LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 April 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

If possible the Levin Hockey Club uII arrange a match wtli a learn from the troupers n camp on the racecourse next week. The total number of men in camp on the Levin racecourse next week wil.' be 980; they will arrive on Monday. The camp will disband on the 2-ltli ilist. The estate of the late Thoma.s lie.w■■ (of Manakau) has been tswoni. for .purposes of .Stamp Duty, at L'23.*>l. Th:estate is separate from the late M ."-s Mevan's Owing to the mildness of the autumn a number of strawberry ije-ds in Paliiierston district are yielding second crops. The berries in most ca<ses arc equally as large and palatable as the ordinary yield.--Palmorston Times. On' account of tlio intervention <>l the Kaster holidays, the last discoun', day for March gash ills due to Lcvii. Coijjoration has been set forward by three days. Tuesday next. 13th Apr!', will be the last day for allowance of discount. A lively scrap between a clergyman and a layman wa« witnessed at a baptising ceremony in Staiichfield Lake, .Minn. George Tomlinsoii liad agreed to be baptised there by the Hcv. Mr Oriock, but his nerve deserted him at the la.st moment. The clergyman attempted to use force, and there was a struggle, the convert angrily resisting. After a prolonged protest, the minister succeeded in ducking the unwilling convert in thre-e feet ol muddy water. A Maiiawatu fanner when talking to a Times reporter yesterday stated that the anticipated shortage of rape seed for the coming season is going to be a very serious problem for the .sheep fanner and will be one of the most serious features of the farm seed posi tion. The result will probably be tliH lat lambs will bring hi<»li prices. Yesterday afternoon a young woman tell off the south-bound New Plymouth express three-quarters of a mile south of Btumythorpc and was killed instantly. .As far as ascertained tlio victim is Miss Winnie Broad, a resident of Dunedin. A well-known Palmeivston butcher informed a Manawatu Daily Times reporter that the price of sheep n;t I risen 8s per head during the past fortnight. Ho also stated that the prie > of bullocks had gone up £4 lien] a.s compared with same period last year-. The Hon. H. D. Bell is visiting 1.-•• vin to-day, arriving by the Now Plv mou'th express. He was met at the station by the Mayor (Mr B. H. Gardener). Mr 801 lis making an exan.ination of the lake in order to obtain a first-hand knowledge ol the positii n and questions appertaining to it, whi-li will be brought under his notice at the Council Chambers this afternoon by a reputation from the Lovin Borough Council. An interesting note appears in the last issue of the. New Zealand Farm and Stisfk Journal <m trie milling ((.unities of wheat. It states that of thi> recently imported Canadian wtici, j (.said tii have been purchased a.s second grade) it takes 51 bushels to make -.me 11,11 "I' flour. New Zealand wheat needs 17 bushels to the ton of flour and Australian wheat -Iβ bushels. It also stales that the Dunedin bakers are hi-jhly pleased with the flour milled from the Canadian wheat, and consider it excellent. The bakers in the Southern' city apparently must have had different experience with it than Levin bakers. One baker in l,ovin declines to have anything to do with it.