Late Local News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 December 1913, Page 3

Late Local News

Constable Loiigbottom returned from Wellington last evening after being on duty in collection with the strike. Seasonal greetings seiit to The Chronicle by' John Chambers and Son, Wellington and Mr John Dojland, Wellington, are heartily reciprocated. A horse harnessed to a trap caused some excitement this afternoon through its excited prancing in Oxford street. J.i was about to plunge through a shop window when it was checked by the bystanders. The funeral of tlie late Mr David Musgrove took place this afternoon at o o'clock and was largely attended. I'he cotiin covered with the Union Jack was borne on the tire reel of the Levin" Fire Brigade of which deceased was a member. Some people are getting their Christmas poultry without paying for it. A resident of Palmers ton North found seventeen fowls missing from his poultry run yesterday morning, niucn to his disgust and annoyance. Other residents of the town complain that fowls have also been stolen from their residences.-—Standard., A team of bullocks from Bartholomew's mills reached Levin" to-day—the first team, of bullocks seen here for some years. Probably they are in for the Christmas festivities. Of course the attached paragraph can have no application to Levin, but it is published as mi item of interest:—At the last sittings of the Supreme Court in Blenheim, William Mcßeth Miller, charged with stealing gas to the value of £-102, extending over a period of three years, was sentenced to two months' iniprisqnmen with hard labour. During a demonstration in the jury room, acetylene gas generated by a bicycle lamp in a cooking stove caused an explosion. Nobody was hurt. Wanton "lads who may feeL tempted to launch any portion of the Horowheuua Boating Club's property on the placid water of the lake had better be warned by I lie fate of two lads last Sunday. They succeeded in. getting portion of the landing stage half way into the water, but were seen, ami in the rush for safety the fastest took precedence. . Later other mischievous persons put the landing right in. Nemesis was fast on the heels of the first two, and with Constable Bagrio as spokesman they were compelled to restore the landing stage now adrift to its original place. Whether true or not, it lias been stated time and again that it pays an owner of stock better to suffer an occasional penalty by the Court than to strictly adhere to the by-law which stipulates, in .effect, that the public road is not a common grazing paddock. According to remarks by certain councillors at the meeting of the Lower Hutt Borough. Council last evening, this is certainly the case in the Hutt. It appears that a number of owners absolutely Ignore the by-laws, with the result that wandering stock is becoming a source of extreme danger to tin; general public. It is admitted, of course, that on many occasions the animals escape from their owners' paddocks quite accidentally, but it does seem stranges as pointed out by Councillor J Jail, that when the ranger appears on the scene, the animals have disappeared. "Oil, J tell you, wireless telegraphy was known, in Alicelown before Marconi wa's born," humorously added the speaker iu question. -'Evening Post,