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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 March 1915, Page 3

10-morrow (Wednesday) a visiting ■.cam «i tenuis pi ay era from .Uaaakau vim arrive to play a Levin team. The allowing players wiil represent Levin: .hisses Sparrow, G. Kemington, M. uitchings and JL ( '. Gardener; Messrs if. I'linglo, It. G. Outfield, K \V. J. .smith, \Y]. .Bull and \\. Sandman, lne courts are in line order and given niie weather it should prove an enjoyable day The ladies of the club will provide afternoon tea. The entries lor the lfiaster tournament will be closed to-morrow. Ihe I 1 ood Commission in Sydney is .lolding an investigation into the butter market. 'The price of butter has increased from 4s to 12s <jd per cwt. a commendable action on the part of Air G. McGregor, gymnasium instructor to the I'.M.C.A. class, was mentioned at the annual meeting of the Association last night by the president (Air J. Gibson), who stated that the board of management had decided to give Mr McGregor the receipts from the concert and gymnastic display given by the pupils of the class a few months ago as some recognition of the work he had done. The amount was close on £10, and Mr McGregor immediately handed it over to the Belgian Relief Fund.

tor the ensuing quarter the following dates have been fixed by Mr J. IV. Poynton, S.M., for the sittings of ihe Levin Magistrate's Court at which !ie will preside April Ist, April 15th. May 13th. May 27th, and June 17th. Die Licensing Court will sit in Otaki on -June 2nd. The harvest festival at St. Mary's Church. Levin, was hold last Sunday The Church was prettily decorated by Mesdames Duckworth. Lodge. Stealey aud Wallace, Misses Eyes ?2), Nickle, and Winstanley. Considering: the threatening state of the weather, the congregations were large. Both services were taken by the Rev. H. T. Stealev. who took for his text in tlie morning "They joy before Thee according to the joy of the harvest." In the evening the text was "Behold a sower went forth to sow. 1 ' At Oliau the harvest thanksgiving wrtn held on Sunday afternoon. There was a remarkably fine display of fruit, flowers and vegetable®. On Monday they all were pent to St. Mary's Home, the Anglican rescue home at Karori. What is believed to bo a record price this year for oats was reached a lew days ago, when a Southbridge farmer sold to a firm in Leest-on a line of 360 sacks of"Algerians at os per bushel. This morning at the Levin S.M. Court, before Messrs B. R. Gardener and P. W. Goldsmith, J's.P., a man named John Greenwood appeared, charged by the police with indecent exposure in Bath street, yesterday. Defendant pleaded guilty and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. To a further charge of being foun<T drunk in Oxford-street. defendant pleaded guilty and was fined 10*.