LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 August 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Tin l Election Postponement Bill pvissod through all stages in the Housir last night. The second reading was carried by 41* votes to IG. I'ndier the Military Service Will liorowiienua County lias been placed in the Pulmerston North rceruiting district. The election for the vacancy in the Pahiatua seat' will be held on the 16th inst. -Mr U. B. Ross, who it was reported would stand ;is an Independent, has announced' himself .as a supporter of the National Government. Mr G. D. MarFa-rlane, of Woodville, chairman <jf the River Bank Co-oper-ative Dairy Company, has consented to stand in the interests of the Labour Party. Three Maoris have died at Poroutawliao within the last few day*. Consumption is reported to have been the death of on®. Record prices ruled at the Feilding (stock sale yesterday. HerefordShorthorn i'at bullocks fetched £27 ss, and a line of crossbred wethers and Southdown ewes 50s a head. lucre is a Jieavy llood in tue M.uiakuiu river, tiie water at the I' itzherbert luiiige being higner than (since IUO2. Jhe i'oxton line is under water. ,and it is dioubtiul ii traffic wili bo resumed for a few days. ,At Xapiei the flood waters arc subsiding. Clue ruuholder reports that lie lost i'oOU .sheep An experimental sciiume for the training of women in agriculture haw iieen instituted by the Bedfordshire Education Committee. The idea its to lit women to perforin the lighter operations in farm work, and it is pointed out that no previous experience is necessary. The ptTpil must undertake to remain on mi approved fanll at least eight weeks, the lii-.' foir. of which will be considered as a period of instruction, the pupil receiving a maintenance grant of 10s weekly from the committee. During the second four weeks she will be paid 15s weekly by the farmer, and at the end o) the period she can make he.r own ;i n-a ngenients as to future ' employment.

iii reply to a Parliamentary question by Mr King. Mr 'Pennant stated: —Two cases have been reported in which men who made an unsuccessful appeal lot exemption oil grounds of conscientious objection t<r the tribunal constituted by law have subsequent!))- after joining the Colours been tried by Court-martial. In each casj the sentence «'tis of two years' imprisonment with hardi labour, and was awarded by a district Court-mar-tial. The Army Council, on review of the proceedings, commuted the sentence to one of detention. Tt seems lo me quite unnecessary to advertiso the mimes of these offenders. Tile .livening L'ost reports that Mrs •Maria. Anno liarkins, who arriv (! iu Wellington from Sunderland with her parents (the late Mr Thirkell, who built the Patent Slip in Evans Bay, and Airs Thirkell) about oO years ago, died suddenly on Friday night at the residence of her son-in-law (Mr H. J. Munckenburg), Nairn-street, Wellington. f She had suffered from heart trouble. Her husband, -Mr George H. Hawkins, died in the saino house a little over three weeks ago'. The deceafp.l lias left two sons (Mr Frederick and Herbert Hawkins), and five dr.nightons: Mrs 11. Hooper, of Waikanae: M"rs 8. Hooper, of Levin; Mrs ■I. Da vies, of Ob no ; Mrs H. J. Bunckenburg, of Wellington; and Mrs H. Gorrie, of Mungarca. The late Mrs Hawkins was <i 8 years of age. Ten sTiilijigs bank notes will be circul ited bv the banks throughout thu Dominion within the next few days, power to do this having been granted ilio banks by the Finance Act recently passed by Parliament.

The services on Suuday nest in St ALary's Churdi, Kevin, will be in keep

ing with tin; second anniversary of the

war. A special invitation is given by the vicar to the people- of the district. and especially those who have friends and relatives at the front, to attend their parish church on this • ••casion. In order to ridicule nil order oi General von Hissing's that all dogs in Jtrussels must be muzzled and held ill leash a man promenaded the streets with a pack of greyhounds, bassets, and dwarfs, all with .imitation muzzles ami absurd, designs representing spectacles and other tilings pointed on their heads. A crowd ioliuwcTl the pack highly amused, and at last the police arrested the man, unci his dogs, lie was compelled, to pay £10 before I (■ and his animals were released.

