DISTRICT PARS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 109, 23 November 1908, Page 4

DISTRICT PARS.

To the average dairy farmer profit is a great consideration and he will go to a great deal of extra labour to secure it, lout more profit with less labour is so attractive that hundreds of farmers have installed the Law-rence-Kennedy-Gillies Machine in their dairies, and are now reaping the benefit of their enterprise. The L.KG. Machine is not a new idea, but one that has stood the test of time and stood it well. When you purchase a milking machine, be satisfied with only the best, viz., the L.K.G. Full particulars and information sent post tree. J. B. MacEwan and Co. Ltd., Sole Agents. Fort Street, Auckland. The armour of Hongi, the earliest Maori chief to arm his warriors with muskets, has been unearthed by Dr Pomare, with tne assistance of the native sanitary inspector, at the Pukehika pa, opposite Jerusalem, on the Wanganui river. For about half a century its whereabout? were unknown except to a very few. The armour was given to Hongi by King George IV. when, as a chieftain, he made a visit to England. The helmet is still missing, but Dr Pomare "states he knows where to locate it. The armour will be taken to Wellington and exhibited in the Dominion Museum. Sectarian absurdities are fortunately not over frequeent in J;he Dominion and a recent death advertisement which appeared in an Australian paper, appears to be about the limit. The lamented infant was aged eight months and the notice concluded with: "Our Protestant bud in Heaven." Possibly in future we shall see the notice of— The wife of John Smith of a single tax infant, both doing well, or that little Jimmy Brown, after an estimable and worthy existence of a fortnight, gradually pined away, owing to the blighting influence of the leasehold tenure on his sensitive soul. With the completion of the Main Trunk line the staff of workmen is being gradually reduced though there are still between 700 and 800 men employed. It - is stated that notwithstanding the large number of men that have been employed on the Main Trunk line, there will be ample work for more than the number on other lines. The North Auckland and Gisborne lines are each- providing work for additional men, while several of the Southern lines are to be pushed on much more vigorously. The adjourned charge of sly grogselling brought by the police against a Kerepeehi Native named Repi Koi, which wai adjourned for further evidence at the last sitting of the Court, was concluded on Friday last. The Native, in evidence, denied all knowledge of the transaction with which he was charged, that of selling a bottle of whiskey to the informant, and further deposed that on a previous occasoin he had purchased two bottles from the informant, who had been in the habit of selling liquor to the Natives. His Worship held that the charge was not sustained, and dismissed the information.

The Goods train from Taumarunui this morning arrived at Te Kuiti two hours late in consequence- of one of the trucks having left the rails at Paritikona.

The election of Maori representatives for Parliament is fixed for December 2nd. Considerable interest attaches to th ". contest for the Western Maori electorate between Pepene Eketone and Henare Kaihau, the sitting member. There are several candidates in the field, but it is felt the real fight is between the two mentioned. Pepene's supporters are confident of victory, and Kaihau admits that his majority will be [considerably less this time than, last.

For some time past the local Natives have been holding a tangi, at the Te Kuiti carved house, on the body of Wiari Rawiri, a well known rangitira of the Ngati Rora tribe. The funeral took place yesterday, and was attended by a large number of Natives, the body being placed in a vault specially built for the purpose. Deceased left no close relatives, his nearest connections being the Hetet family.

In an article on the banking situation in New Zealand, the Australasian Insurance and Banking record says: "What is really the matter in NewZealand is that production, at least in total value, has declined, that the expenditure of the people has increased, and that a high range of values for property h;.s baen reached. To comply with every demand for increased accommodation would mean, under existing circumstances, a fostering of inflation, which would invariably be followed by losses. New Zealand has to increase its production and to spend less, and within a comparatively short time the monetary stringency which now manifests itself will pass away." "As far as can be seen at present, the outlook for the dairying industry of the Dominion has never been better," declared Mr J. G. Harkness, the secretary of the National Dairy Association, to an interviewer last week. Prices, he said, were very good, and there was every prospect of them being maintained, while in all the dairying country he had seen the pastures were looking as well as ever they had done. The grass was very abundant just now, and practically the only serious, difficulty that might be ahead of the industry was the , possibility of a dry season. This, of course, would make a considerable difference to the season's output. In fact, if only things continued as they begun, he saw no reason why the value of our exports of dairy produce should not show an increase of half a million on last season's two and a quarter millions.