LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 August 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Jir Joseph Scott, who sold hi.s Levin Lfakery some two moutus ago, has guiie on the land, having purchased ALr bhuto's iaim oil tiie Arapaepae road llio butchers in the central markets ol i'aris mo selling amen beol lor the liifot tune iu history. The average i.s o'd per llj cheaper thau the home lulled ■ AL UJianyaroi yesterday the iVLui£istrate ga-vo judgment, lor plaintiU lor L&J, L[)6 Od aud £li 12a ( Jd ui Ih'u cow poisoainy; carses, Holding that tho inolatseit's had impurities in the lorni vl mineral oil and ultramarine. Leave to appeal .was granted Mr A. Deiupsey, oi Levin, hat> ivcuivod advieea Irom a \\ elliiigtun ieatiicr ineioJiaut that u iiu - tlier 111 the price ol leather is imminent. Uooblnakors, saddlei - 6, etc./ win lind the inionnation usol'ul il they place prompt orders lor what they require. A.larjju gathering ol representatives ol loeal sports bodies tooK place in the .laieri tea-rooniK lat>t evening to Old larewell to Mr A. iSmart. Air ii. ti. LunuavSter, patron oi the Levin Hockey (Jllib presided, and in proposing the health oi the guest ol tho evening, paid a high tribute to the manner in which -Mr Smart had assisted sport, especially hockey, in this district, and expressed the regret they all i'elt at luis departure. He wished him every success in his new place oi residence. On behalf of those present ho had luudi pleasure in presenting Mi , Smart • with a pair of razors as a slight mark of-the esteem in which he was Koid. Messrs Judd, Wilson, Allen, Dean, Howe and Walton endorsed Mr Lancaster's remarks. Mr (Smart, in responding, said he was sorry to leave the district. He thanked them lor their kind remarks, and their present would serve always to remind him ot his many friends here. He hoped the hockey club and other sports here would continue to 'prosper. Other toasts honoured were: The Horowhenua I Hockey Association, Levin Hockey Club, kindred sports, members for and at the front, and the hostesses, During the evening musical items were given by Messrs Howe, Thompson, Pink and Houneell, and Mr A. Mason acted as pianist. A splendid BUipper was provided by the Misses MoKegg. A pure specific for coughs anr colds is "Nazol." Costs eighteenponcc for bixty doses. All chomists, lloady tor when bought. Advfc.

At Wanganiti Court on Tuesday, the ii.M fined a barmaid £'J lor refusing to join the Hotel tvorkoni' Union Leave to appeal was given, Mr Louis Cohen having contended that the award amounted to compulsory trade unionism, not contemplated by the Legislature "Beat the shark-eaters," yelled a young fellow of about 24 years oi : a<4o during a tug-of-war between Maoris and Pakohas at the Winter Industrial Exhibition at Hastings last week. "You ought to go to the Dardanelles ami hunt turkeys'" retorted a Mairo, The pake'ha collapsed. The annual report of the Manawatu auxiliary of the British and .Foreign Bible Society notes the following local subscriptions :—Levin: Mrs Duckworth £2 2s (3d. Miss I , '. Eyes ss, Miss L Eyes ss, Presbyterian Church JL2. Mr and Mrs Becher Jt'l, donations 12s od; Shannon: Mr .15. W. J)otill 2s b'd, Rev. J. A. MoKensoie JUI 8s bd._ The popular mayor ol a small town in (Surrey is absent at tlie Iront in the best of all <;ood causes. The town does him thu honour ol placing an empty! chair at every function that he ■would have attended under happier circumtitanees. To this touching custom his deputy has just referred in a short address: "We do not miss 'is empty chair," he remarked, "but we do mist; 'is vacant face." A Hamilton message reports shortage of farm labour owing to the young men having gone to the war. lie tired landowners are buckling to again, and women who had foresworn the milking shed are again busy' with the pail. The .Fanners' Union branches are organising a recruiting campaign, and approve the Compulsory Registration Bill It is suggested that an Act be passed to enable boys antd girls of suitable age to bo employed on farms, especially ' during the harvesting. lhe swearing habits 01 our soldier annoyed Lord Wolseiey ,\vlio became president ol a society lor the suppression ol improper language. One Uay when he was inspecting an Irish garrison, commanded by an oincer renon tied for his purple flowers oi speech, tin? trumpeter, ordered to sound the "'Charge," Hounded flic ■"Retreat" instead. The ollicer'ii mouth had opened to volley forth appropriate denunciations when he caught Lord Wolseley's eyes lixed icily upon him. He hesitated, choked, stared wildly round, then bellowed "Oh, you naughty, naughty trumwotorl" .Since Germany lias lost ten warships and armed merchantmen, much valuable cargo, and is paying lor alt nor merchant ships sheltered in foreign ports, a mordeate estimate will .show Unit the Avar has cost Germany at .sea close on £20,000,000 in Jiard cash, as against the £10,000,01)0 ol damage done to England warships and merchantmen. A striking lact 111 connection with the German raids oil commerce is that -we have never resorted to the system of convoy. British merchantmen use the sea to-day as ireely as in peace. Our trade has not deviated a cable's length from its normal cou se. "x ileal u .i goou story me umei uaj , Luiponu ma toii .->ays in a lctici' mitten on o my llii 110111 who. "lAirone 01 Luc advances, an Au»Lrai.an '.spotted' a J urkisn sniper, so. making a detour lie between ik •jiiiper and tlie iuriusii lints. Iheu ne proceeded to stalk the sniper. liie turlv saw him and alter one or two unsuccessful sliois. made on. liut Llie Australian gave chase, and succeeded in heading him towards me Australian lines. When the lurk ueared the lines, an oilieer sJiot mm, much to the indignation of the man who 'started him up' in the hist place. Going to the ollicer the Australian said, 'What did you do that forr 1 could have got him that way inysell half an Hour ago, but I wanted to 'harpoon' him.' ' ihe Chiei Justice 111 passing sentence on tno men at me Wellington ouprciuo Court said it was very sad lo j»fc two such men m the dock, especially at such a time, when the country was in a btuto ol war. Instead ol saving they were spending their money in dunk. Working men ought to be saving every penny, instead ol whicn they were drinking, smoking and going to pictures, and so on. "1 don't know what's coming to mis country,' , lie added. "J see young men walking about the streets, thinking of nothing but their own pleasure, going into the hotels in the middle ol a great warmo greatest war the world has ever seen The time will come when wo will have to undergo very great privations, and you are making no provision lor them. Even the bcee and Ui« wasps make provision for their olfspring and you make no provision at all. lou -working men are no worse than other people." It iias been said that basic slag docs not affect cattle, but some fanners about this locality now think otherwise (says the Taranaki Herald). Une man had tlie slag sown during tho recent dry spell and, after lotting it stand for four or live days, during which time there were two fairly heavy frosts, tinned his milking cows into those paddoeks. The result was that it caused tho cattle to scour, and there was a heavy falling oli in the _ quantity of milk. Cows are fond ol slag, and a fanner stated that one ol his sows, to his knowledge, licked a slag-bag with the same results as the first man. The heavy rain experienced during the last lew clays has, nowever, 'Washed all tho slag well into the ground, and no bad effects can now be caused by it. The -Neloon-Murchison section of the Midland Railway is proceeding apace, about 120 men being employed on various construction works, including diversion of the Hope river. A platelayer's station at Kawatiri station is neartng completion. —Westport N'ewa. The date of the Church of England bazaar is altered to the 24-th and 2otn November. A runholder in tlie Wairarapa is reported to have refused an oiler of £2U per head for his bullocks, holding out for £25. which ho considers he will yet obtain Let our infant army safely grow Five fleeting years, and then One hundred thousand soldier boys Will be stalwart eoldier men. These five brief years in peace prevail, Should Austral's sway assure; Meanwhile, when coughs and cold assail We've Woods' Great Pepporniiiit Cure. Aclvt.,

On Sunday nep the Rev A. C. Kanrterson, M. A., fill preach his last sermons in Levin /'resbyterian Clmrcli, as her will lie leaving ior Ins new .poet iu *■ Dunedin next week. Conimenting on ~o case of » testator who earmarked £7100 ior the prosecution, of his son, the Daily Chronicle's Ollice Window mentions other cases ol vindictive wills. "An American ' iwho died a short while since, leaving £00,000 and a pretty wife, left the hitter his whole fortune, with the stipulation that she should lorfit £'200 it she appeared in public unveiled, and a tike stun it she smiled at a man or allowed a man to take her to a place ol entertainment. It is quite usual to cut olf the legatee it he adopts some specified form of religion, and a Sloauie iSt, stock-broker, who died in I'JO-3, left his son £200,000 on condition that lie should never see his mother. And there was the man who left his wife one farthing, to be sent to her by post iu an unstamped envelope. , ' there naa uoeii a livei,y meeting ol the Quakers 111 JUmdoii. Ino sect ot tiie great cocoa inanulactiwets is grievoiisiv pel turned oy^-. , laci fiiat J3OU ol their \mi on khaki mid gone Huns in liagranL opposition to the Quaker "Book of Discipline,' , " which commands every iwiend to •'maintain an iieiimvocul testimony against war.' - ' 601110 ol the oldfashioned Quakers urged the expulsion of these young soldiers. But the subject was shirked, and the meeting decided to fake no disciplinary action. Ono speaker, who described himself as a descendant ol a long line of Friends, openly declared that 'it is perfectly right to light under existing circumstances/ arid another proudly proclaimed that he had two sons and a score ol other relatives work'iig ior peace by showing the fvaiser's hordes that war doesn't pay. At the Otaki Debating 'Club's meouuiii on Monday nignt last, Mr J. lloberc&on, ex-member lor tne district, ikliveied an addiess on . oocialisin at u the War." lucre was only a mod" mi attendance, doubtless owing t.; Va<cold weather, but all present spyu. a pleasant and proiitable time. Mr Robertson is a capable lecturer, and was thoroughly conversant with his subject. He dealt extensively with tin. attitude of the Socialist party with >'ospect to war generally, and to tli6 great European war m particular, and stated that, had the present war be; 1 deferred for a few years, in all prinability the Socialist party would '.mo become such a power in oermauy as to prevent the possibility of such a war. A number of questions were asked, winch led to an interesting discussion, giving further enlightenment on various phases of the subject touched upon by the lecturer. Mr Robertson was accorded a very hearty vote ol thanks lor exceeding able, interesting and instructive address.—Otaki Mail.