Sir J. Mackenzie Davidson, lecturing tit the Royal Institution on " Electrical Methods in Surgical Science," .■aid that difficulties caused by the misleading results fioin single X-rav pliot igraplus had been largely overcome by ibe use of the spectroscope, which, (iftor being out of fashion for many

>(•«•!•«, was now coming into its own in more useful ways. A young officer who had been told at the Jieldi hospital ■that a bullet had penetrated the bono 0. nd was fixed there, rather resented being told afterwards th-at it had puss-e-.l right through the bone audi lodger] in the armpit. On being shown. IDWever. by means of the spectroscopy that it was Actually so. he submitted (■; the easy operation that was needed

Iho death took place at Girvan on ->lay Bth of llr William Boyce, a Crimean veteran, and joined the 3otli J-oya.lt Sussex Regiment in 1853, and v. a.s afterwards transferred to the cSllh tie Border Regiment. He arrived, in t'-,e Crimea on 9th December, 1854, amd took part in several big engagements np to. tile 9th of July" in the following year, when, while at work iii.' the

trenches before Sevastopol, :liiq .spst b:jth hands by the bursting of a'«ussan shell. He was on inmate of Florence Nightingale's hospital at •S uteri, and afterwards of Chatham Hospital, lingland, where, during a t sit by the late Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was presented to t'leni. The Queen later ordered him to be provided with a pair of' Idjjs:beßt artificial arms, which have lje©tf ! * l'bn • wed every seveo years since, P'oyce possessed the two war f".r. the Crimea, and one of hi* proudo t wHs a silk handkerchief

- one of two . the S'-nt by Her Majesty to his colonel to b.- presented to the two best deservii: £c men in the regiment. Mr Boyea tok an active interest in local affaire, audi was for twelve years a. iromber of Girvan Town Council, and seventeen years « member of the ivan Parish Council.

An "Ctago Daily Junes' reporter h d some euiivliisa uun with Captain X oterson, of • tlio America's schooner O.uega, which is now at Dunediu, wiLlt reiwence to the attitude ol the United S.ates to tiie war. Qfiptain Peterson g re.s as the reason for Americas neuti.dity her absolute unprepar<xkiess, of i\ lich, he says, she ought to be oshaiii-

e i. lie would to have seen the of American citizens more streuu--0 <ly uphold than they have been by 1 iwident Wilson, and, though he ack .oivl edges that Mi- Roosevolt would l 1 vo dealt more firmly with the posit • ii, he nevertheless asserts that Ameri< i would have maintained lver ineutrali;y just as firmly. In connection witu t ' • presidential elections in November. ] 1 fully expects that victory wiil rest v. th Mr Hughea, contending that he 'ii gain practically the undivided mipp rl of the Republicans now that Mr 1; osevelt ie eliminated. Mr Hughes j-- a leading jurist in New York, and v is a former Governor of that Statx).. T'le captain points out, that resident Wilson has a very large tol-v h wing, aaid will undoubtedly secure a g.eat deal of support

