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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 655, 28 March 1914, Page 4

Owing to the date of the next ordinary meeting of the Te Kuiti Borough Council falling on Easter Monday the, meeting will be postponed till the following Monday, April 20tla.

Mr J. Hacket has a magnificent atuck of overcoats, a special indent.*

Messrs Williams and Son have just landed a Bplendid range of English D.B. Raglan overcoats i;i the very latest colours, including greys ami brown for winter 1914.

Testa are being mads at Berlin, with reßUltß alleged to be prejudicial, with regard to tho effect on the eye Bight of black slates and white pencils in schools. A slate his been invented with a dull white mrface, requiring a black crayon pencil, in order to remedy, this defeat. " The Orakau celebrations, which take place on Wednesday next, promise to attract a big gathering from all partß. Given fine weather a fairly large contingent of visitors from Te feuiti and surrounding districts will be present. The statement haa been made by Dr Penwick, of the Instiutte of Hygiene, that 10 per cent, of indigestion is caused by the slipping downwards of the organs of the body. He holds that the Btraight-fronted corset possesses a great advantage over its predeceaaor.

Jimmy Clabby. the middle weight pugilist, and his trainer, Arthur McQueen, were both sentenced to three years* imprisonment for beating a policeman in a street tight at Lob Angeles. The sentences wll be suspend ed if accused pay the policeman £2OO and give hira a guarantee of future good conduct. The Paris Chamber of Commerce urges prompter methods in shipping ; Bheepakina to France. It is also pointed out that better business could be. done with Australasian fruit if it arrived before April, when the strawberries supersede the imported apples and pears. The Messageries Maritiraes iB installing space for the carriage of fruit in six of their ] steamers. < Some idea of the operations of the - Southern Freezing Companies in the i King Country may be obtained from j the fact that last year the Gear Com- < pany purchased 700 sheep in the , Ohura district. This year it is esti , mated the number sent to the same , company will aggregate 10,000. A , considerable number of sheep have t also been purchased by the Gear Com- , pany in the Awakino County. I The Wellington people got a thrill i for its money on Thursday afternoon. < and Mr J. W. Scotland, who made an | aerial flight for their edification, ran 1 a narrow shave of death. He m.et | with unfavourable conditions within a < few minutes of his ascent, encounter- i ing one of the dreaded "pockets" or ( partial vacuums, lhis caused a swift [ fall, the machine crashing into a \ grove of pine trees at Newtown Park, c u few hundred yards from the ascend- 1 ing point. Scotland had tremendously v good luck in escaping fatal injuries. He managed to steer the engine an centre part of the plane right between two trees. The branches smashed and gave to the strain, easing the shock a good deal, with the r result that ho came to a standstill 15 j feet from the ground, and a couple of c feet from a tree trunk, his only in- j jury being a sprained thumb and the | shock. . *