LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 April 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Mr F. Durward, of the Weraroa. Experimental Farm, ntio returned iron) the front some time ago, andi was discharged ia January, lias re-enlisted and lias received notice to go into camp on Monday.' Mr E. J. White, of the staff of the Boy«' Training Farm, also goes into camp on Monday. Following the example of the Levin public school in closing the Church of England Sunday school at Levin and Weraroa- will be closecfi on Sunday next. .School will 'be resumed on the following Sunday unless notice is given to the contrary. The condition of Era est Devoin, alleged to have shot Louisa White in Wellington on last Monday night, ehoHiS no change. The woman .still is in a critical condition.

| All advertising is an attempt to ] change _the habits of the people. jl i tyy to make people change their na.bit lof using somebody else's soap.—isir j u llliam Lever. j Tlie Wellington Land Board, at its sitting on ihursuay. accepted the surrender by .Ur I'. Bartholomew of lus license to mill timber on So. (i Horowiiciiua Block. Snannon JJov. ting Chub lias completed its paius ciiampionstLip. In the two unai games, Jiiiderbeck and. Gallanu (.siup; beat Uiuson and jju.u (siv.p hi - i<j. I{C'.iC:i and Crawley beat .L'argtlier and; Shaiikhind, ' Tins latter ga.uo uade i(<jacli ami Ciawiey winners of the championship medal's. t "•Ho hotel contracts pays'" asked -Ur j. j. Outliers, oi a buie.ier 'oanki'upt, at u meeting of creditors at A.. yesterday. ;v\o tliey v ._n t. bankrupt. "\\ell, wny take theniP" "We take them to get rid oi a class of meat we otherwise would have difficulty in aispobliig of,' was tile answer. "Oil, 1 tliougiit hotels always took the best, meat-," observed -Mr Wither. "Tha't I is not my experience. l'iio groat majority oi hotels do not take the best cuts,' said bankrupt, who named tour hoteAs to which he .supplied an inl'trior quality oi meat. —.lianawatu Times. William Wallace i-/anglands, oti years of age, and contractor for the -Xihotapu which is being 'uiiiit for 'no • Aucitiamli City Council, was killed "under extraordinary circumstances at, Auckland yesterday alV:eriiioon.,.. a ulastmg shot was fared at a point mou „ sixtv y.jrds from Mr Laiiglauds' office, ana a piece of iook was blown through ihe root ol t;;e bui.ding'. Mr Langjand.s, who was inside, was futnilv struck on the head. diaries Bray and Lhar.es iS.aiuk'iard were with bun and lie was .standing .etweeu them. -Ml' Laiiglauds expired, almost immediately. A party of six armed police,, under Sirij-JiisiKetor Johnston, left Gisborne yesterday for Prophet Una's stronghold,. to co-operate with the Auckland ptxlicv party. itua is 'oelieved to bo m ambush at .Maiiungatoliuta, ahout (0 link's from Gihborue, over very rough country. The police are not expected (o arrive there, ti.i iat;> to-morrow. J/euple who ljare -<le(jUaintc-ti -with the (iistrict beiicvo that should occasion aii-o, Hua and his followers will nialce towards Wiaikaremoana, where there 16 very heavy bush. Tile .Stratford correspondent of the Tarauaki Herald writes :—"At the sitting oi the ti.iU, Court on Friday, one flannel, cf AVhanga, labourer, was lined £3 or 22 days in default for ohscene language. b'or a similar offence one Wilson, of Stra.tiord. returned soldier, was ieprimanded 'merely. ine man m uniform., a circumstance tnat aggravates such an offence tenfo.'d, and was, moreover, the guest of the Ladies Croquet Club at a function lor ,patriotic purposes. Such misplaced leniency is calculated to encourage tlie iiaffishly-incliued among our soldiers ill the belief that the Kinc's unitorm is a cloak l'pr irregularities of all 'sorts." ■''How much do you spend .a week in wa'ipli-oH." asked Mr McCartliy. . >S.M., of i.i native witness named Jvoti Wepa in the Napier Court. "I don't drink waipiro, 1 drink soft drinks," was the leply. "Well, now much do von spend in soft drinksasked Mr .VlcUartliy. "Two or tnree shillings.'' .replied the native. "How much irf tofoaceo?" "Oh, about two shillings." "How much ou pictures?" '"Some- v times one shilling, sometimes more." rr Weli, i tliat.'s dx a. wo ok you 1 spend in luxuries. ion can afford to pay