LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The suppliers to the Manakau Oheeso Factory received the pleasing news from their London agents on Saturday that their Paparoe cheese realised the fine price of 106s. The Prime Minister said yester<say that the Government had decided to grant the shilling day increase of wages demanded by the second division of railway men during the currency of the war.

Surfacemen for Te Horo riding and Otaki riding respectively are advertised for by the "Borowhenua County Council. So far no phenmonenal "bags'' of feathered game have been reported by shooters in this district, though The Utironicle has heard of one party that secured 50 ducks. It is stated that the ducks are small this year and not nearly so numerous as they were a few years ago. The road overseer stated to the -Bmougn Council on iMotnday night that the footpath in Weraroa road between Durham street and Bath street should oe kerbed. Much stock was driven along that road and the edge of the footpath was broken down. One of the residents had offered to find the material necessary for the work on nls frontage. The council decided to "xsk the streets committee for a report on the matter. Latest quotations for guaranteed new laid eggs, at Wellington, give 2s 4d as the wholesale price. In view of Che fact that extensive importations of chilled eggs were made from California last month, the drop cf only 2d per dozen on last week's wholesile rates for fresh eggs is regarded as very satisfactory by local poultryfarmere. Toll is levied by some people on produce that leaves Levin by rail. A few days ago a. settler at Weraroa lost several pairs of birds from a consignment of poultry sent to the Wellington market. Things going north fare no better. Of a small bag of apples i-enf! from Levin to Shannon a very short while ago, one-third disappeared before they reached the consignee. "1 thank you very much for your kindness and thoughtfulness in sending me hampers by transports," so runs a letter from a member of the Forces abroad to a lady in Wellington. "The hampers have never reached me. but no doubt the persons into whose handn they fell fully appreciated the contents, so jour labours have not been without compensation. What> becomes of the thousands ol parcels, aent by transports, after their arrival, appears to be untraceable, as my experience is only one of many that have come within my knowledge." Tiiu Devil's Bible is in the Royal palaco library of Stockholm, Sweden, it is a huge copy of the Scriptures, written upon 300 prepared asses' skins. One tradition declares that it took 500 years, of from the eight to the thirteenth century, to mane the copy, which is so large that it has a table to itself. Another tradition affirns that the work was done in a single night by a monk, with the assistance of his Satanic Majesty, who, when the work was completed, gave the monk a picture of himself for the frontispiece, where, amid illuminated incantations, it is still to be seen ; hence the name. This marvellous manuscript was carried, off by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War from a convent in Prague. Councillor Fosella asked at Monday night's meeting of the council what had been done towards the compilation of a district roll ot honour for the men who had gone to the front. Other councils were moving in the same direction, and though he had brought the matter up some time ago he law no result as yet. The Town Clerk replied that lie had communicated with the Defence Department with a viow to obtaining a list of the names ot the men from this district, b'ut he had not received a reply to date, the council then wandered off into a vague discussion as to what form the roll of honor would take. Some Miggested only a memorial board for I alien men. The size of the lettering troubled others. If the names .tn<i all particulars regarding the men's ranks, numbers, honors, etc.. were painted on a board as desired by Councillor Fosella, difficultv would be experienced in finding wall space for the board in the chambers. Even if typed they would take up considerable space. Another point raised was where they would ffx the district boundaries. After worrying themselves over these matters tor sometime councillors left them in the ame state of indefiniteness as they found them.

Kays the Star.—Only a few years ago Feilding had the reputation of Being morally, one of the cleanest and soberest towns in New Zealand. Within the past year or so, however, that reputation. like Othello's oocupation, T as gone; andi for the past weeE a very different kind of reputation has taken it* place. To have close upon thirty men arrested for appearing in a dr.inken state in public places within seven days is a record which will stall Feilding's good: name for many a long day. No excuse for this disgraceful state of affairs will satisfy the reportable people of the community, and the most dtrastio action to discover its real cause will bo perfectly justified.

A correspondent of the Ohristchureh Press alluding to the filthy state or the -paper ~ currency of the country, remarks "To say that it is filthy is not in any Tray overstating: the case; to say anything lees would ho decided, ly understating it. When paper money has been circulating for years, carried in pockets of people, many of whom suffer from some form of illness or disease ,it cannot possibly escape contamination, and a limited time should be set or the life of these notes, and rigidly adhered to. Tn Great Britain a £5 note is not allowed to leave the bank a second time, •nd that ensures a clean and respectable currency. Nowadays out here it is a common thing for people to apologise for handine over dirty money in payment ot debts."