The Cronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1915, Page 2

The Cronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A sporting telegram to the Chronicle, l'rom Christehurch, yesterday alternoun linishcd its description of a race by .vaying "Dardanelles 'ell. ' I'ruin Christchurch to the J3o.splioroii.-i is a long way; but The Chronicle ha.s its hopes in the long arm of coincidence. At Lite saine races The Brewer laii second in a race. Usually the brewer comes lirst.

Xt\v Zealand police recruits during 11)11-17 totalled 81. There were ID Englishmen in tho number and nine Scotsmen, 21 Irishmen, -13 -New Ziinlanders, and one Australian. In religion there were 2(3 Cliureh of Ln<j; laud, 28 Presbyterian. 25 Uonian Catholic, lour Methodist and one JJa.ptist.

11l New Zealand to-day there are over 9UO policemen, of all ranks. IJio number on .March iviw 911, ail in-cre.-wo of 11 lor the twelve months.. The lullouiiig are the casualties ior the year ended 31st March last:—Ketired on pension under the Public Service Superannuation Act, ( J; retired as' medically unlit 2; died 1; resigned voluntary, 19; called upon to resign, 3; dismissed 7; total -13. Tills is 13 less than iu the preceding year.

An increase of i-lti2 cases ul drunkenness in 191-1 with recoideu in -New Zealand. The lota! convictions ncre males ami 93U lem lrosecutions totalled 13,159. Sailors to Hie number ol SiT were amongst the drunkards. ihero were i out) first oilciideii and 12-1.5 who had live or more previous convictions. I l ' rom JLyall Uay, Wellington, a -Liovin resident has received from a friend an interesting description oi how ''treasure trove, llolsam and jetsam" was secured by Ly-all Uay resiuenls last week. The letter runs: "We have had a general wash-up on our Oeach, also at island .Bay. The Wangauui river lias been ill ilood, also some other Alanawatu river and we have the result on on:; beaches. There is a miscellaneous collection ol horses, pigs, cows l'owls am 1 tins of petrol. The petrol has beed taken possession ol by uie lishernien tor use in their launches but the main tiling that has benefited the. people in the district is the wonderful amount ol timber that has come ashore :lurmg tlu week. You really cail't imagine the breastwork of beautilul loys all along the beach. it was a GoU-send to some of us. l'irewood is so exceedingly scarce, and here was three years of logs for liros dropped at our very doorsteps. All we Jul it to do was to get a carrier to bring 't up lrom the beach. One man has enougfi lor thirteen years; but we could only b.- bothered getting three cart-loads which seemed to fill up the whole cellar. The petrol is worth £1 per tin. 1 know someone who nas fifty tins. One man found a horse (a dead one) with a saddle and bridle oil it, so as h?.had no use for the horse he took th 3 saddle for himself. Decent tor him, wasn't itl"

From to-day the price of certain brands of butter on the Wellington market M'ill lie reduced by ?cl per lli to Is 7d. Other brands wilflje ••ocluceu by 111.

Major A. M. Samuel, who avub in charge of the Territorial Camp on the 'Levin racecourse, some months ago. has been appointed to the command of the Sixth Reinforcements at Trentham. Ngatoa (9.9) won the Urand National Steeplechase at Ohr.istchurch .yesterday in 7mi lis lUsees. The Brewer was second. JJnnk&ia (/.ll) won the Winter Cup in lmin 41 1-u sees. Juriiij; the day £43,386 was put through thy totalisator as against £38.017 last year.

The directors of the ivuku Dairy t'o., Ltd. have appointed Mr L. I. ol AAcraroa. Secretary of the company. Mi' Harkncss lias been farming on the liiuce road for the past twelve months and before going on the land he 'wa<s fur some years engaged as teller ut the Jiank of New South Hales Piihiatua branch. He was for ten years >11 the bank's employ.

i'ointcd I'diiaik-s were made by .Mr Chadwin, J.l\, at Whangarei, when sis lirst offenders were before him. In convicting and lining each 10s. he declared that the Government now -ould ii' r. be expected to look after lirst olfendere. If they eon Id spend money on drink ,they could be made to, contribute to the revenue. It was a ;U'eat pity to see as first offenders young men who might be serving their country.

A well-known Canterbury resident, .Mi. Edward .Uuleoek, died at Sumner on Tuesday morning. lie was born at llartlield. l'evcreis, bs.se x, 78 years ago, and was educated at Great Haddon

Grammer School. He emigrated to Australia and come 011 to -New Zealand in tbo early sixties, and commenced Jealiug in cattle. Later lie took up .and at I'M ax ton, where lie lived tor a number oi years. He held ollice 111 the Ivaia|.ji Fanners' Club and me -Vorthern A. and l\ Association, and was lor a long time chairman of the Mandeville and Kangiora Drainage Hoard.

In the course of a sermon delivered at last Sunday night's intercessory service in iSt. Mary's Levin, the itev. H T. S tea ley, M. A., made a reference to the fallen. They had died lighting io 1 the Empire, and even lor thooo who were only nominally Christians and i )r the Mohammedans ironi India, all Churchmen could think reverently .1 their bravery, courage and seff-sacri-Jice. They had helped to protect oil- Empire and had left a glorious example belnnd them. . . . The iaith-

I'ni departed should be specially remembered. Though we had 110 warj ant from the Holy Scriptures that those who died lighting went straight te heaven (a Moslem tenet) yet we believed that the i'aitlilul departed who Lad sacrificed their lives lor the good ui their country were at peace 111 til; 1 paradise of God. It was an error to believe that tor a time the dead were, practically nun-existent. Christ's text "All live unto Him" proved that the dead were not really dead in Ood's .sight. It was wrong and unscripturnl te .speak of the dead as 11011-exi,stent. 11) concluding, the preacher appealed ir, hi* congregation to pray that the Mood of the fallen soldiers would not have been shod in vain, and to make fe'iine self-sacrifice, some denial ol sell, lor the sake of their and possibly for I'.io good of his bearers' own souls.