King Country Chronicle Wednesday, October 21th, 1914

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 714, 21 October 1914, Page 5

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, October 21th, 1914

Fulliparticulars of a lotoj. household goods "to be sold without reserve are given in our advertising columns; also pigs and two breeding sows, at Mr Graham's MaEt on Saturday. As will be seen in cur advertising columns, our friends are taking up with spirit the sale of work which more than two months ago was unavoidably postponed. It i 3 to be hoped that the numerous friends who then promised to help will now b3 able to do so. What with the competitions, and the music, they may well expect a merry time. Attantion is drawn to the advertisement in our columns in which Mr F. li Hutchinsop, of Reynolds' Cycle Supply Store 3, Newton, Auckland, announces that he has opened a branch business in the Mercantile Chambers, Te Kuiti, and stocks of cycles, Raleigh, Rover, Wanderer, Excelsior and Anglo bicycles, with the famous Edie coaster., hub fitted to all machines. Large stocks of acessorie? are also on hand. The firm secured three gold medals for their cycles a sundries at the resent Auckland Exhibition. * The death is announced of the Hon. Thomas Kenedy Macdonald, a wellknown Wellington business mar, aetat 67. He had been ill for several years past. He sat in the Bouse of Representatives one session, and was a member of the Legislative Council for a number of years. He was a member of the firm of Macdonald, Wilson and Co., of Wellington, and founder and director of several industrial concerns. On Sunday afternoon last a fire occurredin the remains of the cottage recently partially burned in Taupiri street and owned by Mrs H. Matthew. The outer walls of tha building were practically intact, also soma of the dividing wails, and it is reported that children were playing with matches and fire work} in the building, and set fire to cne of the _wall. The smoke coming from the nuildirjg was noticed by Messrs Mackay and Jones, who were qiiickly on <iie spot, ind with thn aid of a small Minimax" fire extinguisher, put cut the flames. The Fire Brigade turned out very promtlv, but fin their arrival found the firs subdued. Bui for the quick action taken by willing helpsrs the building would not only have bsen wholly destroyed, but the adjoining buildings endangered. In aknowledging ths receipt of further gifts of socks, cholera belts, etc., for the Queen Mary Fund, her Exellency the Countess of Liverpool states that the gifts previously acknowledged Were dispatched to London on Friday last As her Excellency has bsen definitely advised fcy cablegram that only socks and woven cholera belts are required, in connection -with the appeal, she ceEire3 it to be known, that she proposes to devote all other articles received to tne use of the New Zealand Exp3ditionary Force and its reinforcements.