The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 30. 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 December 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 30. 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

%" The Chronicle will not he published on Xew Year's Day (Saturday next.) Tiie kea, black shag, white-throat.!', shag and sea shag, acooixling to a Gazette notice, will be unprotected for the nexfc year. Mr. J. E. Henrys, the well-known liandicapper, -recently won in an art union at the Wellington Patriotic Carnival a hack called) Loch Erin He has handed the hack to the Defence authorities, after first riding him and putting him through his paces to test his suitability. The well-known handibapper, in a photograph token on Loch Erin, looks in the best oJ form, an<T his avoirdupois would not pa-event him irom riding a liorse like Balboa in a welter *ace against a field second raters. Mr Henrys, in the 'eighties, did some raoo-ridiing over hurdles. That necessary evil, rabbit poisoning, is rapidly killing off all New Zealand's native game (says the Oama-u Mail). Wekas, once to be heard anywhere n the hills of a night, are now 110 more. Their inquisitive nature renders their complete distinction v matter of time wherever poison is laid Paradise and grey ducit will follow jnore slowly with settlement. But though there is a lamentable dearth of wing shooting in Obago, the rnib'bit has perhaps rendered a great service to tho nation in the training of boys >vith the .22, the first step with miany of our boys now on Ga'llipoli to becomingexpert rifle shots. It seems hardly necessary to point out that wi.ilc a good living mmy be made By rabbit in? the extinction of the rabbit in New Zealand will not be compassed by either trapping, poisoning; or shooting. Mrs Kendall, the aged English actress, made her debut on the stage at the very early age of throe and she 'lias herself told of iiow she allowed her youthful vanity to run away with her oil that occasion. The part she was talking was that of a blind child. Uu it go happened that she was wtaimp a pair of very pretty new shoes and she was so proud of theni tliat she quite forgot that she was supposed to be sightless. Arrived on tho stage, the immediately espied a favourite servant of her father's, who had come to wit . ness her debut, sitting in the front «ov of the stalls. Without a momenta hesitation, the ''blind) child" marched across to the footlights. "Mary!'' she cried, .holding out a small foot. "Mary, look at my lovely new shoes 1' - do not seem to realise the difficulties of importing in war time,'' remarked a hardware merchant to a Dune din- Star reporter, "and it will, only be when they find) that they are uliable to replace their broken spade o: are obliged to use olue paint instead of the ""red . they had decided upon- for the new, spring coat for tho washihouse that eomethimjj: of the r«ai position will be brought home to titan." It how takee 12 montEa for shipments ordered by cable to arrive hero from England ,bo that orders going away now by .mail .may have little chance of being landed in New Zealand) until eauly in IM7. To the pulblic wfco are_u*ed to having their wants supplied "quickly and early this 15 a revelation.

A -Gazette notice states that in accordance >mtfr ; ly :• of tlie War. Funds Act, 1915, ail war funds with n tno meaning- of section 2of the Act . must do' auditedby - the' Audita" OAky. or .by auditors appointed for the purpose by the Audit"Oflke. and that the •first audit in each oase shall be for the period ending on December 3j.it, 1915. '

The Cinonicie' lieai d to-day the fca'.o of the mail wiio visiUxl a Levin dsi 'tier's homestead last wee*. Tiie dog .barked furiously <but wagged his tail ill'the process. The koueewiie, to reatKure the caller, remarked: "Rover won't hurt you; .see he's waggijig Ins tail I" "All very well,' said the caller, ''but that's not end I'm afraid of!"

Owing to tlio great scarcity oi uariuy and tiie consequent high prices, tJie Uohemiun breweries have been iore j a

U> reduce their ou/tpus to one-thi.d of tlio normal ligure. Conterences aie being held with the restaurant pio--prjetor.s and beer-house Keepers as rj tlie best method ot regulating tiie sale .sale ot beer .may *bo pronwited altogether that-beer tickets will be issued, or the sale of eer may be altogether two days in the iweek.

"After. the war, alter the signing or peace, we can only look tor years oi a brazen kind of settlement. We can only expect a long period of amwu neutrality, of dark suspicions that never sleep, and of an incessant vigilance i io between nation and nation,'' says the Saturday Review. "Stark years will follow peace that mUst come at length out of exhaustion, years tliau ivill call for our efforts of intdlecrtrami koul if their hardening, wasting effect is to be in some degree mitigated."

People who liko to celebrate the parsing of the old year by the explosion of crackers, had better give over the practice to-morrow evening, otherwise they might have to prove to the magistrate that is is not subversive of law and order. The .police take the opposite view and they intend to take proceedings against . any person they catdh exploding crackers in the street. It is considered a dangerous practice and one or two horses in Oxford-street, were startled in this way on Christmas Jive. ... Had they got away the result, in the crowded street, would have been serious. St. Mary's Church, Levin, was prettily decorated with evergreens and white flowers for the Christmas sivices by the following ladies-Mes-dames Duckworth and Stealey and Misses Eyes, E. Eyes and Hitching. Three services were held on Christinas Day, at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. there was a celebration of Holy Communion. There were 87 communicants. Evensong V'as at 7 p.m. St. John e Church, Ohau, also l had a festive apipearance being decorated with flowers. Mr J. Kobbcll read moniing prayers at 11 o'clock. On Sunday the vicar took a celebration ot the Holy Communion at 11 o'clock. There were 26

communicants,

The vagaries of luck are well-known, but a.novel situation has been rec6.it--I.Y disclosed at .Napier. A visitor nn' - - chased a ticket in a local art union it;' aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fun 1, and was in addition in a fair way io making good money in the district when the police took a haiid in his pr.ocoedings. After being before fcim magistrate, the visitor slipped quietly away to foreign lands nncl left two friends bemoaning tJie loss of a considerable sum in hard cash. Jn Hie meantime the fugitive was the successtm ticket-holder in tile raffle and a fine piano was the reward—but he is backward in claiming his prize. The piano has boon placed in the Soldiers' Olun to he held in trust for the winner, out the odd« are distinctly in favor oi the piano permanently remaining witti the soldiers.

A Scotsman connected -with one ol the leading firms 01 herring exporters, who has just arrived home after h visit to Petrograd, gave a London interviewer the following impressions 01 the war feeling there: "The Russian people view this war as a war of liberty For many Germans hnve practically held the Eussian trade ft their own hands. In most of the business offices in Russia, German was th--language ypofken, anu there were m.i l.v Germans who lived the 'jreat n r port ri their lives in Russia without being a|l>le to spent the R.nssian language.. So great is the hatred of the Germans that the German language is not now allowed to T)e sop ken, and any violation o< of this is pimisliaWe hy imprisonment .Ts there any likelihood therefore that R'tissia would he willing to make a Kepa rate peace with Txoirmany F"