LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 March 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"The Chronicle" will not he published on Easter Monday.

New Zealand's latest champion racehorse, All Red, hn.s run his last race, and he will leave Porirua .shortly for Oamaru to do stud duty on his owner's station. W. Mould is Revering his connection with the I'orirua stable, and will net as stud groom in charge of All Rod. Warnings to careless or incompetent tradesmen are frequently given by the courts of justice. Tim latest instance pomes from Jnvercargill, i,Yhcro., on Thursday last, Jas. •Jibson M'lvor, bootmaker, Otautau, was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment for failing to keep proper boolcs and 'accounts. 11l reference to the- Press Association wire that the Rev. Gray Di.von, of Auckland, has been called to succeed the Rev. I. Jolly at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Piiiliuerston, the session clerk is authorised to state that no such call has boon made, and no congregational meeting has yet been held to make a. call.—Press Association. At Otaki, the Easter camp of the Wellington Y.M.C.A. is in progross, and it will continue until Tuesday next. The main body of thi) campers moved at dusk' ooi Thursday night. Sports meetings and various field games have been arranged, including a football match against Levin's fifteen sturdiest and best Rugby representatives connected with tlie local Y.M.C.A. General Sir R. Baden-Powell will begin next summer, the tour which lu* has decided to make throughout the Empire, for the promotion of the boy scout movement, says the London correspondent of the Melbourne Age. He proposes to go first to Canada, and at a later period, which has not yet been fixed, he will proceed to South Africa, New Zealand and Australia .

Mr Matthews, late of the South Tsland, find a large buyer of stock for freezing in connection with the firm's exportations, lias just concluded a visit to the Northern Wairoa. Dnrin«; his brief sojourn he purchased some wry fine lines of beef—about £ 1000 worth-which are to be shipped at an early date. The greater portion of cattle was purchased on tho estate through which the western route of the North Auckland Main Trunk will traverse.

Apparently tliere is a marked dearth of idle sawmilling hands in Dunedin (tclograph.s a special correspondent). Some sawmillers, indeed, find it impossible to obtain good men for the mills. The frozen meat trade i.s booming. The export trade, a shipping expert says, i.s enormous, particularly as regards lamb. It would seem that Glasgow and "West of England folk have a special tooth for Xew Zealand lamb. The Devon took a largo consignment of frozen lambs from Port Chalmers. As ,a matter of fact, steamers leaving the dominion am severely taxed for accommodation.

Several farmers in the district of Gippslaml, Victoria, have been experimenting with red clover, and they report that they have found this plant a valuable adjunct in maintaining dairy herds in good (•audition. Last year Mr T. Anderson, Gonnandale. put in six acres as an experiment. It came on well, and was cut in September, .Vovember nnd .January. .It impressed him so much as n valuable fodder that he has decided to go in for it instead of maize. The latter ha.s to be pla.nted every year, but when the clover is established it will thrive for several years without re-sowing. On a farm of I")) acres Mr Anderson has 100 head of stock, including ol milking co^?.

Punctuality on the part of the Xapier express un Thursday afternoon caused two would-be passengers from Levin to stay at home. They were driven to the station, leisurely iiii a rah, and as they were going up to the platform the train moved off. One of tliein was due at an up-country town to act as locum tennis, from Thursday night, for a chemist who was to leave, the same evening, for another town, to lie married. Ho would be left in two minds: whether to keep open his shop amd meet the convenience and perhaps urgent needs of his customers, or close the shop and prevent a postponement of his marriage. Keferer.ee was made in Levin this wwk, at the school committee's "ivtjng, t>; ihe hardships that would follow the putting iiiito operation of :k Minister for Education's decision i;> discontinu:- f/iynient of the spa•ial capitation grant of 9d per head to school committees. Diseussi , " took placv at Auckland, on Wednesday, when the Auckland Kduea tinr Hoard held its regular meeting. Tin-- chairman (Mr C. -J. Purr) said the grant to tlie school cominiU:,.' in ihis province last year totalled £1138 ]os, ami largely helped the comniittji.s in carryinig out their work. Xnw, without any warning, the Minister had withdrawn the grant, and his decision had aroused a storm of protest. It would thus lie incumbent ( n school to make their ft;ir.n:*i-i 1 arrangements in accordance with the reduced revenue. They all deplored the Minister's action i;i cutting off the grant. On tin motion of Mr Garland, a rivolulion w:i.s cr 11 ie:l ex--pier- ing regret at tlio ■discontinuance of the grant, as it prejudiced the committee's finances. "I wonder what people in England, would say to an archdeacon or a bishop loading up a waggon with timber " remarked the .Bishop of Waiapu to a Gisborne reporter, when recounting experiences undergone in the journey overland from Napier to Gisbonne. Bishop Averill went on to say that shortly after leaving Morere (being driven through by Archdeacon Williams), they met a Maori carrier stuck in a mud-hole Avith a big load of timber. In order to get the waggon out, the native had thrown his load off, and as the clerical party arrived on the scene, the timber lay on the roadside. "He was in a 'hot corner,, no doubt," continued his lordship, "and was struggling hard, so we 'peeled' off and we loaded tL<» timber for him.' . The Bishop add eel that a short distance along il:e road, they came to a place v-hefe a house, for which the timber aas intended, was being built. Going up to tlie place, they informed tha workmen of the carrier's plight, and were told that a message had just been recived stating that the uniortnnate man was stuck in anolliir creek. "I am always ready to turn my hand to help a fellow creature if I oan," concluded Bishop Averill. "Tlie people will always find that there is nothing stiff or starchy about me." "Chronicle" readers are reminded that at that little shop opposite the State school there is kept the most up-to-date stock of confectionery in the town. "Prices cannot be xbeaten. Give Mrs Coppin a. trial, and; convince 'yourself.—Advt,

Mr I). Hannian, of Levin, has be&n staying in Wellington for a few, days.

■ A letter from "Lucem," in reply -to "Truth," wjuch traverses-seve-ral matters of local interest, will appear in the next issue oi "The Chronicle." Jlorowlieuua's very real and serious trouble in regard to the incursion of snind upon the pasture- lands of the district is the subject of an interesting interview with the Mayor, which is recorded in another part of to-day's paper. A notice, to "all people with sweet teeth," inserted in to-day's "Chronicle," by Mrs Goppin," will be found worthy of perusal and notice. The prices charged- for sweets at this establishment are claimed to be bed-rock—we were tempted to write- "almond rock," which in youth was our favourite swee-tie. There was some phenomenal rifle shooting this weelc, between teams representing Karori and Feutherston, at Featherston. The Karori team put up the magnificent, score of 95G points, and Featherston 938. The conditions were ten men aside, seven shots at 200, 500 and 000 yards. AV. Judd, of the Karori team, put on 102 out of a possible 105. A speech of more than ordinary interest, regarding defence matters, was delivered at Shannon on Thursday night, by Mr W. IT. Field. M.P., in presenting the Field On]) to the .Shannon Rifle Club. Am excellent summary of the speech, by our ■Shannon representative, appears in another column of to-day's " Chronicle." A good healing salve, not too expensive, is what every dairy farmer requires. Sore teats are specially troublesome, but after a few applications of " Karhol" a marked improvement is noticeable. Tn shilling tins from C. S. Kee<Twell's Pharmacy, Oxford Street. 9