LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 March 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Anglican Church services throu- ®' ghout .the district ■wdli bo conducted j t: usual on Sunday next. The Rev. ( . Palmer will take those which would otherwise have fallen to the lot of the t) vicar, • An investor at the Bulls races, seeking to point a moral, says that though r. he was "'lucky" enough to draw a dividend on six races out of the eight on the first day he lost money on* the _ day 's inveiitanent. In furtherance of the movement tor a gaslight croquet and 'bowling tour- , nanient, a meeting ot the mem'Bers 01 "• tiie Levin Ladies' Croquet Ouh win 'be held iu Levin schoolhouee at 4~p.m. to-morrow (Saturday). Arrangements

3 lor the open-air concert, the supermtendance of stalls and other matters, — will be brought before tho meeting. The final beat of the Shannon Bowling Club's tournament was played on , Levin green last night, when the two '' uevin pairs who went through the tournament undefeated (with tour games) played seventeen heads out of the twenty-one. At this stage darkness _ interfered, with .the result that the game had to be postponed. It will be completed on Saturday afternoon. The contestants are ivirk and Pollock „ (skip) against Ingram and Ourrie (ftkipj. In last night's game. Pollock and Kirk began with ten points to their opponents' nil, but then Currie ana Ingram rattled on sixteen points ;vrhiie their opponents' scores were unaltered. - At the seventeenth head the score stood: Ourrie 24, Pollock 16. Tho Manawatu Daily Times remarks that on Thursday night a group oi ea. ger men visited the Times office. They , were not .hunting for the recruiting depot. They did not even casually enquire how the war was geting on. what they nan ted to know, for the ) purpose of. settling a, wager was whether El Gallo or Snub ran third in the = Auckland Cup last December. iSome ol our visitors were Jine upstanding fellows who would have looked well in khaki, but under the voluntary system that is the other fellow's job, not : theirs. The Rangitdkei ilacing Olub . put through a record amount at its meeting during the last two days. Who says that the empire is engaged m a life and death struggle? ' A Levin by-law limits to twelve miles

• an hour the speed of motor oars or motor cycles that pass through the borough on , the main road. Twelve miles an hour is something less than a trained speed capacity, and possibly the borough councillors fixedi on this figure to enable the late mayor —wiio is an ex-runner over long distances—to follow afoot any suspected car, und taJse out a summons, when in line with, the courthouse, if the car Should he still ahead 1 It may he tnat -Mr. Justice Edwards has had cognisance of Levin's "by-law, and that he has premonitions of the day when ■will be asked, officially, to declare the _ by-law jiltra vires, on the groifnd that it is of an nnduly_ harassing nature. In The course ol". a fliscusion on' bylaws, at t!ig sitting ol the Court in Napier, • His Honor remarked •'•Many of these 'by-laws are absolutely ridiculous. The speed regulations at times are absurd and. alroost impossible to comply with." As Mr Justice Edwards is a motor-cyclist, his remarks carry extra-judicial weight.

j On Wednesday evening at the L<evin Hotel the friends ot ALr Iv. le fluent, who is leaving Levin tor HunitevvilAa, met to bid him farewell. Air urey Wnliips was in tne cnair and in a few weil-cliosen words lie explained the object of the gathering. lu the course of his remarks, the chairman mentioned the interest the guest ol the evening Had taken 111 sports and other ventures in Levin. He said that Mr lennent was also to the tore in doing nnytliyjg for the beneat of the xown, and load specially given his assistanceto tho patrkrtde movements in t>he town by way of painting posters etc. On beii&lLrOf the company assembled tho chairman said he had great pieaKure in presenting Mr Tennent with a travelling rug and giadstone bag as a mark of the esteem in which Air j.eunent was held in Levin." 'We are losing one of the best 'sports' in

tiie town," wore tile opening remarKs of Mr \\ inia.ta Tataka, in speaking on Uie guest of evening. Mr Wimata gave Jiis address in Maori, which was interpreted by Mr and in tile course of his remarks lie paidi a tri'bute to the hej.n Mr Tennent nacl been to tjje footDail clubs in Levin. Mr M. Wiqiata, one- of. ifle associates of the Mr Tennent in tile Wandereiifoottiball Cllub, also praised the work of the guest in helping along tootbal>. in later years if the team was short of a man the to be "Get 800 I'ennentl" Speeches were ajso made 1 by Messrs Winter, White, 3. Sim Mi. Levett, Suhan and Royal, who. one and ali, oxyressed regret at Mr Tennent s departure, and as the latter saidi wnat was Kevin's lo«s was Hunterville's ! gain. Mr Tennent, in rising to reply, was greeted with prolonged applause. He stated tliafc he did not expect anything of tnis sort, as all of his associates in the old dare hod j left Levin. He used to think that those who had gone away were his only "pals," and he was sorry a.tter

seeing he had so many that he -was ; ; leaving, but he hoped he would often ; 1 meet them when he oame back to this I town again. He was not going xar i 1 away, and if any of those present came 1 to Hunternlle ne hoped to give them ■ ' as good a reception as was given to 1 him by his friends in Levin, bongs « were given bv Messrs Darnels. Middle. 1 ton, Herny and Oorni'orrt and a recitation by Mr Levett. ,\lr Henry offic- 1 1 a.ted at the pTano. Mr Phillips hi so < made presentations to Mr and .Mrs 1 < Tennent oil behalf of .vir and Mrs r. ; t Fini and Mrs "H. flail. At the ooncniSlon of the ceremony cheers were ' h igjven for the host and hostess (Mr and I t Airs kjiAiian). j j —— . d