Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 January 1916, Page 2

Local and General

Tlie Telegraph Office fldvisos that telegrams to Italy addressed: to code address are nnw permitted, provided the address was registered before Ist July, 1914. One Hawlce'.s Bay tanner this season sold: eighteen tons of wool at an average price of. Is 5Jd per pounTl. Jie also disposed of a big line of hilllocks at £1-1 per head, and a lino of fat wot liens off the shears «t 20.s per 11 en d. Whenever the Britiisli .soldier in FnuK'e is iiiclinei) to grouse, they exhort him to think of that epitome of hard luek, Osteoid Bili. He was tho man at the extreme western and ot tlie Allied line d;>inn'i the retre.it from Hons, and when J off re gave the order to ''left form,'' after the victories on the florae. Bill had to mark time for three weeks.

A striking example ot the enthusiasm of some recruits was furnished to the Dunedin military authorities the other d«.y( says the Star), when a man who, three weeks ago, was notified that he would be required to go into camp with the ambulance section of the Twelfth Reinforcements leaving next Thursday rang up to say lie would not go unless lie could get away on a hospital ship! A special appeal for vegetables is being made for the Rangiotu camp. There are over 2000 men at the caiiip, and m the interest' of the men's health it is essential that a good supply of fresh vegetables should be obtained. Residents of the district are, therefore, asked to assist TTy making donations of cabbage, carrots, turnips, and parsnips Gifts will be gladly received at tlio Patriotic Office at any time during office hours.—Standard. Travellers from the north of Auckland (the "New Zealand Herald'" states) continue to bring cheering re-, ports as to the appearance ol the country. Throughout the North Auckland Peninsula there is a splendid, growth of grass, in striking contrast with tlie conditions of last summer, and stock is flourishing accordingly. Hear-Admiral Freemantle said to Koine visitors to the Grand Fleet: "Wince the beginning of the war 1 have not left my post with the Fleet for a single day. Several times the Admiralty gave 1110 the opporturity of a short holiday my family 011 shore but f was not willing to take advantage of it. J served 34 years unin terruptedly with the Fleet. No ono should grudge my taking part in another war, and I should never fergive my self if 1 were absent during a sea battle." une ol the finest lots oi ; lambs that lmve left this district to be killed at the Taihape Freezing \Vorks came from Mr T. "Ward's farm 011 Valley road, a few days ago. when 68 lambs netted: the owner 18s 3d each, three out of these bringing as hign as 25s each. This record should be hard to excel. Three other mobs from the same district made nearly as good an average, the weights, dressed and trimmed, being nearly from Ul.l to 34.2.—"Wamarino Call. Mr W. J. Young, in his shed at Alt. Stewart, shore a hogget and a five-year-old rani for Mr Gray, of Mt Stew„-art-Sanson road, wlios- clips we e -remarkably heavy. The hogget had 1 I to 15 months' growth, and gave 271bs of woo] with a staple over 15 in pliers long, and; the ram, whose teeth are worn level with the gums, gave a weight of 2(slbs after twelve months' growth. Seven lambs gave each (ilb after three months' growth. Tlie animals were cross&reds. Mr Young m -lies for the truth of the a'-o-,-.-figures.—Advocate. An amusing story was told at tlie opening of one of the hospitals for soldiers in England recently. A visitor was surprised to hear one ol the patients being addressed by the nurse by his Christian name, it being customary to address patients by their surnames only. Fpon enquiry as to why this distinction was accorded to the particular soldier referred to. the reply received was: "Well, we can't very well call him by his surname," "But why not?'' queried the somewhat astonished visitor. "You see," was. tbe overwhelming answer. his surname is Love, and it's rather awkwark." It is a curious picture, this Bulgarian Czar, who just th>ee years ago launched his famous proclamation about the Cress driving the Cresent back to Asia, arranging now to bring up Turkish troops to attack hi 3 Christian Slav lieiglihours (says the London Chronicle). One may wish him joy of an Ally who, ev.cn atr- this moment, is wreaking on hundreds of thousands of Armenians the same atrocities from which Russia saved the Bulgarian people at a time when Bismarck said their interests were not worth the bones of a I'omeranian grenadier. A few weeks ago (says the Wireless \\ orld ot November) a -wireless ojjer--ator in New Zealand distinctly heard the two West Australian stations at Broome and; Perth (approximately 3000 miles from Wellington testing, but as the staff of the office where these signals were heard were inclined to doubt the genuineness of this, the operator wrote to the station at liroome quoting particulars of what tiad been heard-, and received a letter in reply giving a complete confirmation. Considering that the signals would have to traverse the whole of the continent, including desert, a.ndi that they would have been subject to diffusion, diffraction, absorption, and so on, this record is remarkable. At the Hamilton Police Court Harold Roy Mclndoe was charged with being illegally 011 the premise-s of the Cambridge Fire Station. He pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergt. Gassells stated, Hi at the youth had walked a mile into Cambridge and got out- the motor fire engine with all the fire-fighting gear attached. He had travelled the 12 miles into Hamilton without lights Upon arrival at Hamilton, something went wrong, so lie left the motor in a snie street, and next morning procured a horse, saddle, and bridle, by representing that ue was employed at a livery stable in Cambridge. He promised to return the animal and equipment by the mailman, instead of which upon reaching Cambridge, he turned the horse adrift. Acoused'6 only excuse was that he wanted to go for a "joy ride." Mclndoe's elder brother stated thi\t this was the first time the boy been in trouble. As the lesult of an accident when a child, his nose jind been broken, and the doetor who attended him nad e>tpressed the opinion that the accident would eventually affect the boys brain The magistrate characterised tlie boy's conduct as a "colossal piece of cheek," and "an net of the greatest impudence." Accused did not look oversend him to goal. Mclndoe wn». intelligent, and he did not want to therefore. f-onvictcd and: discharged, with an intimation that if he misconducted himself again he would be committed to the industrial school.