HUNTLY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3043, 16 January 1892, Page 2

HUNTLY.

Public Librakv.— A meeting of the Library Committee was held here during the week and a. secretary appointed in place of Mr Livesey who has left the district. The question of building a reading rooui and library was again discussed when it was resolved that every effort be made to provide such a long felt want in Hnntly. Messrs Ralph Bros, have generously offered a piece of land on which to put up the building and directly the committee are prepared to build will convey the same to trustees approved and appointed by the inhabitants. There is at present a sum of about £20 in the hands of two trustees, but the greater portion of that amount being Government subsidy it is thought it will be available only for the purchase of books. It is sincerely hoped the committee will be supported and helped by the general public in their endeavour to make the reading room and library " un fait accompli." Picnic at Kimihia.—A pleasant little picnic and day's sport was held at Kimihia on Tuesday last by the employees of the Taupiri Reserve Coal Company. The wife of the genial manager started and maintains a Sunday-school there for the benefit of the miners' children, and it was mainly for the purpose of affording them a little recreation that the picnic took place. All sorts of fun was provided for the little one 3, and all were awarded suitable piiaes. Knights of Labour.—l hear that members of the Order nf the Knights of Labour are coming here shortly to lecture on the principles of the Order and explain its mode of working, objects, etc. As this is %a organization which works on distinctly constitutional lines in its efforts to improve the coudition of mankind, and in leading men to reflect and arrive at a perfect sense of their privileges and responsibilities, it is hoped the men of Huntly will avail themselves of the opportunity of hoaring and judging of the merits of an association which raises its members to a plane far higher and broader than that afforded by any ordinary "union/' Land Sale—The block of land opposite here consisting of 1-1.000 acres on which the old Waikato Coal and Shipping Company's coal mine exists, is being surveyed by Mr Cheal and cut up into 1000 acre sections, these will be offered for sale in a short time at, I believe, an upset price of £1 an acre. It i 3 owned af course by the Bank Estates Company—or Globo—whose powers of deglutition have proved out of proportion to those of digestion, and now when the simple curative treatment of the present Government is applied finds that he must disgorge. It will do not only him but the whole family good.