LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 February 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Xyd. Kemp .has challenged Pearce to scull for the championship of Australia and £100 a side, on Parramatt a river, Sydney.

The main municipal roll for Cliristdburoh has just closed with an increase of 47 per cent as compared with tho 1909 roll, the numbers being: 1909, 11,908: 1911, i"Mii2.

The project for the formation of a municipal orchestra in Napier is not being taken up with any enthusiasm. ' Not a single citizen has come forward to become a guarantor towards the cost of the schome.

Tn the Century Hall, to-night, a statutory meeting of the ratepayers of Levin will be held, to consider the Borough Council's proposal to borrow £1200 for completion of the ■waterworks scheme.

Amongst the visitors to Levin green yesterday was Mr T. Churchward, one of the leading skips of Wellington. He was impressed by the great improvement effected in Levin green since lie played upon it some three months ago.

Tfc is said that the end and aim of all education should be to fit a boy and girl to play well their part i)ii life, and if this is true, then country boys and girls have tihe best of opportunities. for in no other station in life do children learn earlier the much-needed lessons of industry and self-reliance than on a farm.

Just anything of a shelter will not do for a. pig-stve. This must be roomy, warm, well-lighted, well ventilated, having a dry floor, and, be kept clean. Tn summer not much bedding -is required, but during the winter a plentiful supply of goodi straw is greatly appreciated by the pigs. Tn fact, a clean, comfortable bed be.'irs a- rather important part in their progress.

Tho beneficent rains whidi fell tn Monday have put new heart into the grazing areas of the county, and given a rotundity to farmers' faces which aforetime were almost lugubrious with hope deferred. The -ground is like a hotbed- after the excessive heat and dryness of the last two months, and the grass is "coming awav" with a rapidity that ensures an abundance of feed for the whole of the autumn.

At Palmerston North to-day a. bowling ..match for the Dixon Cup is takJrig place between rinks representing Levin and. Palmerston Clubs, respectively. Palmerston Club is the present holder of the trophy. Tho Otakl Club's representatives passed through Levin to-day. en route to Foxton. to play a match' for idle Manawatn' Ferns' against the Foxton rink which holds the trophies at present.

The North Ota,so Times tells of a man who went to the courthouse to •take o'ttn summrms_. When there he Ji-o \ronUT register ]n\ nliHd. Being a. dnv late. he was fine:!: ss. Wfen he came out of the courthouse he found: InV horse and trap in /■liarpe. of the insnpetor. a.nd for leavine: Ms wheel unlocked he had to siihm.it to the second indicsnity of tinrtinjr with ss. He then went straight home lest a worse tiling should befall him.

In connection with the St. Patrick's Day sports, the distance for the trot in harness, which was omit ted from the official list, is to be three miles.

Mr R. McNab, formerly iJinister for Lands and Defence, has been asked to stand for Palmerston North seat at the next general _ elections. He has deferred giving his answer for a day or two.

The Sunday school picnic, in connection with St. Mary's, Levin, will be held on Saturday next in the grounds of Mr Franklin Webb, on the way to the Fairfield Estate. Parents of the scholars will also be heartily welcome.

The meteorological office reports that present indications are for fair but hazy weather generally, but unsettled in the extreme North and Sou till at times. Moderate to strong .easterly winds are probable northward of Now Plymouth and Napier, westerly in the extreme South and variable elsewhere. The barometer will record little movement at present.

An endeavour is being made in Christchurch to develop an eel-ex-porting industry. Tt is pointed out that ffozen mutton, frozen rabbits, and dairy produce have made great successes at Homo, and it is thought in some quarters that New Zealand eels, frozen and sent Home, would find a ready market. It is said that a company has been formed, and that Lake Mlesmere is to be the scene of operations.

"It is part of a commission agent's business to take likely-looking people around the country," was the dictum of Mr Justice Chapman to a jury in Wellington. His Honour addied, smilingly, that only the other day a land agent took ihim for a motor ride, and would not take payment, declaring that it was part of his business. "A land ageait goes to a lot of trouble," reflected his Honour. "He spends, a lot of his time, something more than sixpenny cigars, in handling buyers."