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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 428, 6 January 1912, Page 4

Owing to the avnoant of rain experienced throughout the district there is a plentiful supply of grass with the result that stock is doing well. Crops are faring worst owing to too much rain. In conversation with Mr W. Gad3by (president of the A. and P. Association) he informed a reporter that he considered it would be an excellent year for turnips, especially l'or those who had the gooi fortune to have their crop sown early. The Agricultural an Pastoral Association are making good progress with regard to preparations for the forthcoming show, which is to be held on the 15th of next month. Ten acre 3 of ground have been ploughed and sown in grass in front of the new grandstand which is being erected on the racecourse. This area has been stumped and cleared for the purpose of a show ring. The grass is coming along nicely and will end d decided improvement in appearances.

An example of how property has been changing hamH in Te Ktiiti, during the past nine months is shown by a recent compilation of the ratepayers roll accounting for transfers of property within the borough to the number of IGO. The Shipping Gazette states that the New Zealand Shipping Company is amalgamating with the Federal Steam Navigation Company.

A month or two ago farmers in the Gisborne district were beginning to fear that the district was going to experience a severe drought. Little rain had fallen, and the paßturo was perceptibly getting scarce, with detrimental results to the dairying industry. The situation, however, fortunately appears to have been saved by the rainfall during the past month, when nearly three inches were recorded, rain fallnig on only nine days. The rainfall fur the year was 45.99 inches, a little below the average. The Press Association states that a Scottish regiment at Longmoor camp, Petersfield, enraged at being refused a holiday on New Year'fl Day, smnshed their huts and assailed their officers with stones. The men formed a square, and the sergeantH attempted to rush the position received bayonet wounds, while one was shot and seriously wounded Eventually an officer, who is a noted boxer, challenged the men's representative to single combat and vanquished him. The disturbance then subsided.

For a sun-resisting, yet comfortable hat, the pa nam a is unequalled. Messrs J. and B. Rosenberg make an interesting announcement regarding the above on another page.

An effort is to be made to send a cricket team from Te Kuiti to play Taumarunui at an early date. Saturday next has been suggested as a suitable day and although the date follows close on the Christmas holidays it is hoped an eleven will be got together to do the trip. A game between the King Country and Waikato Association representatives is projected for an early date and a match between Te Kuiti and Taumarunui would no doubt reveal some additional strength to the King Country Assoeiation.

Henrietta Agnes Berland, aged 21, was before the Christchurch court on Thursday morning charged with vagrancy. On the previous day Bhe was arrested at Lyttelton when strutting about in boy's clothes, smoking a cigarette. She is an ex-inmate of Caversham Industrial School, and according to .police evidence, badly wanted looking after. The magistrate ordered her a year's reformative treatment.

The promoter, Mr H. I). Mcintosh, has decided that, the Johnson-McVea fight shall not take place in Sydney. H" gays ho has accepted a tempting o(Ter to stage it in the Paris Hippodrome on the night of the Grand Prix. A traveller on an Australian liner writes to the London 'limes that a vessel which the Board of Trade has licensed to carry SSO passengers actU' ally carried S5 first-class and 810 steerage, besides a crew of 200. Ihe utmost capacity of the boats carried : s 740. The writer elates that all omirgant ships are similarly overcrowded since {insisted passages were established. The Pall M ill Gazette, after inquiry from official quarters, explains that the traveller evidently overlooked the fact that a steamer's license does not apply when she becomes an emigrant ship. The Board of Trade's supervision ma I; oh overcrowding impossible. A return of the Comeionwenllh'B population shows that it includes 52,:m:J non-Europeans, of whom 25.772 aro Chinese, a decreaso of 7203 Chinese since 1010.