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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 January 1913, Page 3

The office of sexton to tho Levin cemetery is vacant, and the Borough Council advertises to-day for applications from persons willing to act as sexton. .Full particulars may be had on application to tho Town Clerk. '

A number of Wailii minors who proceedc<l to the West Coast of tlio South Island were able to find employment soon after their arrival. Several West Cast mines liavo been working fihort-handed for close on a year, and work was readily found for the new arrivals. A Waikato resident advertises i'i the Ha worn Star as follows"Land seekons communicate with me, and I shall arrange to show you the besG land available in the Waikato. Board and lodgings arranged at my place. Land in my district is obtainable one-third less than in Taranaki." The uax property comprising 585 acres, recently purchased by Mr E. P. Levien from the Makorua Estate Company, has again changed hands, the new owners being Messrs Gibbs and Spiers, of Foxton. Mr Levien, who had only just completed the purchase, had made arrangements for the erection of a new mill on the property, but this will not now he gone on with as Messrs Gibhs and Spiers have decided to bring the green leaf into Foxton and mill it at their mill, recently purchased from the Hemp Process Company. Th is will necessitate the installation of another stripper, wliich work has already been put in hand, thus eonverting the mill into a three-strip-per one. The green leaf will be trammed on to the river bank at a spot near the site of the old Toko mill at Moutoa and will he brought to Foxt-on hv the river boats and punts.—Manawtu Herald.

In regard to what Age a borne can attain, the English Field recently published the following letter from the private secretary of the Maharajah of Balnuupur in answer io u correspondent: - "In re])ly to your letter of April 19, re the two Aral) horses Nami and Moti, I bog to enclose lierewith an extract from our superintendent of stables' report. T tivni sorry wo have no photographs of the horses"'Moti died ou January 2(i, 1907, 11 years old ; Nami died on May 14, 1907, 50 years old.' "