LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ohau schoolgirls bazaar will !>.• -lathis afternoon and evening (.Saturday) at Ohau. The opening ceremony will take place at 2 o'clock when Mr -/mi i Kebbell will address the gathering. 'By advertisement in to-day's Chronicle the cadets ol- Levin are convened to attend at the drillshed this evening. Mr S. G. Vickers, one ot the bestknown residents, of Onslow Borough, Wellington, died at Kliandallah on Wedinesday night last, aged 80 yoars. The late Mr Vickers came to New Zealand in 1851 and was engaged in the public service for many yea re. •He leaves a widow and lamily ol five of whom Mr W. G. Vickers, of Levin, representative of the "Wellington Meat Export Company, is a member.

Potatoes in Brisbane are selling at 24s per cwt., the highest price for 28 yeans. Ail injury to a finger of the right hand befel Mr Smellie,-manager of Levin Co-operative Dairy factory yesterday, while he was busy amongst the machinery. After having received medical attention, 'Mr Smellie was able to resume his duties. Levin residents who have been hoping against hope for a week of continuous fine weather will be cheered by a local Maori's" prognostication. "We get te plenty fine weather now,' •he told a Levin shopkeeper this morning; "my right ear ho ring, ring, ring like te cattle bell. Every time right ear ring come te fine weather; but the left ear, when him ring, te rain, te rain, te rain, all te while!" The Levin Brass Band will play Lhe following program in Oxford-street tonight at 8 o'clock (weather permitting) .March ''Union Jack," waltz "Queen of the Soutli," march "Swing Along," entre acte "Darkii- neuuties," march "New Zealand, "Uueou," raise "Dewdrcip.s *ud Daisies," "Ci;. 1 .Sa?e the Kiui;."