LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 September 1910, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tile retail prices of butchers' meat aro to be raised, in Palmerston North, from to-day.

A telegram from Auckland, received at noon to-day, says: Lady O'Rourke died yesterday after a year's illness.

A doctor's services were required on Saturday for Mr Curtis, who .injured his thigh while at work on Mi- Best's farm at Gladstone road, Levin.

Tlio Mayor of Levin (Mr B. R. Gardener) left Levin, for Wellington this morning. He will attend a Parliamentary Committee tomorrow morning, and a meeting of the Hospital Board in the afternoon. He returns on Wednesday.

The lato Mr Edmund Hoinke, whoso death from cancer, at 'Mother Mary Aubert's liome, was recorded in The Chronicle, 011 Monday last, expressed a desire, on his deathbed, to be remembered to a!' •his friends at Levin.

The prospects for the doming strawberry season are such that tin Waiteinata Fruitgrowers' Association has ordered half a million boxes this year, ns against about 300,000 last year.

At the last meeting of the Dun edin Drainage Board, the chairmai mentioned that the Board, had com pleted forty miles of rgticulatior and five and a-quarter miles of deei drainage, at a cost of £315,000. nnc there had not been a single aco.ident.

■Messrs Hutchison and Co. have begun the publication of a new work in fortnightly parts at 7d net entitled "Edward the Peacemaker; The Stonv of the Life of King Edward VII. and His Queen." In this work the life and history of his late .Majesty's reign will bo told.

Edward Travis, of Dunedin, broke the world's record for endurance piano playing at Napior at 11.50 on Saturday night, having played continuously for 75 hours, and finished fjiiito h'osh and showing no visible signs of fatigue. The previous world's record was that of 74 hours 12 minutes by Stirton, of titii.

. 11,0 '"egarded as promising indications of coal have been found by the syndicate, that is prospecting on a farm at Pacroa. The bore is now down about 289 feet, and latterly a black substance that appeare like "new" coal has been discovered. Probably the syndicate )\ il avo substance tested a.t the Thames School of Mines. It is intended to carry the bore down another 200 feet, when another part of the property will be explored.

Charles Lamb is at Ivis best in A Dissertation upon Roast Pi<r " and so well lias lie imitated the style of pompons, solemn exposition of an anticma.n'an point that .1 reader 'once in all seriousness wrote m the margin, "T don't believe a word of it. Tin's famous essay is now being issued by Messrs Sampson Low, Marston aiid Co., Ltd., in a tasteful, handsomely hound little book full of humorous drawings m eolour by C. 0. Murray. In this form Lamb's delightful essay is sure of a welcome.

Sergeant Cruiekshank and Mr Dolan (savs an exchange) exchanged a few pleasantries at the Napier Lourtlioiise on Mondav. "T was in court heforo vou ever saw one" saul tlio sergeant. "Yes, down in Dnnnenrke a little hush t™-,,- ? 1 t(T°i mishingi.v. J nave been in courts -where your conduct would not he allowot, retumned the sergeant- "and where T come from," said Mr Poll», you would not lie tolerated if'nl o '"'V r IT I ,S Worsl,i » tliis stage interfered, remarking tlintit was verw undignified of counsel to •''ffV'i s,K '. !l J»Vlcen»gs, and the uk id en t terminated. Tt will he pleasing intelligence to most ]>eoplc in Xapier (savs tlio ai'y Telegraph) to leairn that the woollen nulls, which have been closed for the last couple of months, ~t (J r(Ml I )C,! ' They will, bow. ? ' 1)0 '»nr7or an entirely new wopnotnry J|,. H „ e l, M/ OhM.E, of Auckland a u-ooMen manufactin e. trained in ScotlaiuT, will shortly take the null in hand. Tlio in?ioi7'?n"l °! n l>%"icnt to ' ( f (1 lian ' ls : ">"1 Mr Ol.isholm intends to put a worsted plant, goods tm ' n flMt ~is,,- d ass

One pound .sterling per aero for 1*S«1 and -incidenta responses connection, the transfer of : o m'; 1!k! to European purchase , appears an exorbitantcharge for sue)] a transaction in rura o • pastoral lands! And vet this is (loinaiKs the k a whin Settler) the our S L?r°" nt ' r ' endorefl one of sottleirs,. accompanied 'by a memorandum containing the' naive and ingenious remark "the charts have been considerably reduced" the ' 5 motl,of 1 1 ' s om Plove<l by work 111 1,1 a ' r S° of the

The JYaimat© Advertiser roports a .singular accident which bofoll the oighteeu-months-okl. sou of Mr ,S 011 8a a.ftorj](c(on. , "'as sitting on the floor ' I.™ a bottle of mftolic sic-M ''"'•"."f the wind, fnilK,? Z"T f lu "\ a ! KI «"il% I lie Jittle -follow got the liciuid contents over his legs ami body, the clothing only partially reducing the ' r™;; , ofrMt ? •v* is ?W +i as , foared at °»<? time that there might be serious eonseoi'iT'ofVl ' t!lc li ttle fellow is now binned. 0r ' " g TOry badl - v

The obscqmes in connection -vith the death of the lad Wilfred Heath f lll Ly - a large lv,ini ' ) cr ° people. The interment took place at Levin yesterday afternoon, Lnptani Simpson officiating. The Salvation Army Hand led a procession formed of military cadets, of which the deceased lad was a member, and of various adult friends of Wo?n* [rs Members of I /ova l Orange Lodge al.so took part in the procession. At the gra.veK t • }° + » am l " L ead Kind1} Light" and "Abide With Me." A horse attached to a. gio- j„ charge of Miss Maud Hitching, s was startled in Oxford street, Levin, on Saturday afternoon last, "through the reins getting foul of its feet Jhe animal made a desperate atin,l,)t-, to , l }nit Hitchings pluckily held it in while it described a circle dangerously near Messrs Ha.rvey and Co.'s verandah. pos;s. Onlookers, anticipating a smash, and hearing the lady's appeal for <holp rushed to the rescue, and the horse was brought to a- standstill. a spontaneous bunt of applause broke from the witness ol •her plucky feat as Miss Hitchings ascended the gig and drove "way.

[ Services in connection with the Home Mission and Chinch Extension Fund (of the Methodist onuiirch) were held yesterday at the Century Hall, Levin, and were largely attended. The Rev. A. B Ohappel, M.A., conducted the services, \\ liich were of a bright, congregational character. In the course of two scholarly addresses Mr Ohappel set forth! the claims of the fund, and it was announced that there would 'be a further meeting an the Century Ball this evening, when the claims of the fundi would be again enlarged upon by the (reverend gentleman. Mr Herd will preside. _ Yesterday afternoon Mr Lhappel visited Maaiaiau and Tjrea,oned at the Methodist Church 011 behalf of the fund. There was a good congregation, and the address i wag greatly appreciated. 1