LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 April 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I'-aibhits ;ind hares havo obtained | ; a filing in ill,' blink Waioiiru ! I*l- MIS. :>!!(! it. is y.|;:l.'(l (li.'ic ; ! (.L ■ 1111 <• i T':! i. mainly by poisoning. ' v ill ci.n; i;m « rmilicildcr about C2(it)U \ tlii; year. | Yesterday afternoon's thunder- I st •nil oa;"e,' sia'i' s!i"! ' interrupt- I ioi s in .the Le\ in telegraph ofii.'o, ; mi! set tli.: telephone bells jingling j K)i' coiii:j; 4: ::::s that i::bodv req u'lc:l. ' J A good en |iiiry !'..:• y:.im.ir cues is reported I'n m Sunt blind at ]."is to 17", lllld ll i,\.T I l.llllbs i" !' up to I- 3d. I'':.; Limit prices lire ruii'dng i'n::.> !"< >: l;i I is for 331b to '.I'',.': LllllliS. ;i: .! hilt; hers' Wethers Hl'.' selling lij) to 17s .;:!. A fix- ' ! !i,„i..- \y ;:,'::,;,< i,be | budf lor Mr :\ re. .-. t ; th. ( v)j*!M't of Hath niu! Winchester sti i. is, f/c.in. Tlic design, prepared by .Mr Harvey, of Harvey and V)'., sj otvs n '■ ■" ':■:;; ■■ i' j* 5 :i i aspe-L Tenders for :■' action of the house ;uv tUm'-'s ■! :' :!■ in •'■"!'! e Clir i:icl>." A number dl' male bathers, says tin.:- Gislti ri):? Times, have asked the N.-nicr li.-itks authorities why trunks are i'.it sufficient to bathe in, and foil if they wA in a petiti- ii to the Ibuough Council to this effect, Would it ha granted? Writing to th:' Council at its last meutinsr, th" caretaker expressed him.solf in fjivoui' of the suggestion except on mixed bathing and at .spirts meetings. The Conn-H endorsed the roeommo dation. A fine, di.spl.iy < f furniture, d;s:gued oh tiie modern style is bein; : , made by Harvey and Co., of Levin. A h:\v.\r, ■;)). !..•■ 'r. :;i:i s;:::.> of foir |)iec. s is •■•.f't in th;> wiirhnv id' th linn's to-day, pre liminary to b-'ing delivered to .•: y(.lliil>; man vuio is . about to tab the step that all wise men take sooner or later. The .suite, if four pi-res. is liir'ied in "(];.'• white," ..i.iid the pnsoiico of bin.tilt's and blue drap;.'L ; ."; ; .c:; an ■■■])• ■'.:.]'..■ line effect. A slight deviation from the won;, of the burial service, lias been an l!":"i d b; !' : s'"M Wiillis, ill vien ci Hie . riming ■ I the creinatoriu .. in Wellington. w iieii l'. '■; ''.sire ■ itiii'. <i .-.. r. i.-e be re;::! ..! :■'. < erele.'ition. of a Cnw.l bodv (states th .<(_•!.,... i, _"i..., t - | 1(l , the Welliuglou diocese are aiifho. • ised by tl". v b ; ''>op to use th" Ordei for the ■Jiir'.il ■ f the l)t.:d, sub.stitu:i:i/; I'.:- .•'-: v.-nr;'■ '■»■.;. tlierefore commit his body to the 'Croiind : cn-fh to earth, ashe.s to •"he.s, :ii!.t t;. ui'd." the words, "we therefore commit, his body t . the fire, that that which is corruptible may be consumed thartuy." The North Island Main Trunk Railway (includjiig the New Plymouth section) is more profitable already, says the Hawera unci Normanby "Star," than the South Island Main Trunk railways. During the pt-riod ending March ;">, iiilO, (.'-WU days) the receipts on 10(54 miles of tho North Isfaii'd line/ were LM,-130,(102 8s lid, and the expenditure L'!)73,l!)0 17s od. giving a profit of £4oi),")ll Us Gd for the 1001 miles. While the South Island line receipts for 1323 milts were onlv £'1,217,537 10s od, ar.cl the expenditure £850,499 0s 0:1, giving a profit of < £3557,038 \h lid. loads of metal are to lie spread on the hockey ground at the Levin Oval, en Wednesday next, hy .i working bee from the Levin and Pov.r, Clubs. The "bully off"with spr. les. shovels and wheelbnr-■V'-.-ws, noib hockey sticks—will take place at 2.30 p.m., and it is hoped f'at a good muster from each (dub will Tn all probability, the c al will be the scone of the match b .twjj-.i the English team and Ho.row'.ietnin, so it is specially dccirable to have the field in good order imir?dhte I v. Cup match's are to'heg'n on the first Wednesday in May. W. H. Gallichan, carrier, of Levin i is prepared to <h carrying of everj description, at bed-rock prices. Fur uitnre is my speciality. Orders lr>fl at Bradley's Stables will receive, m./ prompt attention. Satisfaction guaranteed,—Advt,

