LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 August 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Rovers Hockey Club will be held in Messrs Smart a d Thome's office to-night at 7.31 sharp. Hearing of the charges of burglan at the Levin Hotel, is taking placi in the Magistrate's Court, Levin, to-day | Mediterranean was omitted from the list of acceptors in the Hack Flyii'S race, six furlongs, to he run at L.e Honrwhenna Racing Club's Annua' Meeting this week." His weight is 7.0 The following ladies will .represent Levin against Ohau ladies, at Levin to monow: Misses A. Spencer, E i"li - A| ' ' St, J ck °y, I. Trilford, L." Ambler. R. Lewer, A. Lewer. M. J''ancis W. White,house, H. Royal and M. Royal. " . Announcemeirt of the annual meet ing ol the Levin Defence Ride Club is made to-day. The meeting wiL take place m the Century IJaJI on i liursday next, at 8 p.m.. and all intending members are invited to hi present A case from Shannon occupied the a -tuition ol the S.M. Court vesterthiy morning, when John Hayes was ?n"E ' l H '<*" rin g liquor durng the currency of a prohibition orn fino 1 ! I °'' ulc(1 S"ilty nnii a fine of 10s and costs 9s was imP<ml Mr A. D. Thomson, S.M piesuled—Evening Standard. Mi- J. H. Gill made another tria' with his monoplane at Dunedin on Sunday. Ihe trial was not successful because just as a start was about to be made it was observed that th< engine was tearing its bed from tin machine Qhe engine is to be firmlx ebedded and another attempt wiii piobably he made this week. Since 18Do one hundred and nine-ty-six locomotives, 612 passenger car nagos, IG3 brake vans and 8 o()(. wagons have been added to the rolling stock equipment of the railway lines of the dominion. Nine hunted and ninety persons were, on Mai eh 31st, in the enjoyment of benefits accruing to them from the Government Railways Superannuation iMmd.

In the course of his nnnii.il reporr to the .Ahnistor of Mines, the Inspecting Engineer states tJiafc a .substantial merease lias taken place in c ™ 1,, c ol ' the mineral-production for the year 1900. This increase, amounting to £182,800. ,bas occurred in the value of tlie exports of gold silver, niangaiie.se and kauri-gum! ?? ,c tot [ )l . v - n J'.'o of the output from the metal mines and gumfields of t»V2™S2TB?. d " n, ' S 19W 0n,0 "" ,Kl The Paris Matin learns f,-™ Strasbourg that the police administrator of that city has issued a decree forbidding the "Ivies Waltz.'' 'J learn/' says tlie document, "that m tlie course of balls organised' in tlie communes of my district a dance called the 'Kiss Waltz' is danced. I)unng this dance women and girls allow themselves to he kissed publicly. This constitutes an offence against good German manners that T cannot tolerate. In the name of morality, T formally prohibit the 'Ki.ss A\nltz.' The police organisations will see that this order is strictly complied with." A special meeting of tlie Levin Ik-rough Council was held last evening when a letter was received from the Levin Land Agency and Auctioneering Co. making application frr a license for Mr T. A. B. Hudson to sell on its behalf, Tlie Mnyoj (Mr 13. R. Gardener) presided ovei a full attendance of councillors. Hv s-s- votes to four the Council decided to grant the application. T.hoscvi ting in favour of granting tlu request were: Crs. Cameron, ]• ranee, Prouse, Williams. Arcns, and Lancaster. Against: The Mayor, Crs. Hannaii, McKenzie, anu Palmer.

Apropos the recently announced railway surplus, one of tlio Wangaliui papers relates the following: "Owing to the scarcity of bricks in Wanganui, sonic local builders aro compelled to liuv their supplies in Palmerston Niorth and rail them .here. They aro charged freight by weight, and a good downpour of rain on the absorbent bricks increases their weight, with the result that th« Wanganui builders find that it costs them an extra shilling a thousand in freight." The Minister oi Railways (says the paper) is to be commended in thus turning to profit even the inclement weather.

