The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 September 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

it is understood Unit llorowheuua County Council still is in diiliculty about securing a County ClerL The gentleman who was appointed to iliu oHice last mouth has decided not to take up t.lio appointment. In yesterday's and to-d<iy's Wellington newspapers the council calls tor applications from persons willing to fill the vacant office. So far neither The Chronicle nor the Otaki Mail lias received authority to print the advertisement. \Ve note with pleasure on this occasion the council is advertising the amount of salary it is prepared to pay ) per annum) and not Tilllmving its own had precedent- (of some three months ayo) ol inviting applicants to "state salary required."

Master Moutoa (6.7) won the Teone Makitonore Menioriai Stakes -al Otaki yesterday in 2min. Ssgcr. Immer was second and Tmaroso third.

At OUiki races yesterday the sum of 1'1ti,995 was put through the Lotalisutor against £13,991 fox- the corresponding day last year.

Tlie latest version of the confidence trick Avas described ut Marlboroughstreet, when Guglielmo i'aliante, of ■Firtii-street, Solio, was remanded :m a charge of being concerned with another ,111 an not in custody j in stealing a purse containing Co in one-pound notes l'roin Ernest Schluoliter, a Swiss waiter. It was stated that Valiante and another man struck up ;ui acquaintance witli Schlucliter in the street. Tfic second man said he had lost a purse containing £2000 011 his way lrom Canada ; the captain of the ship found it and waft rewarded with a large sum. Subsequently SchTuohter was offered a, position as valH at 10.000 franc.? a year. Before parting Schlucter was asked to go and purchase some lozenges, and acted on the suggestion that he should leave his purse to "prove his honesty." When he returned the two men' had disappeared with the purse. Some days later the prisoner was arrested outside the Swiss Consulate. The defence urged that it was a. case of mistaken identity. Bail was allowed.

The war and the dry weather have in combination caused a remarkable shrinkage in the business at the country markets. The monthly sale atllawarden last week was perhaps the limit. There were about forty larmers unci two auctioneers present to deal with an entry of two fat hoggets, which .sold at 23« each, a cow which realized £10 and four piges winch made- 14s 6d each. The limited business imposed early 'losing on the drinking bail", the conditional license being granted with wi. proviso that it shall be shut down within half an hour after -lie linish of the sale. — (Jliristchurch Star.

Aii American writer suggests that we should do away with liyphmirs. Our enemies, the Germans, build up enormous compound words without any hviphens to break thorn; but the English lind one necessary Tor a simple worl of five letter like "to-day." It may be roughly estimated that each one of tin? 200,000,000 people who •write English writes "to-day," "to-morrow." or "to-night" three times a day. lialf an ounce of force is required to make a hyphen with a pen or pencil, so this superfluous symbol entails a total waste of 2,190,000 pounds daily, or enough to draw a passenger train round the world. Be kind io your mother, tor when yo were small, She kissed and caressed you if you had a fall. Sho 'nursed you in sickness and laughed at your joy, For she was your mother and you hor deav boy. No. friends could be kinder, no friends oould be truer / Than mother—and Woods' Great Fei-

The Milton correspondent of ilio Otago Daily Times reports that matcation 8 point to a, resumption of activities at the local pottery works which had a somewhat chequered career during their lengthy history, and have latterly been closed down. The Avorks •were -recently purchased by Mr Horsley, of Ghristchinch, and the arrival of a new engine and other machinery at Milton indicates another revival in the pottery industry in the district.

German newspapers report an incident, which, as they themselves say, s incredible. The headmaster oi a school at Gunzonhauscn, in .Bavaria, who is serving as a Jieutuenaut at the front, desiring to give his pupils u pleasant surprise, sent them twelve shell fuses as prizes, evidently regarding them as harmless. The fuses were distributed with due tormality to the boys who acquitted themselves in gymnastic exercises. The iirst prize a most interesting and pretty specimen of a Uritish time-shell, fell to H aster Ernest J3runner. The recipient eagerly examined his prize, and while doing ;o a terrific explosion occurred. The <1 was so seriously injured that he died within an hour, and another boy shortly afterwards. JS : ine other boys were more or less seriously injured.