Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 January 1916, Page 2

Local and General

The County Council's chicken. the straker waggon, that came home to roost in the council's yardi some three or ago and remained there ever since, has at last been 6old. Tlie price received may not be much off the council's overdraft, but its deal will take a load off the minds or the councillors and engineer. Mr W. Ingram, of Levin, will leave for New Plymouth next Tuesday, on a holiday jaunt. He will return home at about the end of February. The Council of the -New Zealand Rugbv League have decided to discourage the appearance on any of their foot-ball grounds of any man eligible for military service, and to concentrate their efforts on junior eames.

Stiles and Matheson's (Ltd.) special £3 3s cash prize for the best dairy cow in the Show was" won by Mr R. L. Horn, of Manakau. A further rise in the price of tyres and rubber goods will be made next week. It is reported that it will be as much as 20 per cent. Though the receipts of the show on Wednesday have not been made up, it is estimated that the gate takings " ill be within £8 or £10 of last year's total. By advertisement in today's Chronicle, the secretary ol the Alaliawat 11 Trotting Club notifies that nominations lor the meeting close on Monday next, 31st February, at 10 p.m., in the secretary's office, Palnierstou North. The full program was advertised in last week's Referee. The Levin and District Patriotic Society has decided to hold a concert and dance on Febjuary /th as a "sendoff" to the men from this district leaving to join the 13tli Reinforcements, it is hoped that some ot the returned men and some who are now in camp will be present. In to-day's issue appears the card of Mrs George Keen, teacher of the pianoforte and of singing, who has settled in Levin and district after a long residence in Wellington. Mrs Keen taught, in Wellington for .several years. Her LevTiftcrm commences 011. Tuesday next. Ihe chairman of the County C'ounuil Air G. A. Alonk, visited Levin 011 council business yesterday, and also inspected a few of the district roads, and, unhampered 'by the strict rules of ■debate, had one free and unrestrained argument with an aggrieved ratepayer. \\ heither the heat yesterday was the cause ol the argument or the argument the cause of the heat, is what some people are puzzling themselves about. lue .\e,\ Zealand Railways Department will is-siie excursion tickets on Ist and 2nd February ('i'ueauay ano' Wednesday next) in connection with the Feildnig and P. Association's Show. Ine running oi trains will be altered iu suit the convenience ot holiday makers. Details are set out by advertisement in to-day's Chronicle. the cabled information that the pi.ee of sugar has been advanced by Ihe Commonwealth Government uy £J tvs a ton, has had a pertui'buig elfeet oxl the t .i'ilty Duuedui Jiousewiie ' S saya the "Otago Daily limes j, and during toe past lew days grocers hare had more than the usual number ol orders for sugar, there evidently ljeing a feeling that the increase in Australia will be lollowed by an increase in the .Dominion. It should be pointed out, however, that the New Zealand Food 'Commissioners arranged a price for suuar of £21 a ton wit.li the Colonial istujar Company, this quotation to stand till the end of June, 1916. bnder the circumstances it does not seem that there can be any alteration in sugar values in New Zealand till the expiry of the term agreed upon. Whether uie prices will then be revised cannot, ot course, be definitely .stated.

Trentliam military uimp contains *ome human oddities amongst its many tine ispeeiments 01 manhdod. t?he taciturn fellow (.The Chronicle liears) maintained a stony silence for the first two weeks of his sojourn 111 camp, and his mates nick-named him "Friday," after .Robinson s <jrusoe s native who failed to make himsell understood. At the end of the second week, the Trent-ham "Friday" found his speech ; it was of a thick, full-bodied, verdant sound; and ''Friday's" speech did not bewry him in its isugge-stion of greenness. One morning he returned ironi a very brief stroll, and remarked: "1 see a quare place up beyont there; what' was ut-?'' In answer to several questioners: "Why, a big tin place, all wall and iron bars! A fellow outside culls out 'Hmv'll yez have 'em in there : liar bifed or soft biled?' 'Ah, oomo off!' someone calls bank. Then a chap inarches past with a basnet on a gun. up and down! \nw what plaec cud that ber" As "Friday's" audtors thought it would bo necessary to guess fwiee to go wrong they preserved silence, and lofMTVidav" puzzled. The Church of England Sunday (School picnic was held 011 Thursday at I'aekakariki. During the morning the weather was most unfavourable, many of the party Being very wet before leaving Levin. In spite of the heavy rain there were seventylive children and forty adults who were brave enough to fare the elements. On arrival at their destina- • 11. the weather improved, and not. a shower of rain fell all day in kakariki. Bathing in the sea and tlie usual cames were indulged in. In tile evening the party returned honi ■> having thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and wel' rewarded for leaving TjC7;ll in the rain in the early morning.

The proprietary of the King's Theatre has secured a film quite out ot the ordinary for .Monday night when "Called Hack,'' Hugh Conway's great story will be shown. This was the story, first noticed bv the late Henry Lab-nucliere in his paper, Truth, that sent, thousands of people wild with excitement, and the printing presses of Arrowsinith' and Co.. of Bristol. going day and night- week after wee"*, to supply the demand for the book The blind man. Vaughan. blundering into the room of the conspirators, at the moment of the murder oi Pauline's brother by Macari, the long journey across the thousands ot miles of the frozen steppes of Siberia in the Russian droski. in searen oi Dr Ceneri, the leader of the conspirators who was sentenced for life by the Russian Government, are port raved with a vividness seldom equalled. - The story later was dramatised and played all over the" world, and those who have not read the book or seen the play ehojlld not fail to see it on the screen on Monday night. Dairyman should read can-fully the full particulars on page H of the clearing sale of Mason and Wright's dairy herdint Manakau on Monday. FVirun.ry 7th by the Neiw Zealand I.oan and .Mercantile Agency Company T/irmWf. This is an exceptional opportunity for in search of good milßSng cows.