LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 May 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Levin fanner yesterday told a Chronicle reporter that early in April there is a certain amount of minor trouble among sheep. This year there has been none. The diseases that this year are absent arc facial exeeina and nasal hot. The reason, he said, that these troubles had not appeared, was because there had been no sudden 'break between the extreme dryness of the pastures and the flush of grass from the autumn rains. The showery season had prevented that sudden change from the extreme dryness to the new autumn growth which brings on these troubles. Neither of these diseases is epidemic, hut they take a toll from most sheepfanners in the months of April and May.

Nov. A. C. Randerson's subject at tlie. Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening will he " The Drift from the Old Theology." The annual general meeting of the Levin Horticultural Society is fixed for Thursday next, 30th May. The balance-sheet will disclose a satisfactory state of finance, notwithstanding the poor results from the autumn show. Mr F. 0. Stuckey, headmaster of Island Hay school, who lias been promoted to the position of inspector under the "Wellington Education Hoard, was last night entertained at a "social" by ex-pupils of the school. Mr Stuckey is a son of Mrs Stuckey of Levin. It is reported that certain white settlers are shooting ducks on Horowllfliua lake. The Maoris are'disturbed about the matter, ami it is stated that a well-known Levin citizen will be prosecuted for having shot ducks in these prohibited waters. The Church of England Men's Society will meet on Monday evening next at St. Mary's Vicarage, at 8 p.m., when the subject of discourse will be "Influence of Wealth upon Character." For the future all meetings will be held fortnightly on Monday, instead of Thursday at the Vicarage. Five degrees of frost were registered in Levin on Thursday night at the District High .School, and the' barometer at present is wry high L'il.B. Throughout the whole of May tile pressures have been very high. This morning's frost was even hoarier than yesterday's initial one, and tliiclc ice was on every pool. At Koputaroa milk was frozen while under cover of the dairies.

j I.' roiu a correspondent.:—"Sir,— In your issue, of last Tuesday yon state "Food Value of Honey" was written lor Department of Agrienlj tiire. Allow me to state "Food Value of lToiH'.v" was writ-ton by Dr. C. C. .Miller, of Marengo, Illinois, 1.5.A.. long before beekeeping became a protected industry in tin's dominion.'-' A part .sonif by four Maori girl* from Oban will he an item in the programme for next Tuesday's public concert at Levin Town Hall. Tlie singers will lie the Misses Parewai AYoihopeihaua. "Winnie Hawiri. Maire to TTiwi and llori to Iliwi. 'I hey will be accompanied by Miss MeLoavoy. Levin i,s not such an iiiiiinportani. place as some of ii.s detractors assert it is. Proof is afforded by tin- travels of a letter addressed from .How, London, (o " , reporter. Levin,-' no mention being in ado of New Zealand. This letter found its way Ito Levcii, in .Scotland. Theiico it wont to a Yorkshire village, and the next day was re-posted with the words, t; Try Horowhenua Chronicle. Levin, ,\>w Zealand." That letter arrived yesterday. The, early year spurt in chick raising is dying down now, and poultry raisers anticipate quieter times ""til duly or August. Mr H. Leger, the Woraroa day-old-cliick specialist reports that from 31st March he has incubated mj chicks, and of these 1027 have been despatched from Levin. One lot went to Gisborno. Mr Loger has received an order for n sotting of AYhite Leghorn eggs from Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. These wore sent by the 'Frisco mail hoat on Friday, and Mr Logor states that "bar too rough handling it would not surprise him a hit if they hatched out there quite as well as they could in New Zealand." Don't go limping along as if vou hadn't two feet to walk on. Vou can get rid of those corns casilv. painlessly, .and quickly |, v using the "Special Indian Corn Cure." Obtainable from C. 8. KecdwoU's Pharmacy in one shilling bottles - Advt.