LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 April 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The next annual meeting of the Licensing; Bench for OtaKi and district will be heldi in the Courthouse, at Otaki town, on Friday, 2nd Juno, at noon. In Japan the lover gives his sweetheart a piyce of beautiful silk for a bash instead of an engagement ring. About 7GO women are employed by the Great Central Railway in all branches of men's work, not excluding the registering of trains in the su . boxes. The strides women are making m stage bueiiiess of Late nave been for the uplift of the theatre andi the provision of health}' amusement and instruction. Thp pantomime at Bradford t3iis year will be stage-managed by a woman. Miss Barbara Allison. Although she is blind. Miss Hattie Maddox has been employed in the maii bag repair shop of the poet office department at Washington for the last tiveuty-«ix years. Mrs Lewis Oliase is at present touring A-merioa gaining information for a bouk she will write for the Royal Geographcal Society, London. She is a members of the Authors' Olub an 1 takes a great interest 111 the women of Brittany; on wTiose behalf she lectured several times in America. livery kind of ability and degree of strength is being put to use Dy women patriots at Home. Miss Beatrice Harraden, author of "Ships that Pass in the .Night," is acting as librarian in a London Hospital staffed and run by women. Miss Lucy H. M. Soulsby is retiring from her school, The Manor House, Brondesbury, England, after some years of activity in what became mo of the most successful schools for in England. Miss Soulsby was born in New Zealand, and is well known not only as a teacher, but as n vriter and lecturer. At Feilding r:\ces yesterday a sum of £26,848 -was put through the totatisator against a total of £29.6 f2 or the corresponding day of last y -;ir—a decrease of £2.794. Christchiirch figures show an increase—£3B.3.ss as against £37.59& last year. .Who serves the public faithfully ami well? who keeps the goods no rival? •undersell? Fred Pink., of Oxfordstreet ; Ms shoes are trim ami neat: his boots are strong and sound ; they i e worn the country round: in siiort.

j The veteran Danish suffragist, Frau Munter, having seen the successful accomplishment of all she fought lor, and the vote conferred on her countrywomen, has retired from active work, and published a farewell number of her paper. Mrs Clinny Dreyer was another press woman who did yeoman service for suffrage in juenmark, and her paper has also ceased publication. Mrs Haslam, the veteran Irish suffrage leader, celebrated her diamond wedding a year ago. Her husband, Thomas J. Haslam, ia as devoted a suffrage worker as she, and for sixtyone years they have been together helping forward the cause of women. They were closely connected with Mrs Josephine Butler's work. East November Mr Haslam celebrated his SJOth birthday. The competitions held by {he Levin t.ire Brigade in the park domain yesterday were very successful, some f ast times being recorded. A full report in ll be published to-morrow. At the Levin S.M. Court 011 Saturday a Maori woman named Mary Heriona was charged with the thvft of £3 from Parekarewa George. The defendant, pleaded guilty, and/Mr D. S. Mackenzie, the presiding justice, inflicted a fine of £1 in default seven days imprisonment in Wellington gaol. She was allowed one week m which to pay the tine The Legislature of South Carolina | has adopted for the State a "Man lal for Magistrates," a book written by a young South Caroline girl, Miss Ruth Durant Evans. Miss Erans's book was pronounced by the judiciary com-'" mitt-re of the two Houses complete m every respect. The Legislature bought one thousand copies tor the magistrates of South Carolina. Miss Evans id deputy county clerk of Hamilton County, Tennessee. Members of the Masonic craft will be gratified, to know that the Prince of "Wales has followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, and has been initiated into the mysteries <11 Masonry. The announcement was made recently by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon at a meeting 01 tho Royal Masonic Benevolent institution at London At the Feilding races yesterday the Cup was won by Orleans witn Want second and Sir Solo 3. Tho Levin-trained mare Lady Louisa was successful in the Last race of the day and returned her supporters a twofigure dividend. . She carried 9st ,-lbs and; ran the distance in linin 29 4-ssec. The Great Easter Handicap, run at Riccarton yesterday, was won by Reval - with Findhorn and Flying Start in" places. Seadown won the Autumn Plate. Revelenta being second and Greenstreet third. Auzac Day (to-day) is being celebrat- — eel in Levin by a commemoration service. The troops, coniprising territorials and the returned' soldiers rrom the front, and men on leave marched from Weraroa, led by the Levin Brass Band and the Boys' Training Farm Band. Included in the procession were the Levin cadets. Boys' Training Farm cadets, school children aSd boy scouts. Addresses are being given from a dais erected in the square ly the Rev. W. H. E. Abbey, Rev. Bawdeti Harris, Messrs W. li. Field, R. H. Wright and Dr Newman, M's.P., Serg.-Major Dann and Mr Tuiti MacDonald. A Maori named Rangi Moa met with rather a curious accident whilst 111 a five-seated motor-car on the Wairoa road, a few days ago (says (he Hastings "Tribune"). He had driven some passengers irom Napier to Wairoa, and was returning to Napier with three more passengers. When about a mile on the Napier side of Wairoa, the driver wont to sleep, and the passengers, stopping the car got out and left it and the driver did not remember anything after falling asleep until lie was awakened on the bank of the Wairoa river by a policeman. When questioned, he said thai ho had a faint yecollection of smothering at the bottom of the river. it is surmised that he started the car whilst asleep, and drove it off the road into the Wairoa river 30 teec below. Nothing has been seen of the car since. Questions are being asked (says the Age) as to why the cot case soldiers who came to Masterton last week were placed on a goods train instead of the ordiinary mail train. The goods train was shunting at almost every station, and took eight hours to do the journey between Wellington and Masterton. One of the soldiers when . e

reached Masterton waß in a Bad way,