LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 February 1914, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Yesterday's cablegram regard, ing butter ou the London market > gave salted at 114-s to ll(js per cwt. Evidently the slump has ■ reached bedrock, but there is no surety of this and no indication of an early rise. On Sunday evening, at the Presbyterian Church, Rev. A. C. . Randerson will preach ou "The Duty of Being Concerned About - Oneself." The choir will sing "O Lord, How Manifold." ; The Rev. Harry Cot torn, of Otaki, will conduct the morning service at the Century Hall tomorrow, and will also preach in the Arapaepae Hall in the afternoon. Additions are to be made to Shannon public school and residence. Tenders for effecting these are invited by Wellington •Education Board, closing on Wednesday, 18th February. Plans may be seen at The Chronicle office, at Shannon school, "and the Otaki Mail office. Gisborne again easily heads the list for the number of births that were registered in the several boroughs during the month of L December, with a total of 00. \\ a.nganui was third with -57 and at Xapier there were 19. After the Hon. Mr Fisher gives his political address at Foxtoii next month he will be replied to in the same town by Mr Robert- • son, M.P., member for the elee- < torate, who announces his intention to reply to all members of • Parliament who deliver adi dresses in his constituency. The cost-of marriage.—"What do I have to pay for a marriage licensed" asked the timid youth. I'acetious clerk: "Well, you get it on the instalment plan." ' Youth: "How's that':'" Facetious Clerk: "Ten shillings down and your entire salary each week for the rest of your life." Ivoputaroa telephone exchange now is in going order. This party line comprises six subscribers: namely, Mr- A. Barber, Mr H. McMillan, Mr John Davies, Mr C. C. Higginson, Mr W. D'alziell and Mr E. Porter. Any of these settlers now may be rung up during Levin telephone exchange hours. The special appeal for funds made by the committee in charge of the preparations for the next Olympic Gaines in London, proved altogether unsuccessful. The committee asked for £50,000, but received only .£'ll,ooo. a suggestion has been made that Lord Xorthcliffe intends to continue the appeal through the medium of his associated papers (the Daily Mail, London Times, etc.), and thus practically secure the right to "run" the English team, but this Hannsworth proposal is bound to meet with great opposition. A plague of fleas is at present making life almost .unbearable on a couple of baekbloeks runs in the .North Canterbury district. The fleas are present in countless millions over the whole countryside, and swarm alike in riverbed, tussock, and bush. Workers on the runs have been terribly tormented by the plague, and one person who visited an hotel far back this week had been so badly bitten that practically a pin could not touch the skin between the flea-bites. Old-timers in the district recall a similar visitation about twenty-five years ago, and paint their experiences in very descriptive language. There is in Sydney (says the "Daily Telegraph") a stout and solid politician. His supporters 1 hink that all men should get out of his way. The inadvertent removal of an opponent at the recent elections led him to accept that opinion. The other day he met a man who would not get out of his way. Neither would the politican. It was in the crystal tangle at the White City an arrangement of doors and mirrors sufficiently puzzling to confuse even a Parliamentary intellect. So it happened that the- statesman in Ills progress through the tangle found himself confronted by a man of weighty and purposeful appearance. He strode on with a determined air. He would not give way to this fellow. The fellow was apparently as resolute. The inevitable'followed. Bump! Crash! .Two portly waistcoats came together with an amazing impact. There was a clatter of broken glass. The irresistible force met the immovable body, for the politician had collided violently with his reflect ion in a mirror. Don't throw away last season's straw hat or Panama because; it looks shabby and soiled. (jet a packet of "Strobiu" hat cleaner from C. S. Keedwell's Pharmacy, and you will be astonished at the way it will restore that faded

straw. Price (id per packet. — Ad vt. "Thb Way Home/' by the author of "The Inner Shrine.'' This is the story minutely and understandingly told of a sinner, his life and death. The final issue that is raised concerns the right of one j who has persistently disregarded religion during his strength to accept its consoiation when his end is near. On sale at Thompson's, Levin, for 3s Gd. Also "Scott's Last Voyage," 2 eolumes, 7s; "The Judgment of the Sword, Maud Diver, 3s fid. — Advt. •Jenttemen! Next time you requiie a best hat buy the u ll. and G." make—-it will style and comfort give you. local drapers —Ad\t. Abl< for the tamous Koslyn YVrit iug Pad every time. Containing 300 sheets of fine bank paper with artistic pictures of New Zealand's wonderland (Rotorua), including n photo of a charming native girl. Only fid each from local dealers. - Advl.

At the Roman Catholic Church, Levin, to-morrow mass will bo celebrated at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., and evening devotions at 7 p.m. The keepers at the Melbourne Zoological Gardens were astonished when they found that an old cassowary, which, for fiftet- years they had classified as a male, had laid an egg. The old bird was very proud of the achievement.