LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 October 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Church Services for next Sunday, ''Southland's Springy " West-land's Whitebait Indus-li-y," Australian cables and N"ew Zealand telegrams are the articles appearing on page 4 to-day.

Levin's fireboll will be tested at !) o'clock on Salurday morning by menns of the waterwheel attachment for sounding an alarm.

A partner in Rising Sun Land Agency, Whangarci, is Mr Tom Williams, formerly in business as a builder at Levin. The Northern Mail reports.that the firm has been instrumental in aifecting unite a number of land sales.

Levin Lawn Tennis Club will open its season to-morrow afternoon, definite arrangements having been made. Dr Kennedy, president of the club, will give a shoit address, and after play has taken place afternoon tea will be provided—by the clubmen.

Subscriptions to tho -Beach road deviation fund --additional to amounts previously acknowledged in The Chronicle —are as follow: Miss McQueen I.os, P. E. Parker 10s fid, J. P. Kennedy £1 Is, T. (:h Vincent 10s (id, A. Sobye 10s, .fames Pose (proceeds benefit dance) £1.

A pianist, named Steel, completed 122| hours' continuous playing at Opotiki on Saturday week, a world's record, and very near double the time played by Mr J. Stilton, at Westport, on the occasion of a very animated scene when Mr Stirton temporarily held the record. It would interest the Chronicle to know record in the wood-chopping lino, lieing a useful common-place occupation, probably ten minutes would be his limit.

An extraordinary story of wealth from the sicy relates iliat a large fragment of "crystallised gold,' staled to be worth more than £2,000,000, was hewn from a gigantic meteor which Frederick Williams liseovered on his ranch near Bakers field, California. It is peihaps the expectation of finding some similar weighty treasure which causes so many young coupler to wander about the quiet sb < ets and roads of this town on u bright starry night.

At Levin S.M. Court yesterday, G. F. Milne, grocer, was charged at the instigation of the Inspector of Awards with paying 11. H. Anderson, a driver, less than award rate of wages. Defendant, who was represented by Mr Park, admitted the offence, but pleaded that he did not know the awardexisted till about two months ago. In reply to the Inspector, he admitted that when he did become aware the award was in force he failed to put himself right. A penalty of £6 15s was inflicted, defendant having handed the Inspector in Court £3 ss. back pay for the driver concerned.

Ardent rosegrowers who need a simple and effective spray for destroying the Fly and other pests so prevalent just now will find Cirengol by far the best. Can be prepared in a minute, and a shilling tube makes 20 gallons. Obtainable from C. S. Keedwell, .Dispensing Chemist.—Advt.

Oil Monday, I lie 27 Mi (Labour Day), the Levin letter carriers will only make one complete delivery, commencing at 8 a.m.

Erom Levin Post Office comes a handy reference book entitled the Post: and Telegraph Handbook. Published at one peuny, it gives a mass of information about postage rates, money orders, telegrams, telephones, etc., etc.

An old resident of Levin, Mr Cr. H. Briscoe, is about; to return to bis home in England, chiefly for heal ill reasons. Until about three years ago Mr Briscoe was a resident of Levin, and for the past three years he has been farming at Manakau. "Science and water" was a railway traveller's description of present-day beer, quoted by Mr 11. W. Bainbridgc at a meeting at Birmingham of Messrs Mitchells and Butlers, brewers. The middle (lasses were, he said, rediscovering the value of English beer. A cable message states that experiments are in progress to the end of producing an engine which will use alcohol as a fuel. If successful it is safe to prophesy that however intense, may be the scarcity of labour in other branches of industry, these engines will never be without attendants The Chronicle's writer is already reading up the subject with ; view amongst others-—of obtaining a drivel's permit or cert illcaft. "Keep your eye on (J. \V. Phipps" is the heading of an advertisement in an issue of the Noithcrn Mail which lies before us as we write. I he advertisement shows that "the immortal George" is now an auctioneer at Whangaivi, and is no longer concerned about the quality of the stews at Miranui mill or the lishly appetites of Levin's jeunesse doree. , Levin's branch of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society is doing much useful work, and unostentatiously. At present I lie s'oeiety has some twelve thousand fry being cared for in the settling tank on the Boys' Training Farm, "Weraroa, where Major Buvlinsou is superintending the work of attendance upon the fry. Next year the society should be able to liberate most of the 12,000 as yearlings, to the manifest future advanteage of fishermen, for eveiy yearling will be able to look after itself, whereas the fry are peculiarly susceptible to injury from eels and other predatory fish.

We have all heard the Levin ('hionicle's story of the Maori his horse "no look well," says (lie Taranaki News. The animal was in lair condition, as far as the buyer could see, and he bought bill), al'terwards discovering that Ihe Maori was holiest, and that the animal was stone blind. <)u Saiurday a man boug'ht a likelylooking draught horse and a.l'terwards.discovered that it could not see a yard in Iron lof it. It transpired thai it had been sold at Wangfiiiui, resold by the "sold' buyer at, Waverley, sent on to another victim at llawera. and (lien brought on to Stratford, where, no one knowing' of its delect, it was sold tor £l(i. The efforts to make ilia I brute go where it ought to go 'provided quite a circus. The plugging beast did one thing veil it cleared the ground for its performances, and (lie spectators made a hurrier departure.