The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1915

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1915

LOCAL AND GENERAL 9 At the Feilding sale on Friday the price of good beef cattle showed a substantial rise. Mr Shannan, late of liimberley road., had the misfortune to break his leg last Monday.''Sixty per cent ol : the wounded re- ! turn to the firing line," stated Dr Martin at his lecture last evening. Messrs L. G. West and Son, architects have accepted the tender of Mr' A. W. Coslett at £1016 for TfTe erection (f a cTieeee factory for Te Horo Dairy Company. A London message states that the Swedish army has been placed on a war basin—3so,ooo regulars and 175,000 Laaidsturin. The munition supplies are the strongest possible. Dr A. A. Martin's lectinre last night at the Opera House, PalmerSton North, resulted in the sum of .£BOO being raised for the sick and wounded fund. Private Bavin, 4th Royal Dragoons, has been found guilty by a courtmartial of self-multilation in order to escape service, (says the London correspondent of tile Christchurch News). This is a serious military olfence, punishable by death. According to Corporal Burrows, Royal Fusiliers, and Quartermaster-Sergeant James, both of whom were formerly at .Devizes Detention Barracks, the accused was undergoTtig a sentence theVe. He was served with a razor for shaving, and a few minutes later was found with the top of his thumb cut off, and the razor lying in a pool of blood. He was removed to the hospital, and the wound lias"now practically healed. Although the accused pleaded that the razor slipped and cut off liis thumb, the President announced that the Court found the accused guilty of the charge. It was a very serious offence; it was practically malingering when his country wa6 at war, and 13avin was liable to a death sentence. Sen fence iTill be promulgated in duo-course. Several sportsmeu, living not one hundred miles from Petone have been telling great tales -of big bags this season, but none so far comes up to the story of two well-known Petone men, who somo years ago visited Levin for- "the purpose of having a day's sport. They came back to Petone with no less than twenty-four geese, and told their confreres that there were wild geese in plenty on the Horowhenua lake. One of tKe two 'sports' told his son to have the geese put in the freeaer at the Gear Company's works and this was done. Tlio twe meii strutted about Peptone telling every one "about the big "bag" thej had got and everyone was envying them, but the sequel had to come 'I he son was told one to get i couple of geese from the freezer ani get then ready for the pot. He <iic so and while plucking them was.&ur prised to find that their wings hfu been clipped. Einquiries show ed that the sports were not allowed b; owners of the land to get ~ near tin Lake and on returning they saw a num her of geese belonging to a fanner and they bought them. Bang! Bang Twenty-four lay dead and these wer the wild (?) geese from the lake.—Hut and Petone Chronicle. As Sergeant Larfce patrolled the pari He heard two sneezes in the dark. With staff gripped tight he flashed Hi light, - His stem tones echoed through th night, ' "Kape ahf th' grass, ye coop'e there Yure dith av oowld, ye'll get f J •* ~ . shure. . v Oome, hurry home, ye love-sick pair. / And both .takes .Woods' Great Pej permint Oare."- ,

Mrs Charles E. Hoskings, a resident of Paimerston North, was kiHed about ■two miles from Woodville yesterday. Deceased was in the rear seat of a motor car driven by h§r husband, when a runaway horse attached to a spring cart ran into the car. One of the ■shafts struck Mrs Hoskings, and she was killed instantly. A section of land at Heatherlea— also, some desirable holdings in the Fei'lding district—will be open for '-election at the Empire Hall, Paimerston North, on 17th and 18th August. In five instances, the areas of land exceed one hundred acres each. Full particulars are advertised in The Chronicle to-day.