LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 November 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wellington master bakers have decided to lower the price of bread from fkl per 41b loaf to Bd. On Friday evening next, at 8 o'clock, the Hot'owhenua Fruitgrowers' Association will hold its usual monthly meeting in Mr. D. Smart's rooms. DYtiENI'ERY. Dysentery or inflammation oi the bowel or intestine is of more frequent occurrence during -Blfe summer months. It can be checked if Chamberlain's Oolic and Diarrhoea Remedy is taken according to the printed directions on each bottle. Chamberlain's Colic and '"Diarrhoea Remedy is invaluable in all medicine chests. , Got a liottle to-day— i: will save much suffering.; \

The tide table for Hokio Beach, up to 30th November, .appears to-day on our back page. At Christcliurch' yesterday the totalisator put through £39,803 as coinparea with £37,692 10s last year. At the Sydney wool sales yesterday supers fetched record prices. Greasy merino 19d, greasy orossbreds 19£ d. Sir Joseph Ward says that in connection -with the loan, the transfers from the Post Office Savings iiank iimoun'teu to £230,670, which is evidence that there had been a number ot small applications. The Fublic Works Loan closed on Saturday. Sir Joseph Ward states that applications amounted to £3,37-1, 745. There are yet to come in the postal applications, which he though* would amount to £100,000. Applications for loans current In New Zealand and falling due at the end of tin, year totalled £409,850, and as the right of conversion Avill continue to Uu: end of] November another. £100,01)0 will probably come untier that head-

ing. A good number of members of tlio Y.31.0.A. Ladies' Auxiliary attended the meeting in the- Y.A1.0.A. rooms yesterday afternoon to consider the arrangements for Hose Day. It -was decided to accept cut blooms of any kind, but roses, carnations, and sweet peas will Ibe preferred, and to receive them the Y.3LO.A. rooms will be open at 2 o'clock on Thursday and Friday afternoons. The flowers will l)e dispatched by the last train each evening. There was a full attendance of councillors at the special meeting of Uie Levin Borough Council heldi last night to consider the applications for tlie position of Town Clerk. Councillor dilenkhorn presided. Twenty-nine were received, and after a scrutiny it was decided to appoint Mr 13. 11. Gardener to the position. in the event oi h ; s being unable to take up the duties, <iv T W. Lightfoot will be appointedIntending donors to the Wellington I'. 31. C A. 'Hose Day', to he held on Friday and Saturday of this week in aid of our Solders at Home and Abroad, are asked to note that flowers should be addressed " Y. M. C. A. Hose Day, Wellington—To !be called! if or", and should arrived on Thursdtay or Friday of this Aveek. In order that flowers may reach their destination in goou condition they should be cut in the tiarly morning or evening, sprinkled with water, and tightly packed in wooden or tin box. Differences over the European war have resulted in 31rs Fredericka Schroder asking a divorce from Christian Schroder, a stockbroker of San Francisco and New York. Extreme cruelty is charged. Mrs Schroder is oi French descent and her "husband's progenitors were Germans. -All the battles and skirmishes which take pla.ee in Europe are restagedl m the Schroder home, it is alleged. Mrs Schroder is at all times with the Allies, and hei husband represents the forces of the raiser. The only ammunition used is words—and there is never a shortage. A correspondent informs the "Manaia Witness" that the experiment has been tried of taking on three girls to work at the cheese vats at the Mangatoki dairy factory, and so far it has proved a complete success. The manager speaks i:> approving terms of the manner 'n which the girls are carrying out the work allotted them, audi says he is pe<fectly satisfied with the success of the experiment. "Under such circumstances," adds the paper, ''there is no reason why it should not be extended and given a. chance of proving itself m other lactones, as every man of military age so liberated is a prospective i<cruit, and an answering cry to the appeal for help from our boys in trenches. And if it is a success in the dairy factories, why not in other branches where the duties are lighter and even more distinctly girls' ■work?" The guardians of the peace were sadly at fault in Taumarunui on Labour D.iy last (says the Taranaki "Daily News"). When the train arrived there from Auckland that morning, the <pohee noticed two men lift into a cart a wooden case very similar to the one that protects "Johnny Walker" hottles from being smashed, and d;rive away quickly. Visions' of promotion, part of the -fine, and pride in doing their duty and adding fo the consolidated revenue of the Dominion flashed through their minds as through rain and mud they dashed after the vehicle, which was traced to a printing office. In went the police, who demanded that the case should le instantly opened. This was dione, and it was found to contain bolte, rivals and some chains intended for a folding machine. Profuse apologies were tendered, and the suspicious-looking case resulted in "no case" after all, to file "inextinguishable laughter" of the staff who are all cold-water men. The period for receiving subscriptions for the public works loan of £2, 000,000 expired on Saturday. The results; of the flotation have not yetbeen announced, but it is understood that the flotation lias been a successful, one. The special feature of the loan was its appeal to the small investor, who was able for the first time to buy State debentures in sums of £5 or any multiples of £5. The debentures pay in- j terest at the rate of 4J per cent., and are repayable at the end of five, ten, uffteen, twenty or twenty-five years, at the option of the investor. The debentures have the coupons attached, and are made payable to bearer, so that they will be readily negotiable. The 31 mister for Finance (Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) returnee! from Auckland yesterday. Be stated last evening that he was not yet ready to make a statement regarding the result' of the flotation, but expectedi to bo able to announce, the figures to-day.—N.'Z. Times. There's nothing to equal "Nazol" for stopping coughs an 3 colds, soothing sore throats and banishing influenza. Good for old and yomfc. Advt.

Three ratchet wheels ami a catcll found on Fairfield road this morning hv Mr H. 0. Gnpper, have been lelt a*. The Chronicle oliice to be claimed by the owner. Levin Church ol : England bazaar, sale of work, and flower show, is to ue held on Wednesday and Thursday, 24th and 25th November. An advcrlisment ou the subject appears to-day. A correspondent of tiho Hawera "Star" writes:—"We have the ridiculous spectacle of members of Parliament touring the country recruiting. But wL»t are we doing to fill the places o» the -men who are sent away? I "would suggest that Mr Horneby take his place in a cheese factory, and. so release '» nan for the front. Think ot the mor u effect. An M.P. at a cheese vat for his country. It would be a thomaiid' tijnes more good than all his speechifying."