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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 January 1915, Page 3

Mr E. S. Barker, Hamilton's oldest resident, celebrated his 99th birthday on Januuary 18. The Iceland Parliament has passed total prohibition, and the lats twos baskets of champagne have been exported. The thorniomcter touched So degrees in the shade at Mastcrtou on Wednesday afternoon. This is the highest registration of this summer. High prices continue to rule for mutton and beef in Southland, and -it Wallace town stock sale £31 was paid lor fat bullocks, the weight of which Has estimated at anything between 1300 and 14001bs. "The war has caused a tremendous demand for remount and) artillery horses," said the Prime Ministre at the Lovin Show. "With the First Expeditionary Force nearly 4000 horses were sent away, ancT~onTy 1.9 per cent, were lost." This, added Mr Massey, was a wonderful result, and pointed to the possibilities of an important trade in horses between New Zealand and oversea- countries. After some falling off m the demand from Vancouver for New Zealand butter there is every indication that the Canadian trade is now coming back to normal, states the Auckland "Star." By the Niagara a consignment of 11,000 boxes is being shipped to the Canadian port from Auckland, and it is stated that in spite of the drought the produce is of excellent quality, and the high standard attained by the Dominion product is fully maintained in the consignment about to bo sent away. The falling off of the past few months is attributed merely to the passing effects of the money market and other war influences, and is of no importance as indicating the prospects of the expansion of the New Zealand butter trade in the Ainberican markets.