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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 April 1910, Page 3

.\lr Caleb Whitehead and Mr A. I']. AYliitehead, both of .North, leave by t's lonic to-nior-row on a trip to England. They expect to be :..\a altogether six m.ntks. One day hist week, whom the rain co mine nerd to l'all, cue Pareora farmer left bis bed and wont out into a, paddock to cover up some grain-sacks lie bad left lying there. It was a few hours before sunrise, states a Southern contemporary, and the coum try man failed to discover his bags for a considerable time. Then he bo thought himself of ah original scheme, and set fire to an adjacent straw-stack, which shed light over the darkness, and incidentally w>a°' responsible for the ringing of the Timaru firebel 1. For the half-year ended March 31st there were no fewer than 1142 sheep slaughtered at the Ba-wera abattoir, and lambs c'nmo next in 'number, being 008. Pigs slaughtered totalled 247, while 271 cows and 189 heifers were dealt with. Bullocks and calves slaughtered were each 37. Compared with the return for the corresponding period of 1909, says tlio "Hawera Star," the return shows an increase of 39 .sH'ep, 43 lambs, 25 pigs wild 1 calf. Cattle show a decrease of 5. During tlio period there were wliollv condemned 4 cows, 7 pigs, and 1 /beep. Fees amounted to £348 13s fit, and £39 los was received for the rent of the accommodation paddnek lisedftjjy the butchers. The whole of tnr. monevs received shows an increase of £2 12s over the return for the previous half-year. We know! Do you know? that Football Pun<di keens th© cold out. Hnrebound Beer is an appetising Kola, Cha.mnnsrne. Keen your spirits up. Mad© and sold in gallon jars by Dean and Rawson. — Advt,