Some people believe that the banana was tho original forbidden fruit or tlio Garden of Eel en. Jn any (v.«e it is one of the curiosities o) the vegetable kingdom, beino- not a tree a palm, a bush, a. shrub, "a vegetable, or a herb, but a herbaeeo."f plant with the status of a tree. Although it sometimes attains a height of thirty foot, there is n. w"ody fibre in any part of its structure, and the bunches growing on the dwarf banana plant are often heavier than tho stalk which supports them. No other plant rnves, St'oh a quantity of food to the "am a. the banana; it yields forty-foui tm.es more by weight than the' potato, ana 133 times more than wheat .Moreover no insect will attack it, and it is always immune from disease of any kind.--Chicago Nows. The- Lyttelton Times states that at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board oi. Wednesday, the chairman (Mr F. Ikrrell) said that a serious menace to the welfare of the community was l>Hn.sc caused by the rapid increase oi illegitimate children who were born from imbecile mothers, and the drain upon tho TJonnl's to,sourccs that was occasioned by supporting tne wives and children of absconding husbands. Jn his opinion these men should be made to work at some reproductive work, and their earungs should he applied to tho support of their children. Ho would lile to see included in Dr Findlav's new Crimes Rill a provision compelling deserting husbands to labour at a fai m colony or other reproductive work, the money thus obtained to be applied to the maintenance of theii offspring.

Pure milk and prompt delivery aro the need and desire of nil householders. F. O'Coimell, who has taken over the Levin milk run of Mr P. J. Mellor, is determined to maintain the good reputation of the laite proprietor in thoso regards. Milk, cream, butter, nnd eggs supplied.— Advt. Ladies and Gentlemen.—Ask your local draper or storekeeper, pleasantly and impressively, yet very persistently, for the celebrated high grade Roslyn Clothing, for boys, youths and gentlemen; ask also for Roslyn blankets, Roslyn Rugs. Roslyn yarns, Roslyn jerseys, Roslyn tweeds, Roslyn _ worsted (very higholass for the tailoring trade), Roslyn socks, stockings, Roslyn bloomers, Roslyn combinations,Roslyn pyjamas, Roslyn heather unshrinkable flannel, and heavy twiil plaiding( delta finisih)—Advt.

Mr H. J. Pitlier, the ex-champion cyclist and inventor anil builder of the Invercargill airsliip, which alone of the New Zealand ventures has made a prolonged flight, is in Oamaru, and will, if a suitable building can be procured, place his machine on exhibition 011 Saturday next (today.) Some time ago we reprinted from the Southland News the report of a flight in which Mr Pitliei covered about a mile at a height of 35 foot. The record for large families is claimed for Black Springs, a farming centre in Oberon, west of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Within a radius of five miles there are six landholders, whose families number 82, ranging from babies to adults. The respective number ol children is as followsl.o, 15, 14, 13, 13, and 11. The parents of these children are still in robust health, and there have been ivo second marriages. Mr Lomas, who was lecturing at Dunedin (says the Times) 011 "American Education." was asked whether the boys and girls .were usually taught together in that country. The reply caused considerable amusement. "In America,'' he said, "they are teaching the boys and girls together, but they say it doesn't pay, and they are going to try them separate. .1 may add that in .lingland they have them separate; but they snv it doesn't pay. and the, 1 , are going to try them mixed." The first steamer that churned the waters in Sydney harbour (then called Port Jackson) was the Sophia Jane, which arrived from England on May loth, 1831. At Neutral Bay the Surprise, a vessel 801t 111 length, and with a speed of IJ miles an hour, was built at about the same time. She was engaged in the Parramatta service, but not being the succc.ss anticipated was sent to Hobart in 1832, where she was converted into a top-sail schooner. Subsequently she became a lighlei at Melbourne.