The Chronicle LEVIN. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 June 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

'Jlie following enlisted at the local | recruiting office last week:—S. V. Kilsby, iioputaroa (intantry). R. R. | Butt, Levin (A.S.<J.) Mr A. Silk has sold his farm at Fairfield., and intoiidf, to spend a holiday at Plimmerton before 'resuming his musical practice. Mr Iteckett, of Napier, has brought Mr Silk's Irani. - The effect of the shortage of paper in. the Old Country is apparent in the »iise of some of the London aewspapers arriving by late mails. .News is condensed to* ite" utmost. The times 01 April 21 was down to ton pages, an<i tlie Daily Telegraph, another oi tha poaiiy journals, was similarly curtailed. The oaso of the halfpenny papers which, of course, have to deal with huge circulations, is eves brought down to six pages and even to four pages or one issue, and the Daily Chronicle to six. According to private advices advertisement rates have been advancing persistently, and an indication ot the tendency is given in the domestic notice column of The Times, which wbb charging 7s 6d for four lines, and is now changing 10b 6d for three lines and half a crown tor every additional lku>. With reference to the alleged danger fnoin eating apples sprayed with arsenieal mixture, M • T. \ . K"i \ sh.vj. he took some medical men with him to the State SWm, where the ordinary , arsetiical mixture was mixed up with the Bordeaux mixture, and used on some apple trees. A quantity of applet was Brought to Wellington and most carefully analysed. The Govsrnment Analyst found it would be necessary to eat 41bs of apples at a sitting before the eater would begin feel any poisonous effects. That meant eating skins and all, without rubbing the apples. In the case of the mixture applied in the ordinary way, it was found tkat it would be necessary to eat a bushel and a quarter at a sitting fekins included) in order to <iet a medicinal dose, not to say a fatal dose. This was apropos of a proposal that tpraying of fruit t»ees should be prohibited while the bloom is on the trees.

Encouraged toy the fine quality of the onion arop last year the settlers on tho Heatherlea Settlement block tins year are extending their areas set aside for onions. It is estimated' that fully twenty acres will bo thus utilized this season.

In 1914 this country imported gon.is of a total tonnage of 1,538,755 tons, valued at £21,856,08(5. Last year (1915) the tonnage declined by 1<38,(>;)8 tons —to 1,370,058, valued at £21,728,834.

The following additional subscriptions liavc been received at the borough offices fon- tho fund for the relict ol the dependents of the men lost in Uie Battle oT Jutland: Mrs J. Byder us; C. Blenkliorn, £1 Is; R. A. 'McDonald £2 2s; Fred Retter, £2 2s; W. 8. Park £2 2s; Mrs \V. S. Park £1 .la; A. L. Williams 10s 6d; H. fro use jG j

A charge of alleged sheep stealing will probably be heard at Otaki Court on Tuesday. A prohibited person, tor having liquor in his possession contrary to Statute, will also be dealt with,—Otaki Mail.

A discussion on Sir Rider Haggard's immigraton scheme took place at a recent raeetn.g of the Pleasant Point Branch of tho Ntw Zealand Farmers' Union. After considerable discussion the .following resolution was carried: ''That the land of the Dominion being limited this branch thinks it advisable that soldiers coming to Acw Zealand under Sj/i- Biider iHagg«ird's scheme shouVl have some colonial training, before taking up land."

The Otaki Mail reports that a mam, in an intoxicated state, entered a.

house at a late hour at Otaki Railway on Wednesday, and nefused, when .requested, to decamp. The lady of the houso, with presence of nund, secured a rifle, took aim, and gave tho intruder short notice to quit. The man hurriedly made his departure, but would pdobably have not done so nad h® known the gun had been, for many years past, beyond repair.

A Paimerston lady was stucK tho other day for a dye. (Dyes could be obtained in any quantity from Barmany before the war). On the advice of a "hello" girl, she tore the sides off a telephone directory, and pour-eel hot water on them. She set lie best silk blouse afloat on the liquid with a"il her' hopes, and the fabric when dried presented a bo.-vutiful salmon pink. Directories are not issued often enough to make telephone blouses the fashion.

A cheerful man writes in the Waimate Advertiser (Canterbury):—Two points of fog fell in Waimato yesterday! Last night there was a fourdegree frost! If we only had the Zeppelins we might fancy we were in Loudo»!

