LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 March 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no publication of " The Chronicle " to-morrow, being Good Friday, but business and publication will proceed as usual on Saturday. Mr T. Bevan, senior, of Manak.au, has celebrated the 69th anniversary of his arrival in New Zealand. He is still in good health and spirits. An interesting discussion on fire brigade finance took place at last night's meeting of the Levin Borough Council. The proceedings are reported in another part of to-day's " Chronicle."

. A cablegram received this mornnig from London announces that Miss A. Whitehnv, formerly of Auckland, has been appointed headmistress of \\ y com be Abbey school. Joseph Powelka, who escaped from custody at Palmerston North a week ago, and was recaptured a couple of days later, escaped from custodv again yesterday, at Wellington. He is still at large. from Napier that feu \\ 11 twin Russell has almost recovered from his recent indisposition. He is about to take a. health trip Home, and will leave Wellington by the Rimutaka on April 7. A Press Association telegram states that the Rev. Gray Dixon minister of St. David's Presbyterian Church, Auckland, has received a call to the Presbyterian Church Palmerston North. The vacancy there was caused by tho Rev. I. Jolly having accepted a call from St. Stephen s Presbyterian Church, Auckland. ' At the meeting of tho New Zcaand .Keferees' Association, to lie held in Wellington during Easter the Horowhenua, Referees' Association is to be represented. Mr J. Melntyre. has been elected, a vicepresident, and Mr J. C. Burns has been asked to act as the local delegate. The vice-president of each association is entitled to sit at the central association's meeting. ,is familiarly known as Phillips' Byko Corner" is to be materially improved within the next month. Owing to increasing business Mr Phillips has decided to add another to his establishment. In future all bicycle repairs and vulcanising will be done in the .new building, the ground floor being reserved for motor repairs. The impiovements will considerably enhance the appearance of the immediate neighbourhood. Amongst the fixtures for the Easter holidays is a football match at Otaki, under Rugby rules, between lads representing the junior department of the Levin Y.M.C.A., and a similar fifteen from the Wellington Institution. The match takes place on Easter Monday. Levin's team will be as follows Full-back, L. Wilson (captain); three-quarters J. Coppin, B. Berryman, G. Gardiner; five-eighths. J. McTntvre and C. Parsons; half, J. Rose; forwards, W. Bignall, V. Carruthers, J. Coombes, T. Williams, S. Smith, L. Smith, 0. Walton and F. Wooding; emergencies, E. Coppin, A. Gray and C. Arcus. A most serious result from a lighted candle was very narrowly averted Hawera at about seven o'clock this moming (says the local Star). Tn order to attend to her babv a mother lit a candle and presently fell asleep. Some time after the smell of smoke upstairs arrested the husband's attention, and upon rushing to the room whence "the smoke was issuing discovered the bedclothes alight and blazing all along the side, the kanoc mattress burning, and the bedstead itself deeply charred. On the bed the mother and child lay sleepinc, the unconsciousness already made deeper from the effects of the smoke. To arouse and rescue the sleepers was the first task, and tho blazing bedclothes were then rolled in a heap, partially smothered, and flung out of the window.

The Burmese, still without matches, in damp remote parts of the country, have made the important practical discovery that boat is generated by the sudden compression of air or other gas. An instrument described bv Professor o'. P. Monekton, of Calcutta, consists essentially _of a buffalo's horn with n quarter-inch hole bored nearly to the bottom and fitted with a tight piston. In a. reecss in the lower end of the piston is placed a niece of dry pith or other inflammable material. The piston is then inserted in the horn cylinder, driven down by a smart blow, and quickly withdrawn, when blowing on the nitli causes it to burst into flame, igving fire to the ill genius Burman.

Perhaps the most foolish development of the ".Marathon" craze is that reported from Butte, a well known American mining; town, where fifty-three men and as.many women took part recently in a ''Marathon waltz concert." At first the spectacle was exhilarating, hut before long the strain began to tell. One woman dancer was seized with muscular paralysis, and had to lie hurried to a hospital, where she was joined soon by another competitor who had ruptured a blood vessel. After the dancing had been going on continuously for fourteen hours and forty-one minutes the Mayor of Butte, acting on medical advice, used his authority to stop the performance. Till ere were then three couples only left in the arena.

J lie German courts have just had a curious case before them. A trader died at Pad Mannheim, ami three days before his death, he sent a postcard to a lady friend on her birthday, deploring that lie was ill, and so far away from her. He added: "For a good birthday present. lam leaving you niv fortune." The lady to ivliojn the postcard was sant, claimcd that this missive constituted a, will in her favour, and on the strength of it claimed the estate, which was valued at 300,000 marks. In the first court the decision went against her, and on the appeal the findings of the court below were upheld. The grounds of the decision wore that, by German law, when a person draws up his own will it is necessary to state where the document is written. The trader, though he had duly signed the card, had neglected to place his address on it.

The question of selling wool in New Zealand in prefe: ence to shipping Home is much discussed at present, each side ha\ing its supporters. A Palmerston. firm, which has interested itself in the matter, has brought under notic;- of the "Manawatu Evening Standard" a letter received from their London agents stating the latter had gone through the wool sale figures for the past eight years and they show an average in favour of sale on the liondon market of £2 4s 9d per bale. The only year in which the New Zealand sales beat the London market, it was stated, was with the 1907 clip, when New Zealand prices were 7s uu per bale to the good. The local firm further state that on top of this information they yesterday received a copy of Thomas and Cook's Colonial Wool Report on the January sales, and an. extract from the report is as follows"The result of these sales must on the whole be very satisfactory to shippers who consign to the London market. In the case of New Zealand wools in particular several large clips of crossbreds bought speculatively in the dominion have been resold during the series at prices that show handsome profits."

A day or a week at the Hokio Beach is very pleasant, provided you do not get too_ sunburnt. If you do, then there is nothing more pleasant than Nyal's Cream to overcome the sunburn. Obtainable from C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy, Oxford Street.—Advt. 7

The football clubs are meeting now, and the Referees' Association is getting ready to keep an eye on them. F. W. Pink, the boot and shoe provider, is ready for both sets of them, with boots to suit feet of all sizes. Every sections of the people can bo suited to perfection at Pink's,—Advt.