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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 568, 17 May 1913, Page 4

The Te Kuiti Dairy Company has decided to pay out to suppliers elevenpence per lb for butter fat for last month. In consequence of the improved market for buttei - , however, it is probable the company will be able to pay a shilling per lb for the current month's supply. In view of the diminishing quantity obtained by farmers from their herds the increase in price should be very wel come. Considerable interest is being manifested in the forthcoming concert in aid of the Te Kuiti Volunteer Fire Brigade, which is to be held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening next. An excellent programme has been arranged, and there is every prospect of the function being thoroughly successful.

An effort is to be made to establish a local branch of the League of Frontiersmen and an address on the subject will be delivered by Colonel Allen Bell at the Municipal Hall on Wednesday evening next. Land seekers should note that the sale of native rural sections in Kawhia and Waitomo Counties, comprising nearly fifteen thousand acres of good country is to take place at Auckland on Wednesday next at 2 p.m. under the auspices of the Waikato-Mania-poto Maori Land Board. An ail-American track and field team will probably visit Australia in December. The American Athletic Union has sanctioned the trip. Ways and means are now under consideration. At a meeting of the County Councils' Associacion, held in Wellington the question of holding a conference during the coming session was discussed, and it was decided to ascer* tain what local government bills are to be introduced, so that, if necessary, a conference can be arranged. It can hardly have escaped notice, says a writer of astronomical notes, that about last full moon period we had an unusually large amount of moonlight. A few days after the time of full moon the moon shone all night, and then remained visible in the western sky for a considerable part of the forenoon. The climax cjma on April 25th, when the nvimi rose at 7.53 p.m , arid then did nnSset until 12 32 p.m. on the following day, having thus been above the horizon for 16hrs. 39 mins. out of 24 hour?. The reason for this is that the moon on that day was further south tha i she had been at any time during th - 1 iat eighteen years. On May 9th she was nearly »s far north, and we had the opposite extreme, namely, that she remained above our horizon for only Bhrs. 20mins. out of the twenty-four hours.

After a mass meeting of railway porters at Sydney a prominent union official declared that there waa not going to be another strike. The reports of the threatened trouble were, he said, without foundation. The Government is prosecuting fifty more goods yard employees in connection with the late railway strike. The petition in connection with the suggested extension of the telephone service to connect Moeatoa and Mangaohae and so complete the connection between Te Kuiti and Marokopa, which were circulated at Te Kuiti for signature by the local Chamber of Commerce, waß numerously signed, as was the petition in connection with the Mangakakopu and Pomerangi roadß. They were forwarded hy the Chamber to Mr C. K. Wilson, member for the district, for presentation to the Minister. A reply lias been received from Mr Wilson, expressing his hearty sympathy with the objects, and his intention of urging the Government to undertake the work at the earliest possible time. For children's hacking cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2b 6d<

The London Daily Telegraph Btutea that 21 American battleships,totalling 365,000 tons, will shortly make a cruise of the Mediterranean. Jack Johnson has been tried at Chicago for violation of the law in connection with his saloon. Ho waß found guilty on all counts, the jury consulting for an hour. Sentence was deferred. An appeal in probable. The owners of Cannobar station, New South Wales, have purchased a Boonyake stud rani for .-t 1(500, equal to the Australian record. A sitting of the court, was held at Te Kuiti yeßterday, before Mr H. W»stmacott, J.P., when three firßt offenders were charged with drunkenness. A fine of fis and costs 71, was imposed.

The Lend and Income-tax Department gives notice that returns of income must be furnished not later than June 2nd. "If anything specially good in the way of mutton is sold in London, said Major Lusk, at the annual social of the Matamata branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union on Tuesday night, "'it is sold as prime Cantorbury. Similarly anything special in the way of seed is sold as Banks Peninsula. Anything second-rate, however, is sold as North Island. (Laughter). "I think," continued the speaker, "that something should be done to make dealers in London sell colonial produce under its proper j name." A progressive euchro party and dance will be held in St. Luke's Parish Hall on Wednesday, May 21st. It is anticipated that a very pleasant evening will be spent, and it is hoped thai a large gathering will be present. The Government haH acquired Knowsley Park estate of '1993 acres, situated seven miles from Mataura, and it will be cut up into moderatesize farms. The Government haß also completed the purchase of Waiarikiki estate, of 4113 acres, eight mileß from Mataura and Pukorau railway station, suitable for sub division into miderate-sized farms. Dairying can be profitably carried on over a considerable portion of the area. At the meeting of the Kackblocke Association, held at Ohura in January last, the advantages of fully advertising the resources of the King Country at the forthcoming Auckland Exhibition were favourably discussed by the delegates. A circular is now being forwarded by the chairman and secretary to of the association to various local bodies affected requesting contributions for the object mentioned. It is estimated an amount of £3OO will be required to organise the project and equip a court for the exhibition.

Mr Graham, instructed by the official assignee, advertises in our culumns, to nell all his equity in the farm, also all his good and chattels. Full particulars in next issue. A girl giving evidence in a white slavery case in the court at New York was secretly threatened wh'lo in the witness box. She had just taken up her position in the box when there \va3 a hiss from the back of the court. The girl turned round. She gave a little gurgling cry, and fell back into the arms of a police officer in a dead faint. When she recovered she said that tne man who hissed had made "the death sign" with his fingnrs indicating that if she gave evidence against the prisoners she would be murdered. The accused men were Italians, and the court was crowded with their fellow-countrymen. It is understood that the Hon. James Allen, as the result oi his conferences with the Admiralty, will recommend that New Zealand should go in for an adequate system of land defences, »Ibo the formation of a mosquito fleet for use in New Zealand waters Whether New Zealand will later build battleships and form a local fleet on the Australian mode!, Mr Allen refused to state. In his speech before the Canadian Club, Mr Allen said: "Wo must use local sentiment and local patriotism to create a great Imperial fleet unit to be stationed in the Pacific, but ready to go to the Atlantic in war time. There must be one control of ouch a fleet in war time, namely, the Admiralty. The Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand fleets, able to act independently, should when combined, be able to keep the Pacific pathways open.

A correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, writing from Grey mouth, dons not take u very encuraging view of the prospects of the Otira tunnel. "The fact is," he writes, after doscribinf; the position, "the tunnel as at present laid out will never he completed. They must divert it to emerge on the south (or coach road) side of the river. I have He en and talked to so nmnv of t.hn men engaged on the work that 1 know as much, if not more than the 'arm-chair engineers' of the Public Works Department, and, as you know, I have in my time had a bit of experience in road work, if not actual tunnelling. 1 have always thought; there would bo trouble if they bored under the river- bed, as it is of so porous a nature, and now the ongineres have found it out, and work at the Bealey end is stopped." "The remarkable report on the growth of the drug habit in the United States is a document of the world-wide importance and deep human interest," says the Pall Mall Gazettet. "The people of America are consuming quantities of opium, and, in a lesser degree, of cocaine,, enormously in excess of the rate of consumption of these drugs in Europe. The subject is far more complex than miny worthy people would have us believe, and cannot be dismissed with references to the lax prison laws and the weakening of mankind. How many centuries will it take for European races to adapt themselves to the dry stimulating climate of North America? And, meanwhile, what will be the effect of the climate upon their nerves and physical constitution?