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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1913, Page 3

The picturesque ceremony witnessed on the (juarter-dvek of the bat-tles-hip Australia last week, when King George knighted near-Admiral .Matey, the new (Vmiuander-in-Chiet of the Australian Navy, was th" first ceremony of the kind since the knighting of Sir Francis Drake, over .'SOO years ago There is a-n epidemic of influenza in Levin just at present, and many people are ill in bed or nursing then ■ailment in the ing'eiieuk. The funeral of the late W*. D. Little—local pastor of the Church ol Christ - will leave his hie home ii Arapaepae road (for Levin cemetery on Saturday at 2 p.m. "The Dandies" open in Levin oi .Monday, 21st duly. Mr Dave Williams. advance agfliit for the company. -was in Levin to-day to mak< arrangements for their visit. • A had accident oceured at Ross" flaxmill at I'oroutawhao yesterday when a man named J. Rect had the lirst linger of his left hand taken ol at the second joint, through getting his hand caught in the stripper.

piece of flax accidentally wound ronml Ijis wrist, and liis linVnl was pulled into the rollers, whore the finger wins severed just above the second joint. None of the other fingers was hurt. Tin* Minora! of flic lnte John Milncs took place yesterday, tho cortege moving up from Manakaii to the Levin cemetery. .Members of (lie Masonic Lodge and the Oddfellows Friendly Society were ■amongst the followers. The Church of Knglaud burial .service was read by the Rev. H. T. Stealey. the Masonic service bv Messrs J. Mc In tyre. and •). Whitakor. :tnd the Oddlel lows' service by Jsro. Astridge. A deep sense of loss was experienced in Palnicrston yesterday when (/apt. J. I). I'. Hewitt, R.N., died suddenly at his residence, Church street. Palinorston North. yesterday. Some months ago Captain Hewitt was .seized with a fainting fit at the dinner of the Overseas Club, and since then his movements Mere observed to be >a little feeble. Death, came as the result of heart iailuvp. His well-knoWHi and kindh presence will lie much missed, and more particularly among the Anglican body, for his time was much devoted to church work and movements connected therewith A settler, not many miles from Mauaia, on the Waimute Plains bought five acres of land « littU over twelve months ago. the purcba.smoney running close into the vicin itv of JL'oOO. out of which he watable only to make a payment, of L'.")o He put the whole of the land nude onions, and the return from his firs crop enabled him to pay the wholr of the debt on his little holding, be sides leaving him « fairly substan tial .sum to go on with.