LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 July 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Father, you must not drop your final "g' s ." Tims Gwendolyn I rush from college, to father, retired por kbutcher. "Hu!t 1 havon't been droppin' 'em." "There you go. Dropnhi'. And you say oomm , ' and 'goin' ' and Win , ' , without any final V' sound at all Its awful." A pause. "Gwrnny." "W" -"May I drop the final 'g' in egg?" The late Canon Fleming has related how, on one. occasion, lal'ter he had read, 'the lessons in church at Sandringham, the late King asked Iwfi opi-nioii of a certain, pa.<«nge. On the Canon's reply King Edward said, very simply, "Yes; that may be so, though it .has not occuiir.od to mo;" then adding, "J make it a practice to read over the lessons privately before going to church, and I was struck with this vonse." A young man working for a settler in the. Wairoa district suffered heavy loss in a peculiair -way recently. He had fed his dogs'and left them tied in the usual manner. Tn half a.n hour he visited them and found two of them, valued at £20 quite dead, and Mie third was onlv saved with difficulty. The poor animals had been attacked by a swarm of bees and stung to death. A resident of Invercargill wlio (says the Southland Times) had the other day lost a much-prized dog, paid a visit to tho. Fanciers' Club. There, on taking n. turn round the dog section, he was surprised and delighted to come across life lost dog, sitting amongst the pugs and bearing a first prize ticket. Investigation showed that the pug had been found in the strc-rit by a boy, wJio entered the stray dog in the show and wo n:i prize of a guinea. The owner gets the ilog unci the prize card, the club luacf the entry, and tho boy gets the guinea, and all parties .appeared t;: Ik; r/itisfiexl. A pearl worth £6000 has !.cen found in Australia, at Perth. It has been stated that this is the most valuable pearl ever found in Australasia; but this is a mistok.;. The pearl of greatest value is the absolutely perfect bootmilwr who gives all customers sound loatheand perfect workmanship -A moderate prices. Aro you Wiring for such a man? If yon ire, "your task «an arduous one By \iay of experiment., you should give a trial to Fred Pink, the uevln l:K>imaker. If you do this, yen r.ay find your pearl first dive. --Aclyt

Iflie American Universities team of Rugby footballers passed through Levin to-day, on route by 'rail to the north. The special meeting of the Levin Borough Council which was to have been held this evening, has been postponed uritil Wednesday. Sister Moody Hp.ll, of Shauimam, conducted services in tho l'\)xltoii Methodist Church yesterday. She took jus her morning and evening subjects two aspects of the life of one man: namely, "The backsliding Peter " anil "IVter at Pentecost." Pingpoug—the game thait nin used millions exactly nine years ago —uiul tlip g.ime that wa.s thought to be n.slci for over, Iras raised its hoad in New Zeala.nd once more. At Oamaru. last week, a niont between fifty players was begun. William Munro, formerly resident in Levin, is about to re-visit those parts. He is expected to arrive ivext week, under psvort, and opportunity w'll be made on that occasion to charge him wi'th having uttered valueless ehi'(|iie« to Mrs Berryiimn, of Levin, and Mr Gunning ,of Shannon. Something of real value It'o the community is coining out of Wanganmi, under the aspices of the I'/lufiition .Hoard, snys tho FeiUliug Star. Two of its oxperts <Ai the technical side, Messrs Yauwy an:i Clark, are initerestiug themselves in a scheme which has recently been introduced by tiro- Scotdi Education Act, and which gives power to School Board*: to establish Juvenile Labour Bureaux, the purpose of which is to bring employers and young people together through the medium of tho schools, so that the night boy or girl may find the ricrht employment. "The schemti.« by no menus new, but every day brings its realisation nearp-r." writes Inspector Braik in drawing attention to 'i.lip matter. The sucgestion is well worth the. attention of teachers an:l committee throughout tin' , dominion.

