The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1914. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1914. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

— » / It is understood that and the Anglo-Swiss Condgiiseu Milk Company will shorty erect an fxtensive factory Jri the X.uth Island. The contractor the tool shed to be by the Education Board, Wellington, at Levin school hivs'been secured by Pringle and builders, Levin. Evidence of the quality of the html at Waitotara is to be seen at 'a store there in the shape of a fine parsnip, which turns the scale at 01b loz, and measures o'iin in length. ! A few friends of the late jockey 0. William Better, of Levin, who was killed at Christehurch last Sep. tember, are erecting- a handsome memorial to his memory at Levin. Mr Leslie McMinn, of Palmerston North, is the chosen sculptor for the memorial, and he is expectel to have it completed in a few days. Daily Times. The Crimee arrived at Marseilles (in France) the other day with a hundred tons weight of little sacks on board, which gave a metal chink as they dropped from the cranes. Three or four other ships of the Messageries Maritimes unloaded simitar quantities of little bags, and all the bags have been sent on to Belgium. They contain bullets which have been collected 011 the battlefield of the Balkans (the Daily Express says). They are going to Waterloo, where they will be sold to tourists as relics. The stoclc of genuine Waterloo bullets sold out some time ago, and the demand is very steady. The Balkan War will now supply a long-felt want. There must be a queer street in Whakatane. "Cold Jbeet" writes to the editor of the Whakatane County Press as follows: —Sir, — jOn my- way to work the other morning I observed a seedy-look-ing individual in Merritt-street with a garden rake 111 one hand and a gum spear in the other. I made it my business to inquire if he was searching for a copy of the new by-laws. He informed me that he did not want the new by-laws, but he was searching for a pair of gum-boots, which lie had lost the previous evening, but so far had been unable to locate the spot where lie had lost them. A witness at the Supreme Court at, Palmerston North, on Saturday, upset the gravity of the proceedings more than once by his original counter-questions. At one stage, witness was asked by His Honor to detail what took place when he was purchasing the horses concerned in the action, when witness asked his Honor: "Have you ever bought horses? It takes time to do it. You don't stand around and buy each separately." # (Laughter). ' His Honor laughingly informed witness that as he had never bought a horse he did not know anything of the business. At a later stage the witness gravely informed counsel, in answer to questions, that "he would have f o be more distinct," and "not go a long way round" witli flie questions.— Standard. Mr (ji. Wheaton, of 2b Iten-wick-street, Drummoyne, a picturesque Sydney suburb, has an ordinary looking "While Leghorn hen which is a freak 111 its egglaying abilities. It laid five eggs during as many days of last week, the largest weighing (iozs., and the rest nearly I hat weight. The largest egg was tour and a half inehs long and eight inches in circumference. liut, more extraordinary still, is the fact that each of three of the eggs which have been examined contained another complete egg and shell. Between Ihe outer and inner egg the ordinary yolk and , white were found. The outer egg-shell was thick, but lacked toughness, and two were broken when the hen, which is only eight months old, dropped I hem. The I largest egg was laid the day the Sydney mail left, and Mr Wliea- | ton, who watched (he laying, says that the hen experienced no apparent discomfort in getting rid of the tremendous burden. He now has her under close observation for further records. Four of the eggs were brought into the Sydney Run office for inspection.

Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, lias been gazetted Deputy-Gover-nor during the absence of Lord Liverpool in the Islands. A motor car with a full-size body, but only two wheels, has been constructed by the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company, Birmingham, from the designs of Dr P. Schillowsky, and has, it is understood, proved satisfactory in preliminary trials on the road. The two wheels are placed in line as in an ordinary bicycle, and the machine is kept upright by means of a gyroscope device controlled by two pendulums, which, when the car inclines to one side or the other from the perpendicular, brings the gyroscope into action to oppose the tendency to overturning. The inventor claims that a monotrack motor-car running under gyroscopic control can attain a given speed with a much less powerful engine, and with a lighter frame and body than would be needed for a fourwheeled car of the same rating; that as it requires a very narrow path it is particularly adapted for use in new and undeveloped countries; that the smoothne,;.? of running is greatly increased,-; Iliat the cost of manufacture lessened; that the fuel eonsnmntion is lessened; and .that the; gyroscopic control conduces to safety in running at high speed round curves. Why endure cold feet these frosty nights. A 'Bungalow" stone foot warmer will last a lifetime,'and costa only 4s 6d. Also the., new season's supply of hot "Yatei bags just to hand in all sizes at C. S. Keedwell's Pharr rnacy. —Advt. ■