Local and General.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1913, Page 2

Local and General.

The Tainui was towed safely into Corunna yesterday. Miss Fitzherbert announces that she will resume tuition in piano and theory on Friday next, May 30th. It is stated that the whole of the Territorial forces of the Wellington military district wjll be mobolised next year at one big camp. For the first time in Hungary, wodk'ii have been elected to public positions —live, all members of the Feminist League, having been chosen for the Housing Committee by one of the city corporations. The fact that the ancient Romans were acquainted with the use o< lifts, and put them in their buildings, has been established by Professor lioni, who is carrying out excavation on the site formerly occupied by the palace of the Caesars on the Palatine Hill. Ho has found thrnt three lifts were used in the palace, enabling the Roman Emperors to ascend from tlio l'onim to the top of the Palatine. One shaft, which has not yet been completely cleared from the debris and rubbish which encumbered it. is 120 ft deep. Some rather interesting points were brought to light in connection with a proposed horse-race by two prominent Marten residents for £20 a-sidc. It appears that permits were obtained from both Marlon and

Waii^uiiii, but when it was found thai if the race on mo off the Wangati 11 i and .Marlon Clubs would each be liable to a lino of £200, and the spectators to a fmo of CHO oacb, all the enthusiasm speedily evaporated. as Life, after ages of struggle, evolved that wonderful bodily orgat!. the eye, so that tlio living organism could see wlioro it was going and what was earning to help oi threaten it; so it is evolving to-dfly a Mind's Eye, that shall nee, not the physical world, but the purpose of TiilV. and thereby enable the individual to work for that purpose instead of thwarting it by setting up short-sighted personal aims, as at present.—o. B. Shaw. 'J he fact that a. bankrupt labourer, earning Us a day when in work, lias been paying ;t rental of JCI per work for a house at Reniuera, drew some strong comments from the- Official Assignee (Mr YV. S. Fisher] at Auckland a few days ago. ''It seems a iiw.st exorbitant rental for a working man to pay. and the tiling, to me. seems preposterous," said Mi Fisher. Debtor roplied that lie could not get one for less in the district, which was the easiest in which to obtain gardening work, his speciality. .Some time ago he had applied for a four-roomed cottage at lis n week a quarter of an hour aftor he had seen Ibe advertisement, and was told ihat he was the twenty-first applicant. A rather good story is being told by a supplier to a Tananaki dairy factory, explaining the method by which he claimed to have worked the i racle. Mis test had been poster up at the factory at .'i.G for some considerable time. and. intending t<; move it up or down. supplying ■sons- vliere about L'OOOIb of milk, he gave instructions to one of his boys to |! it three kerosene tins of water i" the milk. This was done for eight days, uiiicl when Ids test came out it was 11.8. The supplier is quite positive that the water did the trick. On the other baud, there is the possibility that the supplier may not have been getting his right test beiVe. or, further, that the increased lest may not lie strictly accurate. One thing is (|iiite certain, namely, that water tloes not contain butlerfat. When your Tiands become rough, chapped, and cracked with the wet and cold, try a few applications of "Ihnzoma Cream," and you wil, be surprised at the result. Tt works wonders in a singlo night. Price Is (i.l jar from C. 8. Keodwcll. Dispenvng Chpmist.— Advfc.