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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 400, 30 September 1911, Page 4

A meefim: of Te Kuiti Horticultural Society will lie held on Thursday afte--nnon in the Waitomo County Office at d.dO p.m. It. >h hoped that a large number of ladies will attend as it is necessary \o form a ladies' committee at. an ear])' date. Mr P. P. Mcintosh, the Sydney ii;;ht. promoter, has received a cable annouiiciiiir that the Johnson-Wells light, lias been abandoned. Johnson is sailinjr for Australia. Sir Joseph Ward is suffering from a rather severe attack of influenza, and has decided under medical advice to lay up for a day or two. Sir Jas. Carrol! led the House yesterday. Pr C;bh. of Wellington, arrives by the ni'.enu'p express to conduct the special opi niiie f< lebrations to bo hold in the Tov, n Hai!. to-morrow at 11 a.m. ami 7 p.m. in connection with the i'resiiyti t ia:> < Imrch. Special music will lie rendered by a largo trained choir under the hM.nnf Mr A. Patterson. The anthem "King of Kings" will be riven. Mrs Parhyshire taking the soio. Miss James- will sing "Come Unto Me," ami iarp.o ■< rvices are anticipated. 1' i' mho will also address a public n;e ( t ie;s- in the Congregational Church on Monday evening at 7.: 7 v'. Special oncrings will be receive!) in aid of Church fanils. Mr Jennings has asked (he Minister of Public Works whether a trial Burvey has hem p;e.a. . iasi with between Kawhia liarhoui find the North Island Main Trunk railway. ; .■ referred to the Covernmcnt las! se: siop by (lie Chairman of ili.' J'uki w i'ci it ions M to Z Committee, and roc; iveu the reply that 'he isilvvsy leeat-ion engineering fltafF o\ the bah-'iic \'7o;i.: Pcpartmont have been fully occupied during the year, oonsenuenCy (la re was no officer available who could he detailed to make a !nai survey of this railway route. The mailer will, however, receive at ten! ion as soon aa circumstances will permit.

Attention is dr;iwn to the musical treats to be furnished Te Kuitians those next few days. On Sunday the Presbyterian services at the Town Hall will include selections from a specially lar/;e choir, and a solo by Miss .lames, Dr Gibbs, of Wellington, jireiiehiou tnorninji' and livening. At N. !. r > p.m., at the Congregational Church, a sacred recital will be tfiven, at which Mr and Mrs Karl Atkinson, Mrs Ovens, and the choir will Rivo selections of sacred solos and anthems. The usual 7 p.m. service will not be held. On Monday at 7.H0 p.m. Dr Gibb preaches in the Congregational Church. On Tuesday and Wednesday in the Town Hall, a Winter Garden Fete is to be held in aid of the Congregational Church funds, and a very attractive programme has been prepared. The children are taking part in a fairy play entitled "Flower Fairies," and the will assist in six tableaux, which are intended to illustrate certain old it:will be a variety of shows and afternoon tea will be provided. "The years at the spring," sings Browning, and appropriately enough Mr J. E. Walker offers a fruit saline to purify the blood. It should be welcome.

Mr W. Gadsby's liurae, Knight of the Thistle, will be at the cattle sale in Te Kuiti on »Vednesday. Mr Jennings asked the Minister of Internal Atl'airs whether he will amend the Fire lirigadc.s Act in the direction of enabling any town board or borough eonnc.il to form a fire district, irrespective of population, by taking a poll o( the ratepayers; and that auch peil ;-'hould he decided by a majority of these voting-. The Minister replied thai there will he no time available to | amen,! the Fire iirigades Act during ! the ceniiog -'l^-eiun. hut the, suggestion j co;it:iii'.e,i :.- the honourable member's | oaestum wl! he considered. j Mr .ien-.io;-.-: has ar-kod the Minister |of interna] A i i'a irs whet her, seeing the number of fatsiilie,-, lhat have ocenrred in the Pominmn by the misuse of what is kiviv[! as the pea ride, he will pvopo: v tin;: absolute prohibition of the :-;.ic el these villes to juveniles I under the age o! eighteen years be eilI form dhy )aw. The frequency of acI ciecni. falsi am! otherwise, owing to these i" i Mi-:. ;,- in picirahlo and necessitate;: seme ; Irnini i;[ act ion being taken in the-:na:!er. a;-,,: h ( -received the reply thai section I'd o( the Police Offences Act, Way, prohibit (be sale of ji re arms lo pi : ; ens ,;:;.ie;- the age 0 f H j x _ teeii venan if was not considered iti-ci a sty te i aise (his ago. Vi ; det:bt whether any borough in tia hisniriMii can equal the record put "•> ' > Tsihape during the last couple o\ \. ais for public works carried out entire iy or almost, entirely out, of fun-.is is,i:e;i locally. Included in that category are a splendid hospital, a good wat.-r supply, swimming baths, bowling; green, tennis courts, and in progress, electric light scheme, sewerage s\. fem, and erection of a town ball, while several hundreds of pounds bav<> been raised for improve!ik nfa <o the school grounds, where are a commodious technical school and a line district high school building. Hiis is to say nothing of n picture show every evening and other legitimate methods of getting rid of one's .-■pare cash. ■- Feilding Star.