Tho opinions growing among tlio.se who naturally observe the seasons carefully that, though tho went her we iare, onjoyling ait present is "seasonable," an early spring lies ahead. Until recently Vho winter season lias been very mild and most favourable to the prospects of farmers of every class. The present outlook is (says the Daniß'virke Advocate) very briglit fur all who are engaged in the chief agricultural industries of itlue district". Prices for wool, it is considered, remain good for some yours to wnne. while the dairy farmer may look forward to an early season, owing to the condition of pastures, and to one that has .at the moment every appoaranee. of being highly profitable. The valuable resources of New Zealand are in themselves most weighty arguments for progressive and good legislation, combined with efficient administraton. Xowhero could such elements in our political life be mo-re worth while, and yet wo are probably more lax crncerning such matters than should be by reason of our very prosperity. An amusing Incident occurred at the Dunedin Police Station. Two men who had been arrested on a charge of robbery wvre placed in the police yard for identification by the prosecuter, and. >a.s is usual in such cases, a police officer went into the street and induced a number of civilians to stand with the accused to ascertain if the latter would lie picked out as the person accused of the offence. included among the civilians who thus obligingly went to the assistance of 1 lie police wa.s a young man who attracted the special notice of one of the. sergeants, and at the conclusion of the identification process the young man was questioned in regard tn another offence of a different nature, with the result, that he was arrested, and will, in due course, make his appearance before the court. A somewhat unfortunate incident took place at the Loyal Ora.nge Lodge function on Wednesday, s'.i.ws the Jlawcra Star. A visitor from Wellington was reciting a humourous piece purporting to be a. skit on a sermon. The, crisis came when the elocutionist had <,ot his audience thoroughly interested. A minister who wa.s present arose and with much warmth protested against the recitation, which he characterised as a mockery and a reflection upon the gi'niti'hMniMi of the ministry. Some words were exchanged between the two, when some -applause followed a remark from the reciter. The minister turned to the audience and said he knew he was taking the unpopula.r side, but at tlio same tim-r- he was convinced that he wn.s within his rights in nKikina (he protest. '"he visitor said that he was a churchman, and hid given tlio mriienlnr piece time after time in "Wellington at the of ministers Ifihoms;dves. He did not like the piece. Tt was reallv prostituting elocution, but he had given it because he was asked to do so. The incident, closed bv th<? interrupted reciter contributing a semi-sacred poem.

Profitable patronage was bestowed, upon the bazaar held by St. Mary's Church of England, Levin, during Friday and Saturday. Over I'HO was taken on the opening day, and the success of the workers duriniz; Saturday afternoon and evenin !I must have been equal to tkat which rewarded 'them on Kriday.s:i that an exceedingly successful result of the bazaar may be regarded a.s (juite sure. Quite a number of attractions wti'ie provided during the two days, hii-b the. chii-f degree oi' merit must l)e bestowed upon the children who danced round the maypole. They carried through some intricate and astonishing figures with apparent oase, and in joyous measure, and entered .so heartily into the .spirit of their proceedings thnit the whole scene wa.s one o-f mrrrimcint and pleasure. The various .stalls and the bran tub all did profitable, business, .and the young men and old who had run the ganntIst of the lady ntltondants and still retained a shilling or two spent them—like the heroes they wore — in the. .alluring pastime of tlire-e,,shi«= a penny at an Aunt Sally, whose wide.' mouth gaped astonishment af the bad dim of the staid ei!tjz-cns wb-i \Y(.'ve assaulting her. Another qunint feature of the bazaar wa.s the pro.vaJeiH-e of wee cliildren dressed in .Japanr.se- costume, who flitted amongst the crowd .and shyly sol dilittle baskets of lollies at purely nominal prices. Young men and old, and young ladies, drove nails in competition for various arltiele.s of beauty and of use; one young man, for the good of the cause" bought a hundredweight • of vegetables and .straightway'skirted hoinV ward with them ; some late shoppers reaped some astonishing bargains; and, last fwne of all, J. G. Haiikins took the (a packing case) and sold jams, groceries, and vegetables, in suoh n.stonishiiKr pro-fusion that a well-founded belief bpcvnue prevalent tha.t the purchasers Avere Ijiiyers nnd voiulnn? bv fre-f|Ut-n!t turns. Tlie nn-aHty of the snvern-l divisions of domestic work oxhibitn-l at 1,1 m stnlls was exceptionallv gc.d. the !>•■>- inor f|uitr> nrt-istiV, and iinrlv chew. As a general thhisr. oiiv to pav *mw?t]iijrtr ®]y*vn orrlinnrv pricps nt lnz.iars. Ivit one iiiff- ovw w< c;rir>hih' ri"f Tn"ivlce'l by Ws Jic'-z.noi'.-.-n. TCv-w. one t-he hhr~ r wo , ! *•"■ feel w.' 11 " *he success that attended it.

A little way above the Fitzherbert bridge, to.the west of Palmerston North, great loss has been, occasioned by washaways in the Manawatti river. Mi , A. Grover, or Levin, who was in the vicinity about a week ago, saw the la;nd falling away into the 'niver almost in sections. As the l:ind was some sixty feet above tho level of 'the river, the resulting displacements of water wero astonishing. As an instance of the contiunions losses occasioned by floods in these parts, Mr Graver mentions the experiences detailed to him by a Palmerston Noiith solicitor, who recently effected a. transfer of I land on the bnnks of tho Manmvatu. Tho tvlle deeds, eight yoars old, mentioned an area of f>2 neves, but when the nieafiiirpinciiits wero taken this year it was found (that the area had sunk to 40 acros.