LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 392, 2 September 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The great Driver, the famous magician, will make his reappearance in I Te Kuiti on Tuesday evening next at the Town Hall, after an absence of nearly twe ; ve months. He is assisted by a clever company, including Mdlle. Le Rene, the brilliant solo pianiste, and will present a programme quite new to Te Kuiti, The press and the public unanimously agree that Driver is the highest example amongst, the exponents of mystery. Driver is original. He is a worker of.wonders, presents nothing that is old, copies on one. The effects that he produces, admittedly illusions, are so clever that science is baffled and vision is discredited by the belief of beholders that see all the world and its laws set at nought. What is impossible to others Driver makes easy. The theatregoers of Te Kuiti will see for the first time feats that have been described by travellers from the home of magic, by those who have seen the ancient Fakers of India and the sorcerers of Egypt at their best, feats that have been described but never until now have been produced. The next Church of England social will be held on Tuesday, September 12th.

Preparations are being made for the large gathering of natives which takes place from September 6th to 9th. It is expected nearly 1000 will be present. Sir James Carroll and the Hon. A. T. Ngata will also be here. The ratepayers of Frankton have ajthorised the Town Board to raise a loan of £6,300 for installing electric lighting in the town. The report recommends a producer gas generator with a three wire direct current low tension system at 230 volts. Current would be sold at 8d per unit to consumers and 6d per unit for street lighting and on the estimates would yield sufficient to pay interest and sinking fund and working expenses. Mr Graham notifies in to-day's issue the sale on account ot Mr Carroll of his very choice houusehold furniture and effects. Further particulars will follow and an opportunity will be given to inspect before the sale, which date will be duly notified later. Mr C. L. St. Hill, who ha 3 been representing Messrs Dalgety and Com pany, Ltd., in the King Country, has recently left the firm, and we understand intends commencing business on his own account. Mr E. Carpenter, who has been representing the firm at Otahuhn has conie to Te Kuiti to take Mr St. Hill's place. Mr Carpenter has a wide knowledge of stock and farming in all its branches having been with the firm for some time and previously farming on his own account.

Mr Garham offers for sale that valuable business situ at the corner of Sheridan and Taupin Streets on September 21st.

As Mr J. E. Walker, chemist, was engaged in his laboratory on Thursday afternoon, his spirit lamp exploded and burnt him seriously about the face, necessitating his being taken to Nurse Hattaway's nursing home, where he will be detained for a few days. The Princess Picture Company showed to a fairly 'arge audience in the Town Hall on Thursday evening last, and the programme screened was very good indeed. The picture giving a representation of Lord Tennyson's poem, "Maud" was very highly appreciated, while the comics and dramatic pictures were of an entertaining nature. Altogether the programme submittted was a first-class one and as the management intend to visit Te Kuiti every Thursday in future, it is to be hoped they will receive the patronage which their enterprise deserve. Next week's programme is to be an exceptionally good one and all picture-lovers should make an effort to see them.

We are pleased to hear that Miss Handyside's two pupils, Miss B. Colhoun and Miss W. Clarke have passed their Trinity College exam.

The Town Clerk hag received intimation from the State Guaranteed Advances office that the sum of £12275 balance of loan of £27,275 has been remitted to the credit of the Borough. The rainfall for August, 1911, at Te Kuiti was as follows: —August 2, .10 inches; 3rd, .30 inches; 11th, .11 inches; 12th, .04 inches; 16th, .17 inches; 17th, 1.65 inches; 18th. 1.24 inches; 23rd, .10 inches; 24th, .04 inches; 26th, .02 inches; 27th, .30 inches; 28th, .02 inches; 2Pth, ,04 inches; total 4,13 inches on 13 days. Rainfall for August, 1910, 7.27 inches on 17 days. Mias Florence Lineham, a pupil of Miss Pine, has passed the junior Trinity College examination,conducted by Mr Schilski, gaining 75 marks.

Messrs H. J. Free and Co. report that owing to the very high prices of oats and chaff, horse feeds will from this date be raised £o Is Gd a feed. / '

Attention is drawn to the lecture by

; Mr Arthur Withy to be given in the Town Hall, Te Kuiti, on . Tuesday, September 12th on "Rating on the Unimproved Value." Mr Withy, who has just been adopted as the Liberal and Government candidate for the Waitemata seat, is a very capable speaker, and some interesting facts and figures are likely to be given. The lecture will be illustrated by lantern slides. His Worship the Mayor has consented to preside. Those engaged in the violet growing business at Otaki —-and there are several who hava taken up the work on a large scale —are having a very busy time indeed. It is a glorious sight to see the large patches of violets grown by Messrs G. Powell, A. W. Broadway, and other growers, and to watch the pickers at work will give some indication of the labour involved in violet growing. The majority of the flowers are sent to Wellington, but a considerable supply is also sent to Napier, while one grower senas a large parcel every week as far as Dunedin. Mr G. Powell also <?ends a large lot of daffodils to Dunedin, especially early in the season. The flower growing industry seems likely to develop into an important one at Otaki at no distant date. —Mai). A remarkable experience fell to the lot of Mr George McCourt and his little son, at Staten Island, the | southernmost part of New York State. Mr McCourt was experimenting with a gigantic kite. During a lull in the wind the taut line slackened, and the boy, becoming tangled in a loop, was quickly lifted to a considerable height by a sudden gust. In I his effort to haul the kite down the father passed the line under his arm but the friction caused by the sudden run of the rope ignited some matches in" his pocket, and set his clothes on fire. McCourt strove to beat out the flames, but his coat, vest, and undergarments were nearly all burned before he could tear them off his body. Finally he managed to haul the kite in until his son was about ten feet from the ground, when the lad became disentangled and fell, landing in a creek from which he was speedily , rescued little or none the worse for his thriiling adventure. Mr Laurenson's bill for a universal Saturday half-holiday is evoking a great deal of interest in Auckland. During the last few days Auckland members have been bombarded by telegrams urging their support to this measure. A few days ago telegrams were despatched to Northern representatives on behalf of over three hundred employees of Messrs John Court, Ltd., while to-day this firm has wired as follows: "Our employees' appeal for universal Saturday halfholiday heartily endorsed by the firm. Sir Henry Lucy, gossiping about the coronation ceremonies in his letter to the Sydney Morning Herald, says: —"Sir Joseph Ward told me an interesting circumstance. Amid the j turmoil of life in London he has not once varied from the home habit of not sleeping more than four hours out of the 24 hours. Such capacity gives a man an almost unfair advantage over his fellow creatures, even such as limit the period of their sleep to eight hours. For a shrewd, capable business man to be every day of his life four hours ahead of his neighbours is an immense pull, almost equal to doubling the length and opportunity of a working day." A Press Association telegram from Blenheim states that last night one of the spans of a bridge on Brownlee's tram line, Pelotas Valley, gave way and the locomotive, with several trucks, fell into the river, a distance of 200 feet. The driver, David Young, had a marvellous escape. He jumped clear and was severely damaged about the head, but otherwise uninjured, j