LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 July 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

About 11.10 last night a fire broke out in a iour-roonied cottage in Queenwood road, belonging to Mrs Ostler. The building had been unoccupied for some considerable time and was totally destroyed. A letter received in London from Private Lonsdale, a prisoner of war '11 Germany sentenced to death for striking a guard, states that his sentence has been commuted to fifteen years 1 imprisonment A despicable act was perpetrated at -Mr 11, Harnett's stable 011 Monday, when someone burst open the upper half ol the door and, it is surmised, drove the racehorse through the lower hall. He fell as he got th rough and was lamed slightly. An attempt is being made to arrange an interview between the; individual or individuals who committed the act, and the Magistrate. At the Melbourne cattle market on •June 23 a record average for all Australia was made for 100 bullocks. These were a beautifully bred lot of Shorthorns and Shorthorn-Devon crosses < I great quality, fattened in the coast distiTdE of New South "Wales ,about <iC miles north of .Newcastle. They averaged £21 (is !Jd, which is believed to Ije a record for any Australian market iroin the earliest times for 0110 Tor of TOO or moro The public is reminded that the motor car to be raffled by the Queen Carnival Committee drawn at the Century Hall this evening at 8 o'clock, and alT*interested are invited to attend, 'Ilie comniitte will hold an auction sale ri many useful articles, amongst which will be a piano, a child's cot, dressed doll. Maori baskets., native vorli. and other useful articles. i r or E'czenia. iiarnc. Wounds,' Piles Chilblains, Ringworm, Bruise and all irritable skin div e.vs use Rem ington'e Derma Ointment. Trice Is Gd, 2s Gd, und Is per pot. i'Le best soap U) lise J-.,, the toilet and <ur is Remington's Hptha Antisopt c Soap. Price Is por tablet \ \ FRET ALL USE IT. "If anyone coruea to our home »ith a cold we immediately recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," writes Mrs Eleanor H. Blunt, Bulimba, Q. "I have used it in my family for over ten years and all my married children have renred th a ir children on it. We appreciate the reasonable price of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, its wonderful effectiveness and the easy manned in which the children take." For sale everywhare. -Adrt.