OTOROHANCA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 673, 30 May 1914, Page 5

OTOROHANCA.

Own Correspondent. - TOWN COUNCIL. The balance-sheet of the Otorohanga Town Council has just been audited by Mr H. Wylie, the Government auditor, and will be laid on the table at the next Council meeting which will be held on Monday next. BAND CONCERT. The Otorohanga Town Band has entered the lists for the competition open to Waikato and King Country bands, to be held next October. The first contest takea place at Te Awamutu for a silver Shield kindly donated by the Dresden Piano Co. We hear the trophy will be on exhibition in the .variouß centres interested in the near future, and no doubt will have the desired effect of acting as a stimulant to the members of the various bands concerned, and will be the means of cereating more public interest in band Blatters generally.

TOWN HALL. Tenders are called, to close to day, by the contractors of the new Town Hall, Messrs Clarke and Moore, for the cartage of material from the railway station to the hall sit 9 in Maniapoto street. We hear the hall will be ready for use in about three months' time. VISIT OP BISHOP. Bishop Averill will hold a confirmation service at the Anglican Church, Otorohanga, on Tuesday, June 9th. The church is shortly to have an acetylene gas plant installed, which. Will be much perferable to the oil lamps at present in use. RUNAWAY HORSES. Two heavy horses, owned by Mr Morley, which were coupled together, bolted on Tuesday last. After stampeding madly through the town, and carrying away a verandah post from the new Bhops recently ereeted by Mr M. Cowley in Maniapoto treet, they were turned into Messrs Free and Go's. Btable 9 none the Worse for their little escapade. Frightened at a motor car leaving the golf links on Saturday afternoon last, Mr Rowland Hill's horse, which WB9 attached to a sulky, bolted over a bank and succeeded in denuding the sulky of one wheel and a step. The horse was secured on the bank of the river uninjured. Mr W. S. Pettit, who, with Mrs Pettit and family, has been touring

New South Wales for the last two months, informs us that he only had two wet days during the whole trip. Captain A. Price succeeded in cuming "second past the post" in the Officers' Cup, run at the recent military manoeuvres held at Cambridge, with his horse "Half-back."