Local and General.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 October 1912, Page 2

Local and General.

•"-' ♦—*—— Particulars of the returns of l\JLanohi, a iiKMiiber of the State Farm Holstcin herd, may be of interest to dairymen: Calved Jjuly 31st 1911; dried off /August ed July 31st, 1911; dried off August 12th, 1912; return, 20,4021bs of milk; calved September 12, 1912. Although only one month less between the seasons, she gave last Friday 99Jlbs, Saturday 99}H>s, {Sunday/lQUbs,

The laying of the four cornerstones of a memorial to the Pilgrim I , jitlicrs. the anniversary of wh jse sailing in the Mayflower on August 10. Ki-l). was commemorated at Southampton last nidiitli. formed tin , outstanding feature of flu* celebrations. The Times says: "Originally it was intended to sot. ii)i ;i .structure representing the lion <>! the -M.;jyflow vr, lull the e.N])ense was loiuid to be too great. The memorial will consist of ;i pillar of stone •lOft hiirh. Mild it will he hiiilt on tlie "Western KsplaiKide. near (Ik , *poi from wliere the ])il'jrrims ombarked. on an old wooden buttress, which originally formed pad of the anriVnl city walls." The panels of th,. nieinorial will lie supplied hy (hi niemhors of die \Vin<lo\v. Brewsier and John Alden families. I

The persistent o| tnh.:iccnu r rowin<r with which the Victorian department of Am-K-ulture has been

i eiicouraoint:; \'iciori-:ms fee sunn yciirs has attained hotter results in tho last yield ilkui at ,any previous lime in the history of the indnsirv. The cioj) was eNCeptionally line. and Ikis put sncli lieart into the that (.he department, is now ivceiviiifr an iinn.siiallv lar.L'e nninhoi "f -ipplications for M rd and inf.,v niation. A proportion of these np plications comes from so far .afield iis South Australia. Westt-rn Anstra lia Mild Xew Zealand. The depart "lent has jusf received ;i (|iianti(y of *eed of three vnrietiVs of 'and ciyiar toliacco from Cuba, Connect! '•lit. Kentucky, and elsewhere. Tt is intended to propagate this .seed under partially experimental conditions, in order to determine the suitability of the various classes of plants for the different classes of Moils find dim,ate> of the Stnto. Tliereaffer see<l will be distributed

to private growers

'Hie. police have taken duirjie ol ii iiuiii who is suffering iVoin loss cf niciiiory. Kor ;1 [ ( >w (l;iys lu- \v : , living lit kakiiniii in ;1 hut v.\ to a keeper tlier<\ ; ;

which he liiul taken |>o.ssesskm. He hardly had anvtlii"ji «r to oat. on]\ once or twice going io the boardinghouse and asking if his dinner \va ready. He was given f ll(M ] wJicuover he asked for it, but most of the time appeared to totally forget the use of or need for food. To people addressing him lie made no replv. They became alarmed and sent word to the police that there \v;is u lunatic at large out there. The man was brought into the polity Nation yesterday, and this morning was examined |,y medical men and (he Magistrate, but with little result. He was evidently considerably weakened by his continued abstenanco from food and could give no aeMHiiit of his wanderings. A l-'ttle money was found in his possession, also a letter from a bank at Stratford, .stating that lie Iwd a credit balance to Jifs account there. li o made a disconnected statement in which Stratford, his wife, a child dead, a sister at Auckland, and ghosts were mentioned. He was remanded till Monday for further oxiunination. The man is respectably dressed and appear* to be about 10 year* of age. although, according a> himself, he might be anything up" wards from 1000 years of ,a,tro. Since he has been taken in charge by the police the man Las recovered somewLat. though his memory is =f,il very hazy.— Oamaru Mail

Scenic, dramatic ami comic subjects arc included in the programme of moving pictures to he displayed this evening at the King's Theatre, Levin.

A statement was recently made in the House in reference to the outbreak of enteric in the Fox ton district tlmt one case was tinder troMtnu'iit for a month lieforo development. Of the three oases sent from Fox-ton (says the Herald) one wa.s sent to the Palmer.ston Hospital Avitliin two <].ays of the medical visitation, and the other two eases within trtventy-four hours.

The inventor of the universal kintfuage, Volapuk, a priest named Martin Schleyer, died at Constance on Align..! 17, at the age of 81. Vola.piik w,as first launched in 1880 in .South (!(!rmany, and in 1885 it spread to l'Vance, and thence ' over

the civilised workl. In 1889. when the. third Volapuk Congress met at lain's, there wciv 28H Volajiuk societies, and over 1,000.000 students. The decline of the language dated from that congress, ami of recent, .vear.s. since the rise of -Esperanto, little has been heard of it.

Thirteen births and two man ia"os wore registered during Mr E. W. Oshorno, the Shannon Registrar of Vital Statistics. There wore no deaths recorded.

The proposed "one day strik; , " does not iind favour with the l'"'oxton flaxinill workers (according to the local Herald) ~m ! there is *aid to be a determination amongst them to ignore the fixture. -Mrs AY. Toinpsitt. the wile of a prominent vice-president of the Ilorowheuiia A. and P. Association, has promised a bracelet for the bidies driving competition in connection with the show whidi Is to be held on .January •»). The gift is much J appreciated, and will no doubt be J, the means of increasing interest in '.. these classes. ii ....

jj "Rome never changes" is an an- , oieiit nmiin. hut I.evin does! Kvery I'l.v.'il citi/.en makes a mental note <>f the progressive strides this failcity takes. Gas (and plenty of it. elocutionary and otherwise), watei (one wonders where it oil goes to). library (the mass of information available is sufficiently indigestible to support another doctor), and.

J lie l«ito General Booth and t]u> late Dean Gregory. of St. I'aul'.s, were kinsmen. spi.'iulinjr their <*Jif I<lhoud near together .at .Nottin,u;liJiiii. Ihe Booth.s wore (Jiturch people, mid the Gregorys, in those davs, prominent A\<'s](>\;ilis. Dean Hannah, of Chichester. is also of the aimstock. Iho Kov. Alirahajn Booth. m noted Baptist preacher in the late eighteenth century. who bore the same Christian name as General Moot It s inicl<', ako en nie from the Helper district. T)ean Gregory's son is now Bishop of .Manitoba. Commenting on the proposal to provide ".silence carriages" (in the l''rench State railways, the writer o| the ".Notes Sociale>" in the G:iulois says: Iho rijihl to speak to me when 1 am in a railway carriage is. in Kr.iinee. amongst I he rights of man. ;ind everyone makes use of it with annoying persistence ;ind want of tact,. What is peculiar is that the same itehimj; to talk to someone who is Hiving nothing to yon does not exist on tranicnrs or omnibuses, or tlie underground railway. Thai is heciiu.se everyone knows he will soon he at his destination. But j with a .journey of five or six hours in j prospect, there is not a single mid- ! die class Krcnohnian. who. in the j terror of roiiKiinin<r three hundred j niiniites without speak inn. doe* not hasten to be the li Ist to enter into conversation. |

t marvel of marvels the ferro-concrete i 111 it)i iijlc haths. One wonders what we're coining- to next! Well, Levin's latest change is to lie a liat trimming competition in place of • bod inakiiio- Ca,s the latter is likely to cause scandal. Also screw-driv-inij inxtond of imi[ driving. (This , lias no connection with <l<>ntistiy). | Also decorated tallies, with a suh-i-stantiiil prize. Rumour *ays Mrs f H. IL Hardener is taking charge of i Levin's latest chanties at the "C :n- ---! i' l - Old Knslish Fair next Wed;.. > day. An interesting electrical device lor eiiahlinn' tanners and fruitgrowers to ho warned liy wireless telegraphy ol the approach of had wo.ather has heen invented and pare"te<l Ijy ]\| r I'jmene f.'ratz, a r ind<iu engineer, says the .Mollxm In England and other countries ol small area, an unfavourable change in the weather frequenth arrives helore the agriculturist has tune to intake provision against; it. 'I he ordinary method of <list rihut inofficial forecasts i.s slow and inefiicient. and at hes(. covers only a porJiiou of (he field. With wii'eless | telegraphy, operated from one or | two cmitres. the whole of the farni- - Irrs " radius of several lmnj *1 reds of miles could he supplied *j m _ j ultaneously with l.rief information. J -Mr Cratz's apparatus is a simple receiver of telegraphic wave«. worked | m con junction with an indicator divided into rotters and numerals. each of which corresponds to sruiie metcomlou'ieal advice. Ko,-

stance. he explains, if -'K" ,-eprescuts "frost. ,; on tJi,. appmarh ~f fl'Ost 111.- ll)(.'|.'lim| (l n;i(.j,| odifV W,)!l|(| M ' n,l '»"* ■■•' certain nnnili.T of iniP'llsi'K wliirl, woiiW lie so s.vnclnnnas to operah- Hi,. |~tt,.|- ••I-'" ;in< l lit ll»' siinio time rinjr .n,, a| ;in .i. districts and tii,,r> are similarly in<licat:(xl l, v sets of mnnoi-aK. ' The weiVoi* would |.»<t little, jmkl any I'aniior provided H -JMi one uimld ~J,V« * "i" "vntlKM- Jin.! I)roh ; :ls (~i|if.iniiiiii>lv l,er,,iv ,i;, " i'-s tin- nror-1 of H,,. !m,, 5 ,.1,,,|,! <''"i-k. I'mposals for tli<. ofn.-ii,! i"l;'P* i<Mi of the inreiilio,, are n,.\v l| »;i»f-' ronsidered at Hi.- niei,,,rolu.li'icnl odire in Lmidon. : I