The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 November 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

i 1 'J'Jic ilea lit DcciuTcil al XJiaki llu.spij ial, on .Sioiuiuy, -ui dulin Josupli ■ iii'iirdsJcy, ill ouanauiij ajjoii six yeaia. ' -J'Jiu iLxvaisi'd wus buriud at Otaki, ~ tut; ltuv. i'altiier oiiicituinji. — uluaj fi -\li.ei' Siiilli; UlbOlls.iiijH, in wlicil tiICJU 1 A-'ati a. ln'cly iiiccrvai, Liic Piaster I;u 5 'County L/'umicil ticuidctl io pay one I pur day ox Ira to its Avorkaion \ utigugo'd JJ'i bprcadiujj metal. ' At a daucu iiuld m vacyLowit lastI f wx-i'ii, a Jiutioo ii;ih pui, up at the cnI J ii-anui! 10 biio Town iiall tiiai the piuvt. oi : adiia;:oiuu were; ".Ladis 'S ■ iij_, .Soldiers lh ou ; SiiirUeio Jiui wanI Mv. Jjyruu Jjrowji, alter six months' Jaojuiiru in Aiibti-aJiii, iotunied to Qtaiii tJiib ueok, givaiiy beneliicd by his trip (anya uiv Utaki .Mail). Duriuy hi. .stay on ihu ouiior siiiu he dm iiuich goul work lor rotmiicd vvoundeil soldiors, 'and niaterially assisted iu other directions. Tue iiiip'ector ot lactone.:,, Mr \\ . Jii. ■Culver, proceeded against J. Lovott, licensee ol the Grand laotel, at the Levin S.AI.. Court yesterday, i'oi' two breaciieis 01 the hotel woikcr^ , aH'ard, iu that lie laiied to pay an employee Jiei- wages in lull vvery week as requirel by the awai-d, and mat he lulled to keep a time and wages book correctly, liio imspeetor claimed £20 lor the breaches. The defendant pleaded that the breaehee committed were owing s to an oversight.. Mv J. \V. L'ayutmi, ' fcJ.JM., awarded the inspector the sum i. of JU-1. 'iiie uxeeptiouaiiy lavourable season that has been experienced in i'overiy r Hay Jia.s had ldc result ol bringing .

?! tie cereal crops along ui surpriso;. \ fashion (says the UibOonie Oill ciops iji particular nave nev.u looked belter a.s far as growth is concerned. One factor, however, is giv- % ing agriculturists some concern, anu that is a peculiar ixliyht that if, aflecliug out crops tin* season. It closely resi'Mljliis riibt, being roddisli hi itti colour. It is not ru&t, Jiowuver, u.iui uxactJy wliai il is iias coinpioU'ly i: baiiku Lho experts. Wiien tlio Agni culUiral JJupaituiunt reprosciitaLivcs " viiiilcd Gisborjio at Siiow time, they : paid a. visit to To Ivanika, and wore : quite nuablc tu say what the disease < -Willi. It may bo some disorder that, J has been induced by the rainy ■season, J and v/liethor it will affect the crops in tin- same manner that rust do«.s ■will not be known until Liio harvesting, At the -Motiiodist Synod at WelJiugton this week, tiie Rev. H. J. Serpell, of Maetei-ton, stated that bhu Melbourne Argus iu a leading article 01 :i recent issue quoted figures to showthat no less than two-thirtls of J iie young men ol : military age connected ■with tiie Cliristiaii churchers- of Victoria had volunteered ror active service, while oi' the young men connected with no churches only oiu-thii-d had enlisted. Mr. Serpell said i ho .believed the .same applied, to Muvv Zealand/, and this proved that the Ohrisli.au young men wore- 711 era patriotic than many of those frequentivs ay. racecourses, etc., who hold up the J finger of scorn at -what they termed "Hvoivsors," who tihey inferred were disloyal and unpatriotic. "So far as patriotism i.s concerned," said Mr. Serpell, "we have nothing to apolo..gise tor, and I think it is time that ire put a stop to tßat objectionable torm "wowser" iboing tlirown rfib us. ' Yewi- after yoar brings incrcasi;i<r proof of the superiority oi "SharlandV I Baking Powder. Costs less than oth- ! ers—worth -morel—Adrt. Sharland's Baking Powder is bound to rise. That is -why oo many tliou* ' ands use and praise it. Costs le* ; tlian others. Advt. ■-,--. ...V:V-

