Late Local News.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 January 1914, Page 3

Late Local News.

Land for tlie purposes oi a scenic reserve in Vv aiopeku Jieserve Levin, is proclaimed by tlie Public Works Department to-day. - Air VV. b. Park, ol Levin, kas returned from a visit to xiuckland ,wiiere he .saw tke exliibition, tlie flying mackine tkat; kas lost its propellor, and some oi tne great ndiiday crowds lor wkion tne nortiiern city is notable. Tke exkibition ke iound to be ckietfy an industrial one, supported by some meritorious side snows. Tne Palmerston Times informs its readers tkat rain tell 011 Ulli days during last year. Evidently ij ,tiie editor oi our contemporary kas not yet recovered from celebrating tke kolidays.—Utaki Mail.' Un Boxing JNigiit a gentleman and kis wife on arrival at tke Uka'kune station were in a very disturbed state of mind over tke disappearance oi a daugkter—a young woman of 22 years of age. He A\jpnt tkrougk tke icarriages asking loudly, "is Miss Harvey here?" But tkere was no response. Tke gentleman said kis daugkter got outside at one ot tke back stations to speak to some lady friend, and ke naturally tkougkt ske would not miss ker passage wken tke bell rang. Tke parents decided to wait until tke next train, but we kave not keard whetlier tkey were successful in finding tke missing one. One old gent remarked, "Perhaps ske gave tkem tke slip to find ker young man. Women are strange critturs." Okakune Times. At a meeting of farm labourers in Masterton, on Saturday, a union was formed under tke Arbitration Act, to be called "Tke Wellington Ilural Workers' Industrial Union of Workers, ' to comprise plougkmen, skepkerds, drovers, musterers, tkresking mill, station and farm workers, scrub-cutters, milkers, fencers, buskmen, rabbiters, cooks, and otkers connected witk farm life. —Standard. Gradually we are learning tke metkods of tke new General.Manager of Itaihvays, says tke "Poverty Bay Herald." The latest kint was, given during tke course of interviews wkicli several members of Parliament kad witii Mr Hiley regarding tke speeding up of Hawke's Bay and Taranaki trains. In kis replies Mr Hiley said ke kad been impressed wken making kis preliminary inspections of tke New Zealand liues witk tke stations, and ke was at tke present time making inquiries from tlie different stationmasters witk a view to obtaining information as to tlie least time tkat is required at tke different stations. He also recognised tkat tke speed limit kad not been increased between many of tke stations for tlie last twenty years, altkougk considerable improvement kad been made 111 tke line between many of tke stations. To get information on tkis point he now had experts travelling on tke different trains. He added that lie could not at present give a definite answer to the deputations, but was in full sympathy with the proposals brought before him,