The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 January 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

—* High naU'i' at the liokio Beach to morrow will be at 2.32 in the moruiii£ and 'J.oG in the afternoon. There was a fair yarding of all classes oi stock at the saleyards yesterday, and prices lor fat stock were as iirm as ever. All tho sheep were sold, fat owes to 18s, l!Js, Jtl; fat cows £7 10i to i'B and good well-forward hullockfc to CIO. 'I here w.as a good entry o) pigs and values lor fats were maintained. The demand for stores dragged a. little, but finally all sold. New freezing works winch are capable '■t- putting through 2000 sheep da Is are being opened in Hawke's Bay this week. It is that the Maunganiii and lahiti, two of the vessels used . s transports lor the troops to Egypt will arrive back in Wellington towards 'he end of next week. I One hear* remarkable stories of tho i luorprise that is being shown in .small places. One village of perhaps -iOO people, nearly all on the land, lias raised a ' guarantee of JLH a week to keep Belgians. Under the I'Vint-pre-serving Industry Amendment Act, passed last year advances up to £9000 can be obtained from the Government for the purpose of establishing cool stores for fruit, the chief object being to encourage growers to serve local markets in a systematic manner throughout the year. One lady in Balelutha complained (says the Clutha Loader) Jthiat [the ballot boxes were put too high up on the iv.lll, and on enquiry it Was discovered that she had' deposited her voting papers in one of the wooden box ventilators on the wall instead of in the ballot box. A Mastei ton business man who has received samples of fancy goods made in Japan says they are far ahead of the German articles that have been sold in New Zealand for years past. The prices are right and there is no doubt that Japan will secure a. gotod deal of the trade that previously went to Germany. A little Belgian girl, who had been ndopted by an English family, cried half the first day and night and l utterly refused to be comforted or eat. At length the family doctor entered 1 , clad in khaki. At once she ran to him with outstretched arms, crying "Bittisli! Bittishl" Then she nestled in his arms and fell asleep, sleeping the clock round. A Norsewood resident, who has been on n inrrknv l/un< wP : j iir.ii

on ,1 motor tour of Wanganui and Well ington diet)' Lets. Jirf.s juist iiioturned home, being much impressed by the appearance •of bhie .west coast 'after seeing Hawke's Bay. Oat crops and pastures, especially in the Mainnviatu and Otaki districts, are far ahead of anything on the Dannevirke side. A movement for the rebuilding of Belgium in England is projected iu Birmingham. 'Jho idea is to employ the refugees in constructing portable buildings, which can be seF up amid the mi ins of towns .and villages when the war is over to provide temporary j habitation for the repatriated people j while (lie destruction of their old homes { is being made good. Mr Tau Henare, the Northern Maori member, stated to an Auckland Star reporter t<r-day that he -had not been elected as a supporter ol Massey or Ward. He stood as an Independent, and contested the election without the help of either party, and had been returned only to do his best for his constituents. ''I'm a dark horse," he said, ".and absolutely no one knowt what 1 will do with my vote." tfREATBINtJ DIFFICULT lii gives me pleasure to "recominasid Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to 'ny customers," writes Mrs Alice Morrison €r. Carr and Fitzgerald Sts., Perth, ~S\. A. My children. Horace and Gwen were always getting bad colds attended by difficult breathing and 1 had many a sleepless night until i tried Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Now if ihey get a slight cold I give them a dose of it and the cold is no more. Sold every-

A cable message lias been received by tlic Diofenoe Dopartmnt announcing tlie death of Trooper George Vandergraff Burlinson, a member of the llain Expeditionary Force at Cairo. Deceased, who was attached to the Wellington Mounted Rifles, died from .septic poisoning as the result of injuries received in a fall from a horse. The voiiug man's father is Major .Burlinson. officer in charge of the Industrial Training School, Levin, ulio.se many friends will sympathise with him in j the loss of a promising son. "So far as it is' possible to judge," says the Prime Minister, "'exports from Xew Zealand till is season will exceed in volume those of last year. The drought on the East Coast of the North Island and in the Auckland district will undoubtedly affect the output of dairy produce from those districts; but this deficiency will 'be made up by other distiicts. In flax and kauri gum our exports will be reduced, but I am confident that the total value of exports ■will be greater this year than last year." The authorities have come, to a most interesting decision witli regard to the equipment of the Maori soldiers at present in training at Avondalo camp. It has been decided to pnt the Maoris in "shorts" and putties to replace the long trousers which at present from the nether half of their uniform. 'The short pants will be of a pattern that has become familiar in the now wellknown uniform of the senior cadets. The Maori in wide, well-cut shorts, putties, and bare knees, and a drill tunic (to be discarded at the slightest provocation) should be in comfortable garb that will enable him to appear and to work at his bast. Before the war broke out barges coukl travel by canal from Nieuport. we read in the "Daily Chronicle" (London), right across Belgium to the Ardennes and into Germany or France. Over the whole of Belgium there is a network of canals, numbering fiftyseven in all, and two of these converge at Nieuport. The Belgian canal system ranks among the oldest in the world, for it was initiated under the Roman occupation by Mark Antony's son-in-law, Nero Claudius Drusnx. Six hundred years ago Ovstend. Bruges, Ghent. Coiiht-rai. Yprc.s. Tourai and Alost were already linked together by canals. Our Belgian families have settled down to life amongst us. and as they conic and go wo -really hardly notice tliem oartieularlv now. states a writer

LIIUJM p<u liL'Uiail\ JK)U, tVUllA.'tt tl \\ I 1W J I iii tlie "Queen." They learn a little j- English, and soino of the most- unox--3 pet-ted of our residents are learning ;i little French. It is amusing as oih j. walks up the .streets to pass a group ol lads and hear one who has always had s the reputation of being stupid and nnl teachable eagerly asking ;t Belgian hoy ty the French for something or other, and s then reproducing the clear French ac--1 cent in a rather heavy rustic broadliess of sound. Roughly spuiuking the liiimber ol men now under arms or training in the e United Kingdom is 1,500.000 and thai number is to be increased to 2,000.000 in the near future (wrote a London correspondent of 13th November). Tf. as lias been hinted. 3.000.000 men are I ultimately needed, some form of compulsory training will have to be resorted to. hence the census being now taken of all men between the ages of 18 and 15 residing in Groat Britain ■ and Ireland. Each householder has I been asked to make a return of the ' male# between those ages resident in 1 his house. In round l numbers, oiie--1 sixth of a given population is usually taken as the number of men capable of bearing arms.