The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, FERUARY 13, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 February 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, FERUARY 13, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

An alteration iu tlio Post and Telegraph regulations relating to betting telegrams lias been brougfit into operation. Tlio effect of tho change is that the forwarding of telegrams to any persons on racecourses is absolutely porliibited. There is a curious defect in the Destitute Persons Act in that while Charitable Aid Boards can claim upon relatives for the maintenance of a person, they cannot claim for past maintenance should that person die. This week a heavv engine on the way from Taihape to Taumarunui ran into a jigger <m the line, a mile from Tnihnpe. 11. S. Thomas, a platelayer, was knocked off the jigger and died as a result of the injuries he sustained. Deceased, who was about 30 years of use leave* a widow and six months' child. Wiiting to friends at Otaki Nurse Lewis (late of Otaki). who lias been helping in military hospitals, .ambulance ships, etc.. in the Old Country, speaks most feelingly of £h e horrors of war. 'Only last week, , she writes, '] held in my arms a Belgium baby only ton months' old, ivith both ears and hands cut off. Another wee girl, of four years had both hands off, and kept eeying, 'When will my hands grow?' Such sights as these bring home forcibly the brutality of the enemy." The Greytown 00-bpea-aitive Dairy Company paid out tho sum of £3470 week. l>eing at the rate of Is per pound of butterfat for tho month of January, and threepence per lb from the beginning of the season up to December 31st making a total advance to da.te of Is per lb. There wevo fair yardings of all class-

<-'s of stock at tlie salovnrdis yeeterdiy and the salo was on the whole a good one. Fat ewes sold from 17e to 21s 3d. Light fat oows £6 15s, better to £7 10s, forward bullocks from £8 *2s to £9 10. The market for pigs was dragging, buyers not being very keen. "Being somewhat inclined for leisure to-day," remarked a townsman in the Borough Offices yesterday, "I think I will pay my rates." To.this proceeding no objection was raised by anyone and the result was the reducing of the Borough overdraft by about £30. The Town Clerk is hoping to meet more people of this leisurely type.

A serious accident happened to Mr Schr..mka, of Kimberley read, tho other morning. He was leaving for the creamery with a full load of milk when the. horse shied. The wheel of the vehicle struck a log and the load was capsized. Mr Schntmka was tllrown out, and one of the 20-gallon cans, full of milk, fell on his leg breaking itvery badly.

The American explorer Mac Millan has provided a new Arctic sensation by

asserting that Crocker Land, which Peary claims to have discovered eight years ago, is nonexistent. Hβ says lie has himself travelled 130 miles north from Cape Thomas Hubbard without finding the supposed continent, and contends that Peary's discovery was a mirage. What about the North PoleP.

For Eczema, Barns, Wounds, Piles. Chilblains, Ringworm, Ulcers, Bruisae, and all irritable akin diseases use Remington's Derma Ointment. Price Is 6d, 2s 6d, and 4e 6d per pot. Phe beet soap to use fw the toilet and skin is Remington's Derma. Antiseptic Soap. Price la t>er tablet. Ad

is Remington's Derma. Soap. Price la per tablet.

Writing from Napier to a friend in Hawera, a resident says:—"Hundreds and thousands of sheep are being railed over to the West Coast for feed. Others are dying of starvation. The freezing 'companies can't take them because there are hardly any boats to take the meat to England. A farmer friend of mine and his neighbor aro taking all theirs over to Palmorston, and are going to feed them on the road.

E C Simmons, president of one of the leading American hardware corporations, in a recent letter to the salesmen of his company, said :—"Don't worry. War or no war, freight-rates or no freight-rates, tariff or no tariff, baseball or no baseball, grape-juice or champagne, the farmer is etill on Mie job,"

Approximately 500.000 destitute throng Brussels to-day. At the relief kitchens GOOO gallons of soup, with bread rations, are distributed daily The soup is sent in large lorries to 21 canteens, each under the protection of the United States flag. Villager* search in the iields in the hope ol finding a stray potato or two. They pick the rotting fruit from the orchards and one of the most pathetic sights is to see tho old people coining home *-u die. They would rather that than face the new lands at their time of life. The young are going forth to Mother countries with bundles of poor rags upon their shoulders but they arc full of hope.

It is stated by the Hawkc's Bay Herald that the friitit crop hi. the Havelock North district iis, on the whole, fairly well up to the average. Peaches, plums, apricots and nectarines were severely damaged by the late frosts, which came just at the critical time, when the bloom was setting, °nd the crops are generally poor. Apples and pears are, Itowever, very good crops. In the riverside orchaixls the yields are excellent, many of the branches being borne to the ground by + 'he weight of fruit. The result on 'ho hills, whore the frost does not affect the trees greatly, aro also satisfactory. On the Horctauflga Plains, where the orchards a re' Jess protected, the results of the frosts are disastrous in many cases, and the yields are poor.