LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fishing licenses for the ensuing season, •which opens on Ist October, are now procurable at the Levin Post Office. In the "Weraroa Hall, this evening, Mr J. .Robertson, labour candidate for Otaki, will,deliver a political address. A problem play, "Patricia of the Plains," will be presented in Levin Town Hall next Monday eveniwr by the Shell Picture Company. Many others pictures of events by flood and field will l)c presented on the sa.nic occasion. The Vegetable Fibre Conference belt! ab l.iouba.ix (I'Yanci') recently passed the following resolution: "In the belief that a large proportion of growers of wool do not sufficiently realise the danger of vegetable matter getting into wool from the inferior bags used, it is recommended that spinners and buyers of wool should declare that they will only buy such wools as are packed in proper bags. 'I ibis to take effect from tbo season 1912-13.-' The Wangamii Presbytery, which/ met this week at Palmcrston North, appointed the 11 ov. A. C. Randerson, M.A., and Mr It. E. Keys, one of the elders of the church, to represent the Levin congregation at the General Asscniblv of the churdhi to be held at Dunedin early in November. Preparations are now being made for the fishing season which opens on Sunday. It is reported that fish are very plentiful in the Oban and Waikanae rivors. Prospects are regarded as very good, and the rivers are said to be in' first-class condition, Licenses are procurable at the. local Post Office at « cost of one guinea each. An excellent concert programme will be submitted in the Century Hall, Levin, this evening, by the leading amateurs of Levin. Sosigs, instrumental solos, land concerted numbers will comprise the-first part. The second portion of tille;programme will take the form of a comedietta, "The Penalty of Fame," wherein the parts will be taken by Mrs Keedwell, Miss Maud Gurr, Miss Daisy Milne and Miss Flo. Gardener. A correspondent writes to know whether any steps arc to be taken in regard to prospecting tilne Tararua range®. He says that if anything effective is to be done, steps in the matter should be taken at once.' He suggests that a call for a further half-crown should be made. A Chronicle reporter happened to discuss this matter yesterday with five former subscribers, and the .answer in eaahi case was a decided and somewhat discourteous negative.

Mr Robertson,. the Labour candidate, will give an address on political matters at the Weraroa Town Hall this evening, - and it is stated tlhere is every prospect of a large gathering. The local committee is working very 'hard, and express themselves tlioroiigihly satisfied with their prospects. A well-known resident of Cambridge, street, who h,as a farm a few miles out of town, yesterday informed out reporter that he intended to vote la'bour. He added, "What is required now is for the workingman and the small farmer to put their thinking caps on, and remember there is a Labour candidate with ibis gloves now off." It is liioped that Mr Field will visit Levin in a few weeks, and reply to Mr Massey's speech, wlhich is to ho delivered on October 9tili. Mr Byron Brown's meeting on Monday promises to be- a particularly large one. Ho lias apparently many sympathisers in the outlying districts, but 'his cibances do not, so far. appear to bo particularly rosy in Levin itself. Tiler interest wibiclithe government has shown in helping forward Shannon has. it is stated, fortified Mr Field's position thierte. a.nd liis friends in Levin are confident that Iris return is assured. At tHie same time they are sparing no effort to make success doubly sure.

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A belated report of Mr Byron Brown's meeting a.t Shannon, last Wednesday, is to hiand from our local representative. It will appear in to-morrow's Chronicle. Mr Stanley Pole, who is wellJinown in these parts, is returning to New Zealand from - England. 'He •leaves London next month, and will come out via Cape Colony and Australia. Amongst the contributors to the programmo arranged for to-night in the Century Hall ,Levin, will bo Miss MeMa'hon. of Otaki. She will recite, by special request, "Clairence's Dream." Labour Day will be eelelwated this year on Monday, 23rd October, instead of on the second Wednesday in October, as was _ formerly the ease. The el van go is in accordlaaico with the Puhlic Holidays Act, which was passed last year. Scullers and those who desire to learn the elusive art are reminded that a meeting will lie held this evening, in Levin Town Hall, to consider the advisableness of instituting a club in connection with Nevin's hoatsheds, Horowhenua Lake. Mr 0. E. Ransom, formerly of the Levin branch of the Y.M.C.A., who went to Wellington with tlie intention of studying for the Methodist ministry, lias, we are informed, joined tho Salvation Army there. He hopes to go to the training college at Melbourne to qwalify as an officer. Last night tlie Rev. T. F. Jones provided the "talk" at tlie Boys' Department in the Y.M.C.A. rooms, taking for Iris theme "Life's Ladder." It is hoped that even the dullest lad present will take_ courage from the address and do lids best to reach even the top ruing of life's ladder. W. Walker contributed a, lively reading. -Preparations are being made for a quoit-making competition prior to tlie annual display early next montli, and tilie final essa.y competition will close next Friday evening. Mr Field, M.P., has given notice tliat lie will ask the Minister of Industries and Commerce, "Whether the Government 'have acceded to tlie request of the New Zealand Flax•millers' Association that .vsufficientIv large bonus should lie offered for improvements in fiaxmilling machinery so as to set in motion tlie highest mechanical talent, tilie association agreeing to refund such bonus, if earned, in the. form of a levy 011 every (bale <of hemp exported; and, if such request lias been accedbd to, whether lie will inform tlie House of tlie amount of sucli bonus, and tlie terms and conditions upon whicli it is offered?" -In a note lie adds that t'he only hope of putting this important industry on a. satisfactory footing appears to lie in lessening tlie cr>'-1 of manufacture, and that cannot be done at the expense of tlie wageearners in tlie industry.

There's no 'better spring tonic made than Red Jamaica Sarsaparilia. It's just the right combination of herbs and iodides to put the human system in fine condition after the winter. Obtainable from C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy, Oxford street. —Advt.