LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 May 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I « The question of Levin becoming the loading centre for sale of fat stock was discussed' among farmers yesterday. "The "Wellington butchers buy a lot of stock here," remarked one farmer. "They can get here by the express in the morning and return by the Napier train, ft is just as handy to them as'going to .Johnsonville." The farmer who said this possibly owns more land 1 than any other man in the Wellington Province. He also made another point. " At Johnsonville there is nowhere to put your stock. If you dont get your price here you can take them hack and put them .in paddock. But you must sell afc Johnsonville, or incur the expense of trucking thorn back, which, in the bargain, means a three days' job. You can put your reserve on i at Levin to obtain the ruling price, but at Jolmsooville you must ac•cept, m mast instances, what you can get. This," 'he conclu'ded, "is the place for a fat stock market.". H*sf r rJlxP- tomineton undertakes Milk Testing, and,all kinds of Dairy and Agricultural Analyses, such as analysis of soils, water,- butter, manures, etoK; P. Remington, I i

Mrs Hamson I/ee was entertained ilast night, 111 Levin, at a social gathering of ■ Levin .No-Lieenso Party An official -report of the .ratherin- which was promised us lias not yot come to hand. The services in the Presbytia" Oliurch on Sunday will he conclnctecl hy Rev. A. 0. Randerson, M.A. 111 tiie evening Mr Ra.nderson s subject will he " The Protest of Protestantism." and a solo will he sung by Miss McGregor, of Ma.sterton. The .Dover (England) ratepayer decided, in April, to run til© municipal trams on Sunday. The voting was as follows:—For rmming. ( 3 074; against, 1,910 —majority, 1,164. A Koputaroa farmer said that he had rend a paragraph in The Chronicle last week, based on a muchtravelled grazier's statement t< the effect that _ stock _ could be bought .cheaper in Levin than at any other sales he knew of. "This is my experience too," he added. On the Heathe.rlca estate there are now- no less than five h ii-lvofl head of bullocks, and many of them now are prime fat ones. They will most proltablv be put up lor sale in .June and •July; A Shannon farmer. wlvo has inspected the stock", vesteidav told a Chronicle reporter it was the best .he had ever seen. ■Tn the County Engineer's report presented to the County Council today some allusions are made to affairs in the Tokomarn rid-

Inrr. The references to the erosion of tlio rivor at Shannon bridge deserve careful perusal. Tlio engineer's report appears in another column in to-day's Chronicle. A liberal response was to t.lio appeal on behalf of the widow of the late H. Ward, of Hoatherlea, and in all a sum of between £50 and £00 lias been raised. Mrs Ward desires us to express lier heartfelt thanks to the numerous subscribers to the fund, and to make special reference to the endeavours made by Mr Perry, of Koputaroa, and Mr A. .T. Arnold, of Levin, in tlveir joint capacity as collectors. Manakau. and the proposal to install a high pressure water-supply, came up 'before the County Council to-day for •discussion, when a letter was received from Mr J. Hurley Asking the Council, on behalf of a committee of Manakau residents, to place the services of the Engineer at its disposal for the purpose of making a rough estimate of the cost of supplying Manakau with a high pressure water supply.—Tt was decided, without discussion, to accede to the request. Mr L. Daroux wrote to the County Council to-day asking whether lie was to understand that the council was agreeable for him to lay a tramline down the track on the Manga one road, provided he complied with the regulations mentioned in the county clerk's letter, as he was willing to comply with the regulations. For the present all he required to know was that it was possible for him to pat n tram-line on the proposed track as he could not a plan until the plans and specifications for the road were got out by the engineer. Mr Da roux concluded by asking what was the cause for the delay in the starting of the track, r.s the council had given him to understand that the money was waiting.