LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 January 1914, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

—: 4 At the School Committee meeting- lust evening--the secretary (Air A. Sims) reported that there was a balance on hand of £4 8s 4d. The expenditure totalled £20 3s (Jd and the income lis lOd. It was •'decided to carry forward the balance towards a picnic and sports gathering ijext year. Air A. Sims, of Levin, received news yesterday that his aged mother had fallen, and broken a limb in two places. Later in the day he had further bad news - -his eldest brother having died suddenly in Ha\vke's Bay. Sympathy will be felt with Mr Sims and i ; inily in their bereavement. J The death occurred this morning <>l Mrs Ivor James, widow of the late Ivor James. ilie deceased lady, who was 72 years of age, had been subject to vertigo for some time past, and had been generally ailing since the death of her husband, some seven mouths ago. On Sunday she had ji severe fall as she was leaving lier own house'to visit her soil (Mr A. James) at his house a little distance oft'. The fall caused internal injuries, from which she never recovered. The warm days nave arrived in Shannon and Fargher and Co., the drapers, are ready with a fine stock of panamas, bowling hats, harvest hats, tennis shirts, bowling bathing suits, children's trimmed hats, overalls, Indies' dainty millinery, one-piece dresses, stockings, summer shoes, embroideries, laces, neckwear, etc.—Advt. Better pay eighteenpence to prevent a cold than sovereigns to cure severe lung trouble. Buy a bottle of "NAZOL," a scientific and reliable cough remedy. NAZOL soothes, eases and relieves.—Advt | Better than the best of others I —TANOL is "the" floor polish. : !On sale everywhere. In tins— liquid Is! paste 6d. —Advt. %

- -- . - ' „ - The friends of Mr dames Aim, .-rr ' r ? manager of the Shannon Dairy ' Factory, will regret to hear that v' Drs. Martin and Kennedy still re- . ,*j quire him to rest for some time, • _ j and trace his illness- to a severe - ■ chiu. Between nine a listen o'clock on ( 1- * Monday morning''a hrje started in \ the, residence of r ■ Mako Malfc road. ■It was' speed-/ /' ily extinguished by; Mr Leader , with the aid of a garden.'' hose. - But for his prompt and effective ' \i aid the dwelling would have been *' burned to the ground. A large' audience witnessed the 'I programme of.pictures shown in - I the Kingis-Theatre last evening. • * 'The series for this afternoOh and t .-h evening are advertised on page 1 of this issue. The programme contains two star films entitled "Lady Pegg's Escape," and "Sac- • rificed to the Lions.'' The lat- > . ter is a sensational production by the Lux Company. ; .The past fortnight of fine sunny days has had a marked effect on .the flowers in the Levin Public Gardens, and the blooms are look- « ing well, giving people some idea' of what the gardens .will be like, in about two years iiin,e. A * particularly beautiful flower is the ! " V. nemesia, a native of South Africa. Anyone desirous of seeing it at its best should see it in the sunshine winch brings out its brilliant col- 11 ouring. It is a hardy plant, and has stood the recent winds better than a lot of the other flowers. / 1 '■