The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 June 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

There will be no drill or parades of the Levin Territorials or Cadets this month. The Levin Brass Band will play the following program in Oxford-street tonight at 7.30 p.m. (weather permitting).—March "Fighting Mac," march "New Colonial," march "Dashing JJeauty," waltz, "Myrine," march "Tipperary," march "Wentworth," march "The Champions," valsette- "Dewdrops and Baisiee." God Save the King.

In the Divorce Court at Wellington this week, lielia Igea Fail's, for whom Mr Wilford appealed, applied for a divorce from Athol Fairs, to whom she was married in October, 1908. Her husband deserted her and her child in June, 1909, and had not since contributed towards her maintenance. A decree nisi wa6 granted, with custody of the child, and cost against respondent.

The mischievous prank of a. four-teen-year-old boy, who applied tiie Westingbouse brake !fco a Lyttelton train that was ready to start, iresuited in the stoppage of the train for four minutes and the starting of 'fclie legal mill for a much longer period. It would be hard to compute the time killed by this prank The train travellers were kept waiting, the police were stirred, and the result ivas the sitting of the Juvenile Court, with a cloud of witnesses, to convict the youth. There were the 'Magistrate,clerk, three officers of the law, three witnesses, four reporters, and three near relatives of the accused. The offence sank into oblivion in the larger question of settling witnesses' expenses, and these having been assessed at 10s, the culprit's father was ordered to disburse. This he did from a roll of notes, iwhich had evidently been laid in against a j much stiffer penalty.

The price of quinces 111 the .Australian fruit markets is increasing steadily. La6t year in the Sydney market prices from 5s to 6s per case were realised. This year first grade quinces brouglit up to 8s 6d per case in the sains market. The increase is attributed t)o the great demand by the jam factories.

The Huia Cup, the principal race yesterday, the second day of the Otaki Maori Racing Club's winter meeting, •was won by Wild Lupin, wi£h Aohilledee second and Rene third. A total of £13,249 was put through the totalisator yesterday at Ota'ki. For the two days, £33,249 was put through the machine as against £35,557 "lor tho corresponding days last year. Arthur John Stratton, of Levin, Walter Gilbert Taylor, of ..Otaki, and Wililam D'Atli, of Alanakau, are aniongsrt the latest registrations for active service. Gunner Taylor, an old Levin boy, who has been on a week's leave with hie parents in Levin, returns to Trenthatn to-day (Saturday) and will leave for the front some time this month. Form the good habit of inhaling "Nazol," and you'll keep free from coughs and colds this winter, Eighteenpenoe bu»s sixty doses. Advt