LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume III, Issue 100, 9 April 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Talk carnival

A reward is offered for a boo lost on the Pirongia Road.

Mr R. P. de Ridder, architect invites tenders for the erection o two houses at Te Awamutu.

By advertisement in to-day's issue Messrs Lawson and Swain, on behalf of Mr E. C. Raikes, notify that the freehold of ten sections will be disposed of by public auction on Saturday, April 20th.

The tender of Mr T. Hastings, builder, of Te Awamutu andTaihape, of £893 ios for two houses near " The Redoubt," Te Awamutu, for-Mr E. C. Clarke, has been conditionally accepted ana the contract signed. The buildings are to be proceeded with immediately under the supervision of Mr de Ridder, architect.

A man who bought a farm only a few years ago at Toko for £9 an acre was looked upon' by - his neighbour • as the embodiment o| the old saying about a fool and his money (writes the Stratford correspondent of the Daily News). Four years ago he sold for £l6 an acre, and left the district with about £7OOO, so 'tis said. Last week the farm was sold for £32 per acre.

The Victorian Agent-General has arranged for 14,000 berths for immigrants for the present year and the tAO to follow. The various shipping companies with which contracts have been made huve decided to construct seven new steamers, rive of which will be reserved for Victorian immigrants only. Each of these new steamers will possess refrigerating space for 100,000 carcases. The statement of accounts and balance c'.eet presented at the annual m3=:ing of the Auckland A. and P. Society recently, showed the following results: The total receipts for the year amounted to £slßl 14s, and included members' fee and donations £no3 4s 6d, entry fees £l2 Os 3d, gates, stands, and .privileges, £2832 18s 6d, rents interest, etc., £433 ios 9d ; while the expenditure, including £1404 17s 9d for prize money, totalled £4348 18s Bd, leaving a credit balance of £B3l Iss 4d on the year's operations.

It was only seventeen years ago (suys Dalgety's Review) that Siberia began to export butter; now there are 3000 dairies at work with 500 butter factories, and the total export, according to latest figures, amounted to 56,OCJ»tons, of which about half is sent to Great Britain. This was not so fro.ll the si:art, however, for during the first half of the period the Siberian butter went to Germany. However, during the check of trade, caused by the Russo-Japanese war, Poland captured the German trade, and has kept it since, the Russians turning their attention to England.

The surveyors engaged on the East Coast railway route are now working up the Esk valley, about nine miles from Napier (states the Napier Telegraph). ' There is some very rough work to be clone in fixing the position of the permanent way after the ten-mile peg has been passed, i-'or the next ten or twelve mile:: the track will be on an up grade,in order to cross a saddle. To reach this spot without exceeding a grade of more than I in 16 it is expected that the line will have to make a slight detour. There are no engineering difficulties in the way, but those in charge of the survey party are expecting some knotty problems before the permanent track has absolutely been fixed.

Mr Samuel Adams is at present spending a brief holiday at Te Awamutu.

A cow is advertised as having been lost on the Frontier Road, and a reward is offered for the recovery of same.

Mr and Mrs H. Lenehan left by the express train yesterday for Ratorua, where a week's holiday will be spent.

A well-known butter merchant, of Wellington, is offering factories is id per lb for their whole output of butter for the next ten years.

The term for which the present High Commissioner (Sir Win. IT.II Jones) was appointed expired at the end of March, but the late Ministry extended the term of the appointment to the end of May next.

Owing to several members of the Town Board being out of the district the regular monthly meeting of the Board, to have been held on Thursday next, has been postponed until the following Thursday.

Owing to all the trophies not being to hand yesterday, prizewinners of events at the Oddfellows' sports are notified that they can receive trophies from Mr G. Gifford after Thursday next, on presenting the necessary tickets.

The dance to be held in the Hairini Hall on Wednesday (tomorrow) evening promises to be a most successful and enjoyable one, as the arrangements are now complete, and every provision has been made for the entertainment of those present. .

Subscriptions to the new Catholic Presbytery, Te Awamutu, are growing apace. Captain Hope-Johnstonc has added a substantial sum to his recent very generous gift of 100 guineas. Mrs D. O'Shea, of Pirongia, has also contributed a handsome gift ; Mrs Edwards, Ohaupo, Mr Harry Weal, Te Rahu, and Mr James McGovern also gave donations.

Prior to his departure for Te Awamutu, writes the Te Aroha Mail Mr C. K. Edwards, of the local post office staff, was tendered a farewell social by his friends at "ivanhoe." Mr C. Scott made a happy speech appropriate to the occasion, and presented Mr Edwards with a travelling rug. He was succeeded by Mr A. Stehr.

Enormous crops of fruit are reported from every orchard in Hawke's Bay, in pleasing contrast to the poor yield of last season. Insufficient labour has been obtainable to can half the quantity of fruit coming in from the orchards. As a result of this Ljarcity of labour at least half 'die fruit crops have been sent to the fruit markets instead of to the canning factory. The number at present .employed at the Frimley works is not half that for whom work could have been found, amid it have been possible to procure them, there being employment for about three hundred hands all the year round.

Arrangements are now well in hand for the concert in connection with the local Philharmonic Society to be held in the Town Hall on May Ist, This concert is being given at the request of several residents who were unable to be present at the recent concert. An exceptionally good programme is being arranged comprising, orchestral and vocal selections by Society members. Items will also be given by Miss Ring (Hamilton), Miss Brook (Auckland), Mr Alan McElwain (Auckland), Mr L. O'Malley (Auckland), and Mr R. Henry (Te Kuiti), all of whom have already become very popular with a local audience, and it would seem that a most successful and enjoyable concert will result. Arrangements are in the hands of the Concert Committee (Mesdames Andrew, Henderson, and Woollass, Messrs Moeller, conductor, and Warburton, secretary, who are straining every endeavour to make the concert a success. Tickets are now on sale, and the box plan is open at Le Sueur's.