The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 December 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

11 " - — The dairying season in Marlborough this j'ear promises to be a record one lor high prices. The Linkwater Dairy Company paid out la 3jd tor butter-fat last month. This is a record for thr district. Quo. of the proprietors of a business not a thousand miles from here (says the "Southland News"), being a man and eager to volunteer for active service, advertised throughout the Dominion for someone to take his pla 'e during his absence, the salary offered being something in the neighbourhood o 1 a thousand soverigns a year. The advertisement attracted "nearly half a thousand applications, over 300 of them being sent in by unmarriedi men. The advertiser's volunteering ardour was somewhat damped by the knowledge that while he was prepared to risk the smashing up of his business in order to fight for his country, some hundreds o c men were equally prepared to jump into his job. He lias decided to wait a while before again advertising.

A sarcastic lffdy ratepayer wrote to mooting of the -Mount Eden Borough Council in terms of gentle raillery a* follows:—"Will you please send as soon as convenient a squad of men with scythes to" now the grass and weed)s) on the footpath just outside my front gatji' It. will repay you to send a full complement of men, ae the hay you will bo able to stack will amply pay their wages Please remedy the nuisance at once, you may also be saddled with the ccjffts oi a big doctor's hill.'' The lady's grievance is to have satisfaction in uiie coureo says the Herald.

A polite German has written to a Sydney girl thanking her for a pair ot comi'y socks! (says the "Sun"), l'be young lady has been knitting socks foi more than a year, and, following Hie usual custom,- encloses a note with each pair to cheer up the recipient, giving an address for a reply. They have boon sent away by various agencies. She revolved a letter in an unknown hand the other day. It was lrom a German in a concentration camp in England. He said that he had received tho socks —they were very nice and comfy I He thanked the dtonor. In connection with a recent cablegram from London in which was stated that "those engaged in the woollen tratle do not expect any fresh orders for military clothing for the next six months," a well-known Dim-

'tsdin woolbroker iritormed a Daily Times reporter that lie oould not understand the positon, as it appeared to him that another winter campaign was practically certain, aad it there?<sre seemed to him inexplicable tliat fresh orders had ceaewl in the meantime. I; had to be rememfbered that in a considerable portion of the woollen manufacturing districts of Frances the clothmaking industry had been quite dislocated by the ravages of the Germans, and it was understood that Cheat Britain liadi been called upon, not only to supply woollen goods m large quaa_tity to France, but also to' Russia. This supply was in addition to her own wan.s and these demands would therefore apI pear to negative the information conj tained in the cablegram. It's only natural that Clark's sho'ild make suits to order,that are superior to what's usual. The policy of Clark's demands superiority. We have hundreds of new patterns to select from at prices ranging from t> 955. Fits guaranteed. We hare no travellers ,and our customers have sufficient- confidence in onr methods: to j come direct*to us. What about a I suit for ChristmasP Don't leare it boo i late. / Giro Clark's a, trial this timp. I —Adri. . v

The election of Oounoillor Blenkliorn m Mayor o! Levin "carries Tvith it His resignation of his seat on the Borough Council, thus making an opening for aspirants to civic honours. Nominations tor the vaoant seat on tlie council must be lodlged at tho council offices before noon on Wednesday, December 157 and tihe election (if any) will take plaoo o t "Wednesday, December 22nd. William Saunders, who at the London Oriminal Sessions pleaded; guilty to a charge of stealing jewellery, wa c stated to have spent fifty of the sixty nine years of his life in jail. Mr 11 Wallace, K.C., remarked on the severity of some of the sentences (one being ten years penal servitude tor the th?ft of a pair of boots), and, in passing sentence of three years' penal servitude, said BTie prisoner would protiably spend the time in the infirmary.