King Country Chronicle Wednesday, May 21st, 1913.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 569, 21 May 1913, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, May 21st, 1913.

The first quarter of the Te Kaiti Collegiate School closed yesterday after a very successful term. To meet the requirements of pupils from a distance Miss lorne has secured very comfortable quarters for the accommodation of pupils as boarders. The second term commences on Wednesday, June 4th, 1913. Miss lorns will be at home to parents and new pupils on Monday, June 2nd. In a flying match from Hendon, Middlesex, to Elstree, Hertfordshire, and back, a distance of ten miles. Pickles, the Australian airman, conceded Slack one and a-quarter minutes, and won by a quarter of a mile. Continuous riots are reported in connection with the street car strike in Cincinnati The strikers hurled from the first floor windows of a building steel beams and bags of cement in their efforts to derail the cars. Thd men employed on several cars wore beaten into insensibility. The police are powerless, but the Ohio State Governor has refused to call out the troops. Another very enjoyable concert and dance was held at Taumatawaenga on Saturdav evening, writes our own correspondent, when there was a good at - tendance. Our next concert and dance will be held on June 14tb, when we hope to have a good programme and a good attendance.

The progressive euchro party and social to be hold in St. Luke's Parißh Hull will take place on Wednesday May 28th, not on th<> lilut inat. as previously stated. I< is anticipated that a pleasant evening will bo spent, and it is hoped that a large attendance will be present.

To day's issue contains particulars of the sale, under instructions of the Official Assignee in bankruptcy, of Mr Hallmond's farm. As terrriß wll bi> given, if desired, this alfords a very fine opportunity to the small dairy farmer. All the horses, waggonß, implements, etc., will be sold. On the termination of this sale Mr Graham will sell on account of various clients, twelve horses, all good ÜBeful sorts. I " 'Tis an ill-wind that blowß nobody good" is an old proverb which has just been verified to the advantage of the Wellington Zoo. The silver jackal, one of the many pets on board H.M.S. New Zealand, has lately doveloped a humorous habit of biting the bare feet of the Bailors aB they go round about their morning duties on the decks. Good-natured as he iB, Jack failed to appreciate the humour of his new trick of a spoiled pet, with the result that the silver jackal repents at leisure in the seclusion of the Wellington Zoo.

The Egmont Box Company, sayß the Eltham Argus, haß just completed a land transaction that has an important bearing upon the future progroßß of Eltham. The company has secured a very large area of land in the King Country, containing millions upon millions of feet of white pine timber; enough, the expert says, to meet the Dominion's demand for butter boxes and cheese crates for the next fifty years.

The British Association for the Advancement of Science will meet in Australia for the first time, August, 1914. The Association has met three time 9in Canada, and once in South Africa, but all the other meetings have been held in the British Islbb. The Australian meeting will include sessions at several towns. The Commonwealth Government has appointed a Federal Council to arrange for tho meeting, under the patronage of th<> Governor-General, and with the Prime Minister as chairmna, and has granted £15,000 to pay the passage to Auntralia of not fevvor than lGOoHicjal representatives. A number of foreign flien of Bcience will be included in thiß number. '

Backblock settlers cun usually be relied upon to express themselves clearly concerning roads, but at the last meeting of tho Waitomo County Council a letter was read which referred to a road with three ends. While the councillors were speculating on the meaning of the letter Cr O'Dwyer s",id it was no more unusual than a road which ended in the middle. In explanation he said last season the Te Kuiti-Pio Pio road was metulled about half-way, and when you left the metal you dropped out of sight. He claimed this road ended in tho middle.

The question as to what constituted a labelled parcel of liquor confronted " the court at Te Kuiti yesterday. The case in which the point \vaß raised was one where the licensee of a hotel h° 1 wrapped the liquor in paper and labelled the same. The purchaser of the liquor placed t;ho parcel in a bag, presumably for convenience in carrying. The magistrate said it was a reasonable thing to place the parcel in a bag for convenience, but the practice would leave room for abuse, and the Act evidently intended that the label Bbould bo on the outside covering. The manner in which good intentions can be defeated by lack of attention to detail was exemplified at the To Kuiti Court yesterday, when a farmer was brought before the magistrate to explain why ho had not cleared his section of noxious weeds. The defendant explained that when he received the notice to clear weeds ho had put men on and grbubod the weeds on his farm. Later, when he received the summons he was astonished until ho discovered the weeds of which he had been notified existed on a town section. Ho had not carefully examined the notice, which ho naturaily concluded referred to his farm. In view ol' the circumstances the magistrate inllictod a nominal penalty. The country benefits by having both town and rural sections cleared of noxious growth. The difficulty of complying with the Defence Act in certain districts was exemplified at tho court yesterday, when a couple of youths appeared to answer a charge of failing to attend'J" the Territorial camp. Defendants ox plained they were in abusli contract thirty miles from To Kuiti and it meant a big loss to knock off at tho time fixed as they had bullocks working. They were to have attended the casual camp at Cambridge but only received notice on Friday last, which was too late. Property continues to change hands in tho district notwithstanding the present stringency in the money market. Mr W D Hattaway h«a just effected the sale of Mr Spanner's choice farm of 700 acres at Aria to Mr Dahl, of Dannovirke, also a 200acre section held under native lease at Pio Pio.

Attention is drawn to the opening of saveral sections'of native land for selection by the Waikalo - Maniapoto Maori Land Board. The land is situated near Ongarue, and is excellent ' pastoral country. The sections are to gtfk be disposed of by sale and lease, nndJBJT tenders will Do received at the of the board, Auckland, until Juno fith. Af; the inquest at Ciroymonth touching the death of Bertha Elizabeth Bird, a married woman who died at Ngahoro last week, a verdict was £re* turned that:,.deceased met her death though blood poisoning the result of improper interference.- Press Association. For chronic chest complaints, Woods' Groat a Peppermint, Cure, Is 6d, '2s 6d.