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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 567, 14 May 1913, Page 4

Speaking at a meeting of thfe Waifs and Strays Society recently, the Bishop of London (Dr Winniugton Ingram), who presided, said that the average Englishman, by putting 3d into the offertory, expected to get a good vicar, two handsome curates, and a peal of bells. British imports iqcreased during April by £2,551,199, and exports by £lu, 165,462. Re-exports decreased by £25,338. It is notified in the Gazette that after December 31st next, the present issue of duty and postage stamps will be displaced by new issues of all denominations. Four of the six New York police inspectors found guilty of "graft," were sentenced to a year's imprisonment and fined £IOO. The United States Government report on the Friedmann consumption cure is unfavourable. It criticises the wide publicity given to the cure on Dr Friedmann's behalf before it. was definitely established. '' Further observations were necessary before a final verdict was possible. Pio Pio <esidents are notified that Mr B. H. Brewer, dentist, will be at the Pio Pio Town Hail on Thursday, May 22nd, from 10.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The two prisoners, Donovan and Lewis, who escaped from the Terrace Gaol, Wellington, on Friday night, were recaptured near the Makara beach on Saturday afternoon by mounted constables Pearson and Warner. The escapees were in civilian clothes, and when the constables came up to them they threatened to use sandbags they possessed. The policemen, however, drew their revolvers, and ihe men then gave themselves up. Snow has made its appearance early this year on the Main Trunk railway. It has fallen intermittently for nearly a fortnight, and on the mountains adjacent to the Waimarino Plains it is estimated that on Friday there was a depth of six feat in some pla-es. On Sunday the country from Kauri inn to beyond Wai >uru was covered with a • off white mantle. According to figures which have just been issued by the German Go vernment, 120 motor road trains have been subsidised for the year 1913 by the Kingdom of Prussia, and 15 by Bavaria. This number, added to the 690 which were under the control of the Government in 1912, makes a total of 825 of these motor vehielrs at the disposal of the German military autho rities in case of war. A letter has been received by the Waitomo Cuunty Council fro i the Ohura County Council requesting that pennyroyal should be placed on the noxious weed schedule of the Waitomo County, pointing out that it is useless to attempt to keep pennyroyal in check until the surrounding counties take cognisance of it. Residents of Aria are reminded that Mr Dransfield, dentist, will be in the town on Wednesday next in the afternoon and at Pio Pio on Thursday, 22nd, from 11 to 1.30 o'clock.

[ Misses Wilton and Brown will be "at home" in St. Luke's school room on Saturday, May 24th, to meet par enta desirous of enrolling pupils of Kiaiti College and kindergarten. The second term starts May 2fith, 1913. Mr C. K. Wilson, member for the district, arrived at Te Kuiti from Wellington this morning, and is departing forthwith for a tour of the Waikawau district. "There is a busy time ahead before Parliament meets, and the roads are not improving," said Mr Wilson; "but I'll battle through, and see as much of the back country as possible.' The Minister of Justice, in reference to Mr A. Rosser's explanation of the position in connection with the police discontent, and in which he remarked that advertisements had been inserted in leading Irish newspapers asking for men for the New Zealand Police Force, declared to a pressman that this was not true. No such advertisements had been put in any Irish paper, he said.

