LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 315, 26 November 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

In this issue will be found :—Will' tomo County Council and War to the Knife on page 2; Te Kuiti Bowilng Club, Ohura County Council, How Indians Poisoned Their Arrows, Foods and Their Decay, on page 3; Notes fur Women, Farm and Garden, and Canada's Success, on page C; and our serial story on pago 7. Mr Hitchcock has generously promised to donate a guinea to Te Kuiti Bowling Club as a prize for the champion player during the current season.

Amongst other new buildings now in the course of erection are the new premises for Messrs Mackay and Jones, seed merchants and land agents, in Sheridan street, Te Kuiti. These comprise a large store for Heeds and machinery, and a suite of offices. Sheridan street seems to be becoming: a centre for the commercial houses of Te Kuiti, as distinct from the retail shops.

The Maoris are predicting a ho"t and dry summer. The cabbage palms have flowered very heavily this year, and there is also an abundance of flax blossoms in various parts of the district. Both these circumstances are regarded by the natives as evidences of coming heat and a scarcity of rain.

Following on his recent successful arrangement with the Hamilton Borough Council, for the use of the Town Hall three nights a week for a picture show, Mr J. M. Gillespie is now in negotiation for the use of Te Kuiti Town Hall for one night a week for a similar purpose. It is his intention to commence operations in the second week in December, and to show the very latest pictuies, arriving weekly from England.

The local solicitors, interpreters and native agents are forwarding a petition to the Minister of Native Affairs drawing attention to the urgent inecessity of increasing the staff of the Native Land Court. The petitioners state that at the present sitting of the Court at Te Kuiti they are debarred from searching the records and, files of the Court except in stipulated, hours, which seriously interferes with, them in the conduct of their CBses. The petitioners also ask for an additional clerk which they deem is necessary in order that the business of Court may be carried out in an efficient manner. Ask for a Roslyn sweater to-day, *