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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 July 1910, Page 3

Laftesfc cabled news regarding the London markets states that butter i.s quiet. Colonial is quite neg-lected,-buit noniinnlly unchanged. Messrs Weddell, in their annual review, state that the miality of the Now Zealand butter lias never been .so good as tliait of last year. Australian generally does not improve, and Queensland i.s going steadily back. If the butters were graded on arrival hero, over DO per eeiiiit. of New Zealand would be first grade, while Victorian, New Smith Wales and Queensland would be under 7(5 and ;"50 per cent respectively. Last season's average prices for Aii.stralin.n were Ills 0(1; Xew Zealand, llos od. Cheese is .steady. N'ew Zen.lnnd coloured Hl.s, wliito ofis fid and 575.

Yesterday afternoon, near Otaki, Mr 11. Kingi was proceeding with a number of Levin friends in luis new motor car at a moderate rate along tlie main road wihen he met a trap containing a man aiwl his wife and three> children. Mr Kingi at once pulled to .the left. The horse startled at the approach of the motor car, swerved round and backed 'right into it, Ohc wheel of the cart was wren eh ed off, and ialso a shaft broken, but fortunately the occupants of brath c-art and motor car escaped without injury. The body of the latter vevhide was somewhat badly battered. Mr Kingi and party subsequently proceeded o.n their journey, and returned to Levin later in the evening.

Mr W. H. Field, who is the president of _ the Itifle Clubs' Association in "Wellington (comprising mbo ut half the rifle clubs of the dominion) is organising a deputation of Parliamentaria.ns to itihe Prime Minister so ias to secure in the new defence regulations some practical encouragement for. these organisations. The Xew Zenlan dTitnes .reports that m.t a preliminary meeting over twenty members of Parliament attended, and iiti \va sdecided to leave it to Mr Field to arrange a deputation to Sir Joseph Waird early next. week. A point regarded as of considerable importance is that when the men •trained •iiincler the territorial system complete their service nuid leave the ranks, they should have an opportunity _ of keeping up their nrarksmansliiip, an opportunity whidi can oiiily be provided if rifle clubs are maintained. That there leeway :to ho ma-de up before the New Zealand conditions appraneh those of Australia is evident from a statement prepared by Mr Field, showing that ifclie annual free allowance in Australia is 200 as compared with 120, a cash payment of five shillings per man for marking expenses is made in Australia, but not here, there is a free allowance of Morris itnhe ammunition whiioh is not enjoyed in Xew Zealand, while the t>c-rms of pnrcl-insinrr riues a.i'e much ■easier in the Commonwenlth. where Tiiew baiwl° mav he proviicled for shillings as amiinst 25s in New- Zealand.