The Vicar of Levin (the Rev. S. 6. Compton, M.A.) lias decided to make initial preparations for the Anglican mission in this district, aid in future, after evensong on ■'In inlays there will be practices of special hymns by the choir. Appropriate decorations are to be made in the Weraroa Town Hall for tli'> harvest festival services to be held to-morrow by the Anglican Church. The .How .Mr Compton will take the evening service, and Major Burlinsnn the morning one. There has just passed away at Collingwood, Nelson, an. old settler, ■aged 82, Mr John James, father of MrThos. .James, of Levin. The old gentleman arrived at Nelson in the Fifeshire in 1842,, and ckiiinetl that he was the first white hoy to land at Nelson. He leaves a widow And several sons and daughters. He was hale and hearty all through life, and highly respected by the whole of the Collingwood community. His funeral was verv largely attended. At the Methodist Church, Shannon, to-morrow. Sister Moody will conduct services both morning and evening. The morning's theme will li. j ''Saints <if whom the world was not worthy," and the evening's "King Saul and his great mistake." The harvest festival held in connection with the church was very successful. The water was for the first time turned on in the principal streets of Levin yesterday, and the test j proved eminently satisfactory. The work has lie-en carried out very j creditably, and has been accom- | plished well up to time. It is proi posed to hold an opening ceremony i in connection with the waterworks, ! lint no details have as yet been arj ranged. i I Taihape seems to he the present 'goal of out-of-work labourers,, judging from the following report by the Government Labour Agent at that fown : "A good few labouring men have been noticed about the town lately, apparently on the look- | out for work. Although none have j called at tho Labour' Office, it is j presumed that they have come in | anticipation of getting employment i on the drainage and lighting work | to be commenced shortly by the ; Borough Council." I A letter wa.s read at this we ok s ; meeting of the Manawatu County .' Council, from the Horowhenua . County Council, asking Manawatu j to contribute half the cost of repair- | ing the old Kerry road, and stating j that Crs. Venn and Stephenson ! would like to meet Councillors re- | preventing the Moutoa end of the ! county en the road. The ManaI watti body appointed Councillor | Barber and the County Overseer to ' meet the- Horowhenua. representaj tires at .an early date. It is likely j that the conference will be held I next week. j Mr Edward Newman, M.P., who | resided at Kati Kati, in the Bay of ! Plenty, when he first came out to - New Zealand thirty years ago, has i been revisiting the district and : gave his impressions to a Xew Zealand Herald reporter. "One can travel for miles between Fauranga and Hotorua," he said, "without seeing either cattle or sheep, and it is not worthless country. .Most of it is light land, but it grows clover well, and if cleaned and laid down with suitable grasses would carrv stack, especially store cattle. If after reserving sufficient land for the. native o\\ i:ers to farm, this land ! were surveyed into suitable areas, ■ and placed on the market on- a base ; with the right to o-'reo '-e tenure, : in a short time this vest distri-t ; v-rul ! be-vae- a hive of industry. j Mut no ie"ure withcit a right of j purchase wiil secure the settlement I and imivovcvent of mu-h of the : second-class country." A limited liability c'-mpnny to exploit the. pr.Vi'c-r.s of en Auckland clergyman is one of the certainties of the near future. It is reported in an Auckland newspaper that the Hev. Mr Mason, the Auckland water finder, finds that radio in as well as water possesses a mysterious power over him. He states that, having been able to borrow a small particle I of r r'imn iVam a doctor in the Wai- . rarapa. he- ue.v r.'.-le to prove that ten substance exerted a peculiar effed u him. When the radium i'i ■: ; 'uiriel in a garden in a nosiCan 'in.kn.'.-WM to '.'re. !.e v/; e.blo, by walking over the surface of the ground, to discover its whereabouts bv experien-ing the same sensation of attraction exerted over him as in the case of water flowing. A train accident, with serious possibilities, occurred in the Manawatu Gorge on Thnrsdav afternoon, when the 3.30 train from Woodville narrowly esc.ap; d being derailed. It was just emerging from the tunnel at the Ashurst end of the Gorge when a rata log came down tho vteep hillside and lauded on the track right in front of the train. Mei'..re the driver could apply the brakes the train had crashed iiit<' the big obstruction. Fortunately the engine did not leave the rails or there might here '>eo:i a serioiv ee. i ;i ut la i c. id. T' e lag w:\aliout fifteen feet long and of sub -tauti-al girth. It damaged the ji no!'