LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 March 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

J. McLcod, of Elthiini, is seeking letters patent for a blouse fastener. ll' bis invention nrove reliable he will earn the undying gratitude of millions of the Indies—and in some instil net's of their husbands also. At the recent Foxton Horticultural Show (writes our Shannon cuTt'sponclent) the Moutoa school w.s successful in taking four first prizes for their four exhibits of I: rni roots. They were also awarded the points prize.

The members of the Shannon Bowling Club will visit Levin on Wednesday. A rink skipped by Mr W. 11. Gunning will play the present holders of the " Jvinniburgh Feathers."

To-iinrrow the Autumn Show in connection with the Horowhenua Horticultural and Industrial Society will »_• opened at the Otaki Town Hall. There will ho a large number of exhibits, and it is stated the Show will he a very successful ojip. The exhibition will bo continued on Thursday.

St. Patrick seems to lie coming into his 1 :.ng-deferred rights regarding holiday observances. Levin's and Blenheim's examples arc beinr: emulated at Xaphr. The Mayor pi' that town, Mr J. Vigor Brown, in acceding to the request for a public holiday in Xanier for St. Patrick's Day, said the petition, containing over 1400 ngn atu res, was the l.irgost ho ha:l had presented to him.

An alarm of fire was raised in Levin last night, at about 9.30 o'clock. As the brigadesinen were all in their room at the time, deep in calculations concerning "fifteen two and a pair is four," they were enabled to execute a turn-out in exceedingly rapid time, and within a minute their re- , I was rattling along the Lake ro:»d. in which quarter the fire was understood to be. Tt was. however, non-existo-nt, all -1 the brigadosnien had opportunity once more to express heated opinions concerning all false alarmists.

The possibilities of growing in South Africa Poverty Hay ryegrass imported from X :, jw Zealand are dealt with at length in an optimistic letter recently addressed bv a prominent farmer to the " Xatal Witness.'' "The first season," he says, "T had it cut and fed to the stock. Durinpr the past two years it has been fad down. Now it has entered on its fourth season in thicker growth than T ever have seen before. This shows it will fiiireoed in Natal. [ am vory pleased with it."

Final addresses to the rate-payers of Hormvlienun, by candidates to represent them on the Wellington District Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, will be delivered this evening. The election takes place tomorrow, and in respect of this some remarks will bo found in our lending column of to-day. The onlv meeting held last night was that of Mi- A. H. Rollo. of Otaki, who went to Shannon .and addressed the residents of that town in the local Druids' Hall. The same platform will be occupied to-night bv Messrs n. R. Gardener and F. W.»Venn. Tn Levin, at the Town Hall, Mr Rollo will address the local electors.

The rise in the value of pinr,<s will be welcome to the farmer, who for a considerable time has complained of the price received. ;.n agricultural newspaper states that W. Dimock and Co. advise that a new development has taken place in iheir already extensive business. They have recently sold a line of cured produce for export to Great Britain, and expect that this first shipment will be followed bv consignments at regular intervals, and that the rise in prices thus occasioned will continue. They look forward with confidence on the possibilities of this export trade.

Asserting that she had not eaten a morsel of food for 42 days, Mrs M. E. Cummins, of No. 248, Elm Avenue., Long Beach, California, stepped down from her wheel chair and walked round the room. Before undertaking her fast Mrs Cummins had been unable for tiro years to go upstairs. When she left her chair she walked up the stairs. Sensations.of hunger left her, she says, on the.fifth day of her fast. She is going to break her fast, because water, which, has been her sole diet, lias become so repugnant to her that she ca'n scarcely force herself to drink,

Joseph Powelka, who escaped from Palmerston gaol last Saturday, was recaptured at Awahuri yesterday afternoon.

Some interesting details of weather experiences in Levin aind throughout New Zealand are contained in an article winch appears m another column of to-day's paper.

The Government intend making a series of economies in the Post and Telegraph Department. Probably the most important are the cessation of the present system of taking duplicate copies of telegrams and the abolition of telegram envelopes by the substitution of a combined sheet and envelope (similar to that used in the Post Office Savings Bank.

For the month of February (according to the Haw-era StaiVllnwera Dairy Company will pay its suppliers for hntter-fnt at the rate of )od-per 11). The butter-fat received amounted to 170,0101b5, which was valued at approximately £1158. In the corresponding month of 1900 (MfiOlbs of lmttor-fnt was supplied svul £1822 Was paid out, being at the rate of Is per 11).

Levin "may" contain some personal friends of Ladv Dudley. If so, the folinw-ing cablegram from London, Avhich the "Chronicle" must pay for, will be vend with at least modifiio;] interest:— London, 14th March. "Lady Dudley passed good night progressing satisfactorily."—This message is one of a series that has been filtering through.

A London cablegram received today mentions that expenditure under the British Government's scheme, of naval improvement,, as outlined in the Estimates, will nrovide employment for two hundred thousand men for two years. Two thousand extra men are engager! at Poplar broadening ami lengthening a slin for accommodation of Dreadnoughts. Another thousand will he engaged after the Ist April.

