LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 303, 15 October 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mr J. R. Graham intimates that owing to to the bad weather he was unable to hold the sale advertised for last Thursday at Pio Pio. The sale will take place on Thursday fortnight. The post office has now erected posting boxes at the corner of Jennings and Tawa streets, and at the corner of Mora street and the Esplanade. Commencing to-day the boxes will be cleared at. 7.."><1 and JO a.m., 3 p.m. and (i.-'i. r > p.m. These new facilities will be a great convenience to residents in the districts served. The town clerk has received the report from Dr Makgill the chief health officer for the, Auckland province, on the water proposed to be utilised for borough purposes. The full report will appear in Wednesday's issue, but meanwhile it may be stated that the water ranks exceedingly high for purity and softness.

The Waitomo County clerk (Mr F. C. Shaw) has received provisional approval of the loans for metalling the following roads: Mairoa road £l4, 000; Pukearuhe road £1000; Honikiwi road .£4000; Mataparu road .£SOO. The Waipa County Council is about to call for tenders for the erection of a bridge over the Waipa river at Pirongia, provided no legal difficulties interfere.

Labour Day was only indifferently observed in Te Kuiti. Some shops closed: others didn't. The weather was vile. It rained heavily all the morning and in the evening, the wind rising to a perfect gale during the night. Plans of the proposed new Presbyterian church, to be built on land adjoining the Domain, Te Kuiti, are on view in Mr Nicholls' store window. Air F. C. Daniell, of Hamilton, is the architect. The need for a church for Presbyterians has been severely felt for some time, and the committee is hopeful that the necessary funds will be raised shortly.

Our Press Association report of the discussion on (ho amendments to the Native Townships Bill in Wednesday's issue was somewhat curtailed through an oversight, in transmission, and did not state that the clauses were added and the third reading of the Bill passed. This was what actually occurred though it was not stated in as many words.

The lecture to be given by the Rev. Isaac Jolly, M.A., in the Town Hall, Te Kuiti, on Thursday week, will be of interest to others than Scotsmen 1 and women. Lan Maclaren's stories have been read by thousands the world over, and doubtless many in Te Kuiti will welcome the opportunity of hearing them re-told by the lecturer, who is one of the ablest speakers in New Zealand to-day.

We draw the attention of our Honikiwi readers to Colonel Bell's address on "Home Separation and Co-opera-tion," which takes place at Honikiwi on Saturday, 22nd October. Colonel Bell informs us that since he started lecturing the number of cows supplying the Waikato Co-operative Dair> Company's factories has increased from 2000 to nearly 7000, and that this year the company will turn out between 500 and 600 tons of butter, which is a striking testimony to the popularity the syßteni has now attained in the Waikato district. The hgih grade and splendid prices realised have now enabled the company to pay out a monthly advance of KJjfd with a bonus at the end of the year. The Catholic social, held on Thursday evening in the Town Hall, Buffered through the wretchedly wet weather we have been having, but a good number of tickets had been Bold, and in spite of the bad conditions some fifty couples took the floor and a generally enjoyable evening was spent. Hetet's band played in its usual admirable fashion, and Miss King contributed an extra for a sailor's hornpipe danced by Mr Skleners. The floor was excellent and the supper too, credit being due to the ladies who assisted with the latter portion of the evening's enjoyment. Messrs Cotter, McKearney and Keyworth were the M.C's.

Notwithstanding most exhaustive tests, no defects have yet been found in the drainage at the new Government House (says a Wellington paper). It is therefore believed by those responsible that the recent sickness was due to other causes. The drains will be tested to the utmost, and finally the City Council's Btaff of plumbing experts Will be asked to approve of the work done. It is now thought tne sicknesß among members of the staff was due to some form of ptomaine poisoning. The current issue of the "Gazette" contains the new Government definitions of the various classes of butter and cheese. Butter is stated to be "the clean, non-rancid, solid product obtained by the churning of milk or cream, with or without the addition ot common salt and of harmless vegetable colouring matter." The standard is to be not less than 82 per cent. of milk fat and not more than 16 per cent, of water. Boric acid preservatives up to 1 per cent, by weight are allowed.

It costs very little to have, for the summer, a few of those light, comfort-able-looking wicker or pith chairs on your verandah or. in your rooms. In a replace advertisement in this issue Mesrss Barton and Ross, Ltd., announce the arrival of new summer furniture and all the light fixines that make the house so cool during the hot weather.