LOCAL and GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 April 1914, Page 2

LOCAL and GENERAL.

***Good Friday and Easter Monday are printers' holidays; consequently there will be no publication of Tho Chronicle on those days. At the Sydney Royal Agriculurul Show, the progeny of Ribbonwood, tho New Zealand trotting horse, secured thiee first. pnzcs, one second, and one third. Evidently the Now Zealand Dotenet, loree Executive does not re- i gard it as one of a soldier's credentials that he should be in debt. Lately the resignation has been announced of a member of the forces whose name has been in the "judgnie-nt by default." list almost weekly for a good while past. Possibly the resignation was "by special invitation." Thursday, 7th May, is fixed us the date for the annual meetingH of householders, throughout Wellington Education district, to elect school committees. Details are set out by adve?tisemo"it on page •3. A communication from the Levin Brass Ban , !, asking for a subsidy, was read u vu\ -P..'■γ-iu ■:•!>. Council r> n Mons . '.':: 11..- -r... lion of Cimr-i'-ilio. Frame-. o<l by fjoi.li) 'ii!nr J^;an aster, it was resolved : 'That the Levin Band's request bo referi'ed to tho Finance Committee for favourable consideration when making up this year's estimates." An eight-year-old Levin lad whose musical taste was pleased by a pianoforte playing of The VVatch on The Rhine, which is Germany's national anthem, carefully read the German title on (he cover ("Die Wneht Am Rhein"'). Later on he told his relatives that he liked "that music,' very much. . '"'What music?" lie was asked. He replied, "Oh, vou know ! 'Die on the Watch,' or something like that, isn't if !'" Wage war on tho flies and use J !ie Protector sticky fly-catcher, which you can hang up out of the vay. Fresh stocks of these are obtainable from C. S. KeedwelTs Phnrmacv Price 2d encli or V "or one shilling—Advt.