An Ashburton farmer saved a good number of lambs during the recent cold snap by clearing the furniture out of some of the rooTis of his residence and putting the lambs in the rooms. Shearing will be in full swing in the Masterton. district next week. Already some of the smaller sheds have commenced operations. The distinction of being the first airwoman to be officially recognised will probably be won by Mrs Maurice Hewlett, wife of the novelist, who (says the Yorkshire Observer) was to be granted her flying certificate last month.

The total amount expended by the Government during the financial year on advertisements in newspapers of tbe Dominion was £10,495 lis 3d. This amounc includes £l4O 10s for advertisements in sundry casual publications. The number of newspapers to which Government advertisements were given was 176. Eltham is feeling a shortage of

stock, and the local paper records ths fact that master butchers in the district are exercising their minds over

the scarcity. One butcher is reported to have said that, owing to the fact that there are now very few settlers within 20 miles of Eltham who go in for fattening stock, he was afraid he would have to go to the other side of the Waikato for it. He had commissioned agents in Eltham, Hawera, and Stratford to procure supplies, but all had the same story to teli—they could not get anything. Mr George Renner, formerly of Pahiatua, has been appointed managing editor of the Waikato Independent, Cambridge, Mr Jennings has asked the Acting Minister of Justice whether the present vexatious and expensive method of dealing with the service of summonses, issued for civil cases on persons in outlying districts, cannot be remedied in the direction of issuing registered letters, instead of sending constables thirty or forty miles to personally deliver summonses? Many instances can be quoted where small amounts, as low as 10s, which settlers owed for rates —harbour and otherwise —have had the full force of the law i brought into operation for their collection, and, what with solicitors' costs and mileage fees for constables, | undue and heavy expenses have been [ put on settlers. The Minister stated j that the question of serving sum- | monses by post has been considered on j several occasions, but no practicable j solution of the difficulty has been j found, but the mattnr will be looked i into again, as the mileage charges, he was aware, were in some districts very heavy.

Experts acting for some of the large British railway companies have reported favourably on an invention by Mr J. Sutherland Warner, designed to give increased speed and safety in railway travelling. The invention is stated to be a modification of the bogie principle, which will render de-

railment at curves practically impossible, and thus allow considerably increased speed. It is claimed that the adopted of the principle will enable Manchester to be reached from London in something under two hours. Mr Warner is a famous British engineer. Whangarei . has evidently some spirited men in its community who wish to see their district go ahead.

The Northern Mail published a list of names of men who have just made the local A. and P. Association a present of £615 in the shape of debentures held by them. Among the donors are four who cancelled their debentures aggregating £46 each, eleven cancelled £25 each, twelve cancelled £lO each, and eighteen cancelled £5 each. Associations composed of men like that cannot help prospering, and certainly such men deserve to have the privilege of seeing its prosperity. While in Bradford, Mr L. Collinson, of Palmerston North, inspected the "trackless'' tram car. The system is in operation between Laister Dyke and Dudley Hill, a distance of a mile and a-quarter. As there are no rails the current i 3 returned by an extra set of overhead wires. There are, thsre-

fore, two lines of poles and wires, and on this account the expense is greater than is the case with the rail system.

Each car has two motors, each of 40 horse power, bu the limit is not used; in case of the breakdown of one of the motors, the other is sufficient to drive the car. Twenty-eight passer-

gers can be carried, and the fare charged is a penny. The idea of the trackless car originated in Milan, and a deputation from Bradford was sent to see its working. A favourable report was presented, and the cat commenced running in Bradford on June 24th, three weeks before Mr Collinson saw it. The wheeis run over a .cobblestone road, and the car has a sidewise radius of thirty feet to enable it to pass the vehicles. The men engaged in operating it spoke highly of its works.