LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 July 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Ofor one hundred fanners attended the meeting in Levin to-day to discuss live stock sales. The mayor of Levin (Mr O. Biankhorn) presided. A full report on the discussions will appear in Saturday's Chronicle. The meeting affirmed the desirableness of holding all the weekly stock sales on the one day, and recommended that the auctioneers be asked to consider the advisablenoss of holding their .sales conjointly. A committee of farmers has been set up to represent the meeting and negotiate with the auctioneers.

Private Reginald .S. Voting, formerly ol Levin, has written an interesting letter from the front to Mr J. W. Thompson, of this town. Ho says:

"Well, I'm in France; though so far not at the front. J. am kept very busy, and therefore audi very fit and cheerful and happy. My mates, too. are jolly decent fellows, which is a big item. By the wav, Vincent is here I Bob Pringle, who also writes '|uite olten, is sonic few miles away. Bartholomew, the dentist, who worked with Mackenzie, is also here; otherwise 1 have scarcely come across any Levi,ll fellows. lam very glad your son seems to like soldiering, and sin-i-erejy hope lie will come through safely. lam sorry that I missed Anzae Day in London. They had n great time, though, I think, the Australians did things better than our people which is usually the cose. So far we are having the most delightful weather here—cloudless days and nights--'and one can scarcely realize the hateful work going on some miles away. Von think compulsion is coming? Well. I don't like it, but if it is deemed an absolute necessity then it is difficult to oppose it. Of course it is now in force, or just about to be, in Kngla-nd. The position of our overseas transport trade is serious. Did you see the dividend the White Star line lias paid?—6s per cent after deducting tax on war profits! What do you think of Ireland? Under severe strain a weakness will ahvavs show itself. It is time TCnglnnd healed that sore. 7 am convinced, given Home Rule, the best elements would prevail, and Ireland become a contented, loyal country.

In an air duel over Mulhauson, on March 17th, the petrol tanks of a French biplane was hit, and the machine caught Are. The French airman. seeing that lie couH not escape alive, promptly drove his maehinc against thnt of « German and both fell in flames. The bodies of the airmen were entirely carbonized.

A mem bur of a Bohemian househaving lost heavily at bridge, «rote to her husband Asking him to ■send her some money, as she had lost her purse. Playing once more, she von enough to cover her losses, and Mie wired: "Purse found. Need not send money." But at her third venture t-die was again unfortunate,'so sho telegraphed: "'Send money as first requested. Pur.se found, but nothing in it!" At ail inquest at Middlesbrough, o'l the body of a blast-furnaoeman, aged 21, who collapsed and died after a drinking bout, it was stated that in •If) minutes he drank" two pints-of beer, three glasses of rum, and fom glasses of neat whis&y.

Jt if- not generally known that the word "bloody," so often and so meaninglcesly used by many men in common conversation, is actually a contraction of ''by our Lady" (the \ irgin Mary). More than two years ago (says the Chriutchurch Star) a

working man, and a good Catholic, wlion using the word very frequently in taJk with a friend was told the moaning of it. He registered a tow to fine himself threepence every time he used it. in anger or otherwise. He now has mastered the horrid habit altogether, hut his self-inflicted fines have gone to the Red Cross Fund to the amount of £1.

The dieath is announced, at tlie Hospital for Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, fvoin bron-cho-pneumonia and meningitis, contracted while nursing soldiers, of Gladys, only child of the late Horace Brown, aged 28.

ihe offices of "Freediom," a.n anarchist organ in Ossulston-sfcreet, Somer s Town, were raided By the, police recently. Pamphlets, books and types were seized, and nearly a van-load of material was taken' away to Scotland Yard.

The body of Major U. A. Oarter, who won the V.C. in Somaliland nearly 13 years ago, was Inndied at Plymouth last week, Ravine, been brought home from East Africa, where he fell in January tost. The body was to be interred at -St. TCrtli, where Major Carter's father was vicar for 26' years.

A Canadian soldier in hospital near Bromley (Kent) has a thin toietal splinter from an explosive bullet lodged in his heart. Its presence was disclosed by B-rays. and for the time being no operation' is contemplated. Whether the metal splinter works in or out apparently nuwns the difference bet wee'n life and death for the patient. | Oil the other hand, it may stay where it is with comparative harmless result*. The scar whore it on torn) i* barely visible. The patient, who gets about as freely as any conva losco lit, feels the splinter much in the way that a nail in a boot irritates the foot. He cannot sleep on hi* loft side and finds that practically fritting; up in bed nil nip;ht is the easiest way of getting rest.

Mr H. P. Carter, a prominent farmer, who represents the Board of Agricuulture on the Lincolnshire Appeal Tribunal, said at Boston that farmers in tile district were now employing women to <lo a good deal of their work. He employed about 100 women in the Jiast JF'en and many, women on his other farms, and they were doing splendidly evenvhere.

Oiii tlie suggestion ol the churchwardens ai isleworth I'aiis Church, the i!/a.slei V cstry has decided to leave one oi the old cellars, olown down by the recent storm, as it tell in Uie churchyard, b.s a memorial to leleworth men who have fallen in the war.

file rush ol women ior farm work has begun in Sheffield, and larmore are delighted with the tactful way they go about their duties. tSiuco Lady .Mabel Smith, sister ot Lord/ if'itzwilliam, led the way many othes h-avo entered the field. A woman with a team of horses is daily following the plaugh. Others are planting potatoes with convalescent .soldiers to help tlieru. (he wattles about Levin are in full U 100 in. .Several trees m the bush near the railway station are a splendid higlit at present. J'ciKlieivi are invited lor 'several chains of fencing near GSudstouc road.

MorowhoiHia schools made a line show vils the produce stall at the lair 111 eit.ingtoii' lown Hall and compared favourably with othor districts. The fair was crowded yesterday and it was difficult to move about anil harder atili to get near a stall to purchase u'liything. At the ticket-box where the sixpenny' tickets were sold there was a great jam and the services of a policeman had to be called on to Keep the youngsters in order. II the children' of other districts do as well as those of Wellington district, there will he a good sum realized for the relief of the Belgian children.

J hose who were members of Levin's Chamber of Commerce a lew years ago will remember the agitation carried in then lor the erection of a crane for heavy goods at the local railway station. The erection of a steel crane ol (several tons capacity is now Hearing completion,- so that in future there should be. no need for cartel's taking delivery of heavy goods to have to lose time looking roundi for Sa nitons lo assist them to load and unload.

A letter from R. A. I'ringle, of the

New Zealand Army Service Corps, written from somewhere ill France, arrived at Ihe Chonicle office this morning. The writer wishes to be remembered to all his old friends. At the time of writing he expected to got h'ave to visit England.

The death occurred at Wellington on Thursday of Mr Arthur Drake, a wellknown settler of Manakau, in TiTs 67th year. Ho had been a long resident ot these parts and had identified lifihseiii' •nth the public life of the district. He was a member ot the fiorowhenua County Council, and had done a good deal, both by works and gifts, to 7ie>p towards success, the Manakau Patriotic Society, of which he was a prominent member. Two of his .sous are in Xe\v Zealand contingents for active servico that are now in readiness to go to the t'ont. Deceased leaves a family of seven : tour sons and three daughters. One of the daughters is in charge of Tauinarunui Hospital.