The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1910, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wo imro jjloasiiro in announcing Mat our cujitrj^utor ''L'nit," who .'XCiliVT*'! S-. !;) I'D'Osti J| «JflV Oj] \ looses" iji a recent issue of "The Uir.>;:k-!e," intimatel his wil'•jiSnoss to favour us. from time to time, with special articles on plant culture. His latest contribution, v.'hich deals a singularly intenesti;iff mannei' with "Maidenhair i; nrus," will af.poar >n next Saturday s " Chronicle." T'l.'i lsovri| Company are just : ., /() •' r ,' o '- ' ai «° v.v.rks ii u the ■oithei-p Territory; and what with ' -at 11.0 success which has atrocopt s!)ijjinei) ts of chilled I cel. there .should lie little fear of cattle cominp; 1 lower in price, and at ("M'i'O])t rates it pays well indeed to grow them «n the rich and cheap prairie lands of the r ortli.— Dainty's Review. Tiift Hcv. 0. A. Situs, who was npP'tipted by the Primitive Methodist Conference to visit the cbir>hes of ellino-lon district tin the interests a, l,|fln - v 80,1001 work, will preach a, Sliajinon o n Sunday morning, i<l 'Mi i' cxtop in the evening. Un >-e Mon'lav evening he meets the Sunday school teacihers r-yl Mends ' 1! Shannon church at 7 o'clock..and nt 8 o clock -he gives "Elocutionary Recital," interspersed with Tnnsic-admission bei n g free, with ! collection. At the c9iiclusion of the meeting of the Levin Thorough Council connection with the Gravel Reierve eases, last evening, the Mayor (Mr B. 11. Gardener) thanked the councillors for their attendance during the previous two evenings- He said that they had had a strenuous tune. .There had been some differences of opinion, and they ivo'uki not foe worthy of their position if they did not criticise one another a,|d make suggestions. The question of the leases was a most important one, and the time that had been spent in t'he chamber si7jce Monday had not been wasted time. I he debate had been well conduct-, eu, and the Council had done its 1 best for all concerned so fair as in it lay.

Tho Fisk Jubilee Singers drew so large an audie n ce in Levi n , last night, that the Tow u Hall scarcely could accommodate them. The wonderfully sweet a n d quaint minstrelsies of the negroes were sung m that inimitable manner that no Caucasian ca n attain, a n d the mingled pathos and humour of the various dioruses were most effectively blended. "I'm a-rolli n g"—that liveliest and most ejaculatory of all negro camp meeting ditties — was especially well voiced. Miss Belle Gibbons, a n old; established favoiiTite, gave her solos with fine pffect, and every member of the company proved to be an artist of high, quality. It is 27 years si n ce first the l<isk Jubilee Si n gers went o n circuit, and it ds quite evident to-day that theirs is a combination which ' ,°ge .cannot wither n or custom stale,"

U.p to this morning, a total of nearly £3200 had 'been collected in aid of the Children's Hospital for Wellington district. Miss Cobb, through- a slip of the pen, advertised her Levin dancing tflass from 10 to 12, instead of from 8 to 10 o'clock. Mr J. R. Sta n sell's sale, held at Shannon yesterday, is reported on by Mr J. G. HanWs, the auctioneer, as the most successful auction sale ever iheld in that town- About 200 people were present, and 210 lots were disposed of i-' lour and a half hours. Good prices were realised for everything"Rajiji" Wilson, a member of the last iNew Zealand representative team, and captain of the Athletic Football Club, Wellington, is to be charged at the Wellington S.M. Court, with having occasioned -bodily iharm to Duoloi Calcinai, a member of the Poneke Football Club, *<who had his jaw broken during J as t Saturday's match between Poneke and Athletic. The Mayor of Levi n (Mr B. 11. Gardener) ihas received a communication from Major Burh'nson, manager of the Boys' Training Farm, offering to lend the boys Brass and Pipe Band to play i 7 i the Square on Saturday evening in aid of the Children's Hospital. The offer has been accepted, and arrangements will be made for collecting boxes to be handed round. A" pretty lively meeting" is promised tor next Saturday night, at Shannon, where Mi- J. R. StanselS ''intends to tell a pretty Lively and interesting stoiry"-.from his point of view, regarding Shannon matters— touching particularly upon the n eeds of and objections to a new post office, and also upon the matter of "royalties" on flax, and "the recent applications to the Government for a bonus on inventions of machinery for saving labour and increasing the revenue of owners of flax land at the expense of the community."