LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 December 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At Dannevirke there is a ladies' rifle club with a strong membership. In a recent contest 37 ladies shot. Of the 22 uankruptcies recorded 111 the Napier district this year, nine wore Maoris. The Lake County Press states that the skin of a double-ifeecea cross-Dred wether killed at Bendemcer the other diay weighed 321hs. Levin Defence liifle Club will open the shooting season next .Saturday whim a class-firing match will take place. "The new recruit's deserted by accident, sergeant." "Desertedi by accident! Wliut do you meant'' "Well, it skeins somebody 'ad told 'im to sew 'is buttons 011 wiv gunootton.'' By 32 votes to 18 the members oi : the South Canterbury Racing (Jlu'b,'at a specially convened meeting, decided to recommend the Racing Conference to rotlueo tiie diays of racing. A limitation to statutory holidays was sugested Fine weather ill the last few, days has pleased sheeplarmers whose ewe shearing has been delayed by tile frequent showers of the last three weeks. The warm weather is putting substance into the gratss, and even the dairy farmers tliink the weather perfect and suitable for at least another three days' time. Mr Meslop, formerly owner of the .Levin Express Company, revisited Levin yesterdlay. lie now is dairy In:-' miiiy ne;ir J r eilding, and linds the life to his liking. The call jy the Levin Presbyterian Church to the Rev. Jjowden Harris, ot L'aliiatua, was signed very largely. it was to have been delivered to him at a meeting of the Wellington Presbytery last night in Wellington, and his ieply should, be known in the course ot a few days. Colonel Rhodes, who i.s at Cairo, has cabled to the Minister of Defence as iollows:—"A majority ol the goods consigned for distribution at the front arrive packed in cases that ore wo large. Please issue instructions that, such goods consigned must be packed in cases of suitable sine lor packing on pack mules through narrow saps, and not to exceed 81)1 bs gross weight. At a meeting of tho Levin Rowling Green directorate last night it was resolved that a dressing room lor convenience of the Ladies' Croquet Club be erected at the green lorthwitli, in the rear of the pavilion. Dr 11. A. 1). Davies has been elected to iill the vacancy on the Levin Borough Council, his nomination being the only one received. Nominations closed at noon to-day. What was left ol the German cruiser ifinulcn after sue wus defeated by H.M.A.S. Sydney and run ashore at .North Keeling island is not to he preserved to posterity. The Australian .Minister for the Navy stated last weeic that a gunboat was despatched nom 1' remantle a fortnight ago to view cul wreck and determine the advisability ol proceeding with the much-delayed salvage. A wireless message received from the gunboat stated that the Jl/m----don was a total'wreck, only the forepart of the vessel remaining on the beach. An eiidea.vour would be made to collect further relics from the wreck but the condition of the hull and the laet that huge breakers continuously swept the remnants made the work oi salvage an engineering impossibility. Interesting contests lor the ladder championships of Levin Bowling Club are taking place. Eccleton has won to the top rung by defeating Currie, and he has twice made good his right to the position. .bast night he met Thomson, who has risen lrom thirtyfourth place to sixth. After a close contest Lccleton won by two points. The Mayoress ol Levin invites the public to give donations towards providing Christmas dinners and exitra comforts lor the soldiers and patients m the hospital and camp at Tauh'erenikau. We feel the appeal will be responded to by a huge nuniuer ol residents of Levin and district. Donations may be left with Mr J.'. W. Goldsmith, the lion, treasurer ol the Levin Patriotic (.Society, at the municipal oflice up till and not later that Saturday, December 18th, lUlu, Speaking at Dunedin Captain sr.uno said: "RecruiLing has failed uid you cannot expect anything else until you realise Micro is a war. Some people- realise there 'is a war on—thoso who are making money out of it, and are "wondering whether they should hold on or sell' out be!ore peace is declared. (Laughter), n 1 wore one of you young men who stay at home, audi were asked why 1 was not at the front, 1 should reply by asking why racing and everyday pleasures are £oing on, why the hours oi drinking are not curtailed, why are not members of Parliament and Cabinet Jkliiiisters stumping the country, advising the people of the seriousness of the position. Have you ever heard ol a judge summing up with a band playing in the next room!' Have you ever hoard ot a doctor performing a serious.operation with dancing going on overhead;? Li you realize there is war on you would think nothing but war tor the next nix mouths."