LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

» Eightoi'iiponce per pound for June bntterfet, and one penny per lb further payment for March, April and May supplies, respectively, will be paid out on 20th July by Levin Co-operative Dairy 00., Ltd. Government etatistics show that in 1911 the total number or scholars and students in attendance at Now Zealand public schools (inclusive of university colleges, technical schools, etc.) was 226,216. Those receiving primary education totalled 196,02-4 : secondary education, 11,280; technical and continuation 16,602; higher education 2310. A t (Maori secondary schools there were 435 pupils. Replying on the second reading of the Finance Bill last night Sir Joseph said: "The odds arc ten thousand to one that there will be no necessity to make further war provision." The Minister went on to say: "There will be in the ordinary course of things a readjustment of taxation in New Zealand consequent on the altered condition of things after the war." A little later Sir Joseph Ward took the edge of his cheerful propheey Ey remarking that next year the Colonial Treasurer would have to continue special taxation if the war went on.. A returned (soldier recently took up some land at liactihi. in the Maunga-nui-a-te-Ao district and employed. a youth to assist him in felling the bush. Near him lived a Maori land-owner named Tapeka, and Tapeka lately employed a whole gang of bushfellers on his property. It did not take Tapeka long to find out that bis neighbour was a returned soldier, and when this knowledge came to him he promptly sent his whole gang of men to assist the soldier in getting his bush down, at the same time saying "You fight for us. I'll send my men to fell your bush for a few days." ' 1 '

The Late John "Norton's estate in N'ew South Wales has been set down qt £46,136, andi his whole Australian and New Zealand estate is said to be valued at £150,000. At the Wellington races yesterday tlio totaiisator put through the sum of £35,765, as against £34,116, for the previous meeting. Tlio jl'rial Plato was won by Toro Toro with J'osoland secoud and -Mascot 3. Branslield won the Wellington Steeplechase irom Now York and Fagot. The public fancy (Multifual)v accounted for tho Parliamentary Handicap, Maid o' Gow'"ibeing second and Harbour Light third. Marconi won the Winter Hurdles with -Sty rax secondhand Pursefiller third. The To Aro Handicap fell to an outsider in Sir Agnes, who beat the favouiite (Perrier), Comely being third. High in the list of present day writel s stands the name of Jack London, whose works have such a wide circle of loaders. His story "The Call of tlio Wild" won wide popularity, but "Tho Sea Wolf," because of its splendid: study of character, and description of life at sea, has found its way to permanency on many a book shelw. The story now has been taken up by the cinematograph, and the struggle of the finely-wrought, sensitive soul against the malign influence and brutality of' the human "sea-wolf" give an added emphasis that touches the chord of sympathy in the hearts of all. The picture will be shown by the management of F'arlandl's pictures on Friday and Saturday, July 14th and 15th. The film runs to 7000 feet in length, and is replete with beautiful scenes as welj as dramatic oneS. Country folk jocularly apply to Opu-nake-ites the remark "that you want to come off the street to know what work is." It will surprise the countrymen to know that we can beat tlie.h at their own game. That is to say that on the township lands in Opunak<3_ there are more stock per acre grazed than in any other part of Taranaki. The Town Board registers some 70 or 80 head of stock, and there are caisi'/rv another 60 Head paddocked. Within the same area we carry a population, of 500 human beings, hundreds of fowls, ( pUB SlJSad 'S3i4[UO 'S}UO 'SSO|) JO Sd.AO.ip no loafers.—Times. Some time ago Mr R. B. Jackson, of Nelson forwarded a bale of wool to London, with instructions that the proceeds of the sale be used for the purchase of tobacco for the soldiers at the front. The other day (.says Hie Colonist) Mr Jackson received between 30 and 40 post cards from grateful Tommies in France anil Egypt- expressing thei rappreciation of the gifts. Arthur Stowell, wlio next-of-kin resides at lioputaroa, was reported ' wounded yesterday. AL: T. \V. IvirK, oi tile -Department of . Agricuitme, wiii arrive in Levin to-morrow by the uYapier train from Wellington. All- Kirk wiin inspect tho Levin Domain and advise as to treeplanting. *< Alueli lun was created by tile "mock court" at the social to Alls -Marshall, given at Otaki railway recently. There were some queer charges. Dor instance, one gentleman who always presents a cheerful countenance oil his daily business louuds, was fined for "wearing a happy smile and a buttonhole." A lady who enjoys a reputation as a platform speaker, was enlarged with being a suffragette. She pleaded eloquently nud it looked as though the hard-heart-ed judge would be won over to take a lenient view of her ease, when a speotatoi volunteered to give evidenco which sealed the fate of the defendant. The witness, for his readiness to conio forward in the interests of justice, was alsj fined a "tanner."—Alail. cTajj in. tt ..a.liivy — llie \Oiac.uun Miag, VWibsj piscivoioits, tip-pet.-..* is aisuiiautc, is one ui ute bancs or ajg.ers uuu acclimatisation eoc.cues.. J lij kcul society nas its full share oi' trouble irom the leathered poacner, a.id tli.-y nave interesting proof oi us Sivailow capacity in the iorui or a photograph of a dead snag and lioul, wnicli the biid was *in the act of sftaljijwing when killed. Considering the relative dimensions t'he bird's gastronomicdl feat would scarcely be credn'-i-J without the undubita/ble testimony of tne photograph. The society pays a, beak bonus of 2s lid in respect of shags killed, but as the number of beikfc paid for, annually seems not to be coa.meiisurate with the inducement clfcr.ng, probably the offer is not as generally • known as it might be. . Word has been received at the Red Cross Depot in Christchurch from Lieutenant-Colonel SeFton Moorhouse, of Wellington, who is in charge of tlio Red Dross work in New Aealand, that bandages are urgently required, and the. depot staff therefore are redoubling their efforts to meet the demand. The depot is receiving continual offers of outside help, and fresh bandage classes are being started, till there is scarcely a district without a class of its own, but the great increase of the depot work consequent on the multiplication of the outlying work agencies has rendered furi-her assistance in the depot itself necessary if the ladies are to cope with the work that comes in. On Friday the piles of work that lay on the tables were immense, and the linn dp are aTI too few for the work that has to be done.—Christchurch ITewis A self balancing crane is the invention of a New J2ealand©r at Dunedin. It has been taken up by a syndicate who have patented it practically all over the world. The leading principle of this crane is that a weight runs back to whatever du'stance is necessary to compensate for the load on the jib, and it has another advantage in being able to swing a complete circle.