LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 April 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The wntcr in Lake 'Pm:-: tvlir-iiua i s iow at piestm. ;iml tliorc it, a good margin ot gravel • bench between the water s edge and the bush a] 011-54 the eastern side. II this dry weather holds the road of dreaims round tin? lake, will, in. places, beeome a fact. It is possible now, ior some distance, the only obstructions being a little mud here and there, the skeletons of "flatties" with pieces of wood and canvas hanging from the ribs, and a smell.

The debris has been cleared from the 6-i.o i'i tlie ixccuit iiro at Oliau, and ib is Mr J-'. Walkley's intention bo (start rebuilding as soon m possible. At Miaunoit, 011 Friday, a lire occurred in a house occupied by Mr vV. bliearmaii, and owned oy Air T. JLinci. iiio outbreak was caused by "a delect in tlie wasbhoiise. All the iurniture Mas saved!.

•L«ifit .Vear the i'oxton Town Clerk, besides getting ui all his rates, put up wliat may 1.0 termed a, record when lie had iiiti books ruled off and tne t ready lor audit Delore lie K-tt iiis ollico at 5 p.m. on March 31st. Again Mr Kent-Johnston .'ia& uono good work by putting up a similar record to that of ia-st year, having had ihe books and balance-sheet ready lor tije audit inspector laist evening had- lie come . along.—Herald. Owing to tJie departure from Levin of many of its members the Levin brass .and lias been handicapped to such an extent cluring tjic last lew months that •t ha.» been compelled on the last two occasion to fo:ego the open-air concerts given by it once a. month. The trouble now has been overcome and the addition 0! new playens has "il'ought the band up to its usual strength, and it will resume the concerts next Saturday night when a good program will be given. The use of fish as food for cattle is an idea more novel iJjan agreea-'de. i-ecurding to '..Nature.' however, it is a coimmon practice in various parts 01 tne world. In (Shetland and Iceland the tanners feed dry salt lislt to cattle slnep, and even horses. Mr Cecil Hoeci, describing expenments of tins nature, mentions that certain special cattle, -Kepi, for display at the village le.-uivalN in Nnndynl, in jndia, ai'o led with mutton, and adds that il is a fairly common piactice to make use oi handle.>ots iiv pounding them in a mortar and and Iced them 'to cattle. In .\fr \N ood's experiments two lots "f heiler.s were fed on dried fifth diets and normal diet respectively. The animals tock a little time to get usedi lo the fell, but they ate it readily <n<jug'i. At the end of six months -the tush ft d heifers .showed an average increase 111 -weight of 541b, as against7Ulb for the normally feci animals. ''"I lie Hero of She Dardanelles." the chief film sh; wn at. the..J\ing's Theatre on .Saturday night proved to he all : bat was claimed for it. It showed tin: life of an Australian soldier from 1 lie time of 11 i-s enlistment- until his 1 etiii'n Irom the front, wounded. The views of the Liverpool camp, Sydney, were good and the realism of the fcencs at the landing on the GalKpoli beaches, the wild charge up" the cliffs, the liombardnient of the Turks' by 'S.iz'ie's'' hite: ii-iuc'i .kuiik. drew hearty aoplau.-io. Thi'v.' views, tog' ther v."it'll tlie -odious of tlie trenches, gave r good idea of what modern wariare i.s like. Another line nicture was t[iat < f tlie Hrokeu Hill Company's .steel works at Newcastle, in Australia. The operation of converting the iron in the ore into the finished steel rail was depicted in full detail, and was highly inteiesting and instructive.