Rifleman Bid. Smith, of the 4th Battalion New Zealand Kille Brigade, writing to a relative in J/evin irom "somewhere in Franco/ stated that they arrived at their destination in tlio firing line, after a long and tedious three days' railway journey. He states that he met most of the Levin boys who hadi gone'out -in the earlier reinforcements and mentioned how well, they' were looking. One of the most curious things he noticed in France was the French way of driving. They do this with one rein only, and tho way they thread their way through the iarrow streets and heavy traffic is, m the winter's opinion, nothing short-of marvellous. They stop the trams at corners there to allow of other vehicles passing. The carriage horses there are a grand) lot, and would be fas they aire matched splendidly) wortlr £60 or £70 the pair in New Eealand.

The cost of building houses in New Zealan<T is prohibitive, said Councillor Anderson at the Petone Borough Council meeting. Persons in- England;, it they had the £600, £700, or £$00 that it costs to build cottages here, would consider themselves independent for life.

The Balolutha Pre® PlreMs reports that Mr Chas. Keeloy, of that town, lias* a strawberry hod that lias produced* >a second crop of flne berries that ripened well. The strawberry requires plenty of nun to do well, and conditions wore idoal during the wist season, but to have the fruiting loiitinuiflg into winter is phenomenal.

Mr W. J. Birch w rites to the Rangitikei Advocatel notice that Lady. ■Stout is tidvertised to address the Marton public on the subject of the New Zealand Anti-Germain League. I sup•pose 1 shall be at once stamped as a Pro-German if 1 protest that the Overseas Club, under whose auspices Lady Stout is delivering her lecture, are acting in a very ill-advised maimer in asking her to do so. I protest against it as sure to create strife and bitter feeling amongst us here, and quite possibly may lead to violence and destruction of property, such as occurred in Wanganui some months ago. We know how easily it is to inflame popular feeling aind" how hard it is to curb it. Wo have amongst us a number of settlers of German exarfcctioii, most of them British subjects _ born in the colony. They have proved themselves a quiet, law-abiding "industrious people, and J. believe they appreciate the freedom, both religious and civil, which they have enjoyedi unctelr our Government so much that'few of them would willingly return to the German system of Government. Even if there are rorne amongst them who sympathise with the Fatherland what harm can they do us here in New Zealand P I have no doubt our Government are taking all mecessairy precautions to guard agarQst spies or communication witTr th<> enemy and I fall to see that any notorietyseeking busybodies can do nny good bv stirring up ill-foiling amongst those who have, so far, lived happily together. Beonuse the Germans in this war have shown themselves to be brutal nndl unscrupulous, let us not follow their example. Let us stick to our ch'einshed idens of British justice, and ot inflict upon, the innocent the punishment due to the guilty.

A medical speaker at v : o annual meeting of the Hospital Sua.lay Fund in Ir*ndon reoently, in a ef»rcuee to iho excessive use of drufi , said Uat so far as antiseptics were cu/i v Lfn! it Taa Tory fortunate that a cno had been discovered which was n?t only cheapei than carbolic acid, bit .• ucli .'stronger. The antisetpac r ' -fd 10 is eusol of which the essentia- usliiu ent is bleaching powder. I s flixcuf .erors were Proferssor Jbori i- • S:i l• n ajid Dr Dakin, and it is i «'i.o Di'td in tw* forms. Tho new aiit'aei't.o which has been discoverer .vu'u 'lie outbreak of the war. ia -<-r*• largelj used in hospitals, particularly i » Scotland and at Leeds. It is lso in use at the Third London lien on 1 U.isn.iaf It : s made in Brita"i and ib i c-piji

The Sydney Morning idem Id, in an article on tho "Cost of Spirits," relates that recently a o\v Aealai.u otiyiv put an open order on the Syd.ney market for all the whisky that oould be secured. The assignment was placed in the hands of a number of brokers, who, after visiting all tho wholesale houses, could only secure the equivalent of twenty hogsheads, wt Vti Gd per gallon, for whisky that twmvo month* a;o was being sold' wholesale at 6s 6d. Tho Herald prophesies an immediate drought in the spirit inarkot.