TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 June 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[I'BR PIUitJS ASSOCIATION.! THE SUPPLY OF SUGAR. Tiiuaru, This Ihiv. Tho local manager of \\ilson and Co., merchants, Dunedin. takes strong exception to a telegram, published oil Friday, stating that the manager ol the Colonial Sugar Cumpany declares that supplies of sugar are ample to meet the Dominion's requirements, and that he does not anticipate a shortage Wilr-on and Co. are .the company's distributing agents tor South Canterbury. and are receiving a .shipment ol about one hundred tons every three weeks., but last Friday only twenty-Jive tons arrived and a« the linn has no sugar stored in this district a famine is threatened. The firm asks why. if there are ample supplies available, the company is not distributing them t

CO-OPICR ATI VE PI? EEZ ING WOIIKS AT GISIiOKNE. Oisboriie/Tliis Day. A meeting of farmers approved ol tinproposal to establish a co-operative farmers' fret-zing works and So'jO £3 shares wore subscribed in the room. The provisional directors have given instructions for tlie preparation of plans to enable the works to handle 1500 sheep daily. The works arc to bo completed within six months. AUCKLAND RACES. Tho A.R.C. meeting is being continued to-day in lino weather. There is a Large attendance. Results. Hunt Club Cup.- Advancer 1, l''ireawav 2, Taroro 3. Scraehed : Transfer. Iriuvady. Clack Boy. Won by luo and a half lengths. Tainaki Steeplechase. . Dogger I tank 1. Lady Saeretacho 2. Black Days Also started : New York. Santiago. Ballygowan and Wakauui. Won by two lengths. Professor Cards-ton's concert parly (from Wellington) will give an enter-tain-ment in the Century Half, .Levin, this (.Monday) evening. The lull progran: is advertised in to-day's Chronicle. A fancy dress football match nill be played on Levin recreation ground 'next Saturday, between teams representing' the friendly societies and the townspeople respectively. As a "cur-tain-raiser" there is to lie a game between two teams of ladies married v. single- and at 2.10 p.m. the lords of creation will take the lield. There w.i- a good muster ol boys at the l.cvin V..M.C.A. rooms last week, when the uisual fortnightly meeting was held. Items were provided by -Masters I'ink. Campbell and iMirsons. Ml Wesley Bratt gave an exf-ellent address on "What- to Read and How." Pingpong and shooting occupied the rest- of the evening. A nice trophy is to bo fired for during the first ball ol' the •season. The trophy was given by an old boy's mother, whose son is now wounded and in a military hospital. Great interest is being shown in the competition. A "Maori" prohibition order was issued at the Auckland Police Couit by -Mr J'". V. Eraser. S..VI. 'Ibis type ol order differs from the oidinary older, in thai it remains in operation iudoiiniiely, and is cancelled -only when the Native whom it affects can sati>ly a magistrate that he has reformed, and may once more be trusted with intoxicating liquors. The order made oil .Saturday was possibly the first ol its kind issued in the city (says the Herald.); but country magistrates fref|tiently issue them to cheek undue drinking among the Natives.

A Ciil'istcliureh r, -ideii.i who ha> been in Italy showed a representative ot The Press a rather interesting article that he bioiight from that eouury. It is a handkerchief on which is prinLcd a map of Italy and containing inlormation as to the populating ol the principal cities, rcproduc'tioiiti of the coats of arms of the cities possessing them, figures relative to the population of the chief cities aiid information regarding the railways ol the country. These handkerchiefs are issued to evoryman in tho Italian army ill order that, he can make himself lamiliar witii facts relating to his own country.

The "wild cat" 'tram which left .Marlon shortly bet ore -i o'clock oil Saurday afternoon for Waugatiiii, did not reach its destination unil S p.m. thus doing a little over !}() miles in ionr hours. Those railway "sprints" will cwntually get the Department into tro tible. — Sta nd a rd. I'iiO builder bi/ilnen a liouKe of brick, "l'was sound as sound could be, But the builder himseli was out of repair. And a ragged cough coughed he. '"lis a ■wooden suit T'll be wearinji soon, .Said ho and his face v. as dour, Hut. he beat the old reaper in just two hours With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure