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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 430, 13 January 1912, Page 4

A committee meeting ol th« Te Kuiti Sports Club is called for Thursday, January 18th at 8 p.m. The meeting will take place in the Chronicle office. The old committee are urgently requested to attend as the business is of importance.

At the laying of the foundation stone of 21 workers, dwellings at Island Bay, the Hon. J A. Millar stated that the cost of the houses would be from £395 to £SOO at a rent of from 15s to 17s weekly. Sir Joseph Ward stated that the Labour Department was negotiating for land to extend the scheme to Dunedin, lnvercargill, Blenheim, Nelson, Gisborne, Taumarunui, New Plymouth. A powerful public opinion backing the scheme would soon bring exorbitant rents to an end, ho said.

The Agricultural and Pastoral Association ia meeting with excellent support from the general public. The donation of Mr G. Zainey, manager of th e Princess Pictures, of £2 2b, towards the prize fund haß to be gratefully acknowledged. The Rev. C. V. Richeson, the Baptist missionary, who pleaded guilty to the murder of his sweetheart (Avib Linnell), a choir girl, by poisoning her with cyanide of potassium, has been sentenced to death at Chicago. Mr Botha (Premier of South Africa) has decided to retrench the whole staff of sheep scab inspectors, substituting field cornets. This is interpreted fo mean the inefficient administration of the Stock Diseases Act, as the field cornets are practically the heads o£ families, and are not likely to enforce drastic provisions.

The catalogue of the 2nd wool sale of the season next Tuesday at Wellington will comprise about 20,;i0() bales, Borne 4 000 more than the corresponding Bale last year. Wool is opening out in excellent conditiun, and prices are expected to fully maintain the November level. Buyers will include six representatives of French houses. During the New Year holidays an enjoyable tennis tournament was held at Kawhia. Mr Vernon Jackson, who showed good form, was successful in the championship singles. Following the lead of the Waitomo County Council the other King Country local bodies are taking steps to have all native land 3 in the district placed on the roll for rating purposes. This is undoubtedly the correct coutbo to pursue and will do much towards ascertaining the exact position with respect to the whole native land question.

Mr H. Jane announccg that on Monday afternoon next at 3 o'clock, a lady expert in gas cookery will give a demonstration of cookery with Dreadnought gas in the Modern Plumbing works, King street. A display of lighting, gas rings, gaa irons, etc., will be given each evening. Ladies are specially invited to attend. The following donations were inadvertently omitted by the A. and P. Association when preparing the schedule issued in connection with the forthcoming show: -Home Indus-tries-Mrs Gadbsy, Mrs Jordan aenr. Mrs Hardy, Mrs Wolfe Mrs Scott, Mrs Boddie, Mrs Oheal, Mrs Dransfield, Mrs Broadfoot, Mrs Somerville, Mrs Mussen, Mrs Sims, and Mr Cornish £1 Is each; Mrs Huddleston, Mrs B. Jordan and Mrs Kelso .£1; Miss Mills, Miss Robinson and Mrs Boles, 10s 6d each. Other Classes —Auckland Hardware Association, £3 3s; W. Gunson and Co., £2 2s; Alexander Harvey and Sons, and Mr Zainey (Princess Picture Co), £1 Is; John Court and Co., 10s (id; O'Leary Bros, and Downs, 103; W. S. Laurie and Co., manures; New Zealand Farmer, one year's f.'ee subscription. Advantage will be taken by Messrs Noilson and Pollock of the lirst spell of fine weather to set out on their adventurous voyage from lvawhia round thn North Cape in the yacht Colma. Their object in undertaking the trip is to ensure the yacht taking part in the Auckland regatta on the 29th inst, A branch of the Bank of New Zealand is being established at Kawhia. Mr E. F. N. Morgan, who is to be in charge of the branch, arrived at Kawhia last week in order to make the preliminary arrangements. Enquiries are already being made from the secretary of the local racing club aa to the facilities for working horses on the racecourse. Several Dwnerg are anxious to bring their Inrßes to Te Ivuiti prior to the meeting on February Bth. In view of the approaching race meeting at Te Kuiti to be followed by the A. and P. Show there is every indication that the available accommodation of the town will be taxed to the utmost. Under normal conditions there is little to spare in this respect, and it is to be hoped every effort will je made to cope with the large influx , lti that is bound to take place. There is * also talk of apolitical gathering being held ;'.tTe Kuiti about the same time, ind this will no doubt largely increase the demand on the available space.

During a visit to Auckland laafc week Mr P. Mora, secretary of the Te Kuiti A. and P. Association met a visitor from Canterbury, Mr John Murray, who has been for many years connected with A. and P. Shows in the South Island. Mr Murray, who has been through the King Country, was much impressed with the district and holds the opinion that it should promote a show in the near future that will be equal to anything of the V kind in the Dominion.

Biahop Mules. Anglican Bishop of Nelson, has sent to the Bishop of Christchurch. the acting-Primate, a notice of his desire to resign the Nelson see and to retire from his dutise on June 30th.

A telegram from Wellington on Wednesday stated that the body of William David James, a retired building contractor, was found hanging at his residence suspended by a window cord. He was 42 years of age, and was to have joined his family at Te Kuiti to-day.

From the Ist prox. the money-order office and savings bank at the Te Kuiti Post Office will close on Saturday at 1 p.m., and the saving bank will be re-opened from 7 to 8 p.m. for the receipt of deposits on y.

In view of the poll to be taken on Thursday next on the question of raising a loan for lighting purposes, the ratepayers will be interested to learn that a public meeting is to be held in tbe Town Hall on Tuesday evening next to consider the question.

In connection with the statement published in connection with the election of Dr Poinare for the Western Maori electorate, to the effect that objections would probably be taken to the doctor's election on the grounds that he was a three-quarter caste and not a full-blooded Maori the objectors have evidently overlooked the interpretation clauses. Therein is set out that "Maori means an aboriginal inhabitant of New Zealand, and includes balf-castes and their descendants by natives" —which were quite covers the doctor's case.