J. C. Parke, the English tennis champion, predicts in the Weekly Despatch that Australasia will win tho Davis Cup. The calculation has been made that Britain spends £109,250,000 annually in teetotal beverages, including tea, coffee, cocao, and aerated mineral waters.
Tho sorvica announced for next Sunday in the Te Kuiti Roman Catholic Church has been cancelled owing to Father Brennan having arranged services at Paemako.
In certain districts throughout the county the reads have suffered damago from straying stock, • and it is the intention of the County Council to prosecute owners of such stuck without further notice.
An anomaly in valuation ia disclosed by the figures relating to Rotorua town and county. The valuation of the town is £489,967, while tho county valuation ia somewhat less, being £489,251. At Paria the police last week raided the premises of numerous dressmakers, who are charged with copjing tho models of firßt-class houseß by means of information gained from tho latter'a employees. Important correspondence was seized. Tho White House wedding between Mr W. N. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, to the United States President's second daughter, was quietly celebrated on Thursday evening. The brido invited the guests by telephone. The honeymoon will be spent abroad.
Mr Graham sells at the mart on Saturday, horses, vehicles, and implements, and also the thoroughbred chestnut gelding Malation King, by Spalpeen. Mnlation King is entored in the New Zealand Stud Book, where full details of pedigree may be seen. When the official presentation of medals for the special constables from the Kin/? Country took place there were many who were unable to be present. The medals have now been Bt-jit to Mr W. Lotigan, Te Kuiti, and may bo obtained on application. The complimentary banquet to Mr T. E. Foy, manager of the To Kuiti branch of the Batik of New Zealand, takes place on Friday evening at Mr Morgan's Commercial Hotel. Mr Foy has been promoted to the charge of the Bank of New Zealand at Fiji, and will be stationed at Suva. An addition to the boardinghouses of Te Kuiti is being made in the shape of "Riverside," just across the King street bridge at the corner of the Esplanade. The house has been opened under tlia management of Mrß StdWart, nod particulara of the tariff appear in our Advertising columns. A suocini meeting of the Te Kuiti Borough Council is to be held tomorrow evening for the purposa of receiving and discussing the report of the Eiectric Light Committee in connection with the proposed loan for the duplication of the plant and the extension of the mains. The Britiih Foreign Bible Society of 1913 distributed 8,950,000 Biblea in 456 languages. At the annual meeting of the Bocioty the Bishop of Norwich said that mothers and children do not read the Biblo together nowadays because Bibles had many modern competitors. People did not care to read a book condemning tho life they were leading. It will ba noticed that the Waitomo County Council intend to strictly enforce the by-laws dealing with heavy traffic on the county roada. A large expenditure'of money has been made in laying down metal, and in order to protect the interests of the ratepayers and give a reasonable chance to tho roads in winter.the strict enforcement of th' 3 by-laws is necessary. The Natal Witness publishes a plot for amuggling the deportees back into Africa. It declares that tho deportees will travel in a German liner from a Continental port, land at Beira, and thence proceed by railway to the Transvaal border, wiere a motor car will convey them to Johannesburg. It ia assorted th<U money ia being collected in England to defray expenses. General Smuts ie pledged not to allow their return.
Mr M. Forsyth, who ia leaving 1e Kuiti, hna instructed Mr Graham to eell uli his furniture and r-ffticts by auction on Tuesday, 19th. Particulars appear in our advertising columns. Amongst ths many Mnos there is a particularly fine upright grand piano by the weli-known Amercian makers, Meßsr& Neodham. Anyonn wishing to buy a piano built to last a lifetime Bhoulcl inspect this instrument. Playing on Saturday against M.C.G., Barratt, Notts' new fast bowler, tuok eight wieketa for 91 runs in the M.C.C.'a first innings. The match wat left drawn, Notts making 474—-Lee 12G, and Whysall 112. M.C.C. scored 280 and 137 fur seven wickets. Barratt, who is only 21 years of age mada a remarkable debut. He clean bowled' Mclvcr, Hearne, Twining. Dtummond, and Peglyr, the South African bowler.
Thn Tarnnaki Herald is informed that several Aucklanders interested in iror and steel metallurgy have discovered a process foi producing from Taranalci ironsand excellont iron at a cost not exceeding that of the best iron produced in England. An experimental plant will be erected at New Plymouth, «nd it is anticipated that considerable capital will be employed subsequently in erecting the latest type o£ a bias 1- furnace capable of dealing with a big output.
Tho Waitomo County Council is well ahead with the programme of work for next season and considerable activity will be in evidence in various parts of the county in tho early days of the working season. Among the larger works may be mentioned the Otewa road, contracts for which have already been let; the Pungarehu road, and the roads included in the Kio Kio loan, tenders for which are now invited. These alone aggregate an expenditure of ten or twelve thousand pounds, while a number of other equally important works are being promoted.
Messrs Mackay and Jor.es have on view a splendid specimen of thousandheaded kale. Tho root was taken from a crop grown by Mr R. Livingstone, of Pio Pio, and measures round the bead 16ft. The stem measures 8 inches and the height of the plant is 4ft 6in. One and a-half cwt. of manure per acre wr.s used. Some very fine samples of turnips grown by Mr Elliott and by Mr Heinemann, at tha 8-mile, and a splendid sheaf of oats grown by Messrs Alderson and Simpson, at Aria, are also on view. The To Kuiti Orchestral Society, under the conductorship of Mr A. Pattison, held another very successful practice last evening The work being done is steadily improving and great enthusiasm ia being shown. New members are still being enrolled, and everything poin's to a most successful season.
A highly interesting demonstration of cooking by electricity is being given by Mr J. Kirkwood, in Naumai Buildings, Rora street. A very complete stock of utensils is on exhibition, and altogether ths demonstration is of the greatest interest to householders, as affording an opportunity o F witnessing the potentialities of electricity in respect to all-round everyday household use.
The secind anniversary of the To Kuiti Methodist Sunday school is heing celebrated on Sunday and Monday next. Owing to the illness of the Rev. J. Wrigley, of Hamilton, who was to have conducted the services, the Rev. Jno. Olphert, of Te Awamutc, is to ho the preacher. There avi the usual morning and evening services, and also a special young people's service at 3 p.m. The afternoon meeting is to be a united gathering of the non-conformist Sunday schools, Hnd will bs addressed by Mr O'pherf. On Monday a public tea will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. to be followed by the annual meeting and prize distribution. The Mayor will take the chair at 7.30, and also distribute tha prizes. The children, a3sisted by an augmented choir and orchestra, have been assiduously rahearsing the special hymns, under the guidance of Mr I. Armstrong, and will, under his baton, render musical items at each service.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 668, 13 May 1914, Page 5
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