Late Local News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 December 1913, Page 3

Late Local News

In its journey from Mt. Eginont to the south, yesterday evening's cyclone paid particular attention to the poultry farm of Mr Burnett, proprietor of the Arcadia Hotel, and the buildings s tillered severely. About a hundred feet of the fowlhouses was stripped, and the roof whirled round and round and deposited twenty or thirty yards away. During tiic gale and the subsequent exposure to the cold rain, the poultry stillered some damage. The roof of the cowshed also went, and Mr Barnelt, who was milking at the-time, had a narrow escape from flic falling and flyimv timber. In other parts of Levin fences were blown over and windows blown in. The L< vh Boating Club had the misfortune to have its big shed lifted bodilv from its position and lifted so'iiir four feet to the left. It now lies askew. The boats in it were slightly damaged. The Norwoods appear in Levin again this evening, when their local season closes. This ■afternoon a member of the- company is installed at a piano in the show window of Harvey and Co.'s. He ha.° been hypnotised, and is unconsciously " playing rag-time, gladtime, pastime, and _ various other sorts of lively music. At 8 p.m. he is to be taken to the stage of the King's Theatre and there awakened, when he will plav further music—open-eyed while other people become mesmerised . A member of the Wellington Waterside "Workers' Union who called iu at The Chronicle office this afternoon (Wednesday) said it was likely the strike would be settled to-day or to-morrow. After a lengthy absence from Levin, Mr Charles Archer, a popular actor (well-known to Levin as resident coach to the old Levin Dramatic Society) will return to Levin on Boxing Night with a company of his dramatic students ■ from Wellington. Mr Archer's company will produce, on December 20th (Friday) the sparkling and ever-green Irish comedy drama, "Handy 'Andy," and a bumper house is anticipated.