LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 June 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Amongst foreshadowed legislation for this session' of Parliament is a biii to compel houseowners to reduce rents to what tlfey *werc before war condition Arose. Particulars of the service.-, at tho Church ol England (Levin, Wcroroa, and Ohau, are advertised on page 3. The Railway Department advertises to-dav particulars of excursion fares from Levin and district 011 20th, 21st, 22nd a/nd 23r<Ii June (Palmeirston AVinter Show dates). On Levin jiucecuuiso, next Monday, a mooting of the "Manawratu Hounds will take place. aJetails are set out by advertisement on page <i. A display of "O'C'edctr Mops" will be made at AYatson Brothers, Ltd. (The Big Store. Palmerston Noirth) during the agricultural show to be he V.I next week. Most Levin residents wis. remember the Hev. F. T. Harris, who was attached to the Methodist Church after the Rev. Tinslcy's death and wili be glad to hear him once again at the Century jfctall, to-morrow. Air >riani.s is now attaclied to tho Army .Medical Corps at Awapuni, tilid is at iieviu for the week end. He will take both 'Service,s at the Century Ha.V. to-morrow. i'V'iL tiiieep brougli liigli prices at Messrs Abraham and Williams's stocic sale yesterday. Eat wethers .sold to S7a 33 and fat ewes to 30 s. Store wethers changed hands at 27s lOd and lat and forward ewes 2(is Id. There was a small entry of pigs; porkers sold from 36s to- 40s. At Messis Abraham and William's saleyards yesterday lilteen cheep were sold by them to liolp the fundi oeing raised for the dependents of the jioii> who tell in the naval bottle off tho Jutland coast. XJie sheep were given !>y Messrs C. Okllield (2), J. Ryder (1), V. liit/clnngs (2), AV. Ryder (2), J. O'Coiuuor (1), W. J. Bryant (2), Saxon Bros. (1), A. K. Simpson (1), L'. Davis (I), R. A. McDonald (1), and S. AV. Carter (2;. They realized' au average ol 28s (id each. A lamb given by Mr J. Ryder was sold many times and brought .<a total of JJti s?r

Levin Patriotic tiucioty, in the discharge .of its duties to an absent i jldior, paid u doctor's lee of three guineas for. special services rendoiod to a relative of a soldier. le.sterdiay the society received from Br iiryson the receipted bill, attached: to which was the'society's cheque, as a donation to the funds of the socicty.

The. Levin Brass Band will give a patriotic concert in Oxford street ■ tonight commencing at 7.4 d. The progroin is a good selection oT:"patriotic music and the collection will be paid into the funds .for the dependents of the sailors who lost their lives in the recent naval battle in the North Sea. The program will be «s follbws: ''Union Jack" (march); "Asleep in the Deep," (euphonium solo); "Britannia' (raise); "Lads in Navy Blue" (march]; "Soils of New Zealand" (inarch); "GodSave the King." * The Chief Justice paid a line tribute in his article on oxloll .imprebsious'' (published in our last issue), to the Foxton bakers, whoa lie said "The best bread obtainable in any town 1 nave vitiited in New Zealand is to be got at Boston." Hats off to tne Chief Justice, bakers! Wo can endorse this opinion, and even if a little more is charged in Foxton than elsewhere, t.Ue quality of the article more than compensates. iif our local bakers <. in turn out biscuits of equal merit with the bread they manufacture—and there is no reason why they shouldn't —then there should be a good outmde demand for tho output if a biscuit factory werd' started. —Herald.