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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 December 1913, Page 3

Second Edition

Late Local News A A sailing race (handicap) for all class of boats-is to take place on Horowhenua Lake on New Year's Day. A concert and art funds is being arranged. The funds is being artiriige. The damage done to the boatshed by the recent gale will involve the club in expense, and public assistance for the club's finances is necessary; so doubtless the concert will be well supported. Levin's finances have been giv- ' en a filip since Saturday. In addition to several thousand pounds sterling paid out by the Levin Cooperative Dairy Company, Limited, a sum of £1750 was distributed through a Land Coifrt agent to the Maoris of Levin and district. This money was the result of a big land sale concluded at Wan'ganui this month. A card conveying seasonable wishes has been sent to The Chronicle staff by the Levin Cooperative Dairy Co. Ltd. We appreciate the kindly spirit evinced by the Company. A cablegram received to-day states that "Summer has been arrested at Liverpool." Our friend "The 0.L." says he understands now why Levin has seen nothing of summer yet. A fashionably-dressed woman, accompanied by a male and a pet pig, to which was attached a pink ribbon used as a chain, caused amusement, disgust, and indignation in Castlereagh-street, Sydney. Of the three the pig was the only one to look ashamed. He appeared to feel his position keenly. He is a well-bred pig. When the woman was not addressing haby language to her pet, she was leading it through a crowd which-increased in numbers. To it she said, "Come along, Fido." "Am I blithered, Dill; it's a pig, fair dinkum,_ ain't it?" asked an onlooker anxiously of his companion. "You're all right,"- was the reassuring response. "Strike me fat, it's a pig sure enough. If my Annie was to take one of 'em out with her I'd get work." The woman, the pig and her other companion were now receiving embarrassing attention. , They disappeared in a cab.—Sydney Sun. A propos of that offensive word "scab"---the strikers' pet word of opprobrium—the Auckland Observer discovers that its first mention in its sense referring to strikes occurs in the words of one William Shakespeare. In "Troilus and Cressida," Act 2, Scene 1, where Ajax and Thersites are arguiug, the latter uses the following words: "... I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece. When thou are forth in the incursions, thou strikes! as slow as another."