LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 February 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

•Some light showers fell in Levin last night. Accounts totalling £0 Is 2d wore 1 Kissed by tho Levin School Committee at its meeting last evening. A London cable states that ha.rro.ving stories are told of tho appalling i destitution in Servin. A million .110 homeless and foodless, and in._worse plight than the Blegians, because they have no neighbours to succour them. It is pitiable to we them grouped in hundreds, hopeless and despairing, weak from the want of food, shattered by privations. On all sidea are heard moans of thousands upon thousands of suffering children. The big White Star liner Athenic (formerly H.M.N.Z.T. No. 11) which got back from Egypt the week before last is being transformed at Auckland into the smart-looking merchantman that she was before the war. A HINT ON PIOKLING VEGETABLE. The housewife who wishes to make . success of pickling onions, cauliflower, beetroot andi other vegetables, should use Sharland's Malt Vinegar. This excellent and popular vinegar is brewed from malt and sugar and conforms to the requirements of the Food and Drugs Act. It is undoubtedly the most wholesome and most palatable vinegar in NW Zealand. Soitin bulk and bottles. Ask your grfflfer for Sharland's Advil.

It is estimated that over £400,000 tvih be paid out by the woolbrokers on settling day on account of the wool sold at Wellington on Tuesday. Carrier-pigeons liberated at Napier at 4 a.m. on Saturday arrived at Invercargill on Sunday afternoon at i o'clock. The ©lection of a member for the Bunedin Central seat is being contested to-day. Mr Statham stands for the Reform Party and Mr Munro for the Liberal Party. If Mr Statham wins the Massey party will have a majority of two in the House. Tf Mr Munro wins parties will be equal. Over 1000 head of cattle have been transferred from one corner of the Masterton district to the Forty-Mile Bush, on account of the dro.ught. Arrangements are being made for the transference of further la.rgo drafts. It is twenty-seven years since a drought likrthe present was experienced in the Masterton district. In 1887 the wtIcrs in the Masterton district had lo iranfor their stock to the Forty-Mile Bush to save them from starvation. It is now eight months since rain m any noticeable quantity, has fallen in Hastings. Tt speaks well for the fertility of the soil in the district fsays the Hawko's Ray Tribune) that, notwithstanding the long drought, the few light showers that have fallen on rare occasions have kept fli© countryside from being parched up altogether. At the meeting of the "Wellington Land Board tho following aplications to transfer Here received, and it was resolved to approve them on tho usual conditions:—M. E. Smith to A. and A!. Kennedy, section 33. Horowhenma V. S.. 10 acres; F. A. Liohtwark to O. L. Harvey. Section 53, Levin V.S., 10 acres. The question of th 6 advisabkpeating tho concert given by the scholness of repeating the concert giv'"S by tho scholars of tho Levin District School before Christmas was brought up at tho School Committor meeting last evening. After some :liscussian it was decided to hold tho mattor over for n while, it being stated that the boys at the Training Farm 'ntend to give a concert shortly in aid of the Belgian Fund, and the Committee had no desire to do anvthin- ' that might interfere with its success. " f

[ "Von enii tell the Department of Agriculture from mo," said Mr J. H. Oolemnn at the Hawke'.s Hay A. and P. Society's nieetint:. in discussing the harm done by blackberries, "that unless some active step is taken to eradicate black-berries T will live long "enough to see the whole of New Zealand affected." A visitor from Australia stated that one could go for miles in Victoria and New .South Wales and not see a blade of grass, while sheep are dying in thousands. Everything is burned up and the drought in South Australia is -eported to be the worst in the history of the country. Business, as a consequence, is very slow, and many married men are volunteering ibr active service on account of their inability to obtain employment.