LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 October 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A young man who intends shortly to fillisi, on Monday walked to Levin and hack, a distance ot .some ;)0 miles. The walk was done in good time.—Otaki .Mail.

The 778,000 war fusils cards examined in Australia show the percentage of lit (53, doubtful 31, unlit 5. Eight volunteers for the next contingent left Levin by this morning's train for the Trentham training camp. Four were from the Hoys' Training Farm Shearing at the. Weraroa lOxpcrimental Kami was iinished yesterday. The wool is of good quality, tiliat shorn from the hoggets being very good. At yuslol'ua) s aiu'nig t.i me \» eiiington ijiimi .board it agreed to the traiiuler oi oeciion i><J norwn neiiua \ lil.ige .-settlement 10 acre.s irom A. and .U. A. iveiinedy to Al. A. ivenne<iy. A iio.spiL.it li am near)ng lou s)ck ana wouiuicU sulilie.ii who ret-iii-iieil by uio iolua, passed tnroiigli Levin yesteiuay alieriiuou shortly alter lour o'clock. J lost oi the men looked well and elieerInl. Among iho.-.e who returned was i livate .McAllister, of i"oxton. "Gnly jiritioii linns need apply' was the ellect of a uecioion arrived at by Lite Vi eliingtoi) ilai'uour L>oar<l tile ot/ier liigiit concerning a contract tor needing inachinery lor the cheese store. It was reiiolved that no American lender, or any oilier lender trom a lirin outside of JJritain would be eiilerta.ineil. The date tor the closing >>1 tenders was extended to December 22nd.—Dominion. I'iie Mercantile Gazette reports that amongst new companies registered is that of .Messrs iStiles and ALatheson Ltd. registered a-s a private company oil October 22. The capital is £ ( J(i00, in shares of £10 each. Tile company's object is to acquire as a going concern the business carried on at Fox ton by ti. It. Stiles and at Levin by CL lift tiles and I). W. Matheson, trading under the style ot "Stiles and Matheson ; and to carry on business as wholesale aii.il retail universal providers. The greatly-increased cost of leathei occasioned by the dislocation of trade in general since the war began has put saddlers to loss as well a.s inconvenience. To meet the altered condition.-*, .Mr A. Deinpsey, saddle!, ol Levin, has decided that in future all sales ol now goods, as well as repair work, must be on strictly cash linep. The only alternative of this would have been a. rise in charges, and Mr Dempsev is <sf opinion that every customer will proler the cash basis to an increased bookingcharge. The unusual sentence oi outlawry was recently pronounced by the iScottisii Courts. It is a relic ol the da\is before extradition existed. i'or it was the usual punishment of Lho.se who wilfully avoided the execution oi legal process, and was inflicted upon the criminal who fled the country and could not be brought hack. Jn the old day-, to be outlawed- -in the eafce of women they called it waived — meant that one could be knocked on the head by any passer-by, a.nd outlaws, in fact, 'were said to be caput lnpinuni. That is. they had a wolf's head, and could ne treated as a "wild beast.