LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 November 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Holiday excursion tickets for New Zealand Railway trains running to Palmerston North will be issued in connection with the show to be held next week. The tickets will be available for return until .loth November. Details are set out by advertisement on page •!. This morning our reporter made an alarming discovery while rummaging among some old papers in a back room on the second floor. He came across separate packages of sulphur, nitrate of pot ash, and some loose charcoal, which articles form the wellknown ingredients of gunpowder. How they came there, or for what purpose, can only be surmised, but visions of anarchists and nihilists so scared the finder that Ave had the greatest difficulty in reassuring him. Only the promise of a bottle of Thompson and Lewis's apple eider induced him to remain on the promises.

Till! reserve 1 ?) committee of Hie .IJoroagh Council met on Thurs<l;iy livening, mid dealt with the i|iieslioii of leasing' of munieipai reserves in Oxford and ('hamberhtiii streets, 31at!vrs reiaijng to the sale, conditions of Jease, upset rental, etc., were gone into, and ieconimendat ions will be duly placed before ihe council at (henext meeting'. The streets comnuttee met also, and considered the <|lies!ion o| : Hie speed of motors passing through the borough. Keconmiendations on the matter will I,(> made to the council on .Monday evening. Other mailers <leaH with by the eonnnillee on which recommendations are to be made concern ihe borough ranging and the tarring- of portions of ihe main si reel near ihe water tables, to prevent the growth of grass. Ivmjuiries made yesterday elicited the. fact, that: no further advance in the price ol foods tail's liave as yet taken place, bat large nrders are rigorously cu( down. Whereas a lew days ago such an older stirred the grocers' politeness to its depths, it is now looked upon coldly. Moar anil potatoes may still be had in fairsized parcels, but sugar has been cut down to lots in the Al grade, though double this amount may be had in the second grade. The bakers appear to be sab enough for the next fortnight.

. Ardent rosegrowers who need a simple and effective spray for destroying the Green Fly and otlioi pests so prevalent just now will iim! Cirengol l»y far the best. Can lie prepared in a minute, and a shilling tube makes 20 gallons. Obtainable from C. S. Keedwell, dispensing Chemist.- Advt.