Tiu. New Zealand i'armers Co-oj ei..t.,_ l' ~i, ib .tiug (X., Ltd., report thai l.c»:i eggi, aco still in insulficiej: supply 1 .. e-H t.'i.- company's client dom uU>, .li.u* U-e who.esa.e price r< rua ii., two a i.l'ngs per dozen. .Mrs Dnviio,. who has been staying i Levin for the past week or two, wi depart lor England in a week or two time, to join Dr Davies in Jfinglaint Mrs Davies will leave on tlie 17 th Aug list, and will journey by way of th Panama Canal. Air J. Hanson, of Ohau. advertise tiiat anyone trespassing on or cross ing his property after this date wi b« prosecuted, as he has been put t loss and considerable trouble by th inconsiderate acts of casual trespasser 'i ir.s evening at 8 o'clock the Levii Brass Band wi.> give its usual open ait concert in Oxford-street when th' following program will be given:— •Seliction, "The Ruby" ; march "Fighting Mac"; valse. ''The Brida Hose" ; march, "Bondigo" ; inarch "Canberra" ; valse "Queen of th< Woiith" ; maiicji, "Australia" ; "God Save tho King." At Messrs Abraham and Williams f stock sale yesterday ewes in iamb .ok t i oOs (id; culiti -27 7d to 28s; smal woolly hoggets, 20s; sliorn hoggets .0.to 10s; small 2-tooth wethets to 2<3s fa : prime heavy fat cows sold from £11 8s <id to to £16 Is; 2i to 3-year sti-.ev.-to £'J; 'forward raws £7, £7 5s to £" lis; store cows £5 land" £555; .'B- - heifers £3 (is (itl; 18-niouthr steers £5 4's (id, and heifers in call from £(j -h Gd, £7 17s 6d, £8 to ££ 10s. The body of -Mrs E. Bates, one ol tie victims of the Manakau fat:ility, was recovered yesterday. The body of Hates and that of his five-year-old soil was recovered previously. The I'i.ta true which leil on tho tout was SiTcn ieet ill diameter and had been t ...nsMered dangerous by the bushnieii ft.inn time before the accident, in fact o:i the morning of the fatality Bates's (•'•le>; son was away with two busliueu preparing a new camp site. It Is sii.ini.-i di tiiat the accident occurred at mid-day while the unfortunate peoj'i.' were at dinner. The tree when it le I plunged about fifty feet down the hillside carrying a great quantity of spoil with it. and it was this that made tho recovery of the bodies so difficult. The scene of the accident is about eight miles from Manakau up the Waikawn river valley, and after three miles the track becomes very rough and difficult to negotiate. Mr and Mrs Ba.tea came from Petone and Mrs Bates's relatives reside at Eentherston. The funerals of the victims will take place at Manakau to-mor-row afternoon. A Mayawati, farmer, who has a lie d of -10 cows, has solved tho la.bor problem in a manner quite satisfactory to himself and all concerned. Recently his man had left him to go into eanip Init heforo doing so stated that his fiancee, who was an assistant in >■. dra per s shop in Wellington, was moist anxious to take up rural life, while her intended husband was away serving his country. Th# farmer- w: • naturally sceptica.l about employing tlk- young lady, but at the earnest request of the employee ho decided to give the girl a trial, and promised, at the same time, that- she would, if suitable. receive the same wages as in r s h ! ier lover. The young lady du'y ai lived, and liei first duty was to acquire a knowVdge of the introatf working of the milking machines, which she diid in a comparatively shct time. The new assistant hacl now bee. in his employ tor jvv a month, and had given ery satisfajti' u. Oneevening, in comiag home rat*}' i late f'om n sale, he found to hi? surprise 11 at she had started tho machine a and had milked 18 cows. The farmer fiiy.' that if all the girls art' a* gati.e as this young lady diairyfa.rmers in the North Tslnnd need not have qualms about solving the labor problem in the coming dairy season.—Standard. Mr C. Jenkins's house at Shaanon was blown off its piles in the gale on Wednesday night and collapsed. A boy of fifteen years named Claude Harry Waddielii shot himself yesterday morning at his homo in Devon Street, I'lden Terrace, Auckland. His father a baker's driver, returned home for lunch and discovered a note in the hoy's writing in which the lad stated that he intended to shoot himself. On making 'a search Mr Waddell f{rtfn£T the dead body of his son in the house the boy having evidently shot himself through the heart with a pea-rifle. Mr Sidey, speaking after his Daylight Saving Bill had been defeated l , eaid the Prime Minister, though credit miu»t be given him for what he had done, had not yet realised that he was more than the Leader of the Reform Party. The tactics used to defeat the clauses were purely party tactics How did the Prime Minister induce the Liberal members ito vote him? By holding over their heads the bogey of a possible stonewall for a week. That had -secured the defeat <|C the clause, since deven M inisi™:s who had votedi for it before had voted .against it on this occasion.