King Country Chronicle Saturday, April 20th, 1913.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 562, 26 April 1913, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Saturday, April 20th, 1913.

Owing to the extensive report of the Prime Minister's tour through the back blocks of this district, our usual budget of cablegrams, and other matter has had to be held over this issue.

We give a final reminder (if Mr F. Willi 3' sale at Pio Pio on Wednesday next.

A meeting of ratepayers is convened for Tuesday, wpril 29th, at 8 o'clock, when a number of candidates for the Borough Council will place their views before the public.

Speaking at Te Kuiti last night, the Prime Minister stated that though he had visited all parts of the Dominion, he knew of no towns that had made bo much progress as (hose in the King Country. Mr Massoy also referred to the extraordinary development of the back country. A labourer named Kirby was killed at Hamilton yesterday while working in a quarry. Two tons of earth fell upon him. Kirby was quickly dug out, but had expired.—Press Association,

Mr C. J. Parr has been ro-olected unopposed as Mayor of Auckland. Sir James Carroll is at present lying seriously ill in a private hospital in Wellington. The London wool sales opened strong to brisk competition. Prices for ail sorts were maintained at late rates.

A Dunedin commercial man says he would not be surprised if margarine were manufactured in New Zealand before very long. The meat companies, he points out, supply a great quantity of fat to the manufacturers of margarine in other countries, where the demand for that substitute for butter is enormous. Some manufacturers have become so clever in tho production of margarine that even expert judges have mistaken it for the best butter. Last; yea'- England imported 3,352,A'1l cwt of margarine.

Two exactly opposite conditions have helped materially to bring about a rise of Id per lb in tho price of butter right throughout New Zealand, states the Otago Daily Times. Those conditions are tho drought in Auckland district and tho floods in Southland, which have brought about a shortage of milk in these two localities, and consequently tho butter supplies of Otago and Canterbury are being called on to a much greater extent than is usual at this time of the year. Ah matters now stand there is a scarcity of butter right throughout, Now Zealand,

Notice is given by advertisement that eleven sections comprising 10,50!) acres in the Tauarkawa, Totoro. Mimi, Mapara and Mahoo survey districts, will be open for sale or selection under optional conditions at the District Lands oflice, New Plymouth, up to 1 p.m. op Tuesday, May 13th. Applicants must appear personally and preference will be given to landless applicants with children dependant upon them, or who have within the preceding two years been twice unsuccessful at former ballots.

Notice is given by tho Railway Department that the running of the second Auckland-Wellington express will be discontinued as irom May Ist. The Railway Department, give notice that in connection with the visit of 11.M.5. New Zealand excursion tickets will be issued to Auckland from all stations in tho Auckland district, from April '2Nth to May ( .)th inclusive, available for return up to and including May 17th. Also that, from Monday, April 2St,h to Tuesday, May l.'Uh, an express train will leave Auckland daily, Sunday excepted, for Tautnnrunui at 10.18 a.m. A:i express train will leave Taumarunui for Auckland at 7.30 a.m. At the supper tendered to Mr Massoy at Te Kuil.i last, night, he stated that the surplus for the past financial year amounted to £70!),000. This, the Prime Minister stated, -- .i-eeded his expectations. It; was his intention to devote some £200,000 of this amount to expenditure on roads.