--It was stated that the clerk had dealt with the matter. Tt is twelve years to-day since the Union Steamship Co.'s Oliau foundered. In marked contract to the j>resent mild weather, the day in Levin was bitterly cold - a howling southerly gale swept up the coast, snow and sleet was falling on the hills; it jvas the sort of gale that seems to come right out of the frozen Antarctic. The Oliau was coal laden, and came through the straits from the West Coast on her way to a southern port. She was last seen by the lighthouse-keeper at Cape Campbell; she rounded the Capo nt dusk and met the full force of the gale and mountainous seas, and as night closed down she was seen to lie battling against the full force of the storm, the skipper with hull-dog courage evidently bent on forcing his way south when he could have lain in comfort under the Capo or in Port Underwood. Tb* l wreck was remarkable from the fact that not a trace of the steamer or crew was ever seen or heard of again. Shannon appears to hlold the male resident who is a quadruped. At all events, at to-days meeting of the TTorowhcnun County Council a letter was received from Mr P. Gill, stating: —"Sir, T regret that T am compelled to complain regarding the way T am pestered, with this quadruped of a ranger. T got two witnesses to show that with horse, dogs and whip in full swing. T found him taking th<* cows at a gallop from my boy. When T asked him what he was abusing my cows for lie replied: "Give me a shilling? Can you see any marks on them? 1 ' At the time T refused paying, although T knew it was much needed, hut ultimately T paid under protest in the presence of the police constable. This is my second application for fair play, or second complaint, which may be the most ap propria te term. T ask for are fund of that one shilling which T paid under protest.—The descrip tion of a biped as a quadruped elie [tod laughter. Xo action was taken in the matter. .Mr W. I''. Massey, M.P., (says the New Zealand Town and Country Life), gave an interesting account of his recent Southern experiences at a meeting of tho Political lieform League, held in Auckland, on Thursday evening. Mr Mas.sey reported that, following upon his"visit to the King Country, he had gone on to Nelson and thrice to Canterbury and Central Otago, addressing meetings wherever the opportunity' afforded. ( He had not contemplated speaking in Dunedin, but finding himself there just before Easter, lie was asked to speak in the Garrison Hall and consented to do so. The meeting was said to be one of the most successful held in Dunedin of recent years, and the audience appeared to be with him almost from the jump. Pie had not done much political work since then except in his own electorate, and in attending the Farmers' Union Social, at Clevedon, the other evening. The feeling in Otago seemed to be more anti-Government than it was in Auckland. He was arranging to return South towards the end of the month, and had accepted invitations to speak in Invereargill, Oamaru, Asliburton and Akaroa. He was also arranging to speak in Auckland and Wellington prior to the opening of the session. The great difficulty with the party appeared to be the lack of candidates in the cities, although' they were experiencing no trouble in connection with that matter in Wellington. They had, however, some CO candidates arranged 1 for in the Opposition interests in the country electorates. Mr Massey further intimated that Mr James Allan was visiting Hamilton on the following Tuesday and would speak there that evening, thence coming on to Auckland. He would accompany him to Puhoi oil the Friday, and would bo prepared, to speak in Auckland, if so desired. Mr .Massey addted that he woul in all probability return South with Mr Allen. The finest selection of new sixpenny editions are at present on sale at Thompson's Book Arcade, Levin. —Advt. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 3d 2s fid.

