LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 August 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

j A party of Kevin people Jnul an ex- ; citing outing lust evening. With ;• j hired horse mill trap tlie.y were having | iui outing when the horse showed ..i disinclination to j 011, ami in l hi- end it retunieil to town with th • Ol'CUpalltS following lit illtl'l'Vals illl'l the trap left behind. Fortun.itely the trouble occasioned 110 serious riYiiilts. Seven heifers and a dark-hrown oul. -a Jersey arc unclaimed, in Levin pound. I'll 03* will be sold by public auction 011 31st August and sth Sop- * tember, respectively, unless redeemed 3 on or before that date. I he purchasers of the Oparae estate ot <3000 hiitcs. near Dannevirlie, proves to be .Messrs I'". S. Ifiaston, of I'oxtou, | nnd Robert .Stevens. of Dannevirke. u The program of events to be run at tlie Horowhenua Racing Club's annual meeting on 'Ihursday, 28th September, is published ill to-day's Chronicle, j Fight races are 0.11 the card, the priucipal event being the Horowhenua v,up, of 125 sovereigns. A hack hurdle race begins the proceedings, and there arc three open events. All in all, the program is a first-class one. and a good day's sport should result. Considerable specii.ation has been aroused amongst those who follow the cabled news items about the war, as to 1 the route taken by the Russian troops sent troni Russia to help in 'the offensive on the west trout. A recent issue of The -Sphere (London.) gives a map allowing the successive stages of the journey. Leaving Moscow on February 3rd, the troops travelled east via Samara, Omsk and Irkutsk to Dalii.v (■.Manchuria), thence by transports down t'le Chinese coast to Saigon (a French port in China, to Singapore, Colombo a,ml Aden, through the Suez Canal to -Marseilles, arriving at the latter port on April 20th. The totul distance of ilie journey wa.s 15,300 miles. For selling short-weight bread 4 storekeeper at Maugapai, Auckland, l»as been fined X' 7 and costs £1 10s. The .New. Zealand Herald report* that the evidence showed that inspector Sheuton learned that several complaints bad been made concerning the bread supplied by the defendant. lie visiteel the store and bought a -lib loaf. When he weighed it he found it was 2Jounces short in weight. \\ hen the defendant's cart came in lie weighed ten other loaves in the baker's presence, and every one was short in weight, the ■shortage ranging from loz. to ooz. Counsel for the defendant pleaded guilty, and explained that the latter bak*vd a great ileal of bread lor Austrians who wished it to be exceptionally we! 1baked. The extra time in the ovon caused unusual evaporation in the bread, and this accounted for the loss of weight. At Colninr a merchant has been senI tc::ced to w fine of £0 by a German court-martial for repeating in a public restaurant there the well-known .joke about ordering a sandwich at .1 Prussian railway buffet aaid being served with a meat ticket between two broad tickets. During the Budget debate in the Reichstag, Herr Ledcbour, one of the dissenting .Socialists, said: —''The right to rebel is one which 1 clmim for every nation. The German Government, ',11 supporting Irish rebels has definitely recognized the right of the people to rebel." l'rinco Six to and Prince Xavier of Bourbon Carina, brothers of wife of the Austrian lleir-Apparent, the Archduke Charles Fra.ncis Joseph, who have been sol ving in tha uolgian tinny since the beginning of the war. ii':ive been deprived by Imperial decree of all their Austrian titles and decorations. After a twelve hours' debate it was decided by the Norwegian .Socialists to end the general strike, which was begun as a protest against the Bill for [ compulsory arbitration in labour flis- > putes. The Bill luis now passed the Storthing. Work has been resumed. ! In a new volume entitled "Debris de li Guerre," M. Maeterlinck says:— 1 ''1 used to like Germany, where 1 had 11 iends. Whether these be dead or 1 living they are all, as far as I a>ni cou- ' corned, in the tomb. 1 used to believe ' in the grandeur, the honesty, and the