Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 March 1916, Page 2

Local and General

The wheat crop in the Taieri this season is described aa exceptionally good, it being estimated that the yield will be approximately 100,000 sacks. This quantity represents 300,000 bushels, which should give, when milled, sometiling like 6000 tons ot flour. Jt is stated that 6000 tons of flour would suffice for Dunedin's requirements tor about eight months. It is reported that rust has made an appearance <>.'i wheat in tlie Clut/ha district, but not to a serious extent.—AVaikouiti Times. The total number of eases of infantile paralysis reported ot Auckland yesterday was 300. Ihe municipal and health authorities have resolved o;/ a sanitary campaign in the city.

Queen Victoria, sharing a taste with the great majority of her sex, had a groat love for tracing genealogies and relationships. 'While she was never quite at her ease in talking to Mr Gladstone—"be talks to me as if I were a public meeting,'' .'she said--she invariably had long and interesting colloquies with Lord Beaconsfield. ""What do you and Queen talk aboutP" he was once asked. ''We discuss Roynl relationships.'' he replied, ''and trace out' wlio is married to whose cousin." It is to he presumed that the grcnt statesnri :i, unl"ss he wore unlike any other mail that ever lived, must have got up his Almanac de liotha beforehand, for nothing puzzles tho average man more than to trace out consulships, unless of course lie is a Highlander! Whereas most women find a keen delight in answering puzzles of the "brothel's :md sisters 1 have none, but that man's father was my my father's son" bvpe.—Svdnev Herald.

Those who really know tin- jiierciumi service sailor arc; not su: prised ai the way in winch he lias ignored the peiils a rising tVom German submarines and mines, .says a London paper. As a matter of fact, the reduction in (he ■supply of sailors clue to this danger has been infinitesimal— or at the most only one or two per cent.. Nor has there been a falling off in the number of boys presenting themselves as apprentices. That, ot all events, is the experience of the shipping federation. Any number of likely boys come forward. but. owing to there being fewer ships available, not so many youngsters (an be indentured. As to the attitude of seamen, the instance is cited of a man who ships away through the federation office, nnd who has been on three shifps' which were torpedoed. He is still at sea.

"While in "Wellington," said tlie mayor of X to ;t press representative, "1 was conducted over the Jsase Records Office. I hail no icTe.i it was sucli a vast affair. There are fiity oifieersand clerks employed, and there will be sixty next week. The records contain the history of 32,000 enlistments, and any name asked lor ran be tinned up in less than half a minute. - The sy.-tem seems to lie «i splendid one, and is working out admirably/' In describing how a pig was stolen "ii'olll the far-Hi ol a Xlaiiikau *.'ttler. a correspondent of the Otaki Mail wrote that ''neighbours heard the squeals, but took no notice, thinking the owner was responsible for th« noise." A startling admission was recently made by a prominent (ierman banker to a neutral friend. He said: Our commerce and industry are existing solely on credit. The conclusion of hostilities means uankruptcv for us as bankers. Sir .George lie id told this story against Lis own bulk at a Christinas dinner to the Anzacs in London. ''1 met Sir lan Hamilton in one of the clubs and told him 1 wanted to go to . the iront," lie said. "1 told him J wasn't much of a walker, that when 1 went shooting 1 nearly shot myself, and that when I got on a liorsc 1 did not know whether I should get olf when 1 wanted to or not. But I said 'Why c<in't you get me to the front as an armoured, l'orti" t~ir lan looked me up and down and sa ; d. '"Well, Fir George, I don't think we could send you to the front- as an armoured lort. but I think we might make a base of you.' "

The fallowing story* told liy Lord Charles Bcresforil says:—"There wis once a captain on the China station, lie says, who asked tlie Admiralty for a baulk of timber because his mainyard had been carried away. Whereupon the Admiralty officially desired to be informed who had carried it away, where to and. why?" Of course the story is only a sailor's yarn: the Admiralty is not composed of such u pack of idiots as the genial, hot-headed I'eresford would have- people believe. Such yarns are not difficult to invent. Here is a specimen of a reporter's varti that went through the press many year.s ago. The manager of a big sheep run in Australia cabled to his principals in London that the ewes were now lambing, but owing to the inclement weather immense numbers of the la-nibs were dying. Promptly onme the cabled, reply. "Stop the lambing at once.' There is as much truth in this yarn as in Reresford's. Sheep and cattle are bringing high prices in New f?outh Wales. At a sale at .Jerilderie in the middle of last month 13,(TOO sheep" averaged 25s 3d per head and 300 cattle at an average of £7 2s 3d. Fat cows brought Elfi 10s.

