LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 March 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Tlie class of people tlia-t is respoii- ■ fsi'ble for much of the war "news" e-ao-I led out- here from the dijjerent Euro--1 pean capitals lias representatives in .this district. By tlie time the news of Levin's case of infantile paralysis nat reached Oliau on Monday afternoon, I the story was that thirty or iortj ,1 children were suffering from the comj plaint and one had dropped dead in tlio school. Yesterday they again took up the running, and it wa6 spread persistently that Ih'e child that had contracted the disease was dead. Oil the contrary ,the child showed much improvement, and was playing a'bout inr the house, though still unaible i to raise her arm. m view- of what I might be told aroundi to-day it is well to state that the child was alive this morning and getting on alright. Sandglass, who was won in a match with Kii'kby by Mr P. P. iNeagjle-, did not remain in his new owner's possession. Mr Neagle passed him on to Mr A. O'Dowd at what the animal cost —i.e., nothing.

.Notifications of dates and places for • the annua? meetings 01 householders to el elect school committees is made Dy ti the Wedlingon Education Board, ljy ad- Ji vertisoment in tpJcTay' s Chronicle. b ihe date of the meetings is Monday week (Bth April). The Levin meeting •,

will be held in The , Century Hall. s ' Queen-street;'--all other meetings m „ Horowhenua County will take place in the respective schoolrooms. v A farm in the Napier district re- i cently purchased lly Messrs Etving, of a fataerston ]S T ortii ; was sold on Vlon- i •Jay at a profit ol' £3000 withouti' the t owners having handled the property. < 'i'hie is one of two speculations enter- t ed into this vear which have turned 1 out successfully.—Manawatu Times. i A statement published lw.st week said J that the price of corrugated* iron had been raised £10 per ton at Home. J Lysaght's Ltd., "Wellington branch de- ' nied (yesterday) that any advance had taken place. An increased supply of apples came to hand at the' Horowmenua I'ruitgor wens' depot last week and prices , declined.. Jonathans are rather slow of sale at from 4s (3d to (is per case. A Cheviot man wrote to an Auckland firm for a lamp and mantles. He got mantles with a wrapper bearing a New Zealand name, the suggestion being that they were a product oNew Zealand, but on A is coming oil the familiar Made in lie r many" was revealed. In consequence of the large increase in population that has taken place in Feathers ion recently the di'miand for lodgings andi houses cannot be met, and tents have been resorted to by some of the new arrivals. Several families are living in this way in the Domain and in various parts of the township.. the sheep "continue to graze thinking it is stinl daylight," and apparently without monition from within that they already have had enough. The jesult is that they get very^plump and heavy, and are ready all the sooner for the butcher. The first fruits of tne recruiting ■rally on Saturday evening -could, be observed yesterday when no fewer

