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Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 November 1915, Page 3

iVLre Stuekey, one of Levin's earliest residents, who lias oeon in South Africa for the last three yearn, is returning, to Now Zealand. She will 'be accompanied by her sou, Mr A. W. Stuclray, who intends to volunteer ior active service with one of the .Now Zealand contingents when he arrives here. A valuable cow, the property of the i'orirua Loliege JLTuTißtees, died at OtaKi last night. On -being opened up by a veterinary surgeon tlhis morning, it was found tliat death was caused through an ordinary sewing needle, which had worked its way to the heart and embedded itself there, causing; an abscess.— Mail. Girls and women have taken up work on the farms in several places m Australia, in order to ihelp to bring as great an area as possible under crop. Some, bays a South Australian paper, have accomplished a tresinendous amount ol work, but perhaps the most remarkable record is field by a child living in the south of tTio i'iimaroo district in South Australia. This season she lias cultivated 300 acres and drilled 200. She spent her tenth birthday while drilling. She glories in her

work, and in never happier than when among Uie horses. She is very independent and always yokes her own team, although she is not tall enough to manipulate the winkers. A rotiii-ii hats been prepared 'by the Defence Department, blowing the total number oi' enlistments in the lour military districts in Now also the number passed as lit and yet to be examined lor the week ending October 2 ( Jth. The percentage oi total enlistments lor each military area are as follows:—Auckland '2D.-U), Wellington •iO.yi), Canterbury iy.G3, Otago D.V'O. A return oi those passed at> lit'and wait-, ing to be examined for tlio different unite is as under :—Mounted Rifles:

Auckland 1(3.55, \'\ellin,gto|u 40.33, Canterbury 23.78, Otago 10.34; infantry., Auckland 22M; Wellington 49.83, Canterbury I ( J.<JU, Otago 7.7 l J; artillury, Auckland 23.20, Wellington 44.71, Canterbury 21.53, Otago 10.53. A curious illustration oi the difference between the customs prevailing in the 'law courts ol New Zealand and thobe ol America, was given to a Wellington Post reporter 'byi :i gentleman who lias just returned rrom the States. He Avas waiting in a court, and listened to a. ca.se just being heard betore a magistrate—there called a. judge. Ono ol' the lawyers plainly told the judge that he (the judge) didn't know a tiling about criminal law, and argued the point with him. And all the -while they were arguing the point each was chewing gum, which appears to be the national vice.