A Palmerston man who knows what he is talking nbout says that lie never saw iietter wheat than that furnished by the crops of the Timarn district, tie is of opinion that a 10l of the talk about tlie failure of the crops in the south will not be justified by t-fie result, and that speculators who are purchasing at current quotations will burn their fingers, a 6 the price must fall. Much oi the wheat and oats in the Hangitikei district tins year was shrivelled. and affected bv rust, but the southern samples are excellent and above expectations. — Manowatu Times.

included in Lj'.o GisLioins' draft ol the L'itli lleinf.jj cements (says a Gisborne pupurj ».(6 u recruit Git. Din. in height, t'ud weighing 16 stone. Hu" was the tallt'.ii juan in the Government employ in Poveity JSa.v, and will bp the tallest soldier in the New Zealand Army. On Moiri ay night no walKed along the Parade with two lollow recruits, both tall men, but smalt in comparison, and amus- d himself by plucking small branches Iroui the boughs of the pine trees eight or nine root high. "Baby." as In- is familiarly dubbed by bis comrades, wa.s at one time sergeant in the AYeist CVist (IJokitika) Mounted* and by trade is a lneomoti ve driver. Ho hopes to induce tlie military authorities to inake use oi his abilities in this connection. ATTACK SUDDENLY. O.lic and diarrhoea always attack suddenly and must be stopped promptly. Consider the sufferings that musrt be endured, until a physician arrives and medicine can be obtained. Cha<nbei lain's Colic and Diarrhoea H-emedy gives immediate relief and it seldom takes more than a couple of doses io completely check iihe attack. For saio

At tho Supreme Court ait Inveroa,'gill yesterday Daniel Casey, aged 37, was fined £10 for striking a man who had called him a Uermari. Later the man died at the Hospital. The price ot butter in Melbourne has oeen reduced, to is 3d per lb and bread to 7Jd per 41b loaf. A farenell concert iind dance is being arranged, (to take place at the Town Hall next Friday evening) in honour oi the men who are going into camp on the tollowing Tuesday; also for tho men ol the 11th Reinforcements, at pre>e:il on their final leave. . A hrsti la-ss concert program haw Been arranged, supper is being provided, and a uiost enjoyable evening stiould result. Hie last leathering was a great success, and it is hoped to make this one even better. 'ihe Delence Minister annouueeu yesterday at Wellington tlia.t Cabinet has decided to lucrcose the separation allowance ol married soluie.s with families. It has been agreed that in addition to one shilling per day allowance already for wives oi soldiers, sixpence per day tor each child under Lu years of age up to a maximum of four children would also be ' made, therefore the pay of. a soldier wffch a wife and lour children would be eight .shillings per day, which is the same as ihe maximum in' Australia. A correspondent ol t e Fiji Time.* writes on February lv. -'A strange boat, paintid dark grey, with three iunnels, and tt build like a man-o -war, I was seen ofl the coast »;/ Kaiidaun last week. She steamed along very slowly quite close to the reef at Naigoro Pass in broad daylight, not flying any Hag.' The correspondent reports tho incident with particular bearing on the demand for the internment of Germans at Fiji. The production of "The Dolls' Hospital" operetta takes place /in the Century Hall, Levin, "on Thursday evening. F-aul Lrnest Debreceny, of Levin (and late of Xorsewood) has been adgndgecf a bankrupt. The first meeting ot I creditors will be held at Palmerston [North oil Friday, 10th March. . I)e----•aiils are advertised on page 3. 1 he annual inspection of the flaxmills c I the Miinaiwatu district was completed to-day. -Mr I{. u\.. Holland represented the Labour Department audi Mr Miduleton, tlie Health Department. Senior cadets belonging to the No. 00 Company, Levin, are reminded of the compulsory parade to be held at the Levin drill hall at 7 o'clock this 1 veiling. He had bought himself a fashionable pair of trousers. On trying them on, they proved to be considerably too long; so he took the trousers to hi» wile, and asked her to cut off about? iwo inches and hem them over. The good, lady, who was not very well pleased with the pattern, brusquely refused. The same result followed on application to the w.ie's sister and his do lighter. But before bedtime the wife, relenting, took the bags and cutting off two inches from the legs hemmed them up nicely and put them tn a chair. Half an hour later the daughter -siiize:l with compunction for her unfilial conduct, took the trousers and cutting off two inches, hemmed and replaced them. Finally the sis-ter-in-law felt the pangs of conscience and she, too. performed an additional siirgieal operation on -gjarment. When he appeared at breakfast the next morning, those around tho taiblo thought a Highland ehieftan had arrived.