The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 December 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

-Nominations for tbo'vacancy in Lovin Jibrougli Council dose at noon on \\ ediiesday (to-xuowow). On© noinination lias been made so far—that of Dr. H. A; U. Da vies.

The appointment oi Mr J. JDrystkilo, manager of the- Wenaroa Experimental Farm, to the Managership of tbo combined Mental Hospital and Prison Department farm of (3000 acres near Auckland has been Gazetted. The position means a considerable advance for Mr Drysdale. At present ho is absent on 28 days' leave.

"I would like to say,'' said tbo Prime -Minister of New Zealand, (the Right Hon. W. AY. Massey), replying to the request of a deputation of members of Parliament asking lor Cabinet's consideration of a proposal to estaolish "local receiving" or "holding" camps as a means of stimulating recruiting, "that I have oeconie, since the war commenced, a very much stronger supporter of national service than ever 1 have been previously. i

don't know what is going to happen, but J don't flunk Unit the lesson oi this var will be forgotten."- Dominion

Judgment Iras.boon given in the civil suit of John Comtessa v. Laurouce McDonald, a claim for JBSO lor damage done to plaintiff's inotor cycle in a collision with defendant s motor car on l'aekakariki Hill. Air. Cooper, S.M., in giving judgment at Wellington last Thursday, said that the evidence as 10 speed was conflicting, but the condition of the bicyclo after the accident led the court to the belioi that neither vehicle was travelling at an excessive rate. Ihe corner where the accident took place was dan'gerous, and special care was necessary in negotiating it. The evidence allowed that the car was on the wrong side and thorefore was to blame for tlio collision. Judgment wonld be given for plaintiff for £3b 7&, with costs and witnesses' expenses amounting to £8 '6b.

Recently a specimen oi la-rgo sized cats—lo per cent discount notice— which a certain company that makes cement pipes gives to a coun£y council nearer the equatorial line than Horowhenua, got out of ite bag inadvertently and wandered along to tho florowhenua County Clerk's office. The clerk has a keen eye tor this kind oi cat and took such a fancy to it that he wrote immediately to tho CQinent pipe company saying that Hie letter with the 10 per cent, cat intonded for another county council had by mistake arrived at his office, and after seeing it ho wouldl like one of the same measurement, as evidently it was the practice of the company to give its customers these big. cats and tho Horowhemm. County Council was a good customer but it nad never got one from the company. Tho company replied thai they had a special arrange-, ment with the favoured county council. This.has not satisfied tho county clerk and ho is making further application to the company. the most interesting part of the offair— what was said to the person in the cement company's office who let the cat out of the bag—is not known. Moa«i* .funn Mill and Co.. of ,Vcllington, who are Sole 'Agents for the Taupiri Conl Mines, Ltd., draw attention in our columns fo their eele'brat.'ri Taupiri Ccal. It is now that this coa". is the best New Zeiland "produces, and consumers are advised to accept no substitutes. It'js procuratlo . from air local merchant* and Me-firs. John Mill and Co., will in pleased tc siiodlv information to p".cba*er» , ..;

An inquiry into the death of Wii'.iam Angus MoLeod, who was * i!lod at L g gins's daxmiH at Tokomaru on ti c 7th iust., was held at J'alnn-s'ori S., yesterday afternoon. A vorlict of accidental death was (returned.

A largo number of people gathered at tlii) 'Levin station this morning to say farewell to the Levin men who left U: join the Eleventh Reinforcements. •Seven men left from here; the others joining the train at other stations along the line.

Levin Land Domain (the area of some forty acres adjoining Mr iN. Kirkcaldie's property near Lake rLorowhonua), has been vested in Levin Borough Council. The council is to pay its first official visit to the domain tomornnv Afternoon, and it has invited the members of the old board* to accompany the council on its tour of : n spection.