LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 March 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

« .Levin Bowling Club has ceased to exist as a club, the incm'bci-s icariiig resolved to be absorbed by the Levin Bowling Company.. The company's directors have been instructed to carry on the bowling management in future, and it has been resolved to issue fresh shares to players and such other citizens as may bo, desirous oi ■helping the club. Shareholders are bo receive a concession of two shillings per share from the amount of the annual subscription to the club. Discussion took place at last night's meeting of the company as to the advisableness of suing a few defaulting shareholders who are on the club's share list, and a motion to do so was moved and .seconded. It was resolved as an amendment that instead of suing the defaulters their shares be forfeited and reissued. Rome speakers expressed opinions that in at least a couple of cases it would be better to lose the shareholders' ni'oney and company together rather than recover their money and risk continuance of their membership. The amendment to forfeit the shares was carried by an overwhelming majority. A hundred new .shares were subscribed at last night's meeting, and it was decided to canvass for more amongst the bowling fraternity of the town. Mr Carvosso was elected secretary of the company, at n. fixed salary. To-morrow night the Weraroa -Junior Football Culb will hold its first general meeting for 1911. Some important business is to be. transacted. Particulars of the meeting are advertised to-day. Pa liners to n Bowling Club is making sustained efforts to regain the Dixon Cup, which was lost to a Feilding rink about a month ago. ■So far. however, Feilding is proving markedly superior. In a match played last Saturday the holders (Bartholomew's rink) beat the Palmerston challengers (Pickering's rink) by 27 to 9. Mr P. Harper is leaving for "Wellington this afternoon, in connection with the, registration of the municipal leases in respect of tiho gravel reserve site, Levin. The new leasees have been in,poshes-ion since the 14th inst., and in at least: one case preparations for building a new shop and dwelling are already in progress A 10-nien team to represent Levin in the Field Shield annual competition. to take place at Palmerston Xorth next Saturday, was picked bv the club's shooting committee last night. The personnel is as follows: - Captain G. P. Brown, Riflemen F. 0 ; Lower. P. Jones. J. 'Rutherford. W. R. Ingram. W. Francis, senior. J. Minim and G. Jones. Rifleman J. Muir, boiiiir doubtful whether lie would be able to make the trip, was selected as emergency man only. An order of rotation has been agreed upon for the final event in the Levin Defence Rifle Club's championship bolt competition for 1911. This event takes place next Saturday week, and consists ol ten shots per man at .">9O yards and ten per man at 700 yards. The pairs are as follows -P. Jones and G. Jones: J. Rutherford and D. Musgrove: If. C. Ingram and J. Monro*; W. Francis and W. R. Ingram; G. P. Brown and L. Ingram. £ 'Pelorus Jack'.'' the strange great fish that accompanies every steamer on overv passage through the French Pass on the Nelson-Marlborough Coast, was reported dead yesterday. A fish resembling it in size, shape and colour, was washed up at: -- Urville Island, and it appeared to have been ten days dead. Later information telegraphed to the Marine. Department states that " Jack." friskier than ever, accompanied the steamer Patoena on Monday night; so he now forms one more in the long list of beings who have survived their ohituarv notices.

Levin is to have a skating rink at an earlv date. Mr J. Phillips, of the ll.vko Corner, lias been makintr enquiries iu the town and district, and he is assured of support from all quarters. He has secured a large hall in the centre of the town, and a special floor will be laid in the course of a few days. Three nights a week will be devoted to skating and two •afternoons will be set aside for learners' convenience. A band will he in attendance on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Skating' lias proved so in the smallei towns of New Zealand that it should prove a popular pastime for the winter in Levin. All the skates to lie used on the rik will be first-grade ball-bearing ones. An instructor in the art of rink skating will he engaged. Tt is quite possible Mr Phillips will establish a rink in Otaki. A movement is on foot in Levin and district to make a presentation ill the way of a cheque to Mrs Ward, wife of Mr Ward, of Koputaroa. whose death we recently had occasion to announce. Several prominent have readily signified their intention of subscribing, and lists for this purpose may be signed at Mr A. J. Arnold's shop in Queen street, at the Kereni creamery, the Chronicle office, Mr Gibson's "Red Store,'' and at other places. Subscriptions will be duly acknowledged in these columns. The kindly wish of the promoters of the movement is that friends of deceased may ihave the

opportunity of showing their practical sympathy for Mrs Ward and family in her irreparable loss. estei'da.y morning the proprietress of the Dominion Boarding House, noticed that two men who had been lodging with her for some ten days had decamped without paying for their rooms or board. She found a note written by them, but not signed .saying that their workwas finished, but they were going elsowhere, and would forward the money they owed in three weeks' time. Mrs Smith, however, was convinced that the men had no intention of redeeming their promise, and while Mr T. Gilligan, who boards at the Dominion, went by the first train to Oban with the hope of meeting the men, Mrs Smith took train to Koputaroa. liore sho found the men on the platform waiting to take the train on to Palmerson. They had evidently walked to Koputaroa during the early hours of the morning. The men wore thunderstrucK on seeing her. They had no money, j but were profuse in their apologies, and handed over to their landlady some suits of clothes. Respecting the market and prospects for New Zealand hemp, the New Zealand _ Trade Review reports as follows in its latest issue:— "Since our last report the market has assumed a decidedly improved tone. The output from the mills Iras been somewhat less any buying -a little more active. Values advanced to

from £17 to £17 5s for good fair, and £16 5s to £16 10s for fair. The Manila output to Gtli iiist. was 269, 000 hairs against 208,000 in 1910, and 230,000 in 1909. The month shows (in Xew Zealand) a decrease of 5619 hales, but the twelvemonth to 28tb February shows an increase of 19,675 bales. Tow is in somewhat improver! demand and values are a shade higher at £7 10s to £7 15s for first grde, £6 15s to £7 5s for second, and £6 5s to £6 10s for third. The gradings for February were 3486 'bales, of w.liieb 478 bales wore first grade, 1757 second, 1112 third, and 129 condemned. Auckland graded 657 bales, Fo-xton 1006, Wellington 1138, Blenheim 6, Picton 280, Duneclin 10, ami Bluff 379.

Mr Field, M.P. for tiho electorate, has signified his intention to ho present at the Levin Y.M.C.A. banquet to be held next Monday evening. Levin Borough Council has accepted Mr G. Astridge's tender of G5 for the right to remove and retain the- old building lately occupied by Mr Anstice, now standing on part of the borough, reserve in Oxford street. A gold' medal has been presented to Mr T. Lind, of Shannon, by his fellow members of the Druids' Lodge, as a mark of their appreciation of the many services he has rendered to the lodge. A meeting of the Horowhenua Athletic Association is to be heldi at Phillips's Byko this evening, at 7 o'clock, to receive and discuss the balance-sheet of the St. Patrick's Day sports. A successful dance followed the Catholic concert last evening in the Town Hall. Quite a. large number of ladies and gentlemen stepped the light fantastic to-tuneful piano selections played by Mrs Dalton, of Wellington. Mr O'Donohue. to whose hard work so much of the succcss of the concert was due, officiated as M.C., and carried out his duties very creditably. A sudden death occurred at Weraroa last night. The wife of Mr William Wynne Park, who came here from Wellington a week ago, collapsed at about 7.15 p.m. yesterday. Tt was thought that she was asleep. I but liie proved to he extinct. An inquest touching the cause of death is heing held to-day bv Mr W. 0. Nation, the district coroner.