Local and Genera!.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1913, Page 2

Local and Genera!.

Aii eleven-year-old desperado i'ro:n Auckland. who ran awav from hoiiK' and work. vayiny "work was no good ii> him."' came before the Auckland ■S'.!M. last weelc. The-lad w.as coi!imifted to tlie Boys' Trainlnp; Farm, at Weraroa. to see if ilio <luths and j;«M!Me discipline of that establishment would suit his taste. A harness pons. guaranteed ipiiet and .sound. .atso pony and a first - class cow in milk are advertised n to-day issue for sale. entries have been recei red lor .Messrs Abraham and William l ;' Waikanae stock which is to be hold on Tuesday, lllh inst. I'articulars are set out by advertisement in to-d;iy\s issue of the Chronicle. Auct lonei rs who have taken out licenses in Levin (.his year are Ilitehim, . JJankin.-, and Co.. Ltd., The New Zealand I,nan and .Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., and Reduced, The Levin A net ioneerina; Company. The Otaki bowlers who came to Lei in yesteiday to phly the Luvill •jiiarLette who hold the Kinnibiirtz;li i'': ::ilii rs put tip a piod yame. bill .veiv '. 'aten in the end by six points. I'lie visitors were hospitably entertained by (lie ladies of Levin Chi I .'. The Levin Cricket Club asked the Wellington Cricket Association fir a maieh (to be played •on February - ; th,l against a team of Wellington cricketers, the lo be ]>layed at Levin. The Association considered the request last Tuesday, when H ■vas decided to play a match wit.li Levin later in the season it' possible. Seized with In art failure wh'.l l ' winding up the men from the Ji'irlborough I'it. at Clou n. Derbyshire >am Chambers. the engine driver heroically held on lo the lever of tluwinding' engine uniil ihe men wen.' sate, and then be collapsed ill a 'Jvcondition. Ilis last words were "I save. Held them.'' He svas taken to his home in Gray street Clow n, where he died. He was iii'tylive years old. and had been in charge of the Marlborough winding eiui'ine for over thirty years. A slaughterman who arrived at I Wellington from Lti'iland by the [ f'emuera on .Monday evening was told that there was any amount work to be done in his particular line if he liked to take it. Ho had however, such a dislike of the tonn "scab" that lie Mould not run the risk of having it applied to liiin so souiihf other employment instead "What's in a name"- a query propounded by one of ilie slaughterman's fellow countrymen .some years bygone-■ -seoms to be answered by the slaughterman's inaction.

fn tin; Taihapo Times appears a crit(|iic on a j>i'.iioi'<uio and violin rccital organised I>y Mr Tf. C. Cochnui. formerly of ill is town. Amongst the performers was I\Fiss Maud Rominiit<iii. whose playing is thus referred to liy tlie Times <-ril ic :- -"Miss Maud Remington's violin contributions were Lnie gems. and the success tliis gifted lady achieved wis most emphatic. Few of the audience will readily forget the delight experienced in listening to every item rendered on the violin, and particularly tlie obligate to the Kerf)ahi sung by Miss Baddoley." The monthly meeting of the Lo■••.!) School Committee was held in the schoolroom on Tuesday, February Ith. 1913. Present: Messrs .1. Malcolm (chairman). .1. Proctor. J 5 Hall. T. Urooine. 10. Lancaster. Kellehoi' and l'\ J. Olaekin (lion, secretary). Correspondent was r* 1 eeivod from the Education Hoard re applications for the vacant teachorsliip. Only three applications came to band, and on tlie motion of Mr Malcolm, seconded bv Mr Hall, tbo appointment of Mr .T. E. Mills was approved of. Tlie Board also wrote agreeing to the sum of oightpeiu'e per bead being paid for a time t'> tbo Kimborlny road coach. One particularly amusing incident has iarisen out of tbo outcry abo.it tlie Southland leases. The Southland Daily News recently reported tli.it tbo owner of tbe property in ques-tion--a Socialist—intended to slio.v bis disapproval of tbe legislative action which threatened to make him rich. He bad sold his property of 178 acres, valued (if minerals ;>r<« included) at roughly between £10, 000 and £15,000. to a syndicate for CSOO. Tbo property, tbo stated, contained a seam of coal with a 17ft face. Tt is to bo remembered that the property was acqnircd by its .Socialist purchaser for £46 IPs Tn view* of the explanation of the position Furnished by the Prime Minister. it would seem that the sytrh'dflte will be left lamenting, and that the lucky Socialist has made a tolerably good bargain.

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