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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 670, 20 May 1914, Page 4

America's greatest" advertisers are unanimous in declaring that advertising on a large scale and in an original mannar payß the greatest dividends.

At the request of the Commonwealth Government, Mr Holman, Premier of New South Wales, has offered the services of Mr Justice Street as a Royal Commission to investigate the question of meat and other combines engaged in the export trade. At the Te Kuiti Police Court on Monday, before Messrs Mostyn Jones and N. C. Matthew, Justices, a first offender, charged with having been found drunk in King street on Sunday, waß fined 5s and costs, or in default 24 hours.

The season of Madame Melba in Paris has closed. She will leave shortly for Australia. She has cancelled several engagements owing to her father's illness. She will return to Europe early in 1915, and will then visit America. The total expenditure of the Waitomo County Council for the year ending March 13st last amounted to £37,138, of which amount nearly £20,000 was by way of Government grants and Buhsidies. The amount collected in rates during the vear was £3464 9s Bd. As the result of heavy rain on Friday and Saturday, a concrete retaining wall of the reservoir at Waverley, built in connection with the Whangarei electric light and water scheme, was undermined owing to an overflow, and collapsed. The wall cost £I6OO to construct. In referring to the work of the Waitomo County' Council during the past year the County chairman referred to the fact that the total cost of administration for the past year represented only 3§ per cent, of the total expenditure- The cost of engineering and surveys amoanted to less than 1§ per cent, on the total expenditure.

A committee meeting of tbe Te Kuiti Bowling Club was held in the Chronicle office on Monday evening to deal with matterß prior to the annual general meeting. Mr A. Julian, president, occupied the chair. A general discussion was held on matters affecting the club and it was decided to hold the annual general meeting in the County office on Friday, June 12th. In the golf competitions, the St. George Vase was won hy John Graham junr., with a score of 75 and 71, P. Ouimet, the American; had a Ecora of 158, M. Scott 159, and Ivo Whitton, the Australian, 164. Hilton and Michael Scott defeated Travers and Ouimet by three up and two to play. In the final of the ladies' championship, Miss Leitch defeated Miss JRavenscroft, the American lady champion,by 2 up and 1 to play. The Minister for Defence has written to Captain Hall-Thompson, Naval Adviser to the Government, requesting him to make inquiries in Australia regarding the sytsem of training being carried on there with a view to reporting to the Government the system best adapted to the Dominion's requirements. A crew has already been secured for the Philomel, which will be handed over to the Government in July. At Monday evening's meeting of

the Waitomo County Council,Cr Berry was appointed delegate from the Council to the conference to be held at Te Kuiti on June 4th for the purpose of corsideri s the liuuor laws governing the district. The chairman, Cr A. Scholes, said when the date of the conference was fixed he was unaware that the Licensing Bench was to meet at Waitara on the same date. Unless the meeting at Waitara was adjourned he would be unable to attend the conference at Te Kuiti.

The request, "Give me a brandy with a dash of radium water," or "I'll have a radium highball," may soon b8 a common call for a drink. Accordiing to an expert radium water has a direct infusion of radium salts, and is kept sparkling by the infiltration of ultra-violet rays and the addition of carbonic acid gas. A new. preparation is being patented, and will shortly be issued in syphonß for public conpumption. The inventors claim that it will be gratifying and also health-giving. Replying to a deputation from the Wairarapa, urging the acquisition by the Government of two large estates at Tinui, totalling 27,000 acres, Mr Massey said that for the past seven year 3 the Government had not taken any estates compulsorily, the reason being that so many difficulties were placed in the way that the law was found to be almost unworkable. Whether Parliament would amend the law he was not able to Bay at the moment. He had a certain power under the Act of la3t year; he could not go into details, but he was putting the Act of last year into motion in regard to certain properties in different parts of New Zealand. He was not prepared to state publicly what he was doing: it might not be necessary to make it public, but he was going to get land for settlement wherever available.