Professor Behring has obtained a new diphtheria seruin, which is said to produce immediate immunity in an epidemic, and prolonged immunity thereafter. It is also claimed that the serum renders germcarrierß harmless, A public meeting will bo held in the Municipal Hall next Monday evening at 8.30 p.m. to discuHs the question of recreation ground. It in to be hoped the townspeople will attend in numbers, so aB the question can bo thoroughly discussed. The meeting is called by the Ratepayers' and Citizens' Association. The annual meeting of the King Country Central A. and P. Association will be held in the Municipal Hall on Wednesday, May 21st, at 7.,' H) p.m. It is hoped that a large number of members will attend as the business is important. To show how the quality of the land at Chatham Islands varies, a passenger by a recent steamer stated to a reporter that he knew of a patch of nearly 40 acres in Waitangi which grazed 2HO sheep all through the winter, while another are-i of .10,000 acres some few miles distant would only provide feed for 500 head. The Canadian Naval Bill was reported from coinmitteu and road a third time by a parly majority of 33. Dißordpr marked the closing stages of the debate, the Liberals shouting "Gag" continuously. Mr W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, has dispatched a message to Governor Johnson, of California, urging him to return the Anti-alien Bill to the Legislature for reconidoration. A cablegram has been received at New Plymouth staling that Mr J. D. Henry, petroleum expert, and Mr W. Craig, of the refinery plant; manufacturing firm, together with an analytical chemist, have left London for New Plymouth by the Corinihic, due next month. The first sale of property in Aihburton County under the Land Settlement and Finance Act oC 1900 has just been effected, the Government having notified Messrs Kelman and Co. of its intention to acquire their farm of SCO acres at Lowclifi'e, about 20 mileß from Ashburton.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands for Taranuki has intimated to the Waitomo County Council that it haß been decided «o discontinue supplying monthly schedules to the local bodieß, in order to bring that; district into' line with other parts of the district, and suggesting the required information will bo obtainable from the Valuation Department. In respect to the commissioner's decision the Whanagmamona County Council is making strong representations with a view to having the decision reconsidered. American and English picture show producers have decided upon concerted action in an endeavour to stop exensivo piracy of films that now goes on. A test; case n shortly to come before the American courts. There will also be an attempt to obtain a revision of the copyright law, of which there has been a wholesale infringement for some time past. The Times, in a special article on the spring fashions in Paris, states Lnafc skirts for morning and evening gowns arc still straight and narrow, yet there are signs of a revolt against the ultralight skirt. The Wirth family, some of whom belong to the well-known circus family, has inherited a huge fortune of four milliors sterling, left by an unmarried uncle, who died recently in Chicago, where he made his pile. The fortune will bo divilod among the descendants of the four brothers of the millionaire. One brother left only one son, employed in a jewellery establishement in Sydney. He gets a million. He has ten children. Mesara Phillip and George Wirth, of circus fame, and their three married sister", divide a million.

Evidence was given at an inquest on the death of an old woman who waa a pensioner under the Insurance Act ehowod thai; she had died of starvation. The woman was a widow, soventy-Bix years of age, and lived by herself. She was missed by her neighbours, and when nothing had been seen of her for several da"s a search was made. She was found in her room, deliriouß with hunger. The police surgeon who attended her before h' j r death, and who gave evidence at the inquest, said that while the pension was helpful' when friends gave assistance to the old people, it was useless by itself to maintain them. It was boiler that they should be sent to workhouses. To expect parsons t> live on 5s a week was criminal. The law neodod altering. So much has been laid emphasis upon the enormous size and power of tlie New Zealand that the Dominion niiv require the sobering influence of tiro t 'eile;ilion that the ship is, after all, nol in the front rank as Dreadnoughts go. The New Zealand displaces some IS.SOO tons, carries eight 12in, guns, and was designed to steam at 25 knots, though probably alio could lieat that; by two or three knots. The Lion displaces 2C>.350 tons, is armed with eight 13 Sin. guns, ami has done 30 knots in bad weather, while her side armour is two inches thicker than thai of tie New Zealand. The Tiger and the Queen Mary, of 27,050 ton, are going to be stronger still.

The broken weather which set in on Friday last, culminaled in a severe thunderstorm on Saturday about midnight. Vivid lightning, followed by exceptionally heavy peals of thunder, lasted for a considerable period but o\i Sunday the weather had calmed. Very heavy winds have been experienced from time to time since the weather broke, at times increasing to almost hurricane force. This storm has been felt along both eoasl.H, and is evidently the disturbance which was predicted by Mr Clement Wragge, who cabled from Morgan, South Australia, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, warning the Dominion of an approaching disturbance. The name given by the meteO' rologist to the storm was "Trojan."