LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

ilhree luilg from the Weraroa Boys' Twining Farm, who Broke into die bookstall at the Levin railway station the other evening, and took a ton- cigarettes and, cards, and were taken by the police, have been returned t-u Uie farm. It is probable that they will be sent to Bitrnham. The Levin Brass Baud will give Hs usual monthly open-air concert in Oxford-street to-night commencing at eight o'clock. The following prognm will he given: "New Zealand," march; "The ShippoiTos," wa.ltz: "The Guards." march : "Dewdrop.s and Daisies,' - waltz; ''Craigilee." march; "Darky Beauties." schottisoli<<; "'My Pretty Jane," march; "Courier," march ; "God Save the King." ''The Arbitration Court has been ••«- sponsible for 50 per cent of the increased cost of living diiring tin- a.st ten years," Raid Mr A. Hampton, at :i recent meeting of the Riccar'on Borough Council, during a proposal I to increase the wages of the eotmcil's employee*. ' "f think," ho cn-'tinued, "that, (his genera; demand for increased wages in New Zealand, n-li -re the cost of living is. at the present time. cheaper than in any other country. is a disgrace."

Lieut. Easther, a fanner resident of Levin, is in hospital (probably at the front) suffering from a fractured thigh-bono. The amount put through the totalisator at Hastings yesterday showed a decrease—£l7,(so3 being put through, as against £20,(j88 last year. I'he cup was won by Eligible with Wishful second and Balboa third;. Greanstroet won the forangaliau Handicap by half a length from Mushabye with Downham third. Desert Gold ha.s been scratched for the Hawke's Bay Stakes which are being run to-day. Tlio champion filly is reported to bo < uffering from an abscess in the oar. Mr W. -M cKc-gg, of Shannon, throu<r]i our advertising columns, notifies uuu lie intends, at the next sitting of tlio Licensing Court in Otaki. to apply for a license in respect to the Albion Hotel at Shannon.

"It any olio gives me 50 guineas i'll sing a little song," saidi Melba when slip was squeezing money out 01 '-ho passengers on the Niagara tor the Ueii Cross Fund (states the Sydney Sun). The 50 guineas were promptly paid, and "Annie Laurie" was the result. "If anyone gives nie 80 guineas J'Jl sing another little song," said Melba again, and the money being handed over, ,r Ooinin' thro' "the Rye" was warbled, ami so the game of buying up little songs wont on till there wero no more guineas loft among the pap sengern. One of tlio most remarkable tilings about the Ct»ninionweall)h migration statistics is the fact that a considerable number ot Germans are e'tili recorded as coming to Australia, in spito oi the war. It is officially stated that for the first eleven months of 1915 no fewer than 886 Germans, and also 2(3 Austrians, arrived in Australia. Tlio arrivals from Germany itself numbered only five, and no one departed; for Germany; there were 3,422 departures io the United States, more than to any other toreign country.

Unconscious humor is often the best. During Mr Ongley's rather entertaining crosis-exaimination of a plaintiff .recently in tho Hunter pig-lrunting case, and while he nils establishing a reputation for a neighbour, Mr Jackson, ns an expert 011 pigs, he put this question to plaintiff: "Now, Mr Sehofield, does Mr Jackson know anything about pigs?" 'Witness replied: "f sho ildl say so. He has been reared up with them all his life." Tho Court laughed loud and long, and Mr Jack ion .joined in. After a bit, witness snnTFil also. —Wai mate Advertiser. The Salvation Army services to-mor-row will bo conducted by Ensign, and Mrs Glanville and will be assisted by the Iband. .Special! meetings -llso will be held on nest Tuesday night and next Thursday night, and a united intercession service will be helld oil Friday night. Special interest attaches to the evening subject at the Pre.sibytenan Church 011 Sunday evening next. The 'pastor will again refer to the war, propounding the query "What dlo we intend doing with this wonderful blood gift so freely rendered by the befT of the Empire's manhood?" The query is important and/ should cause serious thought at this juncture. This address will be speoiallv interesting and instructive. New lighting orders for London .ire now issued; and they come into lorce 011 March loth (writes the London correspondent of the "Sydney "Morning Herald;") We had thought that nothing wars more possibV? in the way of darkening us, but r?~appears that :lie householder is still not care "ill enough. The new order deals speciality with him. It says that unless the lights ; n his rooms are shaded he may not v.ny iongei havi- liirht-eoloured blinds or curtains. Also afl vehicles must carry three lamps the rear one of which, must, be red. Tho aim of all our lighting orders is said to be not so much a darkening of us as a uniform lighting of our city. However that lpay be it is certain that these new orders have in view the more settled weather of .spring and the probability of Zeppelin raids. That time is fast and surely coming upon us. Londonnby-night remains n gruesome place. The gloom and desolation of it is aggravat-ed by the iact that all it.s blackened outside ooncaaLs thousands of brilliantly 111 interiors. We go out of shining rooms into the streets of London, now-a-days groping for place and' foothold in a world of black mystery. The whale killed at Moeraki on Friday war first observed by Mr. IV. ifampstead, a Maori (says the "Otago Daily Times"). It had come into shallow water—-about six fathoms—to roll on the bottom, a practice to which whaV's are addicted in order, to rid themselves i;f parasites, barnacles, etc. Hastily procuring a small 1 flattie." Messrs Hampstc-ad and li. Edmondston. —another fisherman—rowed out and attacked the mammal, which was a short distance from the cliffs. The weapons were a rifle, supplemented by an axe and slasher, in lieu ot harpoon and lanee. A dozen rifle bullets having no,immediate effect, the coup-de-main had to be delivered with a slasher which was used as a lance. In spiia of tho terrible wounds inflicted, the whale's enormous vitality could not ue overcome for fully lour hours, when it died from 10-s of blood, the sea in the vicinity being crimson for a considerable distance. Much difficulty was ex perienced in towing the carcase to Moeraki-/ but by means of warps manipulated by two oil launches, it was at length successfully beached. It is believed' to be a "right" whale, and is 83ft in length.