LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 January 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

T A parade of the Levin Territorials will be held on Tuesday evening at the Drill Hall. About 200 recruits from Auckland passed through Levin this morning en route for the Trentham training camp. In the I'lunket .Shield match Wellington v. Canterbury", commenced at Wellington yesterday. Canterbury made 244 in their first innings. Wellington replied with 257 for "eight wickets, Baker (73) anil Hiddlestone (62) being the chief scorers. Along the beach yesterday a good look-out was kept by the police and others for the body of the'girl Phyllis Chapman, who was drowned on Sunday. but no sign of it was seen. The hole where the accident happened was thoroughly searched by Mr J. Rose withowt result. It will probably be some days before the body comes ashore.

The Salvation Army Officers stationed at Levin are being changed. Captain Matthews loft on Monday mornA drowning accident took place at Tβ Horo about eight o'clock laet evening by which Mr H. Hodge and his son lost their lives. It appears that they were fishing and hauling in tho net at the tiine, but it is not known exactly how tho accident happened. The body of Mr Hodge was recovered last night but so far the other body has not been' seen. Mr J. Diysdale. manager of the Experimnetal Farm, Weraroa, who got his foot crushed in some pumping machinery a few months ago, is making slow progress. He is still compelled to use crutches and it will be solme time yet before the injured foot is quite strong again. ing and she is about to enter the marriage state. Ensign Potter leaves on Wednesday, and her future labour will be- Taihape. these officers have been in the Levin district. On Tnuraday the , new oflicers come. They are Captain ami Mrs Brown, v-onsideriuy the excremjely uytii'avourublu season the orchards at the Experimental Farm are looking very well, though the effect .of the wind is plainly noticeabe in different places. The cultivation of the orchard grounds has been arduously attended to and the place is quite free of weeds. Several oi tho trees in. the pear orchard are a sight well worth, seeing, the amount of fruit they arc bearing being exceptional Although the fruit is small, yet the limbs are already beginning to bend downwards.