The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY. MAY 21 ,1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 May 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. FRIDAY. MAY 21 ,1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A social gathering ami dance is to he held this evening in the Druid*' Hall, Levin. The proceeds are to be given to the Queen Carnival Patr'otic Fund. Amongst the latest batch of volunteers tor active service are H. O. Whiteiiouse and George Harvey Cooper, both of Levin. Mr H. E. Lodge, County Clerk, has been accepted for active service, in the capacity oi lieutenant. He goes into camp at Trenthani on Saturday week. From the Opunake Times—The Awatuna Dairy Company have paid out 16 3d to the end of April ,and the suppliers say they can. see another threepence sticking out of the butter-fat. The Otaki Mail is advised by the local postmaster that thr?e free telegrams may be sent to the Secretary, General Post Office, enquiriicc aljoi.t any member of the Expeditionary Forces who is reported to be woumdeci (seriously wounded, dangerously wounded, or suffering from tfiseaso The charge for week-end ice.ssn.p.as tc Egypt about soldiers is ll'Jd per word, to Malta 9d and to Great Britain Fid

A deputation consisting: of Mesdames R. R. Gardener and P. W. Goldsmith and Mr F. Better waited on the Mayor of Palmerston yesterday in connection with Wellington's Carnival Queen election and urged him to do his hest to make arrangements for I'almerston to support the Manawatu candidate. Ho promised to bring the matter up at next meeting of the Patriotic Committee.—Manawatin Times.

A middfe-aged man from the country did a very foolish thing in the Government buildings last week (says the Christchurch Sun. Evidently he was unused to city luxuries, especially such things as elevators. He wanted to go from the ground floor of the buifiling.s to one of the highest floors, but tlie elevator was in the basement. By putting a hand through the lattice work he unlocked the elevator gate from the inside. The elevator attendant, hearing the gate opened, started to bring the cage up to investigate. He was startled by a crash on the roof of the cage. The countryman had jumped oh to the cage as it came up and had fallen in a heap, but fortunately for himself, had kept his limbs clear of the walls of the well, and had grasped the wire ropes of the cage. When he stepped off the cage again on the ground floor landing lie naively remarked. "I thought that was how voui did it."

Aii (Auckland) resident Mr H. Al. Smeeton, referring to iiis Home experiences lately, said (soldiers were to be seen everywhere. A noticeable feature was the large percentage ol' men of education in the ranks. The army was not now officered almost entirely by members of the aristocracy with privates clrawn from the lower grades of the working classes, as was the ofi.se 30 years ago. A very large percentage was ironi the "uper middle class." He knew ol' one regiment where four ol the privates possessed incomes ol from £9000 to £7000 per animni, wild who were prepared to work in the

ranks. Over 30,000 appointments to commissions had taken place, very many from the rankts being included, and the BriTish Army of the future would be a very much more democratic body than it had ever been in the past. Birmingham, it is stated/ will shortly be known as having the credit of manufacturing the very latest thing in antiaircraft guns. This new weapon surpasses anything ever yet designed and constructed by modern science, and it will be a bad job for a hostile aeroplane should it cvor come within the perfectly prodigious range of this latest engine of destruction.—Eden Gazette.