LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 May 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

So far the Australian casualties in the Dardanelles number 498.

The Election Court declared the Bay of Islands election void, and Mr V. Reed (who was elected) has .been disqualified for one year. The candidate in the Government interest in the Bay of Islands by-election will 'he Mr William Stewart, of Kawakawa. Pig hunters on the nills beyond Gladstone road have been allowing their dogs to commit mischief, and the probability is that trouble will" ensue, as a clue to the parties concerned has bean obtained. Within the past fewweeks fourteen eheep have been worried on the. lands of Mr Peter Bartholomew. Two sacks of seed potatoes were left at the Levin Borough Council Chambers on Saturday by Mr Here Nicholson, with an instruction that they be sold and the proceeds devoted to the fund for relief of distressed Belgians. The potatoes are of first-slass quality, and the price of 10s per sack placed upon thcin by the Town Clerk should ensure a speedy sale of Air Nicholson's genorous offer. The thief or thieves who come and go in the night have been at work again during tli« past few nighte. A local carter has had no less than three headstalls and te flier-ropes stolen off his horses, while tethered on a vacant section in Oxford-street. He strongly objects to supplying such people with rope, though if they make the eame use of the halters as did Judas, he feels that he will have done the district a good turn, and that his money has not been spent in vain. * A cortege over half a mile in length followed the remains of the late Hugh Hall to Levin cemetery on Saturday afternoon. The business places of the town were closed from 2 to 4 p.m., an a mark of respect to our deceased townsman. The procession included practically the whole ot the adult male population of Levin, besides people from other centres. The Levin Druids' Lodge provided the pall bearers, and the whole of the Friendly Societies of the town were represented. A motor car absolutely filled with beautiful wreaths was in the procession. The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. H. T. Stealey, M.A., after which the funeral ritual of the Druids' Lodge was read by Brother Eccleton, and the whole of the brethren threw into the open grave the tribute of green leaves: a symbol of regretful yet s hopeful farewell which has come down to present times from the days of earliest Druidism. Some people have a quaint sense of proportion. A few days ago a woman entered a local bookseller's shop and asked for a certain magazine. She was informed that vessel bringing the English magazines had not yet arrived. and that the sailings of the vessels were very irregular owing to the difficulties of getting labour at the London «nd other docks—lhany of the dock labourers being away fighting for their country—and the taking over of vessels by the Imperial Government for the transport of troops, to eay nothing of the need for avoiding German submarines. These reasons carried no weight with the woman who wanted her magazine, and she told the bookseller that as he could not supply her wants promptly she wouJd stop the magazine. "Why." she added, as she left the shop "things were not as had as this at the time of the strike."