It is reliably stated (says the ivei;o correspondent of tfic Mataura Ensiga/ v that Is 5d lias been offered and ret used for a big clip of wool here. lleceut casualty oontain iiie name oi Piivate Arthui , v\'aiker viii, slightly sick), admitted to tho Ist Southern General 'Hospital, JiirmingJiam. The temptation oi lußciouts peaiy oil tlie trees in the garden ol i'jympiou U orJihouse, JJevon, proved so slroug io; one oi the aged inmates, Willii'-U ! Soboy (b'fcSj that he climbed a tree, but i i reaching lor the i'ruib, lost liis ti\\i ai:ue and sustained injuries which re suited in liie death. At ihursday lnornnigb isittnig oi the Levin ti.M. 'Court, Air. J. \\. i'oyny'on, S.ji., gave judgment, by ilelemiant's default in tho civil ease ol E. iv. and G. j<. Milncw v. J. ijong, a chum ior £'i b's 4d. vostei amouat- , ing to JJI 3a O'd also were aiiowedi to piaintilLs. The Levin Dorough Connno cl sued Charles li. Judd for £0 'is, and obtained judguieni by default, with costs, Bs. p A iatal accident occurred at Oanui r- near ■Upuiiake ,on Tuesday last. jjh ■J-Uios. \ iuceiu, aged -It, with a uu. _. nainetl ohiiJey, was prepanng to g,liohinjj, am! it is said tnat lie was u> 'tierting a, cap iu tsonio gelignite lor

" the purpose, of outaining herrings a ■ bait, when an explosion took placw and he received! tho full force oi tliw —• ujsuharge in his tjoily, whicli was ten/ biy mangled, »diile his right arm wua also blown oil. x>oath wais instauta-i- - received a cevoro shocK, but did not sustain any physical injury. i t .Uany newspapers (says the London •'.Ncuspaper World," oi (September Aby now announce that in luture they ciui ;,nly publish subscription iLsts for cJiar- ., iiabie purp'u&os and war appeals lor uinds, glue, etc., il paid ior as advertisements. This, it is pointed out, is 0 Ji- consequence of the continued increase in the price oi materials used in - newspaper production, in many caws i lie increase ranging trom 2o to 50 per '' teiit. The AVorld addb that uniort-i----naioly the majority oi outsideis cannot be made to appreciate tins laci- ! . that "space" in to tho newspaper proprietor what meat is to the butcher, and to refuse to publish gratuiuo<is:y such appeals as the a.Oove is to incur the risk of being dubbed unpatriotic. iiie luijuurneu oi u,, _ COiiipiei-O lul 1 iJie J. a.isl.i g^ !■' H.ii-iLs ior cniJstnuis giu& lor ui ine Allies at the Ltaruanelies ;<iiu i-! bauioa Wilis held in inc Levin UoloiigK Council Chiiiiiueib yesterdi , .) , aiLornoon. After some duscussiou it \\'a..s decided to set up u si/uli iu Ux--1 l<l 11 litieeL on Saturuay night lor Lie •sale ol cakes, bi\cOLs aiiu pioduce; ui auuiuon to making a thoiough canvas oi UH; diistrici. ContriuiitioJis to '-■ne iiind alau will oe receiveu n it ho bo- • rough oihceij by .Mr&. uardener. ii j ift iioped u;at a good Kuni will be >:>• 1 tainod. So lar, the sum oi Jtil i;is is in hand from contributors. iho • ainotinis colieclod must ue forward. i to \\ eilingtoii not later th«u i'uesday i next. 'fun jUiigmcnt ,siUiiijion.s c.i.sct. m,'n>' heard by Jlr J. \\'. I'uynton, H.M., at Hie local court on Thursday morning. iUui-y Alaius piiiceeded against i,e.lii .Ucdinn ior .Id u> 0,1. The deloiuiauL iaiied to appear , and was ordered to pay the aniount dale £y is i>). i*i delauit nine days' imprison im'iu, the uairant to ue suspended if the debt ijv paid oil in monthly instalments oi £2 each, the lirst payment t) be made before Deceinber lßth. Tlie •Shannon .Moat Company inoceeded against C. Karsten for £10 Ss ild. Karsten v«aK ordered: to pay the amount due Clii Is lid iu default .sixteen days' imprisonment iu Wellington gaol, the amount be paid in instalments it the rate oi Ul per month, commencing befo:e Deci'.iiilji'i- IStii, the waii'aiit Avi. be suspended. In tLooo days when c\iM.-y man ia Oeginning to look hia noigiiboiir aisiiunto

