GENERAL NEWS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 February 1915, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

Tho Aahurst Co-operative Dairy Company has received the welcome news that its cheese brought 86s in London. This is a record price for the company and amongst the highest- quotations for New Zealand cheese this season. A Whakataki resident has received from a member of the New Zealand force now in Egypt a piece of bark said !to come from the tree under which the Holy Family rested, and a frond of fern from the well from which they drank, during their journey acress the desert English wire is already up £4 per ton, while wire netting has experienced a rise of 50 per cent. The increase is already due to tho fact that in the past wire was brought from the Continent and galvanis-xl in Britain. Some parents are not observing a recent change in the law in relation to attendance of the children at school. Whether possessed of a proficiency certificate or not, the child must now attend until he attains the age of thirteen years, and no child is entitled hy reason of possession of a competency certificate of the Sixth Standard eo leave school under the age of fourteen years. • *••••• It is reported that a. well-knowu Sounds settler has lately come in for a "windfall" in the shape of a valuable freehold (property—a popular racecourse—in the Auckland district, estimated in value at something like £30,000. The story goes that the property in question was left by an old lady many years ago (when most of tho land in the vicinity was held by natives) to the settler when very young, but owing to a mistake in his initials being, made in the will, has remained unclaimed until quite recently. Investigations are at present heing made in Auckland, and it is Raid that littlo difficulty is now expected by the claimant in proving his title. Only recently when improvements to the racecourse were suggested, members pointed nit the dangerousness of the procedure, .is the rightful owner of the property had not been found, .and this hoing the case, the club were only tenants ,->n sufferance. • • • « » • • "We live on rumours and more rumours up here," says Dr Martin, writing from France to a trieiid in Palmerston North. "Daily we get a fresh rumour. The favourite one it that the Kaiser is dead. He has been drowned, | assassinated, shot, hayoneted, blown up, died in convulsions, committed .iuicide. Daily or almost daily some calamity has befallen the groat William, but front last accounts the War Lord is still alive and still asserting that the Almighty is on his side. When wo don't kill the Kaiser we kill tho Crown Prince. Ho has been buried in all parts of France and Poland, but he always gets out of his graves, and turns up elsewhere. He, 1 believe, >n siill alivo and well. On dog days, we kill and bury von Kluck or Bulow, >r Hindenburg, but if wo do not kill and completely bury these august being.we certainly daily kill many of the lesser German fry, and when we bury thorn we do it very effectively in a deep, long trench, and cover them up