LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The following will pkiy for Woraroa Football CI ul) mi Saturday against Shannon, at iSliiiuuirm:— Kingi, l?on\ J. Harawora. l'\ I'Vrris, ('. Luxon, Buku Wil.s.-i, ('. Bartholomew, A. IVingk , , King Hori, J. Devonshire. M. Archibald, Warren, 11. .Stickles, D. Simoon. F. Bartholomew, Boh Rore, W. Hansen, W. Raihana and T. Wilson. The team will leave by the 1 ji.m. train. "If all capitalists in Saw Zealand wore to die to-night, and go to Heaven—ofcourse thero would be no difficulty in that— it would inako no difference to the work of Now Zealand: the workers would go on with their work juist as usual. If all the workers in Xew Zealand diod to-night, who would do the work tomorrow?" Alderman Hartley, of the Bradford Town Council. Yorkshire, speaking at NVlson. We may add it would lie interesting to know who would pay the workers.-- Nelson Mail.

Good business i.s being doii'j locally in grain, say.s the Dunodin Star, largo sbipinciits of oats going beyond the dominion, mostly to Australia. As a mutter of fact ;i tremendous quantity of oats lias been .sont from .New Zealand and to Australia this year, the increase on the total at this time last year being close on liO,-b-igs. There i.s a keon demand from Australia for all kinds of fodder and good business has been done at advanced rates. The only obstacle in the way of .shippers here i.s .said to be (he lack of cargo accommodation in sliips. Ono linn complain* that the .Moeraki on Saturday shut out between .'10(10 and 1000 saoks.

On Sunday morning hist, inonkey|.shooting \\;i.s indulged ,'„ ~t Rotoru:i, iiiul the I'act jlijit it was deemed iicccssiiry should act «s a warning to (lioi-c who have .such animals, as pets or in captivity. No doubt many visitors lo Kotorua will remember tht' hi <s, p:iir of monkeys in one of the rami's. On I'Viday an atten'lant entered the cage to clean it out, when he \\-jis sarngely attacked by the inalr monkey, mid could not In , rescued until tin , cinimal was fcill<'<l. The attendant was very badly bitten. Meanwhile tin* female nion. key <'s,saj)cd I'rom the cage .and was at largo until Sunday morning, when two attendants, who hud boon hunting for her, Kiureedcd in shooting tho fugitive.

How the Wiiihi miners uau justify their .strike tactics seems beyond comprehension. If t!i<.'y arc acting on the advice and with the sanction of the Federation of Labour the Waihi trouble only goes to show what that organisation would tlo if it only possessed the power. It can only be hoped that the miners will realise the absurdity and tyrannous nature of their attitude towards the engine-drivers, who haveas much right to i'nnii a union of their own ias the minors or the members of any other occupation. Such absurd and unfair strikes can labour do no good for the cause of labour, lint are likely to exercise a most mischievous effect by alienating the sympathy of the general public with the cause of Labour; and public opinion is the all-compelling influence of the age.-Grey Kiver Argus. The evidence adduced at the hearing of a charge of breaking and entering »i n<l theft, which was investigated at the Dunediii .Juvenile Court revealed some strange features in the conduct of the accused, aged fifteen and seventeen respectively. It appeared that on Kaster Monday the younger boy was out of cigarette tobacco, and broke a shop window to get some. Probably frightened for the consequences, having admitted the. theft on being taxed by the police with it, they left their homes and subsisting on turnips and biscuit*, trudged as far an Oamarn, about 80 miles, sleeping under stacks. They bad also subsequently annexed at Sen cliff a boot brush and a enko of snap, with the intention of cleaning themselves up <md obtaining billots. They had actually started work at a mill nt Qainaru when traced and brought back. Both lack were given good characters, the younger boy haying won a junior free place and attended the technical school. The magistrate said the worst feature of the whole case, to his mind, was the theft of wine from an Oamarn church. The father of the younger boy midertook to "bring the matter 'homo to the errant one by a sound thrashing. The elder lad is to be sent to the country, the father to enter into recognisances for liis good behavious for twelve months,

