The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LIVIN. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 June 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LIVIN. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913. LOCAL & GENERAL

Wellington Free Lanco remarks: Tho Lovin people now call their little competitions the "Annual Eisteddfod." This is going it very .strong. Presently, when overy little village has its '-'Annual Eisteddfod" (excursion fares over the North Island), the enraged populace will begin to rear and kick. Meantime, nobody cares. Competitions are an amusing diversion in the rural districts and a godsend to those rustic newspapers that solemnly describes tlio "plots" of moving pictures. . . Tho Wellington Free Lance makes us smile, and reply ("with tongue in cheek") that in The Freo Lance Wellington possesses her most persistent purveyor of trivialities, writton in a city where real events transpire. It wins its copper wealth from the lodo of scandal, and its sin all-si Ivor from the poekpts ol chop-house attendants anxious to road of Milly's engagement to Mr Soon .Shifting. And its "news" finds consistent publication on Tnitehers' steaks. So there, M.r Free Lanco! A young native in this town last week saw a young dog running round the .streets, and as he was going out pig hunting tho next day, he took the dog home. That afternoon he tried him on some- quiet pigs that were rooting about his house, and the dog showed promise of being a first-class pig-hunter. So Jic was admitted as a member of tho family and allowed to share the contents of the milk-pan with some more of his race. That night the native went to bed leaving the dog to run about. In the morning, when the Maori arose from his blankets and wont outside, he discovered that the newcomer had billed four of his sheep. Then tho nativo grow angry, smote the canine hip and thigh, and brought him back"to town and left him. Now he is roaming tho town pickmg up a precarious living, and awaiting his chance to go out and kill some more sheep. Besides this dog, there are many more apparently ownerless curs in this town that lead a life of indolence, and would need very little encouragement to take to sheep worrying. An unusual ceremony took placein the Rutland Hotel in Wanganui tho other day. Some time back Mr Imlay Saunders was adjudicated a bankrupt on the petition of one of his creditors. Since hie disc-large ho has paid off the great bulk of his creditors in full. The creditors nssomhled and presented Mr Saunders with a token of their appreciation of his conduct in. tho shape of a piece of solid silver plate, the presentation heing made by Mr C. E. Mackay.

During the mouth of April 5119 people were employed' on co-oper-tivo road works and railway works in New Zealand. The proportion of them on railway works was 2226. Several properties in Horowhenua Village Settlement and vicinity are to be sold on 18th July, at Levin, by order of the mortgagee. The sale will be by public auction, Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., being the auctioneers. Details are advertised to-day.

The death has occurred of Mr H. Neill, a well-known taind highly-re-spected jeweller, of Dunedin, who was a prominent Mason, 70 years oi age. He was initiated into Lodge Kilwinning in 1868, and was elected to tho highest offices of the lodge.

There lias been a great increase in the importation into New Zealand of ladies' straw hats from Italy. Whereas in 1908 the value of Italian hats imported was, roughly, £1000, last year their value had mounted up to £20,000, out of a total of £120,000 worth of the imported article. The Imperial Government is moving in the direction of protecting British manufacturers, as far as the overseas dominions are concerned "Are the Mititant Suffragettes Justified in Their Tactics?" was the subject set down for discussion at last night's meeting of the Levin Debating .Society, Mr T. M. Kingdom being in the chair. The ladies predominated in the audience. The affirmative was taken by Mr G. P. Mi-Carding, who contended that the attitude of militancy was forced upon the Women Suffragettes by the apathy or worse neglect of their needs by British politicians. The speaker went on to refer to the violent doings of the Chartists that led to the political advancement of Great Britain many years ago, and prophesied that in the near future the weighty arguments of the militants' hammers would stir the apathetic Government to effective action. Mr Grieg, who condemned the conduct of the Militant Suffragettes, began by recalling the statement of the British Home Secretary, that the militant suffragettes wore a determined baud of women numbering ouly forty or fifty women. Mr .Grieg went on to say that when lie lived in Great Britain he was v. suporter of wo nidi's suffrage, but he never had any sympathy with the militancy that was introducedsome thrco years ago. As a matter of fact, the effect of militancy was to drive over to the Anti-Suffrage Party several members of Parliament and also the week-kneed supporters of their own party. Jt was militancy that had set back the system j in the words of Sir Edward Grey, great numbers of women had a legitimate cause of grievance against the militant suffragettes— those women who for years had laboured lor the uplifting of the nation socially and politically. Mr Grieg made the further point that before militancy was brought into being the Women's Suffrage Bills used to pass their second readings, but since then the position was changed. Militant suffragettes, he concluded, were misguided enthusiasts who were going to extremes. But for their actions, tlio Women's Suffrage Bills now might have been a Government measure. The next speaker, Mr H. Cork, contended that the five "second readings" given to the Women's •Suffrage Bills meant really nothing: those readings were meant to be tlx only progress, and a place ill "the slaughter of the innocents" at the end of each Parliamentary session always awaited the Women's .Suffrage Bill. It was by way of effective protest against this that militancy had been introduced. Though it was contended by the police that some forty to fifty was the full number of the militant suffragettes, it should be lememhered that these were the leaders, and that behind them were some 40,000 or 50,000 supporters. He was of opinion that the votes could not be withheld much longer from the women of Great Britain. The Bev. Mr Randerson said that whilo lie liad a great deal of sympathy with the wonum in this matter, and his sympathy had liecomo the greater since he had read of the saddening conditions under which women were living.in England; these conditions goaded them to desperation and stunned their capacity to think. He had a very great deal ol sympathy with the women of England, but at the same time he had to add that violent actions such as they were resorting t 0 he could not support; he believed in Constitutional procedure always. Mr Randerson made the further point that the present agitation in Great Britain was for a very limited and restricted franchise for women. Tim leaders having replied, a vote of the audiejnco was taken on the merits of the debate, and the voting was found to be even. The chairman gave his vote with the negatives. Auckland lady's recommendation: "I have found Tonking's Linseed Emulsion a splendid remedy and so delightfully soothing to a sore chest, and will recommend it to all my friends." Have you a hacking cough? Nothing so sure to cure as lonking's Linseed Emulsion.—Advt

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