LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 October 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Frospecis for the IDF! boating season in Levin are decidedly

'set fair," and the coming summer should see some exciting sailing races contested on Lake Horowhenua. Mr W. B. Macintosh, the pioneer of the "flatty" sailing boat in Levin, has set a popular fashion. AVe learn that he is at present building two of these boats to the order of local enthusiasts as well as one for his own use. Further, there are several other "flatties" being built by local amateurs, and the prospects are that any number up to a dozen may face the starter m the first, race of 191 : i for the "flatty" championship.

The Dunedin Star's special at Wellington, referring to the ILiuraki mining lands clause in the Land Bill, says: "I am assured that Mr T. W'. Khodes, M.P., obtained the land by ballot three years ago for the purpose of placing his s<Tn thereupon, and that it has remained latent since. it ranges from 800 to 1000 acres, is situated 1.1. miles from Thames, in the direction of Whakatane, and is of very poor quality. Mr "Rhodes has persistently objected to the Government valuation of £1 per acre as beyond its true value.

In preparation for the Japanese fair to be held next month, the ladies of St. Mary's Church, Levi]), already are making arrangements. A great range of articles of vertu and value have been secured, and a Levin designer lias arranged a plan of a Japanese street, wliicli is to form one of the attractions of the fair. A meeting of the ladies of the congregation (ook place in the Century Itali yesterday, when the plan was studied, and other details discussed. The dates of the fair are 19th and 20th November next.

The Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, has just celebrated his 8-Jrd birthday. "His long reign (says the Daily Telegraph) is a wonderful record, as we look back upon it, for it includes at one end so old-world an event as the victory of Radetzky at No vara, which secured the pacification of Italy, and at I lie other end the treaty of Bucharest on the other day, which .secures, as we hope, the pacification of the Balkans. Francis .Joseph has always been the champion of European tranquility, but his reign began in the midst of hostile conflicts, and his early years as Sovereign were occupied with a series of sanguinary struggles. On his 83rd birthday he can have no other desire than that his declining years should be passed amid the blessings of an assured peace."

Ardent rosegrowers who need a simple and effective spray for destroying ilie Green Fly and oilier posts so prevalent jnst now will find Circhgol by far the best. Can be prepared in a minute, and a shilling tube nialces 20 gallons. Obtainable from C. &. Keedwell, T)i spen sing Cliem ist.—Advt.