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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 595, 20 August 1913, Page 4

Mr John Robert?, the famous biiliardist has finally decided to retire. Ho has presented his favourite match cue to Tom Reece.

A baseball club i" Washington is offering to "buy" Cobb, a Detroit player, for ,-i;2n.oiii>. Tug highest previous offer of the kind was iMaim.

A cat famine exists in London just now owing to thieves catching house pets and selling the fur. Ordinary black eats are fetching is. and Persians from Ids to Nr.

The margin between Kent and Yorkshire for the cricket championship is now seven points.The improved position of Yorkshire was attributable chieby to bad weather interfering with the Kent matches. Kent has still four matches to play, ami Yorkshire three.

J. C. Bolstad was fined .ig.'u and costs at Mangaweka en Thursday for practising as a land agent without procuring a license. This should act as a warning to those who have an inclination to trench on the preserves of the bona fide agents.

Attention is drawn to the saie at Otorohanga on Thursday of a tine line of dairy cows together with a separator and cows, the lot being specially suitable to a settler starting to milk. The sale is beng conducted by the NewZealand Loan and Mercantiiie Areney Co., Ltd.

The usuai weekly half-holiday :or Te Kuiti will be Wednesday next, August -27 th, instead of Thursday. 2Sth. The change has been agreed to by the business pecple of Te Kuiti at the request of the Waipa Jockey Club, whose annual meeting will be held at Te Awamuiu on Wednesday, :28th inst.

The North German Gazcto says that Germany has declined to exhibit in the San Francisco Exhibition, industrial circles are overwhelmingly averse, anticipating no useful results. Germany hopes to show her friendliness by a worthy representation ai the opening of the canal, for which tinworld is indebted to America's enemy. The Rev. E. Chitty who preached at both services in St. Luke's Church last Sunday, returned to Auckland on Monday to attend a meeting of the trustees of the Jubilee Institute of tin' Blind, and also the special session of Synod to elect a bishop, after which he will return to take the services in Te Kuiti next Sunday. There appear to be ten members of the House of Commons who have consistently refused to touch their parliamentary salaries of .IMuO a year. The Chancellor of the Ex-cheque informed Mr Edward Wood in the House the other day that the amount of salaries of M.P.'s repaid or unclaimed as .i:-l27i'> in 1011-12. and anproxiiiuuelv £4-100 in 1912-Lk

The census returns have disclosed thai the commonest-sized tenement in England is of four rooms. The average family is of throe persons. In London 13 per cent, of the tenements only contain one room. Agricultural counties have the highest; proportion of small families--, while i:i tin? mining and industrial counties large families predominate. There is every indication at. nvL-m-.t of an early spring this year. nod lambing throughout the district is somewhat earlier than usual. At Pio Pio Mr G. Andrews" (lock is doing well. while Mr G. Berry, at YVaiteli. reports a very satisfactory increase which promises a good percentage. In the Wnitomo district also lambina is proceeding apace, and conditions hitherto have been exceptionally favourable. Sheep continue to maintain their I high prices in South Canterbury and j dealers predict; that next season brood- i ing ewes will reach record priees. | Some suggest the introduction of an ! Act to prevent the wholesale slaughter of ewe lambs. The high prices paid for fat lambs tempi, farmers to sell any sheep at ail fat, and the re- j suit is a serious check to the industry j throughout the Dominion. The quality ! of the sheep is also affected for those | left to breed 10m are not always the j best. ; Three syndicates, headed by Geo. j Vanderbilt, George Pynehon, and A. i Cochran, have been formed with the j object of building defenders for the :' America Cup. The New York Yacht j Club iirmly refuses to si-'ti with Sir ; Thomas Lipton an agreement binding j the club that the cup do lender shall \ not exceed a detiniie sire. It is understood, however, that members of the j syndicate have agreed to a sire ap- ! proximating that; which Sir T. Lip- j ton's challenge spejpies. I

The Admiralty has ordered from private yard?, throe battleships each heavier and mere powerful than the Queen Mary. Bui. Cor the decision of the Canadian Senate not to provide three ships for the British Navy. these vessels would not have been begun until next spring. By the autumn of lfi].."i, Britain will have at sea -12 Dreadnought.?, including (he Lord Nelaon, the Agnieinnon, and the New Zealand, and also including two about to he laid down at Portmiouiii and Devon port.

Softie things could have boon repressed very differently in the IJouse of Representative?, judging by rn-rnt examples. "I know a man in Auckland," said a northern member, "who drives a horse and earfc minus two feet." "The horse':"' was queried. "No. the man!" said the orator. Referring to another unfortunate workman, a mining disiriet's representative said: "This poor man has an eye taken out of his face." A third Far North member said of a blind man: "He was led on by ids wife, Mrs " giving his own name.