!'"'!! way conside:"d)ly. air' the engine suffered much by the inpact, the front being battered an' 1 one of the. cylinder:- broke'', gang of men repaired the perman "lit way. and anoth-r e:rdu» wret ■ "it '. > fetch the tiMiii into towr It arrived in Pahnerston near! th'jee. hours late, but did not inter fere much with t'oi other traffic, r the trains .ai! delayed for tbA ro-liuai published by i!,e Agn-cnltur.-il .Department on Friday ho . •i .•,-.. II: .1 i.'i. I 'tal number v.', bales of belli)) graded for exporl dining t!:e, j.-.onth . f Mardi W;i:. !•),.;!-.), ;s agair.it 92(i.) ft ]■ the enrrevp.i.idiiig inoe.t!: of !...:i. year- an increase of .">271 bales. For the six ■nt/nthe t r. 'el .'.'lsl March the number ot halo.; graded was 70,013- an increase of 2'),2ii'2 bales ove)' the corresponding period of last year. Worked out on a percentage basis the quantity of hemp of each gradedealt with was as follows: -Fine 1.18; good fair, -11.18; fair, 5().8(i; common, (5.1-1; rejected, .(51. Prices are reported by the department- as still unsatisfactory, good fair being quoted ((ith April) at C2l per ton, and fair ,C2O, common £10 f.o.b. Wellington. During the month 1833 bales Wi'Xii dealt with, .as against 1921 for the previous month, •a. decrease of 88 bales. The heavy rotting of apples, espix'ially of tho Northern Spy and. Etowah .species, is causing considerable anxiety among Whangarei fruitgrowers. Tho Fruitgrowers' Association has asked Mr W. A. Boucher, the Government Pomologist. to piv an early visit to the district to investigate the cause of the rot. Potting amongst apples has been very prevalent throughout the .Auckland province this season, due to the unseasonable weather. The fruit develops something like what is known as black rot, and either conies off before it is mature or is found to be useless when picked. The general opinion is that it is not a disease, hut is simply due to tho unseasonable weather. Tn the early part of the season it hot and dry. Then followed heavy downpours and much humid weather, with the result that the apples became affected. For Influenza, take Woods Great Peppermint Cure. Nover j fails. Is 6d and 2s 6U I

Lady Dudley (wife of the Gover-nor-General of Australia) joined the "Osterly' 7 at XMnry Docks, says a cable from London *to-day. The unsurveyed land in Taranaki available for future settlement is 92,000 acres, and the v Maori land awaiting settlement -180,000 acres. A petition for the winding-up of the Levin firm of Hudson and .Marriott, Ltd., has been presented to the Supreme Court, at Wellington, by David John Macdonald, of Wellington, storekeeper. Particulars are advertised in to-day's '"Chronicle." The Levin gasworks have now been running eight months, and it is expected they will show a profit when the accounts are gone into. Most of the houses in the district are now illuminated by gas, and the new buildings that are being put up will increase the output. The best customer .should be the new railway .itation, where a large .number of light's will be required to illuminate the premises. A progressive euchre tournament was held last night, between representatives of the Levin Oddfellows •and Levin Druids. The greybeards won bv '23 points, though some of the " Oddfellows' representatives played with remarkable- success. Tt is intended to procure a shield, to ha competed for during tho coming winter. After the tourney ended last night a festive time was passed, and -appropriate speeches woro made bv .Arch-Druid Brother Galliehan and Past Noble Grand Brother G. Astridge (Oddfellows). The new Commonwealth coin, which New Zealand will not accept, says an exchange, is not a handsome example of the work of Hie mind. The obverse represents the King's head, crowned—a very unusual feature in British coinage. One has to go very far back inEiiglish history .to find a coin with a king's head surmounted