LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 April 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Influenza is making its presence fell at the training camp at Weraroa n< about twenty men are in the hospital suffering from the complaint. The main road near the Kuku i> being re-metalled, a'fact which i.s likely to prove a source of satisfaction tc settlers, whatever may he tho feeling.o> j)ii«ssiii<r motorists. A .seriou* accident happened to ;i member of C Squadron at the camp on the racecoure yesterday afternoon. A horse trod on his leg. breaking it below tlie knee. A committee meeting of the Lovii: Horticultural Society was held in tht Council Chamber* last evening « her, linal arrangements lor the forthcoming show were made. .Stock is being entrained from Levin in large numbers just now. Last night there u ere seventeen trucks ol sheep and cattle on Levin railway .siding tor lunihige to .stations between this town and Wellington. A message from New York states that Thomas Edi.son announces a eu submarine .storage battery enabling a submarine to remain ten days submerged without danger of chlorine poisoning the crew. The battery give.s an under-water range of l.~>o iniles. A conceit programme of "all star iteniis*' ha.s been arranged for to-nior-roH night (Friday), at the Century Hall, Levin, by the committee of military entertainments. Alilitaiy entertainments are underlined for to-night and Saturday night. Cheap manure lor fanners and other gardeners is to be had at liokio beach jiißt now. Mr l<\ E. » a| . ktll ., u .j )() fe m the habit of visiting the beach, says thai the whole foreshore is strewn with kelp at present, in quantities unprecedented in his experience. Kelp is one of the finest manures known for farm crops of many varieties. "Every little helps" provided that little is a drop of "Nazol." When vou've a eld in the head inhale a few "luffs: if the trouble is in the throat, •sprinkle .some drop* on a piece of aiiixav. Taken either way "Nassol" insures relief. A dTt>

The sinm of £28,588 was put fchrougl the totalisator at Traithani races yes terday. The total for the correspond ing clay of last year was £27,782. The road to Hokio is newly metallec for several chains, but the work is .iou liung up for a few months, in conse quence of the contractor's services be ing required on another County Conn ci' job —in the Te Horo district. Tin Hokio job is likely to be completed h\ springtime, so the summer excursion ists to Levin's seaside suburb shouh be well suited this year. At a largely attended meeting o farmers held at Taihape yesterday t< discuss the Californian thistle ques tiou. fjvehokl farmers of long stand ing stated emphatically that tlii.sth was not the least feared, and statc< their intention to refuse to cut it ii the future. Others spoke of its ad vantages as feed in the last dry season Seed carried by the wind did not gor inmate and the spreading of the this tie was due to its root system whirl was stimulated by cutting. The fol lowing motion was carried unanimous l.v :—"That this representative meetinj of settlers from Rangiwahia to Raotih unanimously declare that after sonn years' experience, they consider tha Californian thistle should be transfer red from the second to the third sched ule of the Xexious Weeds Act." Dr J. JI. Hound, a well-known auth ority on historical records, points to i lxjpular error regarding Magna Chart: He quotes M'Kechnio's "Magn; Charta" thus:—"One persistent erro adopted for many centuries, and evei now hard to dispel, is that the Grca Charter guaranteed trial by jury. Thi; belief is now held by all competent aiitl orities to be unfounded. . . Magin Charta did not promise 'trial by junto anyone. . . The source of this err!) was the identification of jury trial witl the judicium parium. . . the main if not the solo ground on which thL traditional error has been based. Tin niistake probably owes its origin to i tendency of later generations to explain what was unfamiliar in the Greai Charter by what was familiar in thei own experience." The 700 th anniver sary of The signing of the Magn; Charta occurr.s this year. During the hearing., of a case ai Palinerston Magistrate s Court yesterday rather amusing evidence was givei by a native witness. H c .stated hi bad a family of nine ajul did "nuthiny much" for a living. When pressed b.\ counsel to say how he kept his iamih the native replied, "spuds ami eels ' In reply to counsel's query as to how • debt was incurred, he stated i was for hire of motor cars. "01 course he needs a little recreation now and again," remarked Mr Poyntoi amidst laughter. — Mauawatu Times. At the opening <>1 the Australiai Inderal Parliament in Melbourne, t!■; Kt. Hon. A. Fisher, Prime Minister m a statement dealing with the war said Australia had despatched or hai in camp 70.101 troops. 30,!)-J(j horses and 30!)S vehicles. The total n:ei sent abroad was J3.MU. The unchanging policy of the Government was to train, equip and transport t( the seat of war every available man fit to help in defeating the enemy. The Government had requisitioned 22 millworking at their fullest capacity foi military needs, the ordeiw running inl> two million yards of doth for uniforms, one and a quarter millioi yards for shirts and a quarter of a million for blankets. Respecting lb. navy |„, expected the cruiser Brisbane lo be launched and the destroyers completed this year. The general committee in charge ol the entertainments lor the Territi : i 1 now at camp, has decided to leave Tuesday evening free in view of a grand concert which the Presbyterian Church is putting on for that night at the Century Hall. The Church authorities have agreed on their part to surrender their claim to the hall for Wednesday and Thursday evenings, thus leaving n clear run for other functh ns arranged tor those days. The Harvest Fair has been postponed till May o(|, ~„d fit!.. Half the proceedof Tuesday evening's Presbyterian conceit will go to the Belgian Fund, and a crowded house is expected. The fairy cantata "Soot and the Fairies" (under Mrs Randerson'.s management) will be the leading item on the programme, and will in itself be worth the entrance money. Tn addition there will be a good proportion of individual items or merit by artists of outstanding ability.