LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

,A sidelight was' thrown on the soar -SUgiai*' in Near Zealand when j Lovin tegidient- .called in at the office of aWellington merchant, this week The niorchnnt..\ ihas a thousand cus timers, probably, and they are clam orcwjs.for pugar. .'rThfe week the tn«r chant was.in. position > being, able to l<rt fhem have some; h< had just .received advice from the company at Auckland that a shipmem of tiro tone!! (sixty-four bags) nad been despatched: to ; the • merchant ir reforeiice. The limit of' usefulness r regard to such a siiinment, for divisiov amongst one thou&and customers ! s t theme upon which political econom ists could occupy, their spare time. Lieutenant Allen; son' or the Isev Zealand- MiaisWr "of iJetence, whos< death in action was' recorded- somi little while ago, was only 28 years o. age. ... xi>i 'had •'& • distinguished oareei at Cambridge University, ' and was t member of the English bar. He wa« one ot the group of iiterarj meu win originated and maintained the politioa. quarterly . known as 'The Rouna Table."

. Some 200 miles to the south oi Bluff is Campbell Island, an old-time sealing and'wihaling station, which is now. an -'extensive sheep station (says the-Bluff Press). • The islajidi has <iu area oi about 43,000 acres , and at oho present time carries (58(XF sheep and [ 155y lata bs—& totaJ of 8359, which . gives some 'idea of the extensive operations- carricd on "there. During the past-seven years the station (which v. as leased by Captain Tucker, Giaborne) has been controlled by Norton Bros. - Dick; Harry;- Ti<m, ' Wlfred, Manuel, Sydney Toms, Joseph Timins,- and John —of Pic ton—«nd seven relumed- to Biuff ,by the itachel Cohen, recently, .to' go to the front with the 17th Rcinforcenieiits. The'seven orothers immediately set about enlisting, and. in doing so they created a .New Zealandi;record. They were the sole population of Campbell island., and so they have the magnificent response of 100 per cent of the total population. I.his easily- defeats the Dog .Island **e,cord of ,33| per cent. rh ev propose leaving with 'the 17th Reinforcement, andi w ill be attached to the conting?ni frofla Pieton whence tJiey ali hail." It is a doufole reooWl because'it is-the first occasion on,-record that seven "brothere have enlisted in a body. _• -Recently the manager at Auekhud for the Colonial Sugar' Refining Company told an interviewer that liis company was not. only putting out its ordinary quantities tor sale, but it had been exceeding them, The man igei .suggested thfit sonie persons or firaih in Jvew Zealand must be storing sugar unnecessarily. This is the com. pany s side of the picture; the obverse may he! sei'U in Levin and roawy ot'h.ir towns to-day. In conversation with Mr. 1. Broome, a Chronicle reporter le&rned that only-.,Jibs, of sugar mav be bought at one time in. Levin .it present—so short has the supply' become. Mr. Broome has not reoei 'od sugar from the company for sewn fveeks, though he has made repealed applications, and when his last supplv 3ia arrive (on 30th March last) it fras juite insufficient. For hfc shop \t Wereroa, Mr. Broome received! , j-ton of la Sugar, And a like quantity ror - his' Levin shop; but as the noruai -eqtfireiiients' run to two tona for .each shop, and from three to tour tone eacn in the fruiit-preserving» season, it. is jbvioiis that the Suga/r Refining .('oin3atly is not fulfilling its duty to ;h« ordinary demands oT'ffip sej*»ra» ;ommunities of this proVince at least.

At a final reminder we meo the concert and life-savin® tmonstiation by the Wera/ro Training Farm. lade will be the King's Theatre, Levin, t inj£. At yesterday meeting of th( nui Jackey; Club,., totalisator showed a 1 decrease of £88( £24,7<6, as against 1 The Century. Hurdles 1 wori ter ifngel, with. Tararu Jae and I'atronymic third. won the -'-Connolly Handici tJic 'Levin-trained ,mare, - LatFj Square Deal filling third pla A meeting of the commits WiroKino Rising Ratepayers' tioa was held' on {Saturday IS was a strong attendance oif' - and much useful initial wori i Canvassers were appointed tO' whole riding a«d obtain men , was deoidtod that, the ■Ho County Council be tf.ribten \ if it would.be possible for-'tte tee to get a full report of ittt meetings. Horn a Henare, found drunl ford street, last Tuesday, -w#s ed of the. offence Goldsmith, fined £l. * Jmlgmciitfpty .plaintiff *4>ji WHW given in. tho, tollowing. by Mr J. W. Poymton/JS.M.y'J days sitting of the- JUevin iS.-Jd J. P. lvess v. John T. riooki costs ss; Parker and Vincent ata Tatana, £3, §osts 19s; T v. H. -aeliirlain, io 16s ad, • •is 6d; iStat'e Advances Depai l Annio iirabyn, £ip -10s, ccuts D. Leitch v. Cecil Wilson. J 2s, 1' or Keeping , hit,. slu.p * open* day, May 7th, in Levin, W" wa.s fined £1 with-u,.sts /sal lin tS.. Sourt yesterday bj W. Poynibon, B.M.

A rattier sensational story i the 2sews regarding, a lauiily sides.in the New, Plymouth' I'rom tne aocuunt given u app it oauie to the., knowledge 31 tiier tlia.t a pui ty.oi .men pri pay a midnight yJstf, to his sol with the object of .w;re<ijsing -it accordingly set" out with a sfl to i-epej any attempt at dec It, was stated that guns' at useful weapons of defence wer ed, and a scheme wee deci< to protect tlie wtiaro. at nighi give the raiders an uoexpeot ticn. Well-cquippedi and ,yj the force prepared, to defend" t and as it neared. midnight f proach of .the raiders, ten etur men, was announced!, , Thsy j ed the place and-proceeded round the whare, whereupon fepdeie also indulged) in a.-# rouadmg business. . Seeing t wore exploited the.. raiders t and lour escaped, but witho difficulty the other.,six-men i tured, Tlie raiders Eeportei have "shown fight,'.' and the was a much quieter affair >< been anticipated., c The -;'itann •the raiders have been obtaij it is said that every ottn\ 'WM in his district. "■ A social evening, gas held,, nesday in the Ward roati-clu vin,_ which the of Q] purchased recently. Mr. JL)un< pbell, of Wellington, Sooth,-, over a goodi attendance. jfj gave a warm welcome to tin present, and thanked all. .th had helped to decorate the. building. Mr. Percy. Bolton,, meirston, complimented the--c3 its effort, and spoke "On the personal consecration to the - God.'' Mr. Grinstead, who cently been appointed to, the evangejist of the Palmerstoh circuit, gave an. addresse .on-.: of the associated churches ot There tras, he said ,a big plirf which they agreed with their < neighbours; they had. their ces, and they were neither- si unimportant; but they should' the general good: the great needed to-day was the. unioi Christians. His ttffuroh not < agreed on that, but it offered upon which they all oould !$e that the church of to-day mil the church of apostolic days, tfh pie for to-day. An intereetin ?a] and elocutionary program! riven, the fallowing taking Miss M. Ball, Miss As..--Hal Tames, Mr. and Mrs. Soulhgi Messrs. P. Pullen, F. James, iershead, A. James. A hmi xf thanks was passed to tih« or the refreshment? provided rice will be conducted on Sub 11 a.m., and on June "151 3rinstcad will commence a « jibia studies.