King Country Chronicle Wednesday, July 9th, 1913

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 583, 9 July 1913, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, July 9th, 1913

Mr C. K. Wilson, member for the district, expects to be able to pay a visit UTe Kuiti at the end of this month. Prior to the opening of the aession he made a comprehensive tour of the hack country, ai:d the results should be apparent when the Estimates appear. Leander defeated Jesm College in the final of the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Regatta. The race waß won by a length. Time 7.11. MeVilly, Tasmania, defeated Picks in the final of the Diamond Sculls, winning by a length in B.4ft. The report of the Union Bank shows that the deposits amount to £22,170,879, cash investments and remit tances to £10,491,512, and bills to £16,229,308. The directors are issuing 20,000 shares forthwith, at £45 each, in the propurtion of one new share to every three existing shares. Few cases of hooliganism have been experienced at Te Kuiti, but on Saturday night iast the larrikin element waß busy in King street. Damage was done to Mr Stevens' Bate, and Mr Dransfield's sign board was also dealt with, while a notice on Mr J. Young's window was destroyed. It is understood the police are enquiring into the matter. A man named Carsten Neiison, a bushman, of Manunui, had an arm crushed between two trucks during shunting operations on Staturday night. The midnight express for Taumarunui was stopped by permission of the railway authorities. A doctor went out from Taumarunui and rendered preliminaiy assistance. The sufferer was brought on the express to Taumarunui Hospital, where his arm was amputated on Sunday morning. The patient is now doing well. Judgment was given in the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, onMonday n the case of J. M. McCarthy v. the Ruakura Farm, claim £45 damages for destruction of a sporting dog, which, it was alleged, was found wcrrying the Government stud (lock. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £lO and costs £18; on a counter claim, Ruakura Farm v. McCarthy, claim £3O for lobb of sheep, judgment was given for the Government for .C2G, and costß £23 14s 6d.

Before the magistrate at Highgnte, London, a woman complained that another woman had abused her. Asked to repeat the words, she replied that the woman Buid she was only lit to go on the golf course. The marriage rate in England and Wales for 11)12 increased by .'! per cent., births decreased by .<> per coin,, and deaths by 1 '■'<■ Th? population was :!ti,:v.t,twU>. A young workman, Benjamin -'ordan,had a wor.darful escape at New York. Although he fell from the crops at. tlie top of St. Mary'b Catholic Church in Edwardaville, a distance of !)!»ft, he landed on the ground appar ently uninjured, save for a ft w bruises, which ho sustained through I striking a cornice. It was through having his fall broken by a maple tree that paved the victim from serious injury.

As Archbishop Bourne and other prelates were motoring to the Cat.hoilc Congress at Plymouth, a band of Kensitites jumped on to the steps of the car on either side, waved banners and harangued against Popery. The crowd seized and tore- the bannerß and a scrimmage fallowed, the Ken sitites is being assaulted. "It is a strange thing," remarked the magistrate, "that in nearly every case where a prosecution for such breache! of the Stamp Act takes place the papers consituting the ground of the charge are found amongst those looked through in deceased persons estate;." The case under notice was one against a business man for having given a receipt fur an amount over £2 without stamping the Bame, and a fine of £2 was inflicted, with costs. All tennis enthusiasts will be surprised to learn that the New Zealander, Anthony Wilding, the holder of the All-England tennis championship easily defeated the American, McLoughlin, in the final challenge round. Last year Wilding retained the championship hy defeating A. W. Gore, (i—l, (i-.J, 4—(i, <v—4. The holder is not required to play in the selecting rounds, but has to meet the winner in the final. The strike at Johannesburg, which had assumed alarming proportions, is settled. A great mob in the early afternoon of Saturday outside the Rand Club, refusing to disperse, were subject t<> a dragoon charge. Another mob was (|Uickly formed and reinforced and [stoned the club. The troops fired on them and numbero fell. The remainder fled. The casualties exceed one hundred. J.Tbe troops spent two ', hours raking the principal streets wth rifle fire. All the ambulances were busy. Sixty persons were killed and <wounded within a comparatively short time and in a small area.

The anual report of the State Fire

Insurance office dates that the year 1912 proved p record one in two imnortant respects inasmuch as the profits were greatly in excess of those of any previous year and the working expenses were the lowest yet recorded. The profits amounted to .£14,023 12s l)d, a* compared with £531)1 1)3 lid lor the previous year and £8487 l.'isfor 11)10, which stood as the record prior to 11)12. The Lands Department notify in the last issue of the Government Gazette that tenders will be received with until July 2-">th for the leases of certain lands under the control of the Auckland Land Board. Included in the number are 17 acres in block IG, Maungamnngero survey district, for a term of five years, and section 14, block (i, Maungaroangero -survey district, consisting of 55 acres for a term of fourteen years. In the case of the latter section the lessee will have to provide accommodation for travelling stock at ordinary rates. As a result of the Rmall amount of rainfall in the district this winter, the roads are in a much netlcr state than is customary at this period. The road from Te Kuiti (o I'io Pio jb

metalled almost throughout, and the heavy traffic is being carried in a manner never before experienced. With the linking up of a stretch übout the eleven-mile peg there will bo an unbroken chain of metal and though the maintenance will be considerable there should be a vaßt difference be tween maintaining a metalled road and keeping a clay road open for traflic. At the conclusion of the caso against Peti—Betty—Tetua for tho murder of the man Graham with a crosscut saw, she, according to native custom, desired to shake hands with the magistrate, but Mr Haselden excused himself, on the ground thai no good pur pose could be served by the ceremony. Betty is a powerfully-built woman, of characteristic Maori type, having tattooed mouth and chin. She re> , ceived her education at Wnnganui, and J speaks English fluently. | Notice is given in the Gazette that the undermentioned examinations will bo held on the date* specified in each case:—lntermediate competitive, Education Board seniur scholarship, on or about November 18th, 19111, [and following days; intermediate non-com-petitive, for senior free places in secondary schools and District High Schools and for the first examination of pupil teachers, on or about November 18th, 191.'', and following d»ys; Junior National Scolars, on or about November 27th and :\Sth, 1913; junior free place, including the examination lor junior free places in Technical Schools, on or about November 27th and 28th. 19J;!. A Manawatu farmer is etroi gly of opinion that in all probability before another season has elapsed there will be a scarcity in bacon pigs, more especially during the winter months. A number of tanners are waking up to the fact that to fatten pigs during the winter is not tho profitable game that some people have estimated it to be, and more especially at the prices that have been offered in the winter months in the pant. In conclusion, tho fanner added: "I know of Heveral of my own neighbours who nre reducing the number of their breeding powh, and intend to direct their attention to something, more profitable."