There will bo a pemimbral eclipse ■ of the 1110011 this evening. The first contact of the moon with tilie earth's pemimbral shadow will bake place at 3h 1 Gin in in the .afternoon of the 13th, central at 5h 26inin, and last contact at 7h 37min p.m. Levin Bowling Company's annual general meeting is advertised for Friday of next week, the date originally fixed for the meeting (18th May)' 'having been found to clash with the lecture to he delivered in Levin by Mr Boucher, fruit expert to the Agricultural Department. A splendid sample of the apple j known as Rome's Beauty was shown at last night's meeting of the Horowhemia Fruitgrowers' Association. Tt was grown bv Mr P. L. A reus, of Obau, and the meeting expressed the opinion that by reason of its solidity and excellent eating qualities it would he one of the best quality apples for export. Woolly aphis was the principal subject of discussion at a meeting of the Horowhenua Fruitgrowers' Association, held in Levin last nitdit. The secretary (Mr M. Fosella) read a paper regarding Mr H. Newport's metho dof raising trees from high buddings as a preventative of attacks by woolly aphis; also in regard to the specific for permanent cure of the blight recently evolved bv Mr 'Taylor, of the Government Experimental Faim, Weraroa. Tt was mentioned that after two years' treatment of several apple trees at the farm, not a trace of the pest was to be seen on any of the trees. Finally the meeting passed the following motion:-"Tli members of this association, having followed the progress of these experiments, express the opinion that the specific will be of enormous benefit to the apple growing industry, and recommend the local press to give the matter all possible attention." Mr Fosella's paper will be published in full in Monday's Chronicle. Speaking at a meeting of the ■Royal Statistical Society (London), at which Mr Noel A. Humphreys presided, on "Rome Statistics of Japan." Mr 0. V. Sale said there was nothing in the present volume of .Ta.pan's trade or the condition of her industries which could justify feelings of either jealousy or alarm on the part of other trading nations. Statistics appeared 1 to show that, though in matters of commerce the Japanese ficures of today compared marvellously with those of 40 years ago. yet in absolute volume their prosrress. when compared with that of our own trade, was still relatively small, and r/nite insufficient' as a cause for alarm either at present or in the near future. Several Kopntaroa flax-hands, who hinve reicentlv Veen working at Shannon, called at Tlie Chronicle office last evening in connection with the correspondence that has arrived, touching th'e sobrietv of the flax-mill emplovees. Mr Morgan, who explained that he had been "at the frame" for eleven vcars. requested that tliev might be informed as to the identity of "Not Exaggerating." as they wanted to meet him "fair and srntare." Mr M.oreran said that lie had a very good idea as to whom the author was—be belonged to a "certain clique" who had tried to cause trouble before. "How would you like it said that men in your profession, Mr Reporter." he candidlv declared, "were drunk from Wellington to Palmerston North? Tt would be a lie! And its a falsehood to snv that flaxies are drunken." Mr Robinson, he assured us. was a straightforward man. and "Not Exaggerating'*?" last letter was a 'libel. Flaxrnill men liked' their "pint," and no one had a right to dictate to them. They worked, and worked hard. Tt Prohibitionists' tactics were such as impelled them to use a nom de plume, well, their chances were shallow. tf At the same time," lie philosophically observed, "if prohibition were carried. the world's large, steamers are always leaving Wellington, and we'll go where we can get work— and heer." And he laid emphasis on the last word. He wished it to be understood that he knew pretty well whom "His Nibs" was who wrote the letters. "But, after all." he good huniouredlv said, "life's a riddle and "Not Exaggerating"—well, he's n conundrum!" The resolution passed l>y the Horowhenua County Council notifying its intention to take a part, ol' the stream running through Mr .1. X. wood's property, at 'Shannon, for the purpose of a gravel reserve, is to meet with the strong opposition of Mr Wood. At to-day's ineetiiiig of the County Council lie wrote as follows:---"Take notice that 1 object- to any part of the stream or any part of my property being taken for such purpose. It will cause severance of stream, severance of land, and many other inconveniences. It will he an expensive matter. The Council, lie contended, had no reason for such action as lie had allowed all the roads, or nearly all the roads in that district to be metalled with gravel from his property with barely any remuneration. Li conclusion, the writer said that now that he was asking a small royalty for metal required by the Council, it appeared to- wish to confiscate a portion of his land and a valuable part, too. —Cr. Venn suggested that the county clerk should write to Mr Wood and ask him whether he were prepared to accept the council's offer of (id a load. If not, then the council would proceed with its worK. A resolution to this effect was agreed to. Mr F. Selwyn, writing from Manalcan, asked the County Council (at to-day's sitting) whether something could not be done to the awkward and dangerous viaduct over the railway line by Mr James Staples' place, about a mile and a half south of Manakau. The bridge and road approaches were both 'narrow, and all through the winter excessively greasy, and the turn was almost less than a right angle. He believed; it to be the most dangerous place between Wellington and Palmerston. A cyclist riding north could not see all the bridge till lie was within eight or ten feet of it. There was not a resident or user of the bridge who would not endorse a requisition to Tiave the bridge and approaches improved. Several—luckily, not serious—accidents had occurred there a'lready, and as motor traffic, was yearly liecoining more heavy, of course it would increase the risks of those using the bridge.—The chairman stated that undoubtedly the bridge was very dangerous—possibly the most dangerous bridge between there and Palmerston North. But he did not know what could be dlone. The engineer thought the council should ask the Department to erect a new bridge. Tlio present one was very dangerous. Cr. Venn suggested that the Government's attention should be drawn to the matter. The suggestion was agreed to. The growing demand for reading for the winter evenings . is being coped with at Thompson's Book Arcade, Levin.—Advt. NEURALGIA. If the affected parts are bathed freely with Chamberlain's Pain Balm those stabbing burning darting pains will soon disappear. Rnb the Balm well in several times during the day, keeping the patient warm and out of the cold wind. Dozens of people suffering from neuralgia have been cured bv the use of Chamberlain's Pa.in Balm. For sale everywhere.. Acjffc.

