The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1915.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 July 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1915.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Recently Mis Stanley Chaplin and Mrs B. R. Gardener were responsible lor the raising in Levin and district ol a (Sinn of money which was spent on cigarettes, etc., for .sonic of the Australasian troops in Egypt. By tlio latest mail -Mrs Gardener received the lolloping interesting letter from one /,•' recipients—a wounded corporal in tJi<? Australian General 'Hospital at licliopolis fEgypf): —"l wish to thank you tor the cigarettes and to tell yon if a man is a smoker and he can get a Mtioke it Is one of the best comforts you can get him. lam not ai> Australian or a New Zealander; I am a iScotch boy. boni iu Dundee in 1891. 1 rame to Australia in 1913. T joined jjj i, A.I.F. and came to Egypt witli the first i<,t. I may tell you that Australian and Neu Zealand fathers and mothers ought to be proud of their sons: they are heroes everyone of them. T am. yours, etc.. A. B. Chichton."

Mr. D. Glackin. of ilautoro Gross, who has sold hie farm at that settle/W/.'iit. intends to take up his residence ■it fJhllJj.

The Y..M.C. A, Jji/ard of Governors iiat> grunted the Leviji Carnival Committee the use of it« rooms in connection with the Coronation ceremony to lie held next Friday evening.

A Press Association message states tilat two .soldiers died in Wellington from meningitis during: the last '21 hours. Trooper Daniel Kenipthonic, belonging to Tenipleton. Christchurcli. and Private Duncan Fraser, of Pokeno, J'ear Auckland.

A fanner hart informed a Manawatii Times reporter that a considerable quantity of potatoes are being held by fanners in the district in anticipation «yf a further rise. There wais very little difficulty iit the present time in disposing of small lots at lis per sack.

Land lias ehanged hands freely in Manawat'u ami htuToiinding <>i(sbrict.s during the past few months. There is at, present a keen demand along the coast for slleep farms of 600 acre area and upwards.—Manawatu Times.

jSome acquisitive being backed his dray iwt'y Messrs J. and K. I'roused Lig hayestaek and rpmovecjl a load therefrom. He tailed to ask permission and s<> far has made no payment.. A little expedition in doing so may avert unpleasant. consequences—as lie will realise t>n reading an advertisement 'n to-day's Chronicle.

Some sympathy perhaps is due to those who may have been building for the last few weeks on their chance in the motor car raffle, decided last night. Those whose plans only reached the mental stage can forget, but others who got as far ;i.s the square and compass and drawing paper, and had measured off a plot of ground for the carshed, are in the position of losing the result of their labour. To avoid this to some extent, the plans for the earthed might be modified, and a woodslied built: in this weather n woodshed is very useful. To alter the plans to a building to accommodate fowls is out of the question, in view of the price of fowl .'wheat.

The Levin' school will be re-opened on Monday. When speaking on the matter or auditing accounts, an echo of old events wan raked by Mr JaWs I'rouse, at a meeting oi : Levin Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. As illustrating the right oi' the company's auditors to increased remuneration, lie said that nowadays the company's affairs were thoroughly checked, and it was clear where every penny ■went to. In the old times there r.as one year wherein £1500 was lost and 110 one knew where the money went to. Mr. John Davies, of Koputaroa, has topped the market for fat sheep at Johnsonville once more. Hall-bred Hoscoiiiliions sold by him yesterday realised 31s, 85s, and 30s. A further testimony to the merit of Mr Davies's Roscommons its the gold medal awarded to him at the Panama Exhibition. By a slip of the pen we wrote of this award in our issue of yesterday as being for Komneys.

Donations received by the Financial Organiser of the Dominion Boy Scouts towards the organisation fund include two of £50, two of £25, one of £20, two of £15, iifteen of £10 10s or £10. thirty one of £o 5s or £5, eight of £3, lortv three of £2 2is, three hundred of £1 Is. Amongst the number recently given are Auckland Racing Club £20, Wellington Racing Club £10, Shaw Savill Company £10, N.Z. Shipping Company £10. Mr. John Kirk'caldie £10 10s. Hon. Charles Johnston £10 10s. Mr. C. tScagar £5 os, Mrs. Josepl* £5 ss. Miss Rose Joseph £5 ss, Mrs. C. E. all £5. Mr. J. S. Smith £5 ss, Mrs. Manson £5 ss. Wangauui Racing Club £10 10s, beside a large number o! smaller amounts.