LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 September 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

On page 4 to-day there are articles entitled "Women's World," "Examination Errors," "No Warship Safe.'' Many hundreds of sea birds, principally guiiemots and puffins, were recently washed up on the shores of the mainland of Argyll, having been killed, it is understood, by the concussion of firing of the big guns of the warships engaged in practice in the neighbourhood of the Island of Colon say. A Nikau (North Island) settler states that weasels are _ killing young lambs in that district, no

fewer thsjn eight lambs having been found dead one morning lost week by one settlor. Each lamb showed signs of having been attacked by a weasel. We had thought better of Mr Massey than that ho should so quiekl v develop "yeß-no tendencies, and begin to "count noses v If, however, he is allowing himself to be cajoled or bullied by the clerical party into a betrayal _of the people's trust, he is as foolish as he is weak. The policy has never commended itself to any country in the long run, and the politician who adopts it

invariably conies to grief sooner -j or later.— Marlborough Express. , A resident of Arrow, against t whom the police had applied for '* the issue of a prohibition order, < made a pathetic- appeal to the j bench at the sitting of the Magis- < (rate's Court last week. He asked to be allowed access to the hotels foi' a couple of tlays m order that ' he might "taper-off, while at the same time lie promised to be "square'Vithin a week. A sympathetic bench decided to give de- ; fondant another chance, and the case 1 was adjourned for a week ir. hrder to ascertain whether or not the promises would be kept, j As the Labour .Journal has not j vet made arrangements tor dctail- • cd reports concerning labour conditions in Levin and the Chronicle has made some inquiries ■ for itself. Painting, paperhang- . ing, ets., have been reasonably \ brisk during the last two months, and in the building trade there has | been a slightly increased volume, i though the trade is not brisk.

Furniture makers have been very busy; in fact, one Levin tradesman complains of inability to get enoutrh work liuishcd to allow of his showroom being used to advantage. Printing lias been slack during the last month the first slack mouth fur over a year. Petailers report an improving volume ; and some of them add that ■ there is plenty of room for it. Otaki races were held yesterday. I As the (dub's energetic secretary was too exhausted (for the third successive occasion) to send The liorowhenua Daily Chronicle a press ticket we were too bashful to present ourselves on our faces. We hear that Mount Victoria won (he flying and Lord Renown the biff handicap: also that other "outsiders" triumphed in most of the other events. The omission of the club secretary to carry out his duty to his employers (in seeing that press representatives are invited to the meeting) does not trouble us in the least: this is the first occasion in eighteen months on which we have referred to the matter: but as some people are asking questions as to why we have "run oil the course" the time seems opportune for belling the cat. The iiorowhenua Rugby representatives are to meet the Manawatu Union representatives at I'alinerston next Saturday. Hanuwatu's team will be: Eull-back,

Ayling; three-quarters, Eglinton, Barker, Maire; iive-eightlis, Phillip, Kilpatrick: haJf, Pegden: wing, Trevena ; forwards, Johnston", Hicks, Ilarkness, Frame, McEarlane, Hardie, .Best. ''People talk about the cost of living now,"' says Mr John Stevens, of the Manawatu, in an article in the latest Early Settlers' Journal. "The 'fifties and 'sixties men used to get ; 5s 6d and 4s a day, and numbers of men had yearly employment, ranging from £40 to £45 per annum and found ; but after a few years, owing to their steady industry and thrift, I hey were able to acquire homes for' themselves, and hundreds of their descendants now residing between Wanganui and Wellington, thanks to the foresight of their progenitors, are the most prosperous settlers in the dominion. Unfortunately, instead of saving some portion of the many £40 and £45's which they now receive many times over during a year, the generations of to-day know nothing of thrift, and care less about il. The totalisator, football, and pictures are all uppermost in the minds of those whose ancestors knew the value of thrift, and enjoyed the great pleasure of the old-day rational sports and reasonable prosperity.

There lias been a brisk deman \ for lambs on forward delivery in the Eketahuna districts of late. One stock firm'has disposed of 7000 lambs within the last day or so at a satisfactory price.—Express.

To house nine English cows. Mi Frederick Underwood, the president of the Wisconsin Railroad; has built a luxtirious barn at a cost of £3000. There is shaded elec • trie light at the head of each manger and running- water for drinking.

Says the Feilding Star: -Rumours of a sensational kind are busy with the name of one of Feildings leading professional men, who is said to have left the dominion and io have dealt with trust funds in a most extraordinary way_ _ The sum involved will exceed £10.UUu.