LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The preference shares issued by the Canterbury Frozen Meat and ll>airy produce Export Company, Limited, lor which applications closed on Saturday, have been over-subscribed, and the directors will meet on Tuesday for the purpose of allotment.—Star. Giving"' vent to some ol his Utopian ideas the Hospital Board meeting the other night, Mr D. J. Williams said • "We should have no fences anywhere ; no fences of any kind; no fences at the road or dividing properties." Mr R. Mullan, thinking of his flowers and cabbages, interrupted with a very praotical question, calling Bro. Williams back from his dreams: "Have you a horse wandering round?"— Westport News. At the annual meeting of the Hobson Acclimatisation Society j(statee the New Zealand Herald) tho curator of the game farm reported that he had included eels in the list of vermin which caused the death of yoinnsj; pheasants. He gave his assurance tiiat no less than seventeen young birds had been lost owing to eels seizing their heads whilst they were m the act of thinking creek water. in the northern creeks the deaths of innumerable young ducks are caused by eels, and it is common to see scores of ducks minus a lea:, which has been dragged off by the voracious fish..