A letter concerning bee-keepiug problems, from Mr E. J. Pink, of Ohau, will appear in to-morrow's Chronicle. At a meeting of considerably over 100 Northern Union Football League supporters, held in the Trades Hall, Wellington, last evening, it was unanimously decided to form a provincial league in Wellington. At the King's Theatre this evening skating will again be indulged in. The floor its in excellent condition, and the proprietary has made every arrangement for the comfort of patrons. The Hon. G. Fowlds will give an address in the Century Hall on Wednesday next week, on "The Aims and Objects of the United Labour Party of New Zealand." The mect- [ ing will be held under the auspices of the Otaki Independent Labour party, and Mr Hobertson, M.1 , ., will preside. H:iys the Foxton Herald:—At a meeting of members of the local football club held Inst night it was decided to disband. This decision was come to on account of the lack of interest taken by members, the club finding it impossible to get a full iiftoon to take the field. It is probable that several prominent players will throw in their lot with .Shannon. The Kev. D. C. Bates wires :- Present indications are for strong southerly and south-easterly winds, squally at time in most parts of the country, with cold and changeable weather. Heavy showers are probable on the 'East Coast, especially. Frost.s are. to be expected inland at night. The barometer is unsteady, hut is due to rise in the South. There is a falling tendency in the Xorth. but little movement is indicated at present. The .New York Herald tells a "story"' of a bulldog. Two men, Messrs Archibald Grecr ami lLall Brown, we are told, in the poultry business. Greer furnished the experience and Brown funnVhed the capital and a bulldog. They started with 20 lien.s and a rooster, and bad very poor success until Greer suggested that they put the bulldog's home in the chicken yard and have, the animals kept there iji order to prevent the stealing of chickens and ogg.s. Lately the poultry farm has been producing 20 eggs from 20 hens djiy in and day out. Upon investigation the partners found that when a. lien came out in the morning the bulldog chased her into his lioiuso and kept watch over her while she laid an egg. He then chased her off ;uid chased another hen into the doghouse, and repeated the egg-producing treatment. By live o'clock in the evening of each clay the l>o hen* had each been forced to contribute one egg to the Groei-Hrown combination. Mr Grcer has been offered <~00 dollars for the bulldog, but has refused.

The, most striking feature of tliu jouriuilLstic world at Home in the last century was that .England Jiad no daily papers outside London, which bad twelve, .Scotland bad nono at all, Ireland had two at Dublin. J'!d in burgh uvis content, with a tri-weekly evening paper and five papers published twice a week. Glasgow Jiad two tri-weekliets. Manchester bad two hi-weeklics, but Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield and the other chief provincial centres were (supplied with only weekly papers. Tu-diay London has. instead of twelve daily papers, twenty four morning and eight evening papers, and the dailies issued in Groat Britain number 1191. In 18)0 the total number of newspaper* of nil kinds published in the Old Country was ooO: last .vear it was 2398. The total circulation of tin , paper* in 18f(! was under 80,000,000. In the absence of a stamp act, such its then oxi.sled, it is- impossible to .say what i.s the- aggregate circulation of the British press, but Mr iStend mentioned, as giving some indication of the onorinonus growth of the newspaper press, that last year Lord N'ortliclifl'e said that his company alone, published 12,000.000 journals every week, or 01 1,000,000 a year.

! A pleasant little function, took ' place at Lav in Hotel hist evening, when a lew friends assembled to wish Messrs A. McCiafim and M. Ryan an revoir on their return to Hawke's Bay. Messrs McGaffin and Uyau reeently motored from the Hawked ■B«'iy district for a week's shooting in tho district, and Mr J. R. Macdoiiald kindly gave them permission to shoot over his run. Mr Hugh Hall, in asking the company to drink to their health, wxprossed the pleasure they all felt in having had their visitors among them. Mr it via n, in reply, remarked that they had had some excellent sport in Levin, .and though ho had visited many places in tho dominion, he thought Levin's hospitality exceeded tho hospitality of fany other locality. (Applause). Chapped hands, rough cracked skin, sore lips, all speedily yield to «■ few applications of "TJenzonia Cream." Busy housewives cannot do without it, for keeping the hands clean. Price Is Gd jar, from C. S. Ke.edwcll, Dispensing Chemist. — Advt.