by a crown. It is different, of course, with queens. The reverse of the Australian shillings shows a shield of the Commonwealth arms, topped by 1 a star, and sustained by a_ kangaroo ■ and an emu on either side. The motto is "Advance Australia." The steamer Graf Muravjef (tho old New Zealand liner Rangatira) 1 arrived, in the Thames recently with 3(517 carcases of Chinese pigs, thou- . sands of poultry, thousands of frozen salmon from the river Amur, and an immense quantity of eggs "in bulk," besides Manclinr'um wheat '. and timber. "The Chinese pig . trade," said a representative of tho ] I'nion Cold Storage Company,"may now be considered to be establish- , ed, and /there are several other consignments on the way to this couu- . try. The pigs are of the woll- , known China-Poland breed—the same which were imported into Den- . mark, and have been such a success I there. They are too large to be sold in the ordinary way 'in. joints for ti'ae table, and so will be used for i making bacon." The vessel named [' above also brought a huge quantity > of Siberian game. j A good illustration of the value ' of Hyeland cross for fat lamb pro- ' duetion wa.s given in a line of 123 1 lambs sent to the Addington sale--1 yards by Mr T. A. Stevens, Irwell, L which brought 19s 3d to 20s, the ■; top price since tho export season ' opened. A picked pen of 3(5, says the Wairarapa Standard, 1 brought the higher figure, and these ', were generally considered to he one ' of the best lot of lambs ever seen '' in the Addington yards. They were ' very even, plump animals, and the ' fact that they warn out of mixed - crossbred ewes shows how well suit- ' ed the Ryeland is for mating with 1 the ordinary flock ewes. The lambs • were dropped in September. The ' top pen was taken for local con- '' sumption and the balance for ex- ' port. The German police have a curious . theory ot the fabrication of false 1 five pound notes, purporting to lie s issued by the National Bank of | South Africa. These notes have » been put imto circulation at Joi- hannesbnrg. They are believed to s have originated in Germany, and r the keenest search has been institutr ed in Berlin. The forgeries are i said to be so excellent that they . must be the work of a first-class b engraving establishment. The polr ice are going on the line that the i forgers had the front part of the i note executed by one such firm, ,• with an advertisement on the hack ? in order to lull suspicion, and the s reverse side similarly done by anoi ther firm with an advertisement on ? the front side. The forgers then split the notes thus obtained longitudinally, and put the engraved i front of the one and the back of the " other together. The counterfeits > produced in this manner are so - nearly perfect as to deceive all but • the expert lithographers. [ Pahnerston North's labour agent ' reports as follows in the latest issue , of the Labour Journal:—"Business generally has been rather quiet for [ the past month. Some broken wea- , ther and the Easter holidays has !>e. j n responsible for a little of this, but, still, trade should have been better considering the increase in . the price of wool. Customers se>em to be hanging on to their cash, and storekeepers complain of a, general i tightness of money. There are several brick buildings in course of , erection, which have kept the local hands employed, but there is no "hanee for any extra workmen". Carpentry and joinery has been, verv slack, and is likely to remain so lor some time to come. Painting is dull, and there are several workmen out of employment. Plastering slack. Plumbing and gasHMing fair, though not busy enough for outside bands to find employment here. Rtopemason.ry is normal and Sr.-xmalcing is hrisli." Half the worry of house cleaning •an be saved by using "Beozoma Cream " to keep the hands soft and white. It is delightful to use, and already is a great favourite with the ladies. Price, Is Gd jar, from C. S. Keedwdl's Pharmacy'.- -Advt. I'. H. Moore, tobacconist and hairdresser, of Weraroa, has a goo:! ■dock for patrons to select from. | Children's school bags, cheap and 1 | durable, are one of bis special lines. ' Plug tobacco, cigarettes, and cigars, i good clean shave, and " a liun- ; dred up," can be all procured at. his 1 establishment.—Advt.