The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, JULY 5, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 July 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, JULY 5, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

On lDbh May the Maori Contingent was at Malta on garrison duty. Manakau's masked 'ball, held last Wednesday, was an outstanding success, both in a financial and a social sense. A Maori chief, said to be aged 112 died at <Lanedowne (Masterton) last Thursday. His name was Mori Pahuki. At the present time there are equal to 100,000 carcases of mutton in the Wanganui Freezing Works (says the Chronicle). The works were built to accommodate 75,000 carcases. Kuku Dairy (Company has completed the purchase of ite site for a dairy factory, and tenders for erecting an up-to-date creamery, at a cost of about £1750 to £2000, will be called for shortly. It is not generally known that Miss Jessie McKegg (our "Queen" candidate for the Carnival) was the first lady in the Southern Hemisphere to hold a marine oil engineer's certificate. For some considerable time Miss McKegg assisted her two brothers in the navigation of some of tho steamers that plied up the Taieri river, in Otago, and in other ways lias had considerable, esperence as an engineer. —Ofcaki Mail. Says a London writer:—lt is worth noting that 'before the German Emperor was driven to desperate measures and his admirals were instruoted ;o jettison every principle ot decent warfare, the Teuton navy, at all events, knew how to behave, and commanded the respect of neutrals and our seamen as well. Mr Allardyce, .who has just returned from an eventful governorship of the Falkland Islands, tells the story entirely to point. The scene is Valparaiso, after the destruction of the Cape of Good Hope ajtd tho Monmouth; the occasion, a dinner given by the Germans of that city to drink "damnation to the .British iNavy." lAdmiral Von Spee would allow no such toast bo be drunk in his presence and that of his officers. The flowers, which were strewn in his pathway by his countrywomen, he suggested, had better be Kept for Ins grave. Such conduct is Characteristic of the brave commander who perished so soon afterwards. Ttiwe was nothing of tho silly ''God punish England" about Von Spee. A troupe of Maoris from Levin and Otaki are to tour the North Island and give concerts in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. A letter has been received by Mr \. Gray from his son Private A. Gray. The writer was wounded by a bullet in the foot on May Bth in his second engagement and arrive in the Malta hospital' on May 17th. A visit to Levin by the well-known Corrick family of musiciana has been • arranged bw Mr Farland, o! King's ' Theatre. Details will be advertised ' in Tuesday's Chronicle. A London meissage states that the &Ward to Lieut. Freyberg, cabled on 3rd June ,wa« for swimming ashore, towing rafts with flares. Although alone he reconnoitred the enemy's position and, two hours later sWam book. : • 1