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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 529, 28 December 1912, Page 4

On Monday next a Christmas Cake and Flower Fair will be held in St. Luke'fl Hall. The proceeds are for the Sunday school prizes and picnic fund. Admission as advertised is Is and Gd. The Sunday school picnic will be hold on Now Year's day at the Gorge. The lirst coach will leave from the church at 10 a.m.

Stock owners are requested to look, through their herds for the four heifers advertised as missing in this issue by Mr D. Mac Lean, and to kindly give nooice to him when mustering.

The meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Mr Roe, Te Kuiti, which was to have been held on Monday last was postponed to January 27th, 1913, at 11 a.m. The Railway Department has decided to provide stock yards and a loading bank at Mangapehi. This action is the result of overtures from Mr Wilson, M.P., and will be put in hand as soon as present work in the district ia completed.

Accompanying this issue (under separate cover) we a r e issuing a very attractive business calendar. Should any subscriber nut receive a copy we will be pleased to post to any address. Copies of calendar will be delivered free at the Chronicle office on application.

Mr Graham advertises in to-day's issue dates of next sales at Otorohanga and Te Kuiti. Further particulars to follow.

The Chronicle will r.ot bo published on Wednesday next (New Year's Day), but will issue on Saturday, January 4th, 1913.

On December 21st. the New Zealand Dairy Association, Ltd , distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £65,5751 4s 4d. This payment covered butter Cat supplied during the month of November. The correspoding payment last year was £49,844 2s 4d. Thus thu increase for the month as compared with last year is £15,7311 2s.

A committee meeting of the Te Kuiti Horticultural Society was held in the Chronicle olliee on Monday evening last. The secretary presented a rough statement of receipts and expenditure, which allowed that a fairly substantial balance will accrue from this year's show. The secretary was requested to pay prb:o money forthwith. It was resolved that the committee meet on January Bth at 7.30 p.m. in the Chronicle office, when the secretary will present a report and balance-sheet. Mr Ozie,r was appointed judge of the cottage garden competition. The Auckland Church of England Diocesan Board have secured a little over four acres in Aria for a church site. This is one of the choicest sections in Aria and an ideal site for a church.

Mr C. W. Solomon, who has assisted in St. Luke's Church as lay reader, Sunday school superintendent, and been also a member of the vestry and of the choir, has accepted worlc as a paid lay reader with Archdeacon Grace in Blenheim, lie will be very greatly missed in church work in Te Kuiti. Next Sunday, his last Sunday here, he is taking both morning and evening services.

The member tor the district (,Mr C. K. Wilson) has made strong representations to the Minister for .Railways with the object of securing the privileges for Te Kuiti passengers to travel bv through express trains during holidays. The following reply will explain itself—"ln reply to your telegram of 10th inst., I regret I cannot comply with request to take Te Kuiti passengers, holding excursion tickets on through express trains, ample provision is being made by local trains to serve all the requirements of Te Kuiti, and as the throuhg trains will bo fully loaded with long-distance passengers serious dissatisfaction would result from their being overcrowded by short-distance passengers whose requiements will be reasonably met by other trains. In the general interests the traffic has to be divided and limited, otherwise the expresß

In the fight between Langford and McVea, at Sydney, the former led on points all the way except in one round. He knuckhed McVea out in the thirteenth round.

All previous records in totalisator investments of the Dominion were broken on Boxing Day, when the sum of £54,479 was passed through the machines on the opening day of the A.R.C. Summer meeting. The amount invested on tna Cun alone reached the large total of £11,402, which is also a record for any amount yet invested cn a single race.

The Auckland Cup, run at Ellerslie on Boxing Day, was won by Bobrikoff (the "Black Demon"), with La Reina and Midnight Sun in second and third places respectively. Culprit won the Railway Handicap, and was followed home by Goldsize and Ventura.

A team of Te Kuiti bowlers, including Messrs Power (skip), Porter, Dransfield and Matthew, is taking part in the Auckland Provincial Association's tournament. Up to Friday the team was a tie for first place in the section, having scored three wins and one loss.

Matters in connection with the rowing championship of Australia are badly tangled. Pearce's time for the acceptance of challenges from lowns, Fdlton, and Paddon expired on Tuesday night. Pearce states that although he covered Felton's deposit he does not intend to row until he returns from meeting Barry. This means that he has practically forfeited the Australian championship. The question of who tukes the title remains to be solved. Felton challenged from Richmond River, but withdrew and sent a challenge from Sydney. Before his arrived Towns and Paddon challenged, and each now claims priority.