LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 189, 18 February 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are requested to draw attention to a sale of furniture which will be held at the mart to-morrow by Messrs Lawson and Swfiin on behalf of Mr A. Hyde.

Tenders to close on Friday, 2lst February are called by the architect, Mr R. P. de Ridder for painting and paperhanging at the residence of Mrs and Miss Gifford.

The Gonville Town District at Wanganui, decided on Thursday by 278 votes to 88, in favour of rating of unimproved values. About one-third of the ratepayers voted.

Notice is given in our advertising columns of excursion tickets and special trains for the Te Kuiti A. and P. Association’s Show on 19th and 20th inst. and also the Hamilton Races on 2lst and 22nd inst.

Our Pirongia correspondent informs us that the contractor for the new bridge over the Waipa River reckons on finishing the pile-driving to-morrow. Drilling machines will be erected at once and work will be started on the girders forthwith.

.A statistician has been at work and he writes: —“ It may surprise many people who scoff at bowls to know that there are at present in New Zealand 11,000 people, who are trying to “ kiss kitty,” and that the property they hold in bowling greens is worth from £300,000 to £400,000.

A Jersey cow from Kentucky, named Golden Fern, was exhibited by the Elmendorf farm, of Lexington, and is noted as being one of the few animals in the world carrying as much as £2OOO life insurance. She is valued at £4OOO, and her calf, born last June, has been sold for £IOOO.

The bee-keepers of Canterbury are not satisfied with the price realised for the produce of the honey-bee, and have decided to form a co-operative association for the purpose of forming a honey depot in Christchurch, and to buy, distribute and export honey, so putting the industry on a similar footing to the dairy industry.

Arrangements are well in hand for the concert in aid of the Te Awamutu volunteer fire brigade to be held in the Town Hall on Wednesday 26th inst. The pro gramme will be circulated through Friday’s paper. We understand that a large number of tickets have already been sold ai#i the worthiness of the object alone should ensure a packed house.

The Ohakune loan proposals, involving a sum of £32,000, were all carried at the poll on Friday last, the results are as follows : Street improvements for 117 against 23 informal 4 ; high pressure water supply for no against 28 informal 6; electric light and power for 112 against 27 informal 5 ; sanitary drainage for 107 against 33 informal 4; municipal buildings for 105 against 33 informal 6.

Referring to recent cases of ptomaine poisoning in various parts of the Dominion, a Wanganui medical man expresses the opinion that some of these cases were probably due to poison of another kind, viz., arsenate of lead. He added that both children and adults frequently ate unpealed fruit which had been sprayed with arsenate of lead, and he advised the peeling of fruit in all cases, so as to avoid the danger of taking such a strong poison into the system.

The inaugural meeting of the Te Awamutu Athletic and Cycling Club to be held at the Victoria Park on Wednesday, March sth gives every indication of being most successful. The track is being cleared of its present overgrowth and other necessary arrangements are being carried out. The secretary is in receipt of many inquiries from outside runners so that there is every prospect'that there will be no dearth of competitors. Several local runners, we understand. are already training. A meeting of the committee to be held to-night will go carefully into the matter of preliminaries.

Mr J. MacKenzie, stationmaster, lias returned to Te Awin mutu after his holidays and has resumed his duties.

Members of the Te Awamutu branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union will visit the Government Experimental Farm af'Ruakura on Friday, 28th inst. Those desirous of making the trip are requested to communicate with the secretary.

We are informed that a fully attended meeting of the Hairin school committee held last night decided to hold the annual school picnic in Mr Weal’s paddock on Friday week. An endeavour will be made to arrange for the Premier Pictures to show in the Hairini hall that evening.

A meeting of lady members of the Te Awamutu Tennis Club was held in the pavilion on Saturday afternoon. The attendance was very good and it was unanimously resolved that a second euchre party and dance be held on Wednesday, March sth. Various committees to make the detail arrangements were pointed and all preliminaries were fully considered.

T}ie annual picnic of the Te Awamutu state school will be held on Friday next 21st inst. on Mr A. Wallace’s farm, on the Puniu road, near the acacia grove. All those who are interested in children are invited, and as some friends of the school may not have had an opportunity of con i tributing to the prize fund, it haJ been decided to take up a collection for this fund on the ground, on Friday afternoon.

The Town Band, under conductor Newsome, played a most pleasing selection of music in Victoria Park on Sunday afternoon. There-was a fair number present, and the band’s playing was the subject of much favourable comment. A slight windi.

was the only climatic disadvantage, but despite this the few hours spent in the park were most pleasant, and it was the desire of all that the band would arrange to play out again at an early date.

The Hamilton borough engineer, in reporting on the proposed water supply from Karamu stated that the scaled length of the pipe line would be 18 miles from the head works to the town boundary, and there would be sufficient pressure available after allowing for friction to deliver,, through a 12-inch pipe 900' gallons a. minute, or 1,296,000 gallons in 24 hours, a supply sufficient for a population of 21, 600, allowing 60 gallons per head. He estimates the cost, including headworks, bridging - Waipa river, but no tunnelling on pipe line, for I2in pipes, £50,000; for Isin pipes, £66,000.

The delegates representing the various clubs and institutions appointed to endeavour to arrange for the acquirement of a more suitable public domain for * Te Awamutu have interviewed Mr Wm. Taylor in the matter of the proposed purchase of the Green Hill racecourse site. Mr Taylor has expressed his willingness to assist the delegates, and more particularly in the matter of defining boundaries so as to enable the people to acquire that i portion only of his estate that is entirely suitable for recreation purposes. The purchase price, however, has not been definitely fixed and it only requires a settlement, of this matter to enable the delegates to submit a most favourable report to the next public meeting. The delegates are also, we understand, inspecting other localities with the view to furnishing a full report to the public.

- A case of considerable interest in view of the frequency of differences between various local authorities and their engineers in the Waikato district was heard in the Hamilton Supreme Court on Thursday, before his Honour Mr Justice Cooper, when Leonard Grantley Paoli Spencer, of Te Kuiti, civil engineer, represented by Mr McVeagh, instructed by Mr Gillies, claimed from Alfred Julian, also of Te Kuiti, represented by Mr Reid, K.C., with Mr Northcroft as junior counsel, the sum of £5Ol damages for libel. The expressions complained of were alleged to have been used at a meeting of the Borough Council regard to a report presented by a committee of the council. After four hours’ consideration the jury found that the defendant had been guilty of malice in making the remarks and assessed the damages at a farthing.