The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 June 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY.

LEVIN. TUE&DAT, JUNE 15; 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Chronicle will not b-o published on Wednesday next, that day being a general holiday in Levin in honor of the carnival arranged to raise funds for the Sick and Wounded Soldiers Fund. ViTll details of the function will be published in The Chronicle's issue of Thursday next. Air J. T. Bovis, of Shannon, has been appointed secretary to "the Buckley I-'rai age Bo'ird. The next annual conference of the New Zealand Fanners' Union will be held in Levin. The tender of R. Tippler, at 2s. lid. per yard, for metalling Grand Street, Shannon, was accepted by the Horowhomta County Council on Saturday. Accounts amounting to £1518 wero passed for payment by the Horowlienua County Council on Saturday. Councillor Venn remarked at ine Horowhenua County Council on Saturday that the Shannon lamplighter had resigned, and it was necessary to o'b'tain possession of the cottage. H<? moved that the lamplighter be notified that the council required the cottago phenson seconded the motion, and it pHencon seconded the motion, and it •was agreed to. An epidemic of scarlet fever and influenza is raging in -Greymouth, and hardly a house is without its victim. So acute has the position become at the hospital, that it has been closed to all, visitors except in urgent cases specified by the medical superintendent. A peculiar fatality is reported by the Aitutaiki correspondent of the Auckland Star. A boy, about four years of age when Batching small fish under the coral rocks, put one into his mouth and accidentally swallowed it with the result that he was choked to death.

How the story of the landing of .Russian troops in Belgium came to be circulated was told by the Bishop Saddled at the Home Mission Festival. "I can assure you," he said, "that the story was believed in many quarters in England, and people went so far as to say that they had seen the troops coming down from Scotland. What was the origin of the story? A telegram was sent from the north of Russia stating that 10,000 Russian egg® had been shipped. That was how *the story originated, and it onlyl showed how easy it was to start a story even in the Old Country."

In an address to a "Waikato branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, Mr Pope (head of the Agricultural Department) str jngly advised the use of blue litmus paper as a test for soil acidity. The method of procedure was tJoUi simple and inexpensive, and quite sufficient for all practical purposes. All that -war? necessaa-y was to break open a clkxl or make an incision in the soil with a spade, and insert a piece of litmus paper. If no change of colour took place no lime was necessary; if the paper turned slightly pin?, a dressing of lime would ibe Beneficial; while if the Change was immediate and to a deep pink, the soil was strongly acid, and needed a heavy application of lime. Litmus paper could be procured from any chemist, but care ohould be taken to ensure its being used -while fresh. The Agricultural Department further points out that it has been proved that a heavy dressing of lime, of from 10 to 20 cwt per acre every three ■ or four year#, is more satisfactory than light applications at shorter periods.