The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, JULY 12, 1915.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, JULY 12, 1915.

LOCAL AND GENERAL The Horowhenua County Council on Saturday authorised Councillor Hotter and the chairman to sign the rate hooks to enable proceedings to be taken for the 'recovery of rates. The acceptance of tenders for the supply of metal to the northern end ol tho Otaki riding was left in flie hands of the councillors for tho rid-

Several tenders were received lor the formation of the proposed new road to the Otaki cemetery, and were left in the hands of tho councillors for the riding and the engineer to confer with the Otaki Town Board. A motion of condolence and sympathy with Councillor Kebbell and Mrs lvebbell and family in their sad bereavement by the death of Sergeant Kebbell from wounds received at the Dardanelles, was passed by the Horo-whenu-a County Council'at its meeting on Saturday. The state of the lamps in Shannon was stated to be unsatisfactory oy 'Councillor Stephenson at the Horowhenua Comity Council's meeting on Saturday. He stated that many of the lamps would not T-urn and they were without lights. He suggested that the expert who erected them bo asked to a.ttend to the matter. The matter was left to the engineer. Councillor Monk complained at the Horowhenua County Council that he had seen on several occasions one roadman of tho Otaki riding on the railway station at three o'clock in the afternoon. .When the roadmen's wages were raised recently it was understood that the men should put in eight hours a day and those failing to do so be dismissed. The man may have legitimate excuse, but he should be warned. Mr F. E. N. Gaudin, of Auckland, who recently completed a term of six months' imprisonment, after having been sentenced to live years' imprisonment by a military court in Samoa, and having had his sentence commuted, has had the commission he formerly held as captain in the Territorial Force, returned to him. < A Sunday school teacher had been telling her class of little boys about crowns of glory and heavenly rewards for .good people. "Now, tell me" she said, at the close of the lesson, "who •will get tho biggest crown?" There was silence for a minute or two, then a bright little chap piped out: "HTm wot's got t' biggest 'ead." I\luch lias been said of the dearth of some varieties of vegetable and flower seeds owing to the cutFmg off of supplies for Germany. In this connection the Queensland Government has" received through' the Agent-General in London a letter from a British firm, complaining of the deeply-rooted idea that good seeds necessarily come from Germany. The writers declare that a large proportion of the allegedly Ger-' man seeds, which were supposed to carry extra merit because of their origin, had actually been first imported into Germany, ; and then exported as German grown. Some of the seeds had been grown in Great Britain, and were then sent to British colonies as the true German article. <• When tender "babes, oppressed by croup,: Lie; gasping •. in their 'little cots, Theiiy; anguished- parents o'er them . stoop.' . And strive to save the tiny tots. To such as these there comes a boon, Which need no doctor, but a spoon, A syrup, soothing,. Safe arid * sure— V'.Woods';!' Great Peppor"imiat Oure.* <

Accounts amounting to £3133 were passed for payment toy the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday. In, a sweep, by law of average, every investor would, in time get a dividend with ordinary luck. In a shilling raffle" for a £500-motor car that costs about half that sum, one person gets the car and 9999 others get nothing without any hope of recovery. The vendor of the car does very well. The eons of the Hebrew race (says "London Opinion") are doing their bit manfully with the rest in the fighting forces; and a large number of them having joined one of the London Scottisn regiments, this praticular force is now known as the "Jordan Highlanders." The demonstration of fruit-tree pruning to be given in Levin by Mr Pierce, Government Inspector of Orchards, has been set forward to July 28til. A telegram to this effect reached Mr Fosella, secretary to the Horowhenua Fruitgrowers' Association today. W. and G. Turnbull, Wellington, report that at the third crutching Bale of the season (held on Friday) vendors could again congratulate themselves on the prices obtained for their produce. In sympathy with the state of the market at Home ,prices were again on the rise and all good lots were keenly competed for by a representative gathering of buyers acting for English, Continental and Japanese linns. Good clean crutchings were from id to Id higher on the prices ruling at the sale of the lltli ultimo, and crossbred a similar advance. The work of making a siding at Rangiotu for the camp is proceeding rapidly, and the camp site presents a. very busy scene. About 100 men and the ballast train were engaged all dav yesterday. Most of the ballast workhas been finished and nearly all the sleepers are laid. Over twenty uig tanks are arranged alongside the camping grounds,, and are being filled with water in anticipation of the arrival of the men. Oil Saturday all the lowlying country was under water, but the actual camp site was high and dry. --Manawatu Times.