Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 January 1913, Page 2

Local and General

_—« —,—.. The committee of the Horowhenua ;A. and P. Association is making an effort to obtain the Prime 'Minister's (the Hon. W. 8, Massey) consent to open the show on the.29th January. In response to a letter eent to him by the secretary of the Association, the Hon. Mr Massey has. >sent the fallowing reply :-^'Q^om-^t : : feceipt of your letter of the 23rd inst., and will be gl.'td if you. will kindly convey to your committee ipy. thanks for the invitation-.to;-open the annual show at 29th January. At the moment Fvaj|ij.:not certain about being; back in Wellington from my tour ,by the date named. happen to ho in the of Lpvin on tho 29tli proximo, "I shall be glad indeed, to undertake the opening ceremony. I will let you know a little later, whether there is any likelihood of my being able to attend the function.—fill's, faithfully, W. F. Massey,''

Matters are now settled in connection witli the benefit picture display hold in aid of the Levin recreation grounds, under arrangement wtli the combined hockey clubs of Levin. The result is a net credit of £1. -We regret to learn that Mrs Walter Simpson found it necessary to undergo a serious operation for appendicitis at the Levin private hospital last Friday. She is making satisfactory progress towards recovery, the operation having proved successful. Master Douglas McDonald, who last week met with a serious Occident, also is making satisfactory progress. • A man was chargcd at Tottenham with assaulting his wife, but she did not appear. A policeman: "The accused says they have talked it over, and then he has forgive]) his wife." The Magistrate. The boot is on the wrong foot." The accused: "No, she lias asked me to forgive her for bringing me hero, and I liavo done so." A Foxton undertaker has found it necessary to advertise a refutation of a statement that lie is "retiring from 'business.'' He.says, inter alia, "that having been established for the past *10 years,l have no intention of giving up business whilst I am able to walk to the cemetery. Having ia very large stock of coffin furniture, etc., on hand, T am in a position to," etc., etc. The building trade confines very I j risk along the West Coast of this island, and some contractors are offering as high as 2.s pur hour to carpenters without being able to get as many hands as tlioy need. The Jlorowhonua Chronicle hears that one New Plymouth contractor travelled down to Foxton recently, and visited several otVr towns, in his endeavour to gel. men to shift ta New Plymouth (passage paid) for a rise of IJd per hour on regular rates. On December iil.st a terrific snowstorm blocked the Western United -States Railway, the blizzard being the worst fo 20 years. At Milwaukee an avalanche killed a number of employees in the Cascade Mountains. Telegraphs and telephones were made idle all over the country, and considerable d.aimage was done otherwise. A rotary snow plough exploded on the Great Western Railwnv, killing five persons. At the next meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the Mayor of Levin intends to move that the Government be requested to furnish the Chamber with a copy of the report | the Government obtained (in con-, jnoeiion with sand drifts) from the | Government's experts. Mr Gardener aho intends to mave the Chamber I to enquire for information regarding |the reasons that none of the local lands offered for settlement some | months ago was accepted. He thinks it only right that some definite information should be given as to what is being done regarding this important question, and thinks that the Chamber, after havin moved in the matter, should know the intentions of the Government. An event of great interest and importance to the Methodists of New Zealand occurred last week. For some years there has been a movement for the separation of the New Zealand Church from Australian Methodism. Before this could come into operation certain legal formalities had to be complied with. These have all been completed, and, as authorised by the several Acts providing for the several deuce of the New Zealand Conference, the President of the General Conference has signed the necessary document declaring that from the Ist January, 1013, the Methodist Church of New Zealand comes into existence as a self-governing Church. The public celebration of this new departure will take place when the first independent conference meets in Wellington on February oth. It is expected that the General Conference will be represented by its president, the Rev. 11. Youngman, D.D., and the Rev. W. Morley. D.D. The latter of these is wellknown in New Zealand, whore he spent many years of his ministry, and in former years was a foremost advocate of New Zealand Methodist independence. From the report of the business done at the annual meeting of shareholders in Dalgety and Co., Ltd.— held in London last June—wo clip the following eiilogium on the New Zealand officials of the Company : — ' r Mr W. Acton-Adams: Mr Chairman and gentleman, I beg to move: That Messrs Gerard van do Linde and Son, of 4, Fencluirch Avenue, E.G. Chartered Accountants, be? elected auditors for the year ending ■30th June, 1913, at a remuneration of'three hundred guineas.. . In moving this resolution, I may say, 'Mr Chairman, that I have been a resident in New Zealand also two sons who are out there, and we have with Dalgety and Company for the' past thirty years. (Applause.) When I was in New Zealand recently looking after my property I saw the managers of both Christchurch and Dunedin branches),?; and I had relations with them. I may add that we placed in the hands of your firm the almost historical Clydesdale estate in Otago for subdivision", and sale, and j T am glad to hear that the whole of it has now been sold with the exception of one block. I would further like to add that gentlemen resident here in London can hardly bealivo to the view held by those who are resident in New Zealand of the very successful way in which this Company is conducted there and how admirably it is managed on the spot. (Applause). j Sufferers from Chronic Rheumat- I ism, Sciatica, Lumbago and such like complaints, who are interested in the "Oxypathor" treatment, can secure machines and see testimonials at C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy.— Advt. " I