LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 February 1914, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

A petition is afoot in Levin asking- the Minister of Justice tu appoint additional .Justices of the Peace for this town and district. The Levin School Committee is blessed with a. most economical secretary. For the past twelve months his expenditure in stumps only amounted to : '>s. At Willesdcn (London) the Magistrate asked a witness why his father ran away, and if then was no trouble. "There was," he replied. "Mother was jusl behind !" Frank Jieaurepaire, who has been adding to his laurels as a swimmer, is organiser of swimming and life-saving for the Education Department of Victoria. Speaking at Hastings yesterday the Hon. W. F. Massey stated the Government hoped to make available the £25,000 granted last session for loans to fruitgrowers' associations for cold storage, very shortly. The loans would be limited to £'5000. He felt sun that when the above sum had been spent judiciously a further sum would be granted. The London Chronicle gives u> a curious illustration of the change :>f sentiment towards educatioi and poverty thai has been witnessed in less than a century Hannah MO re. famous for hei benevolence and philantrophy disapproved of teaching the children of the poor anything but the Bible, the Catechism "and sueli

coarse works as may til them foi servants." She said emphatically ; "T allow of no writing for tlu 1)001"." Great Britain's latest allcgiants have tlioir names set out in last week's Government Gazette, under the heading '" Letters of Xaturalisation Issued. , ' The most striking name on the list is that of Martha Barrett Xeugeschwender. Next in point of interest come* Laun"f£ Kristian Emil Enevoldsken. of Shannon, 'Pony Bajto, of Waipapakauri, and Jure Tvostanich, of Waihopo. Mr Peter Bernard, the wellknown American entertainer, is in Sydney on his way to iSTew Zealand with his wife, who is a native of the dominion, -and who is going to pay a visit to her people. Mr Bernard was formerly the leader of the Original Ragtime Octette, but is now retired from the stage.

Among the Ainus, according to one of them recently in Tokio, the price of a wife is the hum of ;i bear. The Ivaffir price varies from four to eight oxen. In Cganda a wife can be secured for a score of cartridges. In Turkestan the Tartars can purchase as many wives as they please for a box of matches each. From the AV. H. 13untuck Company (or a name something like that) The Chronicle is in receipt of a booklet, "beautifully illustrated." bearing the title "A Treatise on Worms." It was left on the editor's table unostentatiously, while the editor was out. if Corncrock or his company's, local representative will call on us to-day we will reciprocate his kindness by introducing him to the rtffice dog. "Toper"' lives chiefly on roller composition and leaders, but lie has a special appetite for quack literature, though he is a nice dog in his own sheepy way; but the dpad-shot booklet, has been savaged by him in a fearsome manner that shows unmistakably his attitude in respect of all vcrmifugeous literature and its disseminators. "You can sell anything with wool or hair on it this year," said a farmer at the saleyards recently. To support his statement lie mentioned an incident which

took place at Waituna sale last week. While a pen of sheep was bciii" , oll'ercd, one prospective buyer, wlio was approaching the yards, ,q - ot in ;i threepenny bid while still a hundred yards away, before he had seen the sheep at all. "Any farmer who is not making money just now ought to give his farm away, raiher than try to work it. There is not a single ily in the ointment, except that a very small portion of the oat crop was spoilt by the lasl rains. There is plenty of grass, mid look at ihe price of fat lambs !"-•- I'Yilding Slar. It is remarkable (he advance I that, has been made in the quality and lit of the Ncady-made Suit of to-day compared with the suit of even a year ago. Fargher and Co., ihe drapers, of Shannon, are a< present showing a range ol suits that are an education in this respect. Advt.