LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 October 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

1 ; On page 4 to-day appear :i budget of cycling and motoring- notes, poetry, headed "Life," and the programme of pictures for the Kind's Theatre (o-nigiit. Mucli interest was evinced in Levin this month regarding' the installation of an electric alarm hell at the level crossing- in Queen street. A representative of The Chronicle, in conversation with an employee in the (Tovernmout Workshops in Wellington veslerday, elicited the fact that the hells were a success as far as the slow trains were concerned, but failed to work with the fast trains. The latter travelled so fast over the rails that they did not give the electric current time to connect with the hells, thereby failing to give any alarm. The Covernment's experts in Wellington are at present experimenting with the alarms, trying to' make tlie two points that conjoin more sensitive to take the electric current, and when this has been effected no doubt the bells will provide a long-felt want nt the many dangerous level crossings throughout > the dominion. | Awahuri land is known to be \ exceptionally rich for dairying, j but when it Avas reported to the i Manawatu County Council lately ! that one farmer tnere had a herd I of ..b cows and only three acres to j graze them on, the members of ilie Council thought the story of the' richness of the soil too rich itse]f, and decided to impress on the County Ranger the necessity for I a stricter supervision of the roads. Star. On Saturday morning the Conn- j ty Engineer .was expostulating j (over the telephone) with a settler I who wanted his road repaired forthwith. Evidently the settlor was obdurate in his demand, for the Engineer was heard to say, "It's no use talking: we've got no money to spend at present." As the expostulatory voice floated into the council chamber, the chairman of the council was heard ; to sigh and say/'Tin sick of hear- I ing this; I hope we'll have a rlif- I Cerent story soon !" Councillors } ; laughed heartily, and hoped so '. 100. li

[t residents will be specially interested in a note on gas illumination proposals set out in to-day's report on the llorowhenua ' County Council's last meeting. t Three Levin fishermen got a tine lot of big fish yesterday morn- ,_ ing in one of Ihe rivers of the Wellington acclimatisation dis- .... trict. There were sixteen fish all together, and their weights ranged from U lbs lo 4 lbs, while eight of thorn turned the scale at 2Albs. A Press message from Marlon '- stales that bonamy boetham, who early last week was sentenced Iry ~ Justices to three months' imprisonment for illtreating- a horse, having Iwice previously been similarly charged, has been the subject of an agitation among local residents to have him medically y examined. As a result he has il been discharged from custody,, and having been medically examined at ' Wellington has been found of unsound mind. The death took place at Pariroa ;. Pa on Thursday (says the Paten Press) of one of the oldest natives " in the province, if not in the dominion. The deceased, who was said to be 10-1 years of age. was . known at Tekaewa, and was fam- - cms as being Ihe mot her of Tuntangi Waionui, well known as the chief scout of the fighting chief Titokowaru in the early sixties. She was born in the Patea dis- ~ trict, and lived for the greater portion of her life at the Otoia Pa on the Patea river. v A Duncdin solicitor, now settled I in ihe North Island, writes to an j. exchange as follows: The land ~. speculator is not the curse that 1 some people would lead you io believe. To my mind, and lam 0 judging by results, he is one of the s biggest and most important factors in ihe development of the ( ', country. We have not one, but j. many places here to-day where (his has been shown, and where, if we •f had wailed for Ihe Government to B help us. we would, instead of having small farms with good road ~ frontages, have large areas from which, practically speaking, no 1 return would be derived. t The Stonewall in Parliament . continued until midnight on Satt ui'day, when an adjournment of the sitting was made until 2.M0 p.m. to-day (Monday). As a re- ;» suit of certain remarks made by i Mr G. Laurenson, Mr Massoy said . that charges made against Mr i Rhodes were so serious that he :> could not allow them lo pass un- ? noticed. I\q asked Mr Lauren- ) son whether he would lay on the f table of the House a letter he had j. received regarding the member for I - Thames. The accusations must i „» be enquired into. Mr Laurenson I . agreed to table that portion of the ~ letter he had read to the House. j Mr Rhodes characterised the letter I as mean and scurrilous. Hehopf ed the whole matter would be , probed to Ihe bottom, and thai the , "name of the skunk who wrote the letter would come out.'" Ardent rosegrowers v.-ho need a ! ' simple and effective spray for de- "* stroying the Green Fly and other pests so prevalent just now will " find Ciroiigol by far the best. Can ' be prepared in a minute, and a ' shilling tube makes '-J0 gallons. ' Obtainable from 0. S. Keedwell, Dispensing Chemist. Advt.