Late Local News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 January 1914, Page 3

Late Local News

St. Mary's Sunday School teachers met at the vicarage last Monday night. Mrs Gapper, the secretary and treasurer, gave a satisfactory report on the finances of the school, and the meeting decided to take the children for a trip to Paekakarilci Beach on Anniversary Day (Januarl 22nd.) An appropriate Christinas present, in form of a plum pudding (made in England last October), and sent by mail, was safely delivered to the Rev. H. T. Stealey in Levin this week, m a perfect state of preservation. It was promptly sampled, and found to be as delectable a compound as ever anyone was treated; in fact its flavour and state of preservation were sucli that the consignee, being* a prohibitionist, was disinclined to enquire too closely, into the ingredients. A visit to Levin is being paid this week by the Rev. A. H.'Compton (of Kelburne), brother of a former vicar of Levin. The Hon. H. D. Bell paid an unofficial visit to'Eevm to-day. He was accompanied by the Hon. T. Y. Duncan.

Mr W. H. Wilson returned to Levin on Monday night after being absent on a holiday trip to Pacific coast.

The Church Chronicle states that it is the desire of the Bishop of the Province of IN ew - Zealand that no clergyman be married within three years of his ordination to the deaconate. The Bishop of Wellington also desires that no marriage tie be celebrated in private houses, except in cases where both parties are living at leaset six miles from a church or church room.,

A young farmer to whom a mild practical joke does not come amiss, happened on a Maori woman driving into Waitara, says the "Mail" This lady, who is famous for her -breadth of beam and her tonnage, practically filling up her cart in which she was lying, fast asleep. Quitely stopping the horse, the farmer turned it rovind, and set it going back from whence it came. On reaching home again the sudden stoppage awoke the slumberer. What she said when she found herself at the place from whence she had started an hour or so befpre is unfit for publication. : The New York Department of Agriculture is authority for the prediction that there w*ill soon be •'crowless "roosters." The department is in receipt of a letter from a native of Beltsville, Ohio, explaining the discovery . xV simple operation, m which a small noise produceing cord in the rooster's neck is cut is the secret which renders the roosters useless as a live alarm clock. Dr Galloway, Assistant Secretary for Agriculture, believes that if this can be done it will be possible to insert one or more artificial cords of various pitches and thus turn the earley mourning crowing into delightful harmony. The head of the poultry division of the department, is investigating the matter.

The Mayor of the little Ohio township of Marion would ~eem to be a student of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. tie recently had before him a man accused of stealing eggs, who was found guilty. The Mayor sentenced him to five days' imprisonment, his diet during the period of incarceration to consist of but the stolen eggs. "I hope 1 will never sqe another egg," were the prisoner's heartfelt words on his release. A swam of bees took possession of a letter-box at the entrance of a residence jn Massey street. Frankton Junction, on Monday afternoon. When an expeditionary force arrived to clear it last evening the bees had decamped. Yesterday, as the morning mail was about to be left by the postman, he noticed the swarm in possession, it evidently having arrived during the early hours. The mail reached its destination through another chain)el and the bees are still in undisputed possession.- Waikato Argus. It is the privilege of the few to celebrate their hundredth Christmas. The Otago Daily Times says there resides with Mrs tt. George, at Belleknowes, a hale fresli-looking lady, Mrs Annie Gow, aby whom the Christmas chimes on December 25th last were hward for the hundredth time Born the year before Waterloo, Mrs Gow will complete her hundredth year on August 25th, 1914. Although of such a great age mat she can look upon descendants of the fifth generation Mrs Gow scarcely shows a wrinkle, eats well, moves about the house and ground quite independent of assistance, and has a remarkably retentive memory. She lias lived in Dunedin for 4tJ years. As the Morere coach was six miles from its destination the other day, its occupants were disturbed by a series of yells from a na- , tive on horseback in the rear, and the coachman stopped his vehicle to hear what was wrong. *'Py corry, I'm te feller, .1 find te mail bag on the road and ride twenty miles for you, panted the excited Maori. ''Me save you-— you pay me for finding £e mail. ' imagine the feelings of the coachman when he took up and inspected a private mail-bag w'hicli he had dropped at a station twenty miles back !—Manawatu Standard