LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It i.s stated that over a ton of gift cheese from South Taranaki was >n board the Tokoinaru. in addition <o over £15,000 worth of cheese forwarded in tho ordinary way by the Taranaki factories. The sheep "classes at the .Feilding Show have been specially commented on by visitors both as. regards numbe-s and quality. Altogether 1157 sheep were penned— a good illustration of the advance sheep farming hms made in past years in the district. At the Levin S.M. Court on Thursday before Mr J. W. Poynton. S.M.. W. H. Gunning proceeded against 0. Karsten for the sum of £19 17s 10d. Plaintiff secured .judgment for the amount by default, with costs £1 Us 6d. The Levin Brass Band will pla.> (weather permitting) the following programme at its open-air concert to-night in Oxford-street. The concert will commence at eight o'clock :—Quickstep. "Invercargill" ; waftz, "Harvest Moon"; march, "Monarch of Ocean"; Kchottische, "Lily of the Valley" ; inarch. "Bed Men" ; fantasia "Hearts and Flowers"; galop "Go Ahead": march "Newcastle": polka "Pyrethum' ; march, "Joys of Life" ; "God Save tho King." Before Mr J. W. Poynton. S.M., on Thursday, Pmku Wirihana pleaded guilty to< a charge made by the police of committing a breach of tho peace at Levin the 9th January. Puku was lined 10s. and ordered to pay costs 7s. I In , police also proceeded against Albert Leader on a similar charge. The offence was alleged to have taken place at the same time and place. A plea of guilty was entered by defendant and lie was fined 10s and ordered to pay <'osts amounting to 7s. "What! a man in nn impecunious position like this fellow incurring a debt of £11 for a funeral." exclaimed Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., atChristchurch, when a solicitor applied for a judgment in an undefended claim. Tho solicitor for plaintiff remarked that lie believed that it was for the. funeral of his mother-in-law that the man Had run up such n bill. "Mother-in-law!" His Worship exclaimed again, "all the more reason why he should have got it done cheaply.

There were fair yardings of stock at the Levin sales yesterday, and the sales were fair, the "Bulk of the entries realising satisfactory prices. Fat ewes sold up to 20s and 21e 10d. Fat cows to £6 and £8 14s. There was a good entry of pigs and the market showed an all round imrpovement on previous sales. 1 few young light horses entered for sale were passed ! '.v. the ideas of values between buyers and sellers being very wide. A'few cases of fruit (plums and apples) put up after the sale of stock brought Is Hie half ease, and a few sack of potatoes 5s per sack. Mr Franklin Webb, of Levin, furnishes us with the following item : News was received from England a short time back that my brother. Captain Richard ttebb, R.N., } la<l been appo j nted on the outbreak of war by Mr Winston Churchill, head of the commissariat for the navy, with control o f the trade routes. This appointment calls for n great amount of organising ability, .•uid a tremendous amount of hard work Captain Webb worked without a break 14 hours a day since tho war started and the. work has been carried out without a. hitch. The sinking of the Emd«i and the defeat of Admiral Von squadron relieved him of a certain amount of pressure. Sir Freder jok Sturdee, who won the victory over the Germans, was curiously enough a fellow-worker and a great friend of Oaptnin Webb, and left his desk at the Admiralty to go to sea at the requ-st of Lord Fisher. A Normanby resident secured a rarity the other day in the shape of an alb.no -bla.-kbird. Tt was quite white with pink eyes. He managed ft catch the bird just out of the nest, and kept it alive for some days. Had be been able to rear it he considers he would have had quite a treasure. Several formers in a large way 'n Queensland have notified that they ntend to lay down at least 1000 acres each of additional wheat crop in l hc coming season. The Government Is helping ae requwd with seed wheat, money for ploughing, machinery, extra labour, etc.