and audibly wonder uiiy his irieiui, have not \oiunteered for active service, the pi.6.-e.*ioii of a cei-tiiicaw thai one is not medically lit ioi i a valuable It is s'.ated thai a ueil-kuuwu ami projniuent citi/ei/ ol Gisbonu' received the iright oi in;-, life recently. . He -HjoldJy marcJiel into tin , recruiting of lice aiiu annoiinced that ho wi&hr-d to eulii-t an,. ■''do his bit." He was received uit.. open ariius and hurried a doctor who was at the moment examining pro fspective recruit. Here he subnuttii, to tlio now u oil-known ordeal of medi caj exaiuiuation. "ion re all rigii; my boy, ' announced the doctor with . twinkle in iii-- eye, 'light as iain, a.: you can go to Trentham right away. The volunteer's lace is reported to have dropped. ''Tint," lie falteral. "'l've got a weak heart doctor, really I have." As hits statement had truth id it lie uas of course "laiied," and grunted a certificate ol unfitness. —

Oisbimio Times. Mr Anihouy (jibbs, in the Dail; Chronicle, says:—The battleiicld ut Ar toiis most anluj 1 jiuvo seen in its grim auggeestiveiiess oi' war a it.; worst. 'Jiio very oartu with it: while blotches oi clay pockmarxet with innumerable shell craters, is now truly a dead ground. Every ivhon theie are fragments of broken weapil.i,and sholLs like bottles on a. rubbiiii heaj). Worse things lie about—hugmeiits of hiunan bodies and half burior; poor and tragic relics of muilated men, they lie in the water poo,« clutching the mud. One turns cold from tho bundles of rags and oonos piotruding from boken sand bags u>. places once German shelter, but now wrecked boyoud description, a mass ji chairs, broken mirrors .and t-catterj i bones. This was the work <jf '"> Fronoh guns, and tiie .'IOO,OOO shell* which were flung over the countryside before the infantry attack was inad->, imd, oi the German guns wfiich batteeoi Notre Dame de Loi-ette, since tii« days of the French victory, and thesacrifice of the village or Attain. The ghastly place gives hideous proof of tno strife which twisted iron, mingled with toots, helmets, furniture and perambulators. In one German dug-out we found a splendid piano. " When returning there was the fearful sight of limping men in blood-stained bandages nnd the stark figure of a French eoldiar wlioolod on a stretcher completed the picture of the awful horror and ruin of war.

1 Important matters in connection .witn su'iniining are on tho order paper Jor discussion at the general meeting ot the Levin Swimming Clu;u in tihe borough chambers tfiSs evening at eigiiu o'clock. Douiugton Hall and Dorchester are not the only prisoners of war camps from which interned; men escape. An Englishman lias just contrived to gain his liberty from Doberitz, the most important camp in Uorinany, on the outskirts of Berlin. The details, wliich are published in the Berliner Tageblatt, indicate that the prisoner, who ie described as about years of age, 'disappeared from Doberitz on i'Viday, (September 3rd. At the end of a, lortnight lie contrived! to make his way undetected to Miuw, on tho Mecklenburg coast of tho Baltic, about lou mile snorth-east oi Berlin"where he secured u rowing boat, in which ue started across the Baltic to Gjedfier, in Denmark. Wlien half way over he was sighted by the Danish lorry steamer Princess Alexandnna. The captain .steered towards him and took inn Doal and patßcniier to Denmark. i'ho Englishman explained/ that he was bound for England, via Ojedser and Copenhagf'.w ? v ':<> rowing boat has been returned t.6 empty. '' "Argiif- ; m thu chiiSLcinirdi k jml iiiiiJiesi L.'i'i ii.lluWing coniUiUiits ull tioUlo oi tue .';u\inUoC(3 been >vujj ihc colours ii|; ixi iic .'\e\v uiip meeting; sjf tho .11 hor*..'S .ti iuccarton, uar:uep iiciii ucr piate as tue best, m »pitu vi Jier del'eac m. tne JStiW Zeaj.:nd Uup in which bile snut up quiciijy after iooliing all over a winner. She

made no mistake in the Canterbury Oup, while iu the SteaU Cup she beat al 1 but the three-year-old. Desert molu I thiuk Warstep is a better "mare now uum bhe was last season, and she should play a prominent p#rt m important event this soason. Chortle ran weii iii two nandicaps and then cut up uadiy i.i the Stead Gup. it was not his li no lonu and iJossibly he was not ieady ior throo hard races in a week. ihe running oi Croesus in tho btew..rds' Handicap made inm out a kighvhuss (sprinter, but he shaped disappointingly over n mile. it has lio !'e admitted he was set a severe task, jut ;.o sliuuld have lasted till a little neai <r iiie winning post than no did. Indigo did not race up to expectations i t tho New Zealand Cup, but lie registered, two good performances afterwards. In a solidly run contest ue ' might have been harder to beat over wo miles.