The Chronicle LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 June 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

A London cable message says that the British Government, through the Liquor Control .Board naa purchased all the breweries and three hundred public houses at Carlisle and tTio neighbourhood. They intend to close ono hundred public houses 'andi to buikl several model refreshment Souses. ►State-brewed beer will be sold in Stateowned houses. It is expected that the Government's aotion will be "e----peated' elsewhere.

The 'Women's Red Cross Guild fiad another busy day on Friday. Following is the list of workers present: Mrs Gibson, Miss Hitcliings, Mrs Cork, Mrs Kingdou, Mrs Stealey, Mrs Reading, Mrs Hook, Mrs Walkley, Mrs J. Prouse, Miss Seclcole, iVLre Keedwell, Mrs Kirk, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Pink, Mrs Kirkcaldie, Miss Parsons, Mr 6 Goldsmith 'and Mrs Kictter. The ted Cross shop on Saturday was in oharge of Mrs Goldsmith audi Mrs Cork. The takings amounted to' £7 3s. This constitutes a .record so tar, and ft is to be hoped that iuture efforts »vill prove as successful. Following are the names of those who sent in donations, produce, etc.—Mrs Andirewa, Airs Barroil, Mrs Greig, Mrs Prouse, MLre viokers, .Mrs Duckworth, Mr Denton, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Nicholson, Mrs Murray, Sirs Da-vies, Mrs Aingdon, Mrs Holdaway, Miss Dernpsey, Mrs Cork, Mrs Bryson, /Mrs Clark, Mis® Adkin, Mrs Eccleton, Mrs Kirkcaidie, Mrs Oag, Mrs Whi taker, Mrs- Mackenzie, Miss ffitchings, Airs Lancaster, Mrs and Miss Goldsmith.

At a recent sitting of the Picton Magistrate's Court, two young men were convicted and fined tor gambling with dards and coins on the PictonBJenheim railway twain. . For playing "two-up" the same defendants were each fined the maximum penalty of £50 id default three months' imprisonment with hard labour. Another individual, chargedt with playing cards for money on. the ftaieena, was fined £5.

The demand for apples at the Horowhenua Fruitgrowers' Association depot fllipwedi considerable improvement last week, and the fruit solid freely at from 2s 6d per half case to 7b per case. Onions continue to be retailed at Id per lb, but there was a great slackening off in the oall for potatoes.

There arived in Dunedin the other day a consignment of no less than 80,000 fruit trees—mostly apples—for planting iu Southern Canterbury and Otago. They wore Australian-grown, and a noted) apple firm in Otago, which has two beys in the Exhibition, nas purchased no less than £2000 worth. A dozen more shipments of a similar nature are on the way out or are yet to come. Fruit-growing, land especially apple culture, is very much on the increase in Otago at the present time, but. still one wonders why local .iutserymen do not grow acclimatised frees to meet the fruitgrowers' demands, ■when consignments like this come to hand.

In the new War Regulations Amendment Bill is a clause prohibiting treat-

ing within tlie Dominion. The clause reads as follows: —'*iFor the purpose t>f this act the term 'treat-

ing' includes any person who directly or indirectly, (a) pays or undertakes or offers to pay; (b) . gives, lends or offers to undertake to give or 'end money with which to pay for intoxi-

cating liquor sold, or to be sold on i licensed premises lor consumption on those premises by any person other than the person first mentioned, and. also includes any other act that tlie Governor-in-Council may declare by ord©r-in-cbuncil to be treating." The maximum penalty is to be a fine of £100 or a year's imprisonment. Jugde Sim gave an important judgment in ail appeal by the Crown from the decision of Mr Bartholomew, S.M., who dismissed a cirarge against the licensee of a hotel lor supplying liquor to a person apparently under twentyone. The liquor was supplied, by respondent's banrian, who was convicted for this offence under Section 205 of the Licensing Act. In the present case His Honor held the supply ot liquor by the barman as within the general scope of his employment, and respondent, therefore, was guilty of the offence of supplying liquor. The appeal was allowed andi the case remitted to the Magistrate with the opinion that respondent ought to be convicted.

An unrehearsed incident occurred at the Featherston camp recently while the Ministerial party was being entertained the Auckland! Star), '.he wife of a soldier who had come all the way from Auckland, sought an interview with her young husband, who was in khaki. Having found him she asked a few pertinent questions concerning tmanoe, and) then attacked him with a very supple weapon. She was led out of the military arena by a

khaki policeman, much to the relief of a crowd that was assembling, and of her surprised and disgusted soldier boy.

A clear conscienoe for ten shiliings 1 The iSeoretary to the New Zealand Treasury acknowledges recei|rt )oi iOs, forwarded as conscience money by some person in Auckland.

In Dumbarton Sheriff Court, Frederick Edwin TTolheim, cloth merchant, Helensburgh, was chairged with having in his house, on t>th iMlarch, between the hours of 11.30 andl 12 midnight failed to have the inside ii girting so reduced or shaded or the windows and glass <loots so screened that not more than a dull subdued light was visible from any direction outside. He tendered a plea of guilty. Mr Robb, solicitor, miade a statement on accused's behaitf, remarking that Mr Wolheim quite appreciated! the necessity for the being enforced, and he had taken steps he considered adequate. Mr James Wilson (Deputy Fiscal) said the police report was that the window was perfectly obscured, but the material was too light iand large streams of light could be seen. The sheriff said accused had pjeadedi guilty to the offence. He had heard what the agent liad io say, and would repeat the same sentence as in previous cases—2os or five days. Earl Kitchener died a bachelor, and his heir to the earldom is his brother, j Colonel Henry Elliott Chevallier Kii> chener, who- was born tour years before his clastinguished brother. Co>onel Kitchener is a widower and has no children. He entered the army m 1886, and became lieutenant-oolonel in 1893 and colonel in 1899. - He served in the Buirmah campaign, being mentioned in despatches, and was chief transport officer ot the 'ALanipur Field Force in 1891. He retired 'after that campaign and has since lived-at Bourne Park, Canterbury. The Palmerston Times, in referring to the claim for damages, Speirs v. Wall, says: "So far this case has occupied three days, two of which were taken up with the examination ot two witnesses—a. diay for each! And there are 60 witnesses! The question is: How much of this particular tlax ewfamp- will be left when the cose is finished?" It reminds us of the ok) picture of two farmers, the cow, and the lawyer. One litigant was putting the tail .and the other the horns, while the lawyer did the milking.