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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 June 1915, Page 3

Dalgetv and Company, Ltd., advertise entries for the first of their fortnightly stock sales to Be held at Levin next Wednesday.

Professor C'ardston and a party of Wellington amateurs will give a concert in Levin Century Hall oil Monday. 7th June. A varied and excellent program has been drawn up. It may be seen in our advertising columns to-day.

ifti excellent opportunity to purchase first-class land at pulilic auction will be afforded at Otaki next Wednesday, when 'Messrs Abraham and Williams Ltd., will sell one thousand acres of the Herbert Hodge estate, situated at le Horo. The area has been subdivided into nine farms. The land is cPCse to Tc Horo railway station. Full particulars are advertised on page 1.

"As the holder of a New Zealand war medal." wrote a gentleman in the Auckland district to the Minister of Defence, "1 applied for and obtained a pension provided by the tensions Act 1913. I made this application with the idea of showing my appreciation of the spirit which prompted the promoter of the Bill, and not from actual need of the pension. But the changed conditions existing in the Dominion at present have led me to think that our Dominion is in great need ot the £36 a year than 1 a.m. Will you kindly instruct the proper authority to cancel my claim to the pension and place the enclosed cheque for £42 to any "account yom may deem advisable: that is the actual amount I have drawn." The -Minister has re-plied that he was very grateful for the writer's generosity, and he would be pleased to place the £42 to the credit of the fund for the comfort of the sick and woundell soldiers in Egypt, Malta, arid elsewhere.

The late Lieut. E. R. \filson, of Music rton, who was one of the first to fall in the Dardanelles operations, was"" an elocutionist. of no mean ability. At the last festival of the Masterton Competitions Society he recited Ingersoll's description of a visit to Napoleon's Tomb, which concludes as follows:—

"And I saw him at St' Helena, with his hands crossed belli nil him, gazing out upon t'he sad and solemn sea. 1 thought of the orphans and widows lie had made, of the tears that had been shed I'or his gloi'y, and of the only woman who ever loved him, pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition. And I said I would rather have been a .French peasant, and worn wooden shoes; I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing over the door, and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun. 1 would rather have been that poor peasant, TiTth mv loving wife by my scide, knitting as the day died out ol the sky. with my children upon my knees, and their arms about me. i Mould rather have been that man, and gone down to the tongueless f-iFelice of the dreamless du.ofc, than to have been that impersonation ;>f force and murder, known as Napoleon the Great."

An indenendenL journalist writes from f/ondon-In the aiimiumfion towns, where whole families troop into tite lactones at the first streak of day, the whole population is divided into shifts— that work nil through the clay and the night. A red gin re overspreads the sky; the smoke of a thousand furnaces 'blows down ou the rain-swept streets; troops of powderblatkenod -women emerge trom gin and beer shops, and go reeling into the factory gates, without a protest from police or employers. Beer is taken into the works in bottles and barrels, for with put it the sliell and cartridge makers will not work. Tt is the same in the dockyards. Booze and the booze a crying baby (|U.ieted with a mug of manufacture of war material and the building of ships. In Sheffield I saw interests are practically stopping the beer.