•Cfje (%onkb PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. THURSDAY, SEPT. 1(3, l'Jlu. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 September 1915, Page 2

•Cfje (%onkb PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. THURSDAY, SEPT. 1(3, l'Jlu. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fro in Corporal Salisbury, formerly of Levin, and now attached Lo the bane ot tli© .New Zealand Expeditionary Force (in Alexandria), Mr J. O'JXmohue, ol' Lovin, hati received a most interesting letter. Corporal Salisbury lias just boon discharged from hospital, atler an illness due to colic. While he was in the hospital Ins nurse aokctl him what part of Xew Zealand he came ilroni. "Levin, ol course," he replied. Strangely enough, it chanced that the nurse also was at one tunc a resident ol Levin. Her name was Miss Slater. Corporal Salisbury gives news ot some other Levin people now in Egypt. Corporal Pike was. sent back there (from the Dardanelles) to be treated for a shattered ankle. He was still in camp on Bth August. Privates J. }'. Foss and A. Wray landed at Alexandria (from Malta) aooirt Ist August . Foss went back to the front on th'e day Corporal Salisbury wrote his letter. Private Ha vis still is at the •front—sniping; and longing for tobacco! Peading, Soiascia and Tim Close are still carrying on at the front. Sgt-Major Davidson lias heen promoted to a lieiiitenancy. Pflcc met l)r Young (■well-known in Levin) at our camp the other day, and was told to bring all the Levin boys along lor a chat. Captain Primmer, formerly ol the Stock Department, who was in Levin last year, buying horses for the front, now is at Alexandria. He had been to the Dardanelles, but did not «tav there, as the horses -were not landed'

On the Bth October the Foresters' Lodge, Levin, will hold their 2(3th annual "social" and dance. Twenty-six years' experience lia.s made the Foresters adepts in running such: affairs, and visitors may depend on a good evening's entertainment.

A German, soldier, on being captured ■by one of the lads in khaki, remarked to the latter: "There is a great difference between you and the German soldier. You light lor money; he hghts for honour." To which Thomas Atkins, ever ready-witted, responded: "1 know—we for money, you for honour. We are both lighting for what we haven't got, and what we most need! ;

A schoolboy, named Cole, picked up a detonator at the rear of sonic buildings in Queen-street oil Monday afternoon, and proceeded to iind out what \\ii« inside by poking mto it with a piece of wire, with the result that it exploded and the lad's linger and •thumb suffered severely. As tar as detonators are concerned boys of an enquiring turn of mind should remember that inside the copper case is a mixture of fulminate of mercury and chlorate of mercury; a highly explosive

compound

A Levin man now in the Dardanelles writes sarcastically ol' the interview given by-a returned "sell'-mado" sergeant, and printed in a Provincial newspaper some lew months ago. The "sergeant," it seems, never saw Gallipoli, and was never out ol' Egypt till lie left for .New Zealand, lint he painted a striking word-picture ol the great doings at the landing on Gallipoli IV ninsulu, with seemingly complete details of; the proceedings. The Levin man's letter sums up the "(sergeant" as a "liar and a blighter,", and recommends New Zealanders to read Aslnnead Bartlett's stories for the truth and to beware of self-advertising

returned soldiers who were "never there."

Let our infant army safely grow Five fleeting years, and then One hundred thousand soldier boys Will be stalwart soldier men. These five brief years - in peace prevail, Should Austral's sway assure; Meanwhile, when coughs and cold assail We've Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. * Advt

Tho Avondale Oup run at Auckland yesterday was won by Castalia (7.0) in 2mius. 12secs. Loloina and Fionnualla dead-heated for second place.

The sum of £22,560 was put through the totalisator at Avondale races yesterday, as against £20,5(38 for tho corresponding day of' the previous year.

A dance in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund is being given by Messrs Ferris and Bignall. it will bo held at the AVeraroa Town HaJl next Thumday. Details are set out by advertisement in to-day's Chronicle,

liio Piumoors' Doard 01 Aeiw Zealand no longer accepts (.as equivalent for its own examination) tlie second grade oi the City and Guilds oi London Institute examination. in the past this certificate was accepted, subject to certain conditions well-known tu .Now Zealand plumbers. A notice on the subject from the Plumbers' Board of Now Zealand appears in our advertising ■columns to-day.

.Private J. C. -Uuilins, writing to the Lhrislchurch 'Evening JNews says: Our crack shots use Turkish rifles anil ammunition, which, for sniping has many advantages. iSergeant-Alajur Buckley of the Manchesters, whoso name haw appeared in the prize lists at Bisley on numerous occasions, is a great believer in the Turkish rifle,"and used it all the time he was on fife Peninsula. it has a lower trajectory, while the velocity is higher, the bullet heavier, and tho ibore larger than ours. The holt action is of polished steel, and not as liable to become clogged with sand a<s our own, and does not require nearly so much oil. The Turkish riile is point blank at -100 yards while the rifle used by New Zealand infantry is only so at 2(10 yards, and the latest British rifle about 350 yards. liigli prouls in nar ume were dealt ,um uy -ur o. U. ii.arKiiLss_j.ai. ilaneia ju;-.l week wiien me Uovcrninents oher ui OAU per lb lor IUUO tons oi cheese per month for six inontlis for the imperial troops was made. Following me law of suppiy and demand, Mr unikiicss explained, prices should have been less during the last year because tlie production was so much greater, ljut it increased because tlie Government bought so largely. Let the Government withdraw, and what would mey get? That was the position they Ji;i<l to keep in mind. Ho would ,i-

them to remember that it was not light for producers or business men •who might have a contract with the Imperial Government to exploit them ■fur anything beyond an absolutely lair price lie believed there were men in the Ulil Country who would yet have to refund their undue proiits, and he said advisedly that such men should be 'imprisoned. It was like sending out a man to the front to tight your battles and then shooting hint in the hack.

As the ketch jjoioiiju was working j.er way up the Dement on 1 riday for Jlobart, and was oil ftandy Bay, the Cicjv. noticed a man floating in the naici, supported by two lilebelts. lie was taken on board in an exhausted

condition, and spoke no language that those on the Boronia could understand. When the vessel got to the uhail the rescued man was handed over to the wharl police, who took him to the Ueueral Ilospital, where he gave his name as August Lozin, a Russian. lie was admitted lor treatment, but the stall got a shock when they came to prepare him for bed, lie had on seven pairs oi trousers, four shirts, live coats, three undershirts, a knitted vest, one woollen scarf, and throe pairs ol socks. Owing to the fact that there was no interpreter at hand at the time it proved impossible to lind out how this nuichvlothed man got info the water. If is surmised that he was a sailor on board the barque Bengarm, that he decided to go ashore, and to take all his worldly goods in the clothes-line with him by the simple expedient of putting them all on.—Launceston Daily Telegraph.