Local and General The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1913. ALLEGED BOYCOTT BY WELL INGTON MERCHANTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 January 1913, Page 2

Local and General

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY

LEVIN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1913.

ALLEGED BOYCOTT BY WELL INGTON MERCHANTS.

A newspaper report on the Wellington egg market supplied by some Wellington produce merchants states that "while there is a good demand for eggs, the supplies are arriving freely, and wiles are being effected at 10-Jd to lid I"''' dozen.'' Several Levin poultrymon who were met together on AYedne.sday night dissented .strongly from the suinmnrv above quoted, and said it was absolutely misleading, and was fixed unfairly. The railway freight retuni:for Levin station, they said, would show beyond dispute that the quantities of eggs sent forward from tin's district this month represented considerably less than half the total eggs out in the flush of the laving .season, and yet Wellington prices at that: period ran from 101 to Is per dozen. As Levin and district supplies the prepondei ating volume of Wellington's eggs. toda.v\s quoted price of eggs. they argue, is quite an unjustifiable one. and they say unequivocally that ; i has been fixed as the result of a conspiracy between certain Wellington merchants who are bent on beating out of business the Wellington ngen l of several co-operative bands of

poultry men in the Wairarapa, I lull and Horowhcnua districts. The further assertion was made by the poultrymon. last Wednesday, that quite an arbitrary standard of values was being; fixed by the merchants: in short, that eggs alleged to be sold by public 'auction were not submitted to competition, but in reality were sent out by the auctioneers to their shopkeeper customers and charged for at whatever price the auctioneers were pleased to put upon them.

AMERICAN NOVELS

Amisuk'AN novels have a characteristic touch of human pathos. ail inwardness of .survey, that atones fo'' their .shortcomings in other directions; lor tlieir occasional uneveness of quality and their common lack of plot. Tlieir very weaknesses at times are their sources of .strength, inasmuch as they appeal to «i large class of readers to whom the nicoticof composition are nothing, and .strict adherence to sot rules and syntax needless. The American novel, in short, is instinct with emo tional stress and endued with moving scones of everyday joy iand sorrow—and hence it comcfc that they sell by millions whore the more cleverly constructed and enduring works of the masters of literature lie i'i their hundreds on the upper shelves. These remarks of general application have been drawn from us by ;i synopsis of the story of "The Old Nest'' —a recent novel by .Rupert Hughes —which has reachedus from Mr J W. Thompson, bookseller-, of Levin. Simply and solely for its human interest the synopsis is reprinted i" another column of to-day's Chronicle.

Throe boys who absconded from "Weraroa training farm last week made for the Gladstone road, and there visited a settler's farm. As the hour was 9 a.m., the boys thought the .settler would be away at work, .so they helped themselves to his fruit and other articles. He, however, was nursing; a cold, in bed, and they looked at him (open-mouth-ed with astonish men t) as he came upon them quietly. He tried ( o persuade them to return to the farm, but they would not heed liim, so bo left his home in order to inform the

training farm authorities of t!>o .state of affairs. Tho bovs loft For Shannon about the .same time: so the farm authorities fomif] nothing tangible on Gladstone road. At Shannon the lads entered tlio residence of a settler and stole some valuables from tlio place. Eventually Constable Doyle got, nil their "spoor," and ran two of them to earth and captivity, but >mt latest advices the tbird la 1 is still at large seeping who<-e apples be may devour. A Chicago man has been sued by storekeeper for -CiSo, Ihe value of tans lie has en leu during the past two vears.

A C'!andc''oye set Her. following an example set in Otago, is {-oiiverting California!! thistle into ensilage. Ho has seven or eiiht acres of thistles la work on. -Timaru Herald.

Mntiii -cars br.vo be.mi used for p~>lo by American sportsmen. Specially built cars are used, one man drivnr: ae.d .another standing oil the running b'.'ird holding a mallet.*

"Humous Reading.'' (.•' 'The I.ogic of a Had Heart," will be Rev. A. C. Randei'san's subject .at the l'i e-byteria n Church on Sunday

Applications from t.-aeliers are called for (by the Wellington Hduealion Hoard) to lill ihe post of assistant master at Levin public school. The salary runs from £'100 to CI SO per annum. "These cases are all alike -a ■' -vcle, a car, a corner, a crash, and a mass of contradictions!'' said .ludge MilI'gan ai Norwieb County Court, in •living of t'lil) aw-tin-l motorist who ran into n cyclist the '.'tiler day. Al'ier living happily together for over twelve mrmths in one kennel it. a Melverdere (Kent > hotel, a family rm.s'si ing of a spaniel, a wirehaired terrier, a black cat. four pigeons, a bantam cock, and a tortoise, has been broken up by the spaniel killing the birds.

