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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 565, 7 May 1913, Page 4

The opening of the Te Kuiti Golf Cub, which has unfortunately been twice postponed owing to bad weather will take place on Saturday next on Mr Somerville's property." Weather permitting a pleasant atfernoon should be enjoyed by those attending. The party which wont to Cocoa Island, in the Indian Ocean, to hunt for a supposed secret treasure store has returned to Sheffield, They spent seven week ß on the island, but did not locate anything uf value, and the net result of the foolishness of the travellers is that thoy are several thousands of pounds poorer.

A man named Joan Cobler, living in Cherbourg, the French port, has just awakened in hospital after Bleeping for 77 days. He was extremely surprised to find a number of doctors at his bedside, and had no idea that he had been asleep moro than a few hours. He in in excellent health.

For children's hnclcin/j; cou/*h at night -- Woods' Grout Peppermint Cure, J. 3 Gd, 2a fid.

Rev. E. S. Wayne, of Te Kuiti, is at present away on a three waeka' holiday.

The Public Service Commissioner gazettes a notice that the public service entrance examination, formerly known as the Civil Service junior examination, will be held on or about November 18th, and following days. The public service Benior examination, formerly the Civil Service senior examination, will be held about January sth and following days.

President Wilson last week opened in New York what is now the tallest building in the world. The new structure, which will be known as the Wool worth Building, rears itßelf to a height of 750 ft.

The adjourned meeting of the Maniapoto Rugby Union will be held in the Chronicle office on Thursday, evening next, May Bth, at 7.30 p.m. All delegates are particularly requested t) attend.

The Ohura settlers have been persistently agitating to have a polica constable stationed at Ohura, and last week Mr Wright, of the Hamilton police district Was on a visit to Ohura, making enquiries concerning the matter. The subject of appointing a constable to the district was brought before the Prime Minister recently both at Matiere and Ohura, and the visit of Mr Wright is probably the outcome of those repress itations.

The following have paid their subscription of £1 towards the Pio Pio District Medical Fund: Messrs F. King, G. Churcher, H. Lowrie Neal Bros., H. Russell.

At the sale of the Browning manuscripts the MSS. of Mrs Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" sold for £ll3O, that of "Aurora Leigh" for £930, an.l that of "Catarina to Camuenß" for £620.

The land which is to be offered for sale at Auckland by the WaikatoManiapoto Maori Land Board on May 21st, is attracting a considerable amount of attention.and there is every indication that fair competition will ensue for the sections. The subdivisions have been effected in the manner best calcualted to suit the contour of the country, and the projected roading scheme should serve the country excellently. It is intended to spend a sum of £IO,OOO in road formation on the Taumatatotara block as soon as possible.

At a meeting of fifty delegates of farmers held at Hawera, representative of the whole province, it was unanimously decided to form a Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society. A provisional prospectus was drawn up.and an Executive committee appointed. Mr G. L. Buckeridge was appointed chairman. The executive of the company will have an initial capital of £500,000, and will have for its object the purchasing of farmers' requisites and the distribution of their produce.

The Commissioner of Police (Mr John Cullen) was present on Monday afternoon at a largely-attended meeting of the city and suburban members of the Christchurch police force, and listened to the representations made in regard to existing conditions and the requirements of the men. The representations made were taken down in shorthand, and are to be placed before the Minister for Justice.

Captain R. Muirhead Collins, official aecretary to the Commonwealth in London, is advised that an inventor has submitted to the Chamber of Commerce in Potsdam, Germany, a method for extracting from the blood of cattle chemically pure albumen equal to that which is found in eggs. The cost of producing the albumen is £32 a ton, and the market price of the com modity at present is £240 a ton. The other product can be turned out at £ls a ton, and sold at £SO a ton. Sir James Mills (managing director of the Union Steamship Company) entertained a number of representative shipping magnates aboard the Niagara on Saturday. Referring to the great enterprise of Australasian shipping companies in recent years, Sir James said that at a moderate estimate the value of the tonnage belonging to local companies in the C«m monwealth and New Zealand was not far short of £7,000,000. It must be recognised that this entailed not only a largely increased capital expenditure on the shipa themselvps, but that the *ost of maintenance was increasing by leaps and bounds in every direction Sooner or later this would have to fae borne by the travelling public Wan the workers complained that any advance in the wages received was absorbed by the increased cost of living.

In replying to a deputation of prohibition advocates at Auckland on SSardav the Prime Minister said there waß a great amount of important legislation to be dealt with during the Sng session, which was of far ««ter urgency to the country than S« liauor question, which could not Sme befor'e the people till next winn As soon as Cabinet as™Med the question whether a liquor Should be proceeded with this b Afon or not would be decided. Mr Ml ey £■*> it clear that the liquor ,wion was not a party measure, Q n?if the present Government introfld a liquor bill, it would not be Sugbtdoln as a party matter. It was recently announced that an Jjf fl nt of the Wagga Hospital S??Kted £2OOO to the institution, d nnTv condition being that the ■ tte -rias«ot disclosed. Police enhance «J" h t the don or was a qa n ,e knoWn crTmmal, recently re-well-known e pregen^ teaS6d houtJarfunknown. The Chief bereabouts are n fa IhTch t'e offer was made, has been bß f Tronic chest complaints, WcS.' gS" Peppermint Cure, Is

Mr Graham opens his new Ctorohanga mart on Friday. The public of Oturohanga and district are specially invited.

Mr Graham has particulars of Satur cay's mart sale in to-day's issue.

The public will be pleased to know that Hugard, the magician, will be visiting Te Kuiti in the near future, and from the support extended to his entertainment last week, rt.cord houses should attend next visit.

Owing to unavoidable circumstances to-day's issue of the Chronicle will be forwarded to subscribers by post instead of in the usual manner by runner.

About half-past eleven o'clock on Saturday night, a fire broke out at No. 28, Lome street, Wellington, in a two storey house of five rooms, uwned by the Sample estate, and occupied by Wiban George Frederick Hall and hig wife, Phyllis, Hall. Three lodgers escaped but Hall and his wife were apparently overcome by smoke, and suffocated, the bodies being found in an upstairs room when the fire was suppressed. The High Commissioner, on instructions from New Zealand, has just ap' pointed twenty-five nurses (probationary) for mental asylums in the Dominion, and the following are sailing shortly:—Miss Lilian Marshall, by the s.s. Paparoa, on April 10th; the Misses Mabel F, Miller, Charlotte Kebbell, Marjory Newton, Emily Paice, Louisa Stannard, and Violet E. B. White, by the s.s. Remuera, on May Bth; the Misses Gertrude and Winifred Airlie, Mary C. Gar. Gertrude A. Quinton, and C. M. Elsmere, by the s.s. Ruahine, on June sth; and the Misses Caroline M. Sellars, Nina F. O'Flynn, Caroline Meadows, and May H. Anderson, by the s.s. Tainui, en June 19th. All have had previous experience in mental nursing. The High Commissioner's office in London has been investigating the I question of substituting frozen mutton or beef of a lower grade quality than that sgecified in the contracts for the supply of New Zealand meat to in stitutions. It is well known that Argentine and Australian meat is at times substituted for that of New Zealand. Out of 77 public institutions com-nunicated with, it has been found that 28 accept Engilsh meat only; the great bulk of the others specify New Zealand meat, especially Canterbury, whilst a few name Australian and Argentine meat, and three do not specify the country or origin. These investigations have been promoted with a view to advising the Government as to the means that may be employed to prevent the substitution of lower grade meat for that of New Zealand, when the specifications so provide, and it is thought that such can be done.

As indicating a great saving effected by the cessation of the second Main Trunk expresses between Wellington and Auckland and vice versa, it is estimated that the saving in coal consumption alone by the engines of the two trains will be about 40 tons per day. This represents the total amount of coal taken by the six engines which hauled the expresses between the terminal stations. One engine runs from Auckland to Taumarunui, one Taumarunui to Taihape, and one Taihape to Wellington, and vice versa on the return trip. Each engine, it is stated, takes between six and seven tons of coal on its run. With coal at about 25s per ton, this represents a saving of about £SO per day. The wages paid to the train running men, including cost of boarding them at terminals and sub-termi-nals, amounts to about £l2 10s per day. When the cost of wear and tear to engineß and rolling stock, cost of stores and wages of station employees throughout are added, there must be a saving of close on £75 per day, based on the fact that all passengers wishing to travel between Auckland and Wellington and intermediate stations can conveniently be accommodated on the ordinary expresses.