The Chronicle LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 August 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

[ wei man ships <jl tSB,< ( JO tonnage hold ' by Portugal, have been ceded to lii itam. They are inaniiod I)y L'.'jOO IW(iigiie.Hi marines. England pays 11iji o 11.i<Ji c< 1 thousand escudos monthly for the use of the ships. 'he secretary of the I'ost and Te.'e gr.iph Department advih.es as follows: "Lode indicator, Vanquisher,'' .l,on don. now cancelled, .substitute indicator "Zeadvoeate" Loudon for cable mossago? to members New Zealand Expeditionary Force in England and Franco. Ihe code address ''Basenz" Cairo i.s cancelled. Cable messages for ,\w : Zealand soldiers in Egypt should lie I addressed care "Zealandrec" Alexandria. Message*; of enquiry concerning records of casualties Expeditionary Force, Egypt, should be addressed trr "Zealandrec." Alexandria. lJoy James Laurbes*, an ex-,jockey, ivas charged at tiie \Yaiiganui Magistrate's Court,, on Monday morning, with not attending parades. '..e did not appear, Lambess is :I'2 years of age, and is described as one of the worst shirkers in the Dominion. The Magistrate deprived him of all civil right<for tive years. | "As an example of patriotism the ac- | Lion of a Alastcrton resident will be j hard to beat," stated Councillor Temple at a meeting held on .Friday niglit in connection with the war loan. ''This man had four sons at the front, and in order that he might subscribe to the . war loan he had borrowed money at j the bank at <i per cent, for which he J wiil only receive 4-J per cent interest." i At the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday Gerald 3X> Mey, a fanner of To Horo. claimed the sum of C'JflC ' from Percy Gillies, also a farmer, for alleged malicious prosecution. Plaintiff complained tliat defendant had maliciously secured the issuance of a warrant to the police to search pJaintiffV farm for sheep which belonged to defendant, and which it had been alleged or suggested were stolon by plaintiff. On the sheep being mustered on plaintiff's property one was found which defendant claimed. Subsequently Gillies instituted proceedings charging T)e .Mey with stealing a Rheep valued at HOs. The Magistrate dismissed the charge. For the defence ill the present action malice was denied. .After hearing evidence the Judge non-suited plaintiff Notice of appeal was given.

j A final reminder is given of tin j Church of England choir concert whirl j will ho liokl to-night (Wednesday) ii j vSt. Mary's schoolroom, J.evin. Tin j price of admission i.s Is. | The chicken liend is much in evidenci ! in the Frimley neighbourhood, 'it > j I hustings. Recently a well-known res ident had a encounter with the fowl snatelier as he was leaving the premise with a .sack full of liens, the result o the struggle being that the thief os eaped minus his ill-gotten booty, am the resident was the worse off by threi broken rilis. The fowl-snateher, how i ever, made good 011 the other side o s the road, where ho successfully annex ed a number ol' well bred fowls. Arrangement* are being made at Ot tawa for returned .soldiers who arc 110 equal to active service to act, as far a i possible, as home guards in Canada thus releasing the present guards to ' oversea service. 8 Owing to the increase of crime ii s Madrid the Government has decided 01 t a general expulsion of foreign" "desert ers who are to be Kent to thoir respec live military authorities. In summing up in .1 charge of man daughter, at the Palmenston Nortl iS'upreme Court sittings last week, 'tin n Chief Justice said that 3130 motor car were imported into New* Zealand ii the month of June. ' The scheme for the collection o bottles bv the pupils of Dunedin citi and suburban schools is progref*>iii{ very ,sati.slactorily. The Otago Drill; Times says that so far 01.000 bottles valued at approximately £100, liavi . been sorted at the depot, and the col ! lections of ."-even schools have been re ; reived but not sorted. The first con ; signinent from the Port Chalmer f fS;-hool was received 011 Friday. A j local firm haw consented to exhibit ii i one of its windows one of each of th I various classes of bottles which have found their way into the .sorting build ing. There must 'be fully 150 differen sizes and shapes, which may never hi seen in Dunedin again in one col lection. An account of 1(!() sovereigns bein; buried ill the ground and forgotten i uircn in connection with the death o Miss Eleanor Jones, of Aramoho. Wa nganui. 'I'lie two Misses Jonc.- (0111 died a few months ago) were orchard ists, and lived on the same propcrt; lor sixty year*. Some years ago the; built a new house, and during the re ■ nova I operations tlie bag ol sovereign was found. One of the sisters Ii a-; put it away and quite forgotten tlr circumstance. "Wheat or slock:'" has ceased to hi the question of the day in fanning ' circles Kays the Oaniaru Mail). lin problem now appears to be whether ti farm or keep rabbits. The price pe skin for super winter black skills ii quoted at B(id to DOJd. and all otlic ' lines show such advances that the mat who grows wheat and i.s free from rah bits will grow discontented. In riev of the fight against the rabbit, aiu the gradual extinction of all kinds <r those anima\s that produce the iiiiir; fashionable furs, it. is most, unlike 1 \ that a decrease ill the price of suite" tine winter skins will occur. A Mr. W. Thomson. speaking at l.ady Stout's meeting at I'alnierston last week, said that a Scotchman win had three .sous at the war. one ol whom hail been killed at Gallipoli. anr one of whom had been severely wounI ded. had told him that his boy hat written to him stating that soldier; with the main body had deserted and 1 gone over to the Turkish trenches, .anil had called back. "You're not at Trentham now!" A contemporary, commenting on the above, says:—"The .statement was so obviously the grossest of exaggerations that we had decided to take 110 notice of it. but a deputation of two returne'cl men from the main body called upon us and asked us to make a contradiction of it , through our columns. "The man whe used the statement, and the. man win: repeated it in print." said one of the Anz.acs. ''did not tliinli of the many mothers who have lost their sons at Gallipoli." "And." added the othei r -a man who was 01) Gallipoli from start to finish — ''the storyteller is a fool as weir as a liar; for we of the Main Rody were never in Trentli uv Camp! So how could we be haunted about TrentliamP" Truly, the liar needs to have a good memory.