King Country Chronicle Saturday, June 28th, 1913

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 580, 28 June 1913, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Saturday, June 28th, 1913

After six months' sick leave, Dr Douglas, medical superintendent at the Waikato Hospital was welcomed back to health ana his duties by the Hospital Board on Thursday. The Gisbornc Sheep Farmerts' Companny has received advice from Home that there is reason to believe the steamer Toanui was totally wrecked on Seven Stones Rocks and the crew lost. The weather was thick. Seven Stones is a name of a number of small islands off Land's End on the coast of Cornwall. The Westralian Temperance Alliance is seeking incorporation in the Licensing Bill of a provision that anyone suffering bodily injury through drink shall be able to proceed for dam ages against the hotelkeeper supplying the last drink. The' Maori Rugby team in Australia on Wednesday defeated the Western Districts by li points to 8. On the same day the New Zealand League teaam defeated Orange by 2S points to 5. Orange played only ten men in the first half the others absent through thinking the match was ofl'. The many friends in this district of Mr John Gorrie will regret to learn of the death of Mrs Gorrie which took place at Auckland on Saturday last. Mr Gorrie was the first manager of the Te Kuiti branch of the Bank of New Zealand, and left Te Kuiti at the end of 190!) to take up a position in the bank at Hawera. Klare, the German hunchback spy, who was arrested in Portsmouth lor buying military secrets and bribing a jailor to procure a torpedo book for him, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour at the Winchester Assizes on Wednesday. A number of settlers have represented to the Prime Minister, in his capacity as Minister for Lands, that the present conditions under which they are enabled to obtain freehold of their holdings bear very heavily upon them on account of the fact that the yearly instalments are too large to admit of many of them taking advantage of the legislation passed last session. They have to pay the amount in ten years, and they ask that the term shall be extended so as (o reduce the amount of annual instalments. The Prime Minister states that the matter i? under consideration. Mr J. R. Graham announces two clearing sales, one on Thursday next and the other on Saturday. Full particulars are advertised. For chronic chest complaints, Woods' Great a Peppermint Cure, is 6d, 2b 6d.