Tlio schooner Teaser, of Mon- , fcrose, recently went ashore ou Ourraclv Rocks, Arc!move Bay, Father O'Shea, the Roman Catholic. curate, made an effort to leac the wreck, but the heavy sea l inniiio- prevented him from launchi „ the only available boat. A boat was eventually brought a. mile an (I a half overland, and this, manned bv Father O'Slioa and five others, p'nt off to tlio wreck and "brought the bodies of three sailors nsboro. At tlio present time Mr J. R. McDonald, of Heath erica, is laving down about "100 • acres of land ill grass, mixed with a little Tape. It will lie used in the. spring "for fattening purposes. 'Pile fat- lambs that Mr McDonald is putting on the market at present have been fattened on crass onlv. There has been no artificial treatment, Thov were shorn before Christinas, fell en weaned. and suhseniieiitly fattened on grass. These lambs liave evoked many eulogistic comments as tlie.v are held to be the finest lambs that have been, put up for sale at Levin. for a long time. Messrs "Peter Stewart (of LcvinV and Donald Fraser (Rangitikei) will be leaving for the South about Wednesday. They are old-time «"old! (iisrerors whose experiences datcbaek to the "roaring davs" of Gabriel's Gullv, Ota go. which'set the wlnolo world talking. Tfc is interesting to mention now that Mr Stewart's party, in 1802-3. were the discoverers of the first gold in the Rliotover and at Arrow river. Next Saturday. 20th May. is the fiftieth" aunirersarv of the discovery of -gold in Gabriel's Guilly. and the event is to be celebrated by a o-nthering of the old diggers from all parts. We understand that Mr of Levin, as wdl as Mr Stewart, will he Qoini?.' down to lie in at the forogath- . eriug. when many old friends will renew long-severed acf|uainta.nV-e----shins. and tell over their old cxperinces. An official programme of celebrations, extending over a week, lms been arranged' hv the Jubilee Committe. On Mondav there will lie a procession of the pioneers of IROI. followed bv these of 02 and s'ioreedin< r vears. Incidental to this there will be various items reminiscent of the enrl.v days, including ornsnoeting parties, mon.ntedi escorts bullock nnd sled<re teams, di"trers in "ostumes ("sashes, blue shirts. Affei- the P v oeession: On Tuesday the elf] di«+.vicf,s will be visited (TMue Sp n '\ Gabriel's Gnllv. W«afhnrstoues. Waitalnma. etc.V and present minimr methods will h? compared wiMi the old ones. No ca + of dickers would be comnlefo without n dance, so the vete|">HS will be rrivetl an OPPOl'tuilitv +0 " choke a 1«<t" at a dance in *he 11nte^ 1 ' T-Toll r>»i Fi'idnr. 9/) Hi Ma v. Next dav come the leavetakings. iiibmhihiwi null l—ii