than six men. enlisted. ''Men won't mfist right after a recruiting meeting," one of the organizers told it Manawau Times reporter. "They like to wait a day or two and then rusii commences." It is anticipated that within the nest month or tw6 a Compensation Court will sit in Auckland to hear the claims made by eome twenty merchants against the New_Zealand Railway Department in connection with the taking of land for the new Auckland railway station. Mr H. O-f line uern appointed' assessor the Crown in connection with the which are expected to aggregate £250,000.A racehorse's life on . the West Coast is full of excitement. At the Westport meeting one animal ran three while another persistent 'battler ran two seconds and a third, if it had not been fo>- the two trotting races on the card, it is hard to say how many starts some of the candidates would have undertaken. if, go me of these dave, a fifier is produced who can trot, pace— and gawp, lie might put up a. record by tackVing tlio whole card.—Manawatu Times. An Auckland importing firm, who dieal largely in suoli goods as structural steel, barbed wii'e, nails and the like, report that- within the last six weeks adone they have declined orders to the vaLue of about £30,000 because of the utter iuiiposfciibuity of assuring shipment. • As to prices, it states 'that nails, which before the war, were sold at from £7 10s to £8 10s per toil, cannot now be procured ior less thait £2o per ton 1 . Other lines of ironwoik have _risen in about uie same proportion—more than 300 per cent—and even at these prices they cannot be imported, owing to the diriiculties attending shipment. The Levin Borough Council has solved, for a time at least, the limitation of the speed of motors through the streets, , in its re-metalling of the roadway in Oxford-street. 'lliree or j lour inches of broken metal will stop the most confirmed "hog."' _ One oi tlie species, oil sr~i ; eeent evening, about eight o'clock, while travelling ait a high speed through the town without lights drove right into the metal and onlookers waited hopefully to, see him mending a few punctures in the tires, but they were of good material anil stood, the strain. The Lofcai! Anzeiger tellr? oT how a detachment of AustYi.'Ui Alpine troops recent!.' met their doom in an avalanche in* Southern Tyrol. The troops were engaged in patrol duty and only one out of twelve could be rescued alive. The sole survivor lay buried under t.he snow for fourteen Hours before being rescued uninjured. He had fallen under ttie avaiaruche in such a. manner that he could still breathe. When the rescue corps excavated him from the snow at midnight his body was frozen stiff, i:ut he was still alive, and he was promptly resuscitated. The funeral took place on Monday of a very old resident of i'ahnei'stou, in the person of Mr John Bayliss, who died at his residence, Campuell-street, on Saturday, at tlie age of 08. The late Mr Bayliss came out to New Zealand 40 years ago in , the sailing vessel lfowrali, and landedill Wellington in'tiie year loTo. He resided there for a ol years, and coming to Palmerston '2o years ago had been a resuient of C'ainpbeM-strcet | ever since. He was the first asphalt- ' ing contractor in l'almerston, also a | very old member op tlie Foresters' ! LjJge, the members oi which - were re- ; presented at the funeral. He leaves a widow and grown-up family, 111I eluding tliree sons and lour daughters, Mr \\ illiam George Bayliss (Hongo--1 tea), Air R. Bayliss, Air J. -bayliss ' (Levin), Mrs W. Short (Palmerston North), Mrs J. Parker (i'oxton), Airs ; AV. Pike and Miss . Bayliss. (Palmerston), to mourn tlieir loss—Standj arcl. j The career of Mr George Wedd'jll, inventor of Oerebos salt, whose deatti is announced at the age ol 61, is a business romance wliioli supplies one more example of a man who made a lortune by advertising. Aboufr years ago Air WeddeM, tiien in paitnership at Newcastle- with Sir Josep i 'the eheniiist and inventor of tlie incandescent lamp, invented a tab.ii salt for use in his on <i' ta-nuly- a salt highly refined, and will phosphites . added to replace those lod in '-ho , cooking of food. Afterwards Mi l We: I deli placed his new sajt before the public, and eventually it spread - its • lame throughout the world. Among the people who inadie foitun -> through ! < advertising, and who have died in recent years, are: --Mr 1. J- Barrett, Pears' soap (£lO-3,504); Mr James I Urossley J£no, Euo's Jfinit Salts (£1 .(ill,607); Mr George 1 ay wr 1' ulford. Dr Williams's Park T'ills (£1,311,000); Mr George Handyside, Handy- ' 'side's Consumption Our, (J 148.860); Mr I Walter Tom Owbridge. Owbridge s Lung Tonic (£ll2/214); an-1 Mr Henry Charles Lane, Tsugget ise:>t Polish

The new idea of feeding sheep by slectric light has its comical side (says the Eastern Province Herald of" Port b)lizaibefch,\ Cape Colony). When a bright Light is turned on the pastures Air R. S. Young, miting from Engiand, where he has been in hospital, says that a few weeks ago he calleu at the military post, office, "and, to my and Burpnae, I wiw prasenited with a bundle ot old letters from .New Zealandi and elsewhere. All the letters should have been delivered to me many months ago—some, in tact, when i was at formidable Gallipoli. Amongst tihe old letters, were some from by Levm friends, and my thoughts were vividly recalled to those delightful days— which now. ala6, seem long ago—that I spent amoung you all. 1 always look back upon those days as the happiest of all the years 1 hare spent away trom home; Many a time nave I sat in my little "hot home in the trench." and mused of old Levin, and iny enjoyable activities in connection with the S.D.P., Savage Club, Tennis and Cricket. 1 have seen very little of any of the Levin soldiers, but 1 can vouch for their happiness and comfort if any of them are in England. jl 'can imagine nothing that is more likely to foster mutual understanding and respect than the magnficently generous treatment all of us have received at the hands of the folk in the Old Country. Whether in hospitail or .on furlough, the people, both -"ch and poor, could not have done more for us. A few days ago a concert was organized for us by Lady Islington and Miss Mabel Manson (the concert artist) at the camp, followed by a sumptuous tea. Amongst those ' present were Sir Thomas Mackenzie and Mr F. M. B. Fistier. who received a great welcome. Fortunately. soldiers have no politics,, and we all cheered him simply because he was a New Zealander. In the"" course oi the next few weeks, 1 expect to proceed to Egypt to start the "second round," and I am sure you will all agree with me in hoping it may prove the final round of tne cjntest. l!uo glamour of war soon wears otf, and those of us who have been through Gallipoli are not particularly _ anxious to get to real, cruel work again. Bu» we are all ready to go when called, and there will oe no flinching. ' — Newsnet. '