LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 November 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

— *. Vice-Admiral, by winning the 2$ mile Canterbury Cup, run at Christ(•liure.h yesterday, stamped himself as .an "out and out" champion racehorse. AVithin four days lie has won the New Zealand Cup (2 miles), the Metropolitan Handicap (1-J miles), Jind the Canterbury Cup (2J miles), iu competition against the eream of New Zealand's performers on t-lio flat. The weather prospects for to-day are: High westerly winds generally, with hazy and changeable weather. The barometer lias a falling ten. deney.

Political notes concerning candidates in various parts of New Z.ealand .appear on page 4 of to-day's Chronicle. Included amongst tliern is a series of questions which were put to the Hon. T. Mackenzie when he spoke at Manaia a few days n?o. The Otaki Mail has apologised to Sir Joseph Ward for publishing 'u •a reccnt report of a political address •a .statement reflecting on his integrity. The .statement was publiiaCl through puro inadvortenco, and without any malice. _ A thunderstorm, accompanied uy liglitning as well as ihoavy vain, made conditions unpleasant for wayiarers in Levin between 10.30 a.m. and noon to-day. The. telephone wires were interrupted in their working for a while—an oecurre.ioe inseparable from electrical distirhancos of 'ho atmosphere. The. twelfth euchre party was h id in the Oddfellows' Hall, Levin. on I uosdav night, and proved most enjoyable. I'oriy people competed for the trophies. The lady's trophy went to .Mrs I'. Broth, and the gentleman's to Mr ,T. Ives*. The lady's hoobv prize wis won by Mis ''J'. Burns, and the gentleman's went to Mr G. Winter

A reminder is given to our readers of the meeting to be add tossed in Levin to-night by Mr O. A. W. Moncktnn, the official candidato of the Reform Party. The speech has been looked forward to by all sides in politics, and a. big a.ndience is assured. The Mayor of Levin had been .asked to preside, but lie has been called away on a business matand probably the choice of a chairman will be left to the meeting. Mr R. McNab, speaking at Palmorston North last night, made, an interesting reference to the case of Mr T. K. .Macdonald, regarding which so many Opposition speakers have made false assertions. Mr McNab remarked that "there was the Kennedy Maedonald matter in which the Chief Justice was charged with excluding the press. The Government had nothing to do with that. Neither was it Sir Robert Stout who gavo the order, but Mr Justice Cooper who did it at the request of both parties to the private suit and Sir "Robert Stout when he continued the hearing of the suit simply carried out Judge Cooper's order."

The difficulties which have /or some days been the subject of negotiations between the Northern Coal Company and Mr !'. Seinple, organiser of the New Zealand Federation of Labour (says the Auckland Herald), have been satisfactorily settled. A lew clauses in the agreement between the minors at Kiripaka, and the eompn.ny wore adjusted to the satisfaction of both parties. In connection with the TJikurangi mine there was .a small hitch over a personal matter, and that dispute has al.so been settled. People out Taradalc way 'rust have a peculiar taste for hop ale f.says the I ribune). A witness in Xapier Court stated that between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. he consumed nine bottles of thi> beverage. Anjthor witness, referring to the hop ale phase of the case, said the Accused had made about fifteen trips to vhc store for thi* drink during the day, and at one time he had been known to drink bottles of , it in an hour. ' Did it affect him;'' naively as-.d his worship. Ihe witness gav? assurance, that it d'd. Taradalc should be careful. A man with thir'fco'j'i bottles of hop ale under his waistcoat is about as dangerous a plug of dynamite or an | anarchist's temb. Some months ago a cablegram was published to the effect that GIOOO j had been placed with the Home Secretary as a prize for an efficient electric miner's safety lamp. Mr W. IT. Hewlett, of the New Plymouth Borough Council's electric lighting staff, has (states the Taranaki News) nndertaken the task of competing neainst the world for the prize, and has designed and constructed a lamp fulfilling the rer|iiiremeuts and conditions set out for competition. The lamp is a fullsize model, js designed to give fourcandle power for twelve hours, and should prove most serviceable in collieries for tunnel work.

In the course of an address at the Poultry Conference, Mr J. B. MerI rett. secretary to the Association, I considered ifc was high time the industry received a better measure of protection from tlie Government At present, ccrsts could be bought in Russia and Germany for .as low as 4-d per dozen ; they were imported to Aew Zealand in thonsa.nds of dozens, and seriously interfered with the profits of tlie local poiiltrymen. In the slimmer tlie confectioners would not- give more tlian 9d a dozen for •looa.l eggs because tlie imported- egsrs could lie b'oufflit as cheaplv. If a higher duty were put on imported egss tlie local poultrvmen would be able toget a fair margin of profit, and mi edit also be able to commence an export trade.—Christchurch News.

A band of Galician gipsies now in London are keen bargainers. They tried to tempt a London policeman to part with his bicycle for a shilling the othei day. Baron de Constant, the French, advocate of international peace, has estimated that the wars during the revolution and the first Empire have reduced the population of France by 20,000,000. He estimates that the wars cost the lives of between 2,000,000 and 5,000,000 men, and multiplying the minimum by several generations he reached his co'ii'dusion. In an address at Feilding last Friday night, the lie v. 11. B. S. Hammond referred to a full-page advertisement whic:h appeared in a. Wellington paper giving a number of pictures of Masterton business premises which are represented as lieing empty as the result of Nolicense. Mr Hammond said he had been in Masterton that morning, and he had investigated the. matter. He found that in one case the premises had never boon closed at all, in another there were two pictures of one building, taken from different positions to make them .appear like two buildings. In another ease the photograph of the place was apparently taken while the shutters were up on account of the death of the proprietor The whole advertisement was so misleading and false that, forgetting lie was a pan-son, he would say the Yiest way to reply to it was to print across'it, "The Liquor Party are dammed liars!" Mill. McManaway, who was in the audience, afterwards said at the meeting that he had sent the matter for the advertisement, and he would give C 25 to the Hospital if what he had sent was found to be untrue. He had not seen the paper. Mr Hammond retorted that if the paper had published something he had not sent lie hoped Mr McManaway would prosecute the paper for libel. As far as the facts were concerned, he would nominate the Mayor of Feilding—whom he did not know—and Mr McManaway could nominate a man. .and let the two investigate. Mr McManaway nominated the ftev. G. Budd. Arrangements were left in the bands of these gentlemen. Arsenate of lead for the eodlin ninth post; fungicide for blight, scale and all fungous diseases of fruit trees and vegetables; also TTellobore and Gishurst Compound are- obtainable from C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy, Oxford street. — Advt.