that sum every week tow-arris tin ' upkeep of your child. I will issue a maintenance orcer against you, and you will have to pay Us every week." said the Magistrate. A man who was once reputed to be a millionaire has"died penniless in a hospital in .South Africa. A'bout a generation ago 'Sequah" was minthij; monew bv the public performance ot nmi vellous "cures." Dressed like u Ked Indian, lie toured the countryside to the accompaniment of a brass hand, and while the banu was playing he "er•ormed painless operations i"n teeth extractions, while 'rheumatics were cii'ed" while the patient waited. Now and then Sequah made a mis'v'' : ho once dislocated the jaw of a carter in East London, and the carter knocKed him down. The "King oif Quack was not unknown in .New /jeakind, and wherever he went lie Had | a large following of believers in his j cures. History records tliat he was a I Coruislintan by ' birth and that his real | name was Hartley; in years gone by jhe belonged to the London police" force; he went to America and came Ijiick as a- "medicine man."—Manaj watu Times. I Reporting to the Wanganui Patriotic | Committee on tlie - result of the canvSss for recruits, Mr Ro|)e (iilihons (elia-ir- ! man ol the local. Recruiting Board) i «aid that 90 per cent of the men in-ter-i viewed expressed themselves in favour |of conscription. Tliey were quite wil- • ling to enlist when their turn came. ] One canvasser reported "one and all I want conscription." Another said, | "generally tliose I waited upon are in favour of national service. __Tliey are j willing to go when called - upon." let i another reported that he was unable to get any to sign the cards :J>lie wanted conscription. llr Gvb'ioiiSrsaidf that he would be in - Wellington, at the end of the week, and would inform the Hon. the Defence Minister of the ' results of the canvass. The chairman 1 added that in no place m New Zealand I had there been a better response to i the call for recruits than in WangaJiTui. The quotas had always been , supplied, but otlief' districts htul fail- | ed'. Mr T. M. Wilford (member for tne fiuti, district) speaking at the concert at the Empire Theatre in aid oi Mie woollen workers at Petone, said he bjlieve.l the workers iiad not been fairly done by. it seemed strange, he said," that the women employed in woollen mills .should work 48 hours as against 45 in other 'factories. The woollen factoriPK jgAk, in war time. Air Wilford sa.id, THTniition factories: in so far that they produced khaki cloth lor soldiers; and tlfs being so the Government should take over tne mills until the war was nnished; and issue to the mill owners debentures at the war loan rate, namely, 5 p.;r cent. War profits, in Mr Wilford s j opinion are lill-gotteu gaiins, >and sho ild be handed back 1': the wrrkors. | •He wanted to know wiiether existing contracts made with tlie (Jo'veriiinent j by the woollen companies art- at a higher rate for -materials for our soldiers j than tor that supplied i rior to the j war for Territorials. An-' the present | prices, the speaker asked, e nimensu- , rate with the wages paid P. Mr Wilt.)re! stated, his wil'iiigHess to assist in the present disiiui- and sug•geeted a deputation should wait upon the Minister for labour "(Hon. "\V. J*'. Massey). At the eonc'usion oT his speech -Mr Wilford was gi 'en a round of applause.—Petone Chronicle

Speaking at invereargill last night Sir Joseph Ward said that tlws whole world would be changcd as the result of the war, ami the nations would iluivo io economise. ;sew Zealand would feel the charge a« well as other parts oi the Empire. VY> could not cxpeot to get the same price for our products alter the war as 11 aiv. There would be an aiT-roundi reduction ot proibaio.y oil per cent, six months or so after peace was proclaimed,. ...but in advocating economy lie did not wish to suggest that men should toe put out o) employment. Such a policy would 'be fatal to tlie country aiufwould dislocate the whole labour and business worlu. Economy would have to come in/ connection with luxuries. "\Ve would, not be able to borrow noiii lCiu gland lor perhaps live or ten years after the war was over, and Xew Zealand must see.that she did not require to borrow. (Applause.)