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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 September 1910, Page 3

Ah- Houghton, manager of the Ximtheni !" n ion football team, which recently visited New Zealand, interviewed in London, said that crowds in New Zealand were more sporting than Australia, where they did not. like losing. In some distuiefcs in Australia the onlooker 1 ailed to see anything good, except on the homo side.

An excellent articlo. from tho pen "J, -M >' -M- Sin<jck>ton. of the Dairy Division ol the Agricultural Doj)iirtinent, nj)j>onrod in last month's issue <ii the Agricultural Journal. .Mr Singleton not chilj* deals with the importance of cow-testing, but Jiit'os tlie experience of the Dalefield Association in support of lii.s contentions in favour of the judicious culling of dairy licuxls. The Journal should he procured by each farmer.

Mils John Hall, whose death occurred at Levin on Saturday, was into (il the early settlers of the"\Vairarapa. _ She was horn at Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, in 1H32. and married to ]\lr Hall at Oshoimiley. in 1855. Somo twenty-two years la tor Mr and Mrs Hall came to .New Zealand, in the ship Carnatie, arriving ;in 1877, and for the next four venrs /Mrs Hall kept house for Mr W. C. HuHlianan, the well-known WairaWr? 1 *!? I '' a , fc Tnpiirupu. in , , Mr Hall took up a section of hnsh land in the Mnngahao block, No. \(I" M and the deceased lady accompanying him and lier four sons into the then backblocks to •share in the labours of preparing a homo. She was the first white woman to go into a. Paliiabna. district and the little cottage in which the family lived and which in years after became a familiar landmark alon.rrthe .Forty .Afile ]j„. s h road was the first Louse built in the locality. Tn 1832 one of the •sons was killed bv a falling tlree, r '1.. 'n inK f ' !ose to t,,c scene nl_ flic accident when it occurred. Mr and Mrs Hall remained in 1 ahiatnn until four years nsjOj 'wlien they removed: to Levin, wliere they have smce_ resided. In the Pahiatua district, where she was best known, Mrs Hall was widely liked and respected, and even in Ihcto ouiet life in Levin she made many trieiuls. Tlie deep sympathy of a wide circle of friends will be extended to Mr Hall and his family. 1 lie body of deceased was conveyed to Pahiatua this morning, and the riuieral will take place there this afternoon.

Mr A. Coy, of Shannon, flaysthat he has never had anything so good for coughs and colds and whooping congh as Remington's Liquorice Cough Cure. He always has some at hand, in case any of the family get bad, and three or four doses usually are sufficient. It can be obtained from Mr W. H. Gunning, Shannon; Mr A. W. Roberts, Toko--TP /I T> • L f. «