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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1915, Page 2

-«•<-'•» .. At the Sydney wool sales yesterday greasy wool made a record advance to loid per lb. Methodist Church services will bo ■held in the A'rapaepae Hall on. Sunclay evening at 7.30. Mr T. G. Vincent will be the preacher. The Rev. A. O. liatiderson will preach on .Sunday evening in the Presbyterian Church on the subject "The meek shall inherit the earth.—Are the British meek?" Russia has contracted to supply France with 400,000 tons of wheat and 100,000 tons of sugar. Motorists complain of dogs on tin , street, but it must be said that the speed at which some cars are driven -n .country roads deserves punishment.We have heard of two or three valuable sheep dogs being run over of late, and a valuable one was killed in the neighbourhood of Levin yesterday That dogs are a nuisance very ofteii must be admitted, but motorists are ofton a nuisance to drovers on the road, and the wonder is that more sheep are not killed. As many of the men discharged iron tile Expeditionary .Force in Egypt arc still wearing -uniforms, other Territorials have been subjected to iin pi ens antness owing to tlie public being mi abl-s to discriminate between soldier*, with an unsullied record and those in disgrace. Th'e. defence authorise have consequently instructed the polic to arrest any -of the discharged niei found in uniform after mid-day yester day. If any of those do not posse*, other clothing a suit of civilian clothing will be presented on application to th<defence offices. Several Canterbury, Waikato and West Coast stock buyers are at present in Hastings and are operating largely in store sheep. Last week over 10,000 store sheep were purchased fron> one small district in Hawke'e Bay alone. The present drought is responsible for farmers quitting their stool;. A Palniorston North reporter was informed by a farmer that for thin district, the season has, despite the (try weather been a better one than last season. Stock are in good condition, tik! the milk yield well up in volume. Although the Nelson hop-picking season does not begin until well on mi February, quite a number of wonvi' and girls have already enrolled at the Wellington office of the Labour Department in the hope of securing employment among the crops when the gathering period arrives. An English officer, writing from Hie trout, says:—The native troops, in spite of being in n strange land in ;i war strange to them, have done magnificently. Of course wo have only the military races over. . . , and people at home should know that it is not only Sihks, Pathans. and Gurkha* who can fight. Rajputs, Jate. Punjabbi <ind Deccan, Mussulmans, and Garwhalis and Dogras are doing every bit as well—perhaps the .Tats (the principal section of the agricultural section of the Punjab have done a shade better than anv sn fm\