LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A. short sitting of the -Native hand Court, Judge Gilfeddcr presiding, was held in the Levin Courthouse yesterday afternoon.

Prices i'or stock in the vVaikaro are ru'ing high. At the Westliol:! fra'e this week fat wethers sold at £2; and beef 50s per lOOlbs. M a clearing saile of a dairy herd near Hamilton i~) cows averaged £11 11s.

it is stated that Mr Uitchiu, tliu Crown Lands Commissioner, lias been oJi a visit to Sliaunon and Foxton, u.aking enquiries as to slid table loi cutting up lor closer settlement - Shannon correspondent.

Word was received here last evening that George Melton, a well-known resident of Levin, was killed in a lorry accident at Picton in the aiternoon. Deceased's mother resides at Weraroa, and much sympathy will be felt lor her. It i-s only a few weeks ago that Mrs Melton lost a daughter, and some months earlier her husband.

The Levin Brass Band will play (weather permitting) the following program in Oxford-street to-night at 'i.'SO p.m.: Quickstep, "Red Men,' , waltz, "'The

'Harvest Moon," quickstep, "Wentworth," selection] "Gems of America," quickstep "The Liberty JJell," polka "Shooting Star," march "Imperator," waltz "Dewdtop and Dairies," "Clod Save the King,"

It was decided at the Dominion Fruitgrowers' Conference yesterday that a national fruit sliow he held n Wellington in May, IUIO, and £IUU was collected in a few minutes. The Box Committee recommended that d bushel case I'JiJin x Him x lOin be the Government standard and that half a bushel be half the Government st indard case l'Jii x Hi x o, that trays bo l!>:i x Hi x 21 and that packages ;inC.vi , lulb net weight ue called fancy i):u k ii yes.

Eroin a lady in Dunedin a Levin lady has received the following letter: — "1 write to thank you to ask the women of Levin for their very great kindness to" our .soldier lads. It is -so very good of you all. i .know what a labour it is, for my boy has told me. how much you are all doing for them. You are keeping them in (such luxury that they will find it very hard to return to soldiers' very plain fare. Please tell the workers how very grateful the mothers are to those who are lavishing .so niiicli care oil their sick sons. .

The Lyric Assembly held its weekly dance on "Wednesday night in tiio King's Theatre, when the turn-out \va< up to the usual mark. Each week seems to show an improvement in the state of the floor, and it now its in lirst. class condition for dancing; this was remarked by those present on Thursday night. Tints weekly dancj is becoming very popular and it much appreciated by the many that have become regular attenders. The commit-

tee is conlident that next Wednesday's dance will draw the usual crowd. The Arbitration Court sat at Pal■nieivstun North yesterday to consider tint iiaxniiil employees' demand lor -i new award. The principal demand for

wages are:—Stripper-keepers 'Iα per hour; hemp loaders Is uid, paddockers Is 7-U\, tow shakers Is -lid, labour not specitied Is lid, feeders is -lid, rouse-

about Is lid, swamp hands 12s (3d, day; washers Is -lid per hour with boots and aprons supplied; horse Inver i' 1 per week (one horse) and an extra •vs per week for each additional horse. The uiiniiiiuin rate ior ilaxciitting sliall

o.s O'd per ton piece work, tramming 2-s <kl ton, scutching Li IDs. Any time worked in excess of eight iiours in any oiu day shall be considered overtime,

and sliall be paid at the rate of time and a half for the first hour and therealter at rate of double time. Piece work paddocking, -which includes all work from taking the fibre off the polos to stacking it in the scutching .shed, shall be I'm in April list to September 30th inclusive, at rate of £1 12s (5d per ton; from October Ist to -March 31st at ithe rate of £1 10s per ton; js per ton less than the foregoing when carting is not done shall "bo the minimum. When tail-cutting is not done an additional 4s per ton sliall bo paid. The hearing was not concluded.

A practical Gisborne mother writ ing to her son at the Dardanelles a few weeks ago, informed him that she was going to send him some Gisborne butter to replenish his larder in the firing line. A reply has been '-ecoived which shows that while butter must be esteemed a delicacy there are other little things which would oe more appreciated by the boys at the Dardanelles. The soldier writes: "You said in your last letter that you thought of sending some butter. Well that would bj very nice; but if you will let all the mothers know that a bit oi' louse powder or something else like that would be very much setter, you would b<; doing us a service. We all line up and have competitions to see who ca?j catch the biggest louse and the winner in the last competition proudly produced one o-lGth of an inch long. Thov fight ike bulfdogs." The soldier's mother lost no time in setting to work: to comply with the mjuest contained in the letter. She at once interviewed a local doctor, and by this time insecticide powder and ointment which tliw doctor recommended, is speeding on its way to the Dardanelles. it is safe to predict that the receipt of the parcel will take a lot of light out of the "bull j dogs." The mother in question was anxious that mothers oi other lads at the front should be acquainted witli i thi.-, fact, in order that tney might pop , in a little packet of anti-vermin powder i •when forwarding packages to their. sons.—Gisborne Times

A public address wftli clairvoyance—the last to be given in Levin—will be given in the Spiritualists' Hall by Mis Soreiison, on Sunday evening. Why waste time in boiling and mixing compounds when in "Nazol" you get ready for ni.se a complete remedy for coughs and colds. (j(J doses Is (id. -Advt. XO COLD JS NAZOL PKOOL' , . To remove a bad cold take "Nazol' on sugar which should be dissolved in the mouth. Or use the Nazol inhaler. Either treatment lfever fails. Advt "Nazol" is a -wonderful'reliever tor colds; and no mistake! Easy to take, sv/irt in action, efficacious and economical. 60 doses for Is e<l. Advt. Eigbteenpence inr 00 doses'l That's all its costs to buy the best of all cougb and cold relievers—"Nazol." Sliiftc » cold like magic. Soothes nud uuiee sore throats Test it voar-

Full tide at Hokio beach on tho Bth is 7.37 a.m. and 8.1-i p.m.

A message" from London states that Lieut. Hulton Sams was killed while leading his company in Flanders. He belonged to the Bush Urotlierhood in Queensland, where he was known as the "Fighting Parson." Me enlisted as a private in the Jiediords, and subsequently obtained a commission in the Duke of Cornwall's regiment.

A London correspondent writes to a Scottish paper, under date of May 31st:—Tho little excitement caused by the change, of Ministry ami the substitution of an "all-sorts Cabinet" for the familiar combination of so many years, has subsided. ■ Downing-street has resumed its normal calm ; for, happily, we forget the petticoat campaign of barely a year ago, and Ministers conic and go upon their several tiisk.s without even the lynx-eyed reporter to chronicle their •clothes and complexions. A few grumblers entertain tin , club.s--.so empty now with their grievances that such and such a member of the House of Commons was nut among the cheson few. II there are really as many good fish in the noliti cil sea as we have taken out it this

time, then we're tohi.-.c'j.ugraiuiaUMl as a nation. In a even, it has been a home-coming for some of the Unionist Minister. Mr Aiiston Chamberlain, like his famous sire , , was once on a time a complete Radical. Lord Lalisdowne a Liberal, just as. also, Mr Winston Churchill "commenced statesman ' as a Conservative. '