A i;i:* n with a gold plate in his head. steel Liifilers between his iib>. steel elbows, and a .steel bar sup- !> >rtiu his ..pin,' fixed after lie fell ->)0 loot into the river at Quebec - :s hulking lor work in Canada, (here are foily-t we pounds of met ill in liis body. I'or a Short horn bull, u }ti;-h he boll Lib l in tile spring lor e I'M 10 s. Mr George Campbell. of Mieldside. near Aberdien, lias secured fj.'il JI :>■ 'I sale in Buenos Ayres. .Mr l Vnnpbell. wbo exports Shortborns the Argentine, obtained an aver I'-ie t>l' for eight bulls. T)r. Stotzer Buetzer. in one of the ! :>ft• ]l',ll medical reviews, writes a ; ' I : ' Hows on the ino'lieinal and hygienic properties of Hie apple. Apples "aten immediately before bed time oronioie the health generally. Fts diefotical as well as diluent aiy subd'Hice el tin l liighesi; order. Ii contains more phosphoric acid in an ■■arily digesiible combination than any oilier vegetable product. It is 0) good brain lood : (2) excites the 'unctions of the liver: ('.'l) promotes ■i sound .find quiet sleep: M) disinfects the nioutli : (73) 'agglutinates flie sulphus acids of the stomach: ''(i) paralyses hemorrhoidal disturbances; (i) helps the secretions of the kidney and prevent'-; calculous

'vnicretinn : (?; obviates indigestion : •iinl (0) is a good preventative vraiiist diseases of the I limit.

Six children in a little over tliir!"on months is the remarkable record ; l clii ld-brenring oi Mrs Stephen Nugeotte. of French Town . Craw'•"•(l County, l .S.A. She has borne teen children in twelve veiars and thirteen of liieni are living. O'u ■v'piomber 10th, till 1, she gave birth to triplets (two girls .and a hov). and

recently three sturdy boys arrived, 'list thirteen months and twenty days after the other trio. The mother was the belle of an old French settlement before her marriage, twelve years ago, to Nagcotte, a

farmer, also o(' French descent. Five vears .ago c;>mo twins, to ho follow- "( Iby two isi]tli: 1 o children, and Hum: (lie 1 riple.ts in 1917. One of the tliloc last born dip*] a few months ''go, lint tlio other two were crying lustily when the now ti'io arrived. Mrs Xagoolio is in small woman, ami docs all lior own work, inchicliiig tlio care of tlio children.

Lo.cal cricket circles are interested in more than one direction just now At in meeting of the Uorowhenua Cricket Association management committee, held at the London .Stu dio on Wednesday, it was announced Foxton was compelled to withdraw from the competition, being unable to get a team. This now leaves four teams in the lists. .Shannon is at the top of the table, but a match that possibly will alter the rota takes place on Saturday next at the Boys' Training Kami, between Shannon and Otaki. Uot-h tc ■am.s will be well represented, and Tocallv Otak i is fancied the most, Should Otaki win, the destination of the Hugh Hall shield will hang in the balance until further matches are played. Levin meets Kimberley on the Levin ground on Saturday, and should win. Xext Wednesday will he a big day for cricketers. The Horowhenna representatives are meeting Air K. Windlev's XT (Porirua), in an all-day match on the Levin oval. This is Anniversary Day and a public holiday. Tt will I>e also "a clay of days" fov the local Druids who meet the Palmer.ston Druids at cricket, also on the oval. Residents will do well to support the only attraction on Anniversary Day and in cidentnllv help tlie loen 1 cricket tea m.

Users and misusers of tlie water races are specially requested to peruse fin advertisement appearing in to-day's Chronicle from the controlling local authorities. Gregorio Finimondi, an Italian exsoldier, who distinguished himself in Trpoli, has appealed through the Tress of Buenos Ayres, where ho is now residing, begging his countrymen to cease from feting him, as their hero-worship will drive liim to suicide. The secretary of tlio Agricultural and Pastoral Association announces that he s prepared to receive entries for the approaching annual show (20th January) up till Monday morning. This is being done to give those who have forgotten to enter full opportunity of doing so. The day mentioned will be absolutely the last opportunity. All citizens interested in the Levin brass band arc requested to note that a public meeting is called for this evening by the Mayor, for the purpose of appointing band trustees and other officers. The meeting takes place to-night TFriday) at 8 o'clock, in the Borough Council Chambers. The public is requested to bear in mind that some of the band instruments already are the property of the citizens, and that in the future many will be bought out of the public donations. The bandsmen themselves, by their officers. are anxious to protect their supporters and tho public against accident or possible wrong that might occur in the future, and therefore ask the public to take some of the responsibility of management and control. Sufferers from Chronic .Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago and such like "omplaints, who are interested in fhe. "Oxypalhor" treatment, can secure machines an<] see testimonials it C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy.— Advt. ' '