Leviin's harvest festival, in aid of the Methodist Church, was terminated last night, when Mr T. A. B. Hudson auctioned the offerings on behalf of tho Church. Satisfactory prices for fruits, vegetables and various other more substantial o-ifts were bid, .and the Church finances wore materially assisted. The most substantia! p-iff, was n '•orrl' of firewood, for winch a wellwisher of thu Church bid 225.

Mr F Hocklev. of Huntervilk was a visitor to Feilding on Satur'"ny. In conversation with a Standard renrosentative Mr Hockley stated that nronarations worn being inside bv the Beform party for n big fight in Raiifritikei nt the general election, nnd he had "nod re°.«on to nn+icinnto- success. It is understood that the boundaries of Hie Bamrit-ikoi electorate will I>p iltered befor.o the next election.

During the henrino; of an npnli°ation at Wellington for discharge from bankruptcy, coimifp! for apnlic.int admitted that his client kept no proper bonks, remarking "it is not the usual tiling amongst I'ffrmprs to keep books." "Then it should bo," prompilv interjected his Honour. _ "Tn all up-to-datp farming districts proper books arc kept, the same as in commercial centres."

Mrs Blair, one of the candidates for a sent on the new Hospital Board at Dunedin, has been informed that her name is not on the municipal roll, and Mrs Tnrton. the other lady candidate, has decided not to contest the election. The new Board will be asked to see that women are associated with them upon the Co-operative Committees, which are a feature of the .new Acts.

Notwithstanding: the splendid srowth of grass this season and the plentiful supply of feed in the district, says the Masterton Times, farmers have experienced considerable difficulty in "topning off" their fat stock. In fact, in .many cases they have found it quite impossible to get up to last year's standard.

A racecourse "guesser" had a rough exeprience at Dnnuevirke races Inst Thursday, .according to the Wairarapa Daily Xews. He had been haunting a party of Maoris all day, and finally snatched n totalis:) tor ticket from the hand of one of them and bolted. A hue and crw was at once raised, and about '100 men chased the guesser all over the course, finally rapturing him, and shaking him'up a little, took the ticket from him.

The public meeting held at Otaki last night in connection with the Hospital election was small. Owing to the weather being squally, a large attendance could not have been expected. Both Messrs Gardener, Tompsitt and Venn spoke, and gave their views to those piesent. Their remarks were listened to with attention. Messrs Gardener and Venn practically went over the same ground that has already been stated in our former issues. Mr Hollo's meeting at Shannon, last night, was similarly distinguished.

JHic •mi'.-iti'.-iding IVatur: , r<f Lr>.r 1 Kitchener's report (editorially remarks the Oamaru Mail) is the boF and robust pervitin " it. It is a plain woi'kmanlikscheme free altogether from frilHn<T3 or heroic* ovolvod bv the maker of armies, and nothing hut the sheerest conti ■irir-ty could nromnt us to reject, even the least detail embraced within its Hut there will be no quoeti"ti about its acceptance. The boldest of critics will not have the effrontery to set up his puny opinions against, the dictum of him who alone unravelled the deplorable tangle in South Africa and saved tV><- r.Jf^" , ) from ignolni.ny.

In the Frenino; Post of Saturdnv, 12th March, appcai'od the following kindly paragraph':—"Mr Geo. P. .Brown, who has been for some years past on th' , litcarv staff of the Evening Post, severed his connection with this pauer today, k> take up the position of editor and manager of the ' Horowlienna Chronicle.' At a farewell "■atheriiifr of tlie pfcnff. Grcsley Lukin, editor, spi'lce in terms of hifh appreciation of the capable, loyal, and devoted services that Mr Brown had given to the Post, ind on_ behalf of himself mnd the staff wished him every success in his new venture. Mr Brown, in reply", said that it wns with evtremo regret that he loft a staff his relations with which had been "s-> oleasant. Mr Brown, who left latßrJn the -rlny, was given a cordial send-off."

Strange, isn't it? How many people go limping along, as if thev didn't have two good feet to walk on? tJorn cripples they are calleel sometimes. Yet they can get rid of those corns easily, painlessly, cheaply, by using the "Russian Corn Cure,"'obtainable from C. S. Keedwell's ■ Pharmacy, in one shilling bottles.—Advt. 8

Pram tvres, cycle pumps, sear cases, mud guards, bells, carbide, pedals, brakes, repair outfits, saddles, oil, chains all makes and sizes. City prices. Barratt's Byko.— Advt.

There's ( only one.reason wliya /nan goes outside Levin to buy his clothes, and that's because lit doesn't know that ho can get the same clothes that the best shops in Wellington handle right at Clark's Store, and at a saving of money and time. When you investigate our claim to match Wellington's best styles and beat their prices, some store in the City loses a customer If you appreciate clothes cut to the latest fashion, you want to see some of the new worsted suits just opened by ClarkV Levin's beat store— Advfc,