LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 359, 10 May 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mr James Alien, M.P., speaks in Taumarunui to-night. The annual general meeting ot the King Country Acclimatisation Society will be held in Mr Ahisseu's oilice, Te Kuiti, on Tuesday next, at T.«U* p.m. All interested are urgently requested to attend. The Minister l'or Public Works, the Hon. li. Me Ken ;:ie, is to attend a banquet given by settlers m the Ohura, at Mangaroa to night. We are indebted to i\lr N. A. Kobin80n for the following record ot the rainfall as recorded at ''Paekaka, Paemako, during April, l'.U 1 -April 2nd, 02.in, ;;rd in, -lth .0;; in, f.th .2oin, 7th .Ouin, Kith .iKiin, Uth .74n, llUh .11 in, -.nth l.iAHn, tlisi .213 in, 22nd !.:'>-lin, ".Mrd .<' 1 in, :Mth ,80in, -tith .lain, 'J7th I.Win, -Nth .66in; totalling t'.-Oin on sixteen days. Hid Worship the Mayor and the Chairman of the School t'otmnutee, have received word trom the lion. Geo. Fowids, Minister oi l'.ducation, that he will reach Te Kuiti tt'om laumarunui to-niorro\e (/f'liursdny 1, by the 10.40 a.m. train, and stay in le Kuiti until the following day. He afterwards pays a visit oi inspection to the site of the proposed mental hospital near Te Awamutu. lie proceeds thence to Auckland, where ne will consider the necessity for increasing accommodation at the mental hospital for refractory patients. The "Daily -Mail" aa.va that the Selection of Mr Archer Ledmond as one of the Irish deputation to Australasia, is interesting;, His mother was an Australian; his lather and his Uncle, Mr W. Kedmotui, won their | political sours sn ait Australian tour. A witness at, London Sessions recently was asked how he managed to know the time il he had not a watch, replied that, on Sunday aiternoons, he stopped in a public-house fill it closed, and then he knew it was three o clock. He took a walk along the canal and, as Boon as the public-house opened, he knew it was six o'clock. The sudden death occurred recently on the liotoma mad, about 28 miles out from Kotorua, of Mr Frank Courtenay Seymour, who tor 15 years has been roadman in the district, expiring with a shovel in his hand while occupied at his work. Deceased, says the "Kotorua Times," was a first cousin to Admiral Seymour, of the British navy, and was a distinguished Maori war veteran. He had four medals. Commenting on the banking returns for the quarter ended March last, Mr Harold Beauchamp, Chairman of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand, said to an Auckland "Herald' reporterlt is obvious that there IB an abundance of money in Dominion at the present time. This is very largely due to the excellent prices which have been realised for wool and other primary products during the past season. There has been a slump in the value of butter an frozen meat, but with the fallingoff in the export of meat within the next few months, I have no doubt that prices in the London market will recover. Tho jubilee meeting of the Bank of New Zeaalnd will be held in June next, when, as Chairman of directors, I shall deal iully with financial matters as heretofore." Writing under the title Bush Fanning a correspondent of the ''Press Bays Suppose two men take live hundred acres each. Let ten years elapse. One man had money enough to put down all his hush the first year, and has had nine years' takings off the place. Tiie other man put down fifty acres the first year, and Was six or seven years in getting all down. 11 u has had the greatest difficulty to finance at ali. He has only been running the cheapest kind of Stock. Which of these men lias got the best returns' Is it necessary to see his books'' No, bush does nut fall like the walls of Jericho. You may talk of axes and good right arms, you may throw in the left as well, but it boils down to money, and the mure money you have to start with the leio it will cost you to get your bush down. And any man would be better off on wages than at putting his own bush down, save for one hard and solemn fact. No man on wages has ever lived as hard and as frugally as the bush settler has to. When if comes to humping all your stores in on your back, your tucker bill is not a-heavy one, though you are cruelly pushed to meet il at, all. And, anyhow, in money ovey thing,. You meet the bushman at, the show, and yo'l write of him as hearty asui hah 1 . Have you ever examined his hands? Have you counted his scars; l)o you know how man;.' ot his limbs have been broken':' May 1 mention rheumatism? Or bean, strain? Four pounds an acre? \ es, hut how many years of life? "Good Lord, wu ha paid in full."