Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 January 1916, Page 2

Local and General

Latest registration tor active service include the names of Jolm Blytli, tailor, Levin and Villi am Brearo, painter, Levin. Portsmouth Town Council has decided to present to each local officer and ma,n who wins the Victoria Cross an address enclosed in a silver casket. Tim cost is being defrayed by public subscription. At Birkenhead, a procession of 2UOO women marched to the Town Hall where a deputation protested to the Lord Mayor against the increase 111 rents. Banners bore tlie words "Father is fighting- in Inlanders. We are lighting the landlords here." Jt was a proud moment for Farmer Giles when he went up to see his sailor son on board ship. He iiadi never seen a vessel so close before and he marvelled at her size. Just as he caught hold of two ropes to assist the sailors in clambering over the side, he Beard "eight bells" go. As he stepped on deck fie met the officer watch. He Baluted him, and said timidly—"Beg pardin'. su'r, but i didn't mean to ring so loud." A Victorian correspondent writes to The ChronicleAt a pleasant Sunday afternoon at Tallangatta (Victoria) Mr Parker Moloney, Federal member tor Indi. speaking for the war funds, referred to the noble work or the school children. "One little fellow," "said he, "living a few doors from me, in Melbourne, owned a well bred puppy the pride of his heart. He wanted to give something of his vpry own to help the soldier boys: so after weeks of anxious thought he decided to raffle 'his dog. He made several pounds lor his school's patriotic fund, and finally came to thcr delivery of his pet. Leading his puppy to the winner he said "You will be good to him. sir. for he is a line pup," anJl then ran away, leaving a bit of his heart behind. "Is not that ? fctle chap's action a fine object lesson 'cr each of us?" asked Mr Moloney.

A point for good housewives. Always use Sharlancl's Baking Powder. Costs least, goes farthest 7 gives best reeult#.—Adrt.

One and a penny per pound for butter-fat supplied during December will be paid on January 20th by the Levin Co-operative Dairy 00., Ltd. The total 'payment will be nearly £7000.

Mr A. 13. Shaw, lormerly of the Levin Post Office staff, and at presont stationed at Oliaeawai, north of Auckland, visited Levin to-day. He is on his annual holidays.

A small boy who was walking along a street iu New Plymouth the other day, clasping a lemonade bottle, tripped and fell on the footpath, the bottle exploding in the lad's face (says the Taranaki Herald). He received somewhat severe cuts on the nose and forehead, hut the eyes fortunately escaped injury.

"I must have been in bed an hour when I was awakened by an awful crash," wrote the wife of a ''Tommy" at the front, the letter being quoted in the Daily Despatch. "I knew it was them Zeppa. There was another terrible bang. I took my clothes off the chair, shoved tliein on a hook, gripped the baby and ran down stairs to the cellar. Dear , you must not blame me. It was horrible. I wondered why baby didn't cry. I looked at the dear. Dear ,it was a good job he had a strong nightie on. I know you'll forgive me. li you only know what I went through. I had hung baby upside down on the wall by the hem.of his nightie, and was nursing the big pillow with lace frills. The poor kid. . . .»

An Italian artillery officer who is in America, buying munitions says:—"We in Italy are getting ready for another two or three yeans' warfare, the same as France and England. Some of tlie contracts I am negotiating tor shrapnel materials are for delivery within one or two years. Germany and Italy are not yet at war—the fight is still between Italy and Austria. Many of our banks, steamship lines, andi other large concerns, are controlled By German capital and that is why neither has yet declared war. Germany is doing her utmost to persuade Italy not to declare war, but the sinking of the Ancona is a serious matter for Germany, as we know that Austria lias no submarines with a wide range of navigation. Tt is, therefore, supposed that the Ancona was sunk by a German submarine flying the Austrian flag, and a declaration ot war on Germany wilt be a very likely result."

Shearing in Southland is progressing fairly well, but it would have been much more general had the breaks ia the weather that have been experienced during the past fortnight not oc curred (says the "Southland Times"). A good deal more wool, however, has been shorn than was the case up to this time last year.. The National Mortgage and Agency (Jon [.<inv. for instance had jn its stores slightly over 700 bales, whereas this time last year the quantity it Tukl received was 100 bales. Prices are certain to be good if the values ruling at xlunedin oil Wednesday can be accepted as a guide, andi there seems to be every reason (o accept them as such.

One of Wanganui's oldest, best known, and most highly respected settlers. hi the person of I>r R. C. Earl , passed away on Saturday at tlie age of 73 years. The deceased, who was a native of Totnes, in Devonshire, came to New Zealand in 1886, and took up his residence in Wanganui where he practised his profession until three or four years ago. In the early days, (luring the fighting on this coast, he -was appointed surgeon to the Imperial and Colonial forces. Though he did not participate in municipal life, the late Dr Earl took a keen interest iirall that tended to make for the progress' of the district. He was a keen sportsman, an 1 was president of the Wanganui Jockey Club till a few years ago, when he was elected patron. He -was also president of the Wanganui Olub lor many year a.