mr William Baucke, familiarly known as "W. 8." Te Kuiti, amongst the numerous readers of his articles "Where the white man treads," has definitely decided to leave Te Kuiti for Hokianga. Mr Baucke has sold his property here and expects to leave the town on Friday. Work on the railway station alterations is making satisfactory progress. The new platform is now nearly completed, and one of the buildings for it has already been moved across. The new line of rails gives a straighter run into the station, and being laid between the sleepers with limestone, will not be so dusty as the other lines. Visiting Frankton on Monday, the King Countrv cricketers made 111 and 93 and Frankton B team 70 and 41 for 4 wickets. The attention of stock owners is directed to Mr E. Leßoy"3 advertisement appearing on page 3 of this issue. This Auckland manufacturer has a'wide reputation for these covers, full particulars of which are contained in his catalogue which will be supplied free on application. Messrs Smith and Oaughey, Ltd, are showing a special display of ladies and children's millinery, costumes, coats and clothing in the Town Hall, Te Kuiti, on Friday and Saturday, April 28th and 29th. On Saturday next, Mr C. B. Lever will sell by auction at his mart, King street, a quantity of furniture, carpenters' tools and sundries. Also without reserve, a Wertheim sewing machine in perfect order, nearly new. The sale will commence at 2 o'clock. Full particulars are advertised in another column.