King Country Chronicle Saturday, May 31st, 1913.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 572, 31 May 1913, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Saturday, May 31st, 1913.

The following additional subscriptions of £1 each hve been received by Mr G. Elliott, hon. sec., towards the Pio Pio medical scheme: —Messrs S. Floyd, Pettigrew Bros., R. Gardiner, John Robertson, Christian Eils, P. O'Dwyer, J. Kilmartin, and G. Lawrenson. Mr Graham will sell on June I'Jtb a nice dwelling and freehold section. As this is a sale by order of the mortgagee there will! bu a chance ot a bargain. Should anyone have have any doubts aB to the growing eapablities of our soil they have only to look in the window of Young and Co., land aaents, King street. Turnips and oats grown on Gould Bros.' farm at Oparure, also parsnipß grown by Mr Duncanson on a town section near Mr Harry Matthew's residence, are well worthy of inspection and certainly admiration, The parsnips referred to wero grown without manure. Sir James Carroll expects to leave the private hospital in Wellington in about a fortnight. He may not bo able to attend Parliament during its early stages, but is now regaining his health after a seveve attack of typhoid.

England is the greatest cheese-eat ing country In the world. She take: 75 per cent.of the 4,800,000 i'ivt ni cheese which is imported annually intc Europe. A plan which has been adopted ii other places, and which might possibly apply in this district, was recently mentioned by Mr C. K. Wilson, M.P. Ab everyone knows, mud: barm is frequently done to roads through lack of maintenance, and it is often difficult and expensive for the local body to attend to all maintenance on the very large number of boads under their jurisdiction. Mr Wilson suggests that some low waggons bo procured and placed at the quarry and filled by the Council, and should a carter or carrier be passing with an empty waggon he should hitch a metal waggon to the back of his cart or dray and deposit same at some weak spot or bad place on the road. By this means bad places could be put in order before having gone too far. The idea seems to be a good one and worthy of consideration. The metalling on the Pio Pio road is nearning completion. Given a little more fine weather, the road should be metalled from Te Kuiti to Pio Pio at an early date. A Masterton resident while enjoy ing an oyßter aupper on Saturday evening, struck two small pearls in one of the shells. An expert states that the pearlß are of considerable value. An American can-making factory produces 42,000 different kinds of tin articles in a year, of which 2,000,000,000 are common tin cans. A Californian is negotal'ing with the Queensland Government for ioo, 000 acres of prickly pear land. He proposes destroying the pear bv means of a gas process. The local sales of butter by the Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., average in value the large sum of £2250 per month. The demand for the butter is steadily increasing. ,

Attention is called in our advertising columns to a demonstration of the farmers' milker, which will be given on Mr James Boddie's farm to-day and Monday at 4 p.m. Wo underhand that this milking machine is entirely a new departure from the usual type, and in addition will do some things that no other machine can do. This trial should therefore be of special interest to the dairymen of the district. Mrs Weldon has selected the word "Croydon" as the name of her new tea rooms, which are situated over Mrs McDonald's stationery shop. The rooms wll be open on Saturday night for business r and during each week day. The rooms are comfortably furnished, and every attention is paid to patrons. A narrow escape from a dreadful fatality occurred at Whakarewarewa last week. A visitor was sitting on the rock just above the Ciuldron, when someone called out to him to look at activity elsewhere. In springing up he slipped, slopping within a very short distance of the edge of the boiling pool.