The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, JANUARY 26. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 January 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, JANUARY 26. LOCAL & GENERAL

j Shannon beat Levin at cricket j <.111 Saturday, by 41 runs on the first innings. Details of the scores will be published later. 'Ihree dividends in bankrupt estates advertised in the Government Gazette this week are for striking- amounts. The estate of X. M. .Person, painter, Palmerston Xorth pays a "first and M -Ud in the pound; that ?> cycle dealer, 1 almerston Xortli, pays a ' 1 first and final ' of o-Jd, but that of C. M. Wilkins, of Bulls, plumber, pays a. first dividend of 15s in the pound. Mr Byron Brown, ol Otaki, has succeeded in inducing Mr J. AV. Scotland, (lie aeroplanist, to visit the Otaki districl, and at present the aeroplane is housed in a marquee in a large paddock at Hautere (.toss. Yestcrdy crowds of people- many from Wellington — visited the place, expecting to witness, a flight, but Mr Scotland had not got everything ready. It is expected that a flight will be made in a few days. Ihe spirit moved St. Francis de Assisi to preach to the birds and the fruitgrowers are also moved by a totally different spirit to talk to them, at them, and about them. A few minutes '.vere spent Friday evening on the small bird pest, the. prevailing topic wherever orchardists foregather. Some had found the blackbirds to be the most destructive, others starlings, while others again heaped their curses upon the thrush tribe. They were all agreed however that all the above should be exterminated, and in this, only the cost and (he means should be considered. One grower suggested that- a day be set apart for the simultaneous :lalighter of small birds-si sort ( f St. Bartholomew's dtfy, or a Chinese "devil-chasing 'day" when a horde of excited celestials rush madly through the narrow streets of Chinatown . beating tom-toms and chase the devil over the edge of the horizon. Other growers thought it was a good idea, though certain people '•"'"oulcl raise a protest. 6th;-' matters cropped up and ior a while the small birds were forgotten. Mellins Food Proprietary lias -ient us the finest calendar issued luring 1914, so far as The Chronicle has seen. It measures 24 inches by 12 inches, and contains t paper-framed replica of a famous licture in the Louvre collection, 'ntitled "Madame Lc Brun and Tiild. The almanac would form it tasteful ornament in any home. The Wellington agents Gollin and Co.) write that they ■vill have pleasure in-sending a •opy of the calendar, post free, to my readers of the Horowhenua )aily Chronicle who cut out this lotice and forward it to Box 9115, General Post Office, Wellington, ritli threepence in stamps enclosd.