The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 September 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

« it is understood in Sydney that the lirst live millions of the twenty millions loan has been oversubscribed. The Victoria n Millers' Association has reduced the price oi bran to £5, and pollard to £6.

Tlie transfer of section 38 Horowhenua Village! Settlement containing 10 acres from W. Kendall to J. I<\ O'Connor was agreed to by the Wellington Land 13oaa - d at its last meeting.

Mr R. H. Bakewell .U. A. Inspector ol fechools to the Wellington Education Broad, was in Levin yesterday. Ho has been making an inspection ot the schools of the district northward of Levin.

At the last sitting ol the Wellington Land Broad, the application of John 1. Baylis for section 4, containing 2D acres 3 roods, 1/ percues Bartholomew Section <wa« approved. it was resolved to re-olfer section 5 ot the same settlement, area 12 acres 2 roods 3 perches on renewable lease at an annual rent ol £19 7s; notice ot sale to be "given under section 21 of tlie Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913.

I'x'om Messrs. Stiles and -VLaitheson, Levin agents lor Jaeger's goods, Tlie Chronicle has received an excellent map oi the .Dardanelles, issued by Jaegers, London. A photographic representation ol the hills and bays hears- a most natural appearance, and the key map to the main one is especially usedui. The pictures of famous soldiers and bailors that surmount the publication are admirable. The mo6que of Saint faophia, and the .New Zealand hospital j>liip Maheno are other illustrations ou the sheet. As fclie rain fell upon the just and the roadway yesterday at tor noon two corporation employees were digging for a gas connection through the stones of Durham street. "iou should pick better weather for this job," remarked a passer-by to (which Uavid promptly replied that it was hard enough to pick stones 'without picking the weather. In the .Federal House tiie Hon. W. Spence (i'ostmaster-Uenoral) submitted the changes in telephone rates. A flight alteration was made in the flat rate, but the annual rem; /will not be higher that £4. Calls are raised Id and those of public phones to 3d. It is - anticipated that the changes will jaroduoe ao additional *165,000 wouue.

A cheery 6oldier correspondent writes irorn a London hospital, where he nas been for the paet eighteen weeks, by the way, to tell me the latest story he has heard irorn "out there.'' He had it in a letter from a /friend In the trenches. A "Tommy" had been i>ut under arrest for being drunk. At least they said he wac drunk; he stoutly denied it, but the evidenoe 6eem's to have lTeen against him. When arrested lie announced: "I'sh going sniping," and he was armed . with a rifle and lighted lantern 1 •Some years ago the Tasmauaan Department of Agriculture imported two. new varieties of potatoes, i Rector and Mac, from Scotland. After careful cultivation at the State farm, a supply of about ten tons of good "seed" was produced.' Farmere were offered supplies at 2tts. per owt., a price under that ruling for ordinary potatoes oh the market, but the department's good intentions appear to have been ignored. 'No desire to turn this opportunity to practioal account has been shown by farmers. The Tasmaiiian Director of Agriculture says the Rector and Mac varieties' have passed I local tests, and proved' to be hardy and t'rosb-resitftanfc potatoes'. Last yeanthey yielded at the rate <jt sis tons per acre, and < no signs- • of..- disetose weiro noticed ■ v ' - -•

The name of Trooper a). Horn, of Manakau, appears in the latest list of Wounded at the Dardanelles. - Hie all-ihe-year-round activity of the dairy industry in Taranaki and what it means to the province, may be gauged by the fact that, quite apart frtxm the ordinary butter-fa,t payments, suppliers' ibonuses during last year totalled £100, ; 000 from the factories within a seven mile radius of Stratford alone. Durlast month, perhaps the deadest month of the season, one .of the Stratford factories paid out £20,000 to its supplied—Exchange. „ The death is announced of Private Joseph Randall, son of the late George Randall, Burnie, Tasmania and nephew of Mr G. Randall, Oxford street Levin. He left with tne 3rd Reinforcements, and after seeing much heavy fighting was attacked with dysentry on the 12th or July." aiad taken to iMalta Hospital. Complications set in, and he passed .way on the 21st of August, aged 28 years. tio came to New Zealand about ten years ago and since then lived witli 31r C. Randall. He was well known in t'no sawmills here, aaid during the bicycle races a few years ago lie took a prominent part. He left Levin for Trentham, a few days before Xmas,. He was well known as a. hard working young man, and his early death w :1 be deplored. ■