Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 November 1912, Page 2

Local and General

As no entered our office yesterday afternoon a pleasant looking Maori girl apparently in her earliest teens interrogated us. "You come to have your tenth pulled out?" As a matter of fact we had just returned from an "extracting" expedition

- but it hiul Ijeeii money wo wore trying to pull, not cheques— so we answered in the negative. '"Cause if you do I'm first; 1 been waiting!" the girl added. After listening to the information that the dentist's place was two doors higher up she said "Oh yes!" but continued on our doorstop for (|uito a time, with an attitude that showed she was not going to be ".shifted off" her pitch by what she regarded as our flimsy pretence about The Chronicle not being a dentist's establishment.

J Good progress lias been made by | Mr C. Nees, Maua.kau, with his conI tract to put' down tennis courts at Manaknu Public School. The Manakau Tenuis Club is hopeful of being ablo to open its season at the new grounds' in about a fortnight's time. There were few entries in the sweet pea class at the Levin flower show yesterday, but those entered were very good considering the unpropitious season. Mrs C. Jackson, of Foxton, was the principal entrant, and the Moms mado a distinct oacquisition to the show,.

The gooseberries entered at the Levin show were on the whole a very good class. Tlioso of Mr J'udd, weighing 14Joz.s, were specially fine.

The one-time brilliant sprinter Lord Soult, who claims an engagement in the Feilding Stakes, has been getting "through some gootl workon the tracks at Hastings.

Aii excellent photograph of the asparagus bed at the "Weraroa Expermciital Farm, with with Mr W. H. Taylor, the horticulturist, in the centre, appeal's in the November issue of the Journal of Department of Agriculture.

Various washaways have been experienced on the Manaluau roads, in which district the rains of the last three days have been much heavier than the falls at Levin and Shannon were. The bridge near Manakau creamery suffered severely in the "fresh" of Wednesday and Thursday, and the County Council will be put to tlie expense of practically renewing the structure. "Once upon a time," Mr T. W. Stringer, K.C., informed a. Christchurch jury in a slander case, "a man had the privilege when he married a woman of taking possession of all her property. The law has taken away that privilege, but it has allowed him to retain the privilege o|' paying for his wile's misdeeds." Mr Stringer was careful to point out that bo considered this perfectly right, hut, still, it was a point for the jury to take into consideration when arriving at theii verdict.

The profits of pig-keeping are demonstrated Ity the experiences of Mr 11. Quertier of Guernsey Park, Mataura. A Yorkshire sow, which he has owned for six year,s, has produced two litters each year, averaging LM suckers per annum, which in all have yielded the owner a return of C7O, giving a yearly income ot ;C 11 13s Id. Her last litter gave a gross return of CI I 13s Id. Her last litter gave a gross return of £'11 l.iis (jd.

The Pukekoha farmers are practically dependent on native labour for getting their potatoes out of the ground (says the local correspondent of the New Zealand Herald). When the Maoris heard that Mahuta was dead they all "downed towns" and set off for the tangi, promising to come back at the end of tlie week, but their week will probably last as long as the tangi. Farmers ottered good money to white diggers, but there were very few about at the time. Eignatz Schramka. in Levin S.M. Court, was fined os costs for having ridden a bicycle in a public place, ■between sunset and sunrise, without a light. Thomas Stoekwell and Norman "White were similarly lined for similar offences; also Ben Stickles for having driven a vehicle iv, Queen street without a light. David Watsnu, who pleaded not guilty to a, charge of having assaulted William Find lay. was found guilty of technical assault and fined os ; each side to pay its own costs. The case first mentioned was heard by Mr Ibomson. S.M.. the remainder came before Messrs W. C. Nation and Thomas Lowes, J.P's. Ihe late of the pitcher that went once too of len to the water bel'el a j woman uliose aim it was to extend j her patronage to the municipal or--1 gan recital without cost to herself, 'say.s the Chrislchiirch Press). On the occasion of previous recitals, when the cash takings were being ! counted, the calculators were pained to discover in the heap of small coin contributed by the audience a leaden disc -about the size of a threepennybit, and presumably intended to represent that humble, but necessary coin. 'Ihe door attendants were accordingly advised of this scheme to defraud the council, and last night the delinquent was caught, red-handed, placing the dummy coin in the plate. She received a little homily on the virtue of honesty, '■md was allowed to depart.

Mr A. 1). Thomson. S.M. sat at Levin this morning in civil jurisdiction. Defendant,s in the following cases did not appear, and judgment was entered tor plaintiffs in each instance:-H. Sigglekow v. Mary Anderson, CO 8s od, costs, £1 13s (id; Irv.ine V. Lee v. Luke Perew hiti £-1 11,s. costs, £• I .'is (id; Prouse Arcus and Palmer v. Stanley G. Chaplin. £?> 9s 3d, costs CI 4s Gd : •T. P. Kennedy v. IT. P. Harris CI.

| costs 10s; M\ Fisher y Luke Toms, C 7 7s od, costs C 2 Os (5d : Levin Meat mid Cold .Storage Co. y. J. E. Mudgwav, £h 2,s 10d, CT .'ls Od ! same v Mudgway and Staveley. CI 12s 2d costs TOs. Three judgment summonses were determined. Oeorge Revjin was ordered to pay CM ] forthwith to X. 0. Holdawfly, the penalty for default being fixed at fourteen days' imprisonment. R. H. 'Moore was ordered to pay £~t lis fid to R. C. Iliggins fortliwitli. or go to prison for seven days. 15. AY. 10. Curran was ordered to pay C 2 2s hi Ahrnliiiip mul Williams. Limited, forthwith, or go to prison for three days None of the judgment debtors appeared. Tn the case of Albert Leader v. E. AVliitebead. claim CI 13s fid, heard on 11th November. tho justices gave judgment for plaintiff for ihe amount claimed, with 5s costs. Defendant did not appear. Save your roses and other plants b,v spraying them with "Cirengol" which destroys green fly .and various other pests. \on-poisoiious and most effective. A .shilling tube will mage 20 gallons in a. few minutes. Obtainable from O. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy.—Advt.