The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 April 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Rev. W. H. ii. Abbey lia.s asked us to inform his congregations and friends that ho very much regrets to says lie will be unable to continue his series of special addresses on .Sunday. His indisposition is somewhat more serious than he at first supposed and Dr Davies has prescribed rest and medical treatment for a few days yet.

The telegraph linesmen that have the erection of the new lino in hand are making steady progress, and tlie line lias now "reached a point jnst a little on the Levin side of the railway station.

Great interest has been aroused in medical circles by the case of a young soldier, who fought in Prussia, and is now a patient in a Petrograd hospital. The interest of tlie case lies in the fnet that the patient falls into a deep lethargy at exactly nine o'clock every morning, which ends pn the stroke of noon. During this time the pulse and temperature remain normal, and the breathing regular, but the body loses all sensitiveness, and becomes inert. This phenomenon began "lien the soldier was in the trenches, where his comjundes. thinking he .was shamming tried t+ rouse liim with needles and bayonets.

A London paper records three' cases ot eviction of soldiers' wives. Iliev iomi part ot a back li-st- seen from " eek to week. hi a report of one case the paper savs:—A soldier's wife Mrs Atwood whose husband is fighting in France, was evicted from the ledge at Goddington Park, the residence of G. Ashley Dodd, Esq.. ,T. P. and landowner. "Apparently the ladv of the manor was dissatisfied with the ' n wliioh Jlrs Atwood opened and closed the lodge gates, and the result was an eviction order. In drenching rain the soldier's wife, with her two little children, was turned out on the road, some kindly neighbour storing a few sticks of furniture. Wheeling a perambulator, and witTi bitterness"in her heart, Mrs Atwood and her children trudged into Asliford, where she found lodging for the night.

I'rovision lor the instruction of farmers in agricultural science is being made by ttie • Auckland .Education Hoard, in co-operation with the farmers' Union. The first-class lias been opened at Matamata, and much interest is being taken by farmers in the experiment, tweiii/vsoven students liaving already been enrolled. Arrangements are being made for similar classes in other centres, where they can bo conveniently conducted by the board's instructors. The possibilities of associating these classes with the field experiments of the Department of Agricultural have been suggested.

A W aitotara Maori recently applied to the Court for a prohibition order against his son—not, however, to restrain him from drinking, but from eating. The Native in question had developed a most extraordinary mania for eating, and not long since ate a laigo kit of potatoes, and lay like a log for a couple of days. The Natives were under the impression that if there was a law to prevent a man from drinking too much there must surely be a law to prevent him over-eating.

The other clay a ft iwaka (Nelson) resident, Mr Arthur Scott, struck a match close to the buns hole of an empty whisky cask, with rae result that the fumes ignited, causing an explosion. Tlie head of the cask was blown out. and caught Mr Scott under the chin, inflicting a severe gash in the throat which had to be stitched, One hand was also badly burned. Mr Scott is now progressing favorably towards recovery. The Maoris have surprised the average American visitors by Eheir excelent and fluent Engish, states the San Francisco correspondent of the "Auckland Star." On one occasion a dosien American ladies chatting with Maori women dancers, were surprises lie.vond measure at: the manner in which they discoursed in English. "How long have you been in America r> asked one American lady. "Only a month," came the reply. "Well yoii' spenk wonderfill English, and must have picked it up very quickly in those four weeks," retorted the American. Tt was then that the Maori women unfolded the fact that English was the language of Now Zealand.

In the course of a conversation with several farmers on Tuesday at the Gore saleyards an Ensign representative learned that there was a fear that there would he a slump in the fat sheep market during the next two or three weeks. It was freely stated that the killing space nt the Matauva works was booked up to about the middle of May, which would mean that fat sheep which were about ready for the freezing works would go hack in condition.