LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 July 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Australia Day, in Sydney, yesterday, evoked unprecedented enthusiasm The streets were brilliantly decora tod. In .Melbourne Die city col led i oiks totalled 4J300 00 At Madame .Melba's l'a re well concert- I*3ooo was taken. The Treasurer of the Hclgian lie lief Fund. Levin, intimates thai she. Jisis forwarded to the mayor of Wellington. the .sum of C(J 10s, beinji; the anioiinl, ol inoiitlily donations for .July. .Miss Andrews, who i.s a pupil of .Miss Kennedy, of Wellington, i<s settlcd in Levin, and is prepared 'o take pupils lor the violin. Letters lor making ol appointments may be addressed to .Mis.s Andrews, care oi The Citron iclce Oliice. Norscwood (Jo-operative Daily L'o., a l , the annual meeting of Shareholders voted I'2-jO to the 'Wounded Soldiers' Fund. Some members exrpcssed the opinion that Lliey would like t.o have seen the donation doubled, while a .small minority voiced objection to any contribution. • Association. Ow ill"; to the rise in the prices of .sheep the district. the butclicrs n| I'aliner.ston have been coni[)elled to raise the prices :>l meat Id per lb. This alteration will take effect from .Monday next. -Alanawatu Times. .New Zealand i.s uettcr oil' by 'lie million bushels ol wheat tnan was c.\-

pected alter tlii' returns soul hi liy tanners were considered last yi'ar. 1 lie matter i.- explained inihis neck's i.ssu • ii! statistics by tin; Registrar-General, who remarks; Jn June last reference was made Ij.v my department to t'ir (li llereiicc iii tlio total yieiti a* n by the returns from thrcisliinij, nuli owners it lit I Ironi tanners. Applying ilii' average yield per acre!2ll.P 11 to i lie total area sown. as returned liy I :iMiier--. oives a total yield el |Si".. bushels. bin according to liie threshing relnrii.s received to dale (L'H - i- I•')L111• actual quantity ol wheal' threshed was (i.."> 81 .(>!?!J nushels. As prev iou-.lv stated. slops are bejn;i t.a ken to ascertain (lie eau.-e of llie dit Icieiiee. ami so far it is loimd lhal no returns ol area- were lnrnislied in ;. number ol cases by fanners oil wliov 1 bell all urain lias been 111 resl i ed. Th's indicates 111 at (lie I lire.sliiml l , return--are reliable, and llial llie total area reiurned is eoiisiderably helow llie aet H-:t I urea which was under wheal. A census ol the stocks ol wheat, oatand Hour in the dominion wa.- lakeii on llie MOlli June last, bul llie final results are 11 ol available in lime lor inclusion in l)iis issue.

A lady writing London to a New Zealand friend on June Ist .-ay.. • "We are all tearfully inl.einsted m our selves to-da\ because 01 tiie rani .>ji London hist niuhl. I womler d you w ill ever hear the detail.- of I hat 1 ed. or whether the cable are so severely censored as our press. I realls think my excitement at learning tin* morning ol the raid war- (pule overshadowed by the surpri-e at the <'llec■;ve action of the Press Bureau. in deeil 1 am still so a.sloui'-hed that I don't know whether 1 am awake or asleep. One had actually taken 1 ior granted thai if the Zeppelin p-t .n 1 \ where within ranee 01 outer London the paper- would be lull of it. whereas only the most meagre ollieiai report i.allowed. The newspapers ]i a \<* columns oi thrilling stories which ibe.v may not publish: the evening najier-e-pecially Up 11 leir Columns with Mu 11 thai 110 one wauled to read, and not allowed to say one word of what was done. One of my friends ha- ju-; nniLi me up lo saw <-he heard the Zeppelins over her house, and llie police ran down llie streets sliouiinu; 'li.^li 1 ; onl.' Another ill I lenew was dazzled by the from an airship in I hi' windows of her house, and bombs foil 011 each next door house, bul site e,eaped. 1 myself, miseralile thai I am. was out. (hat niiilil. saw the lires. and lb-oiio;lil ol and went liome insiead. and all the way home was look in l*; <nit for Zeppidin-. iiecause t|. was such au ideal nie;ht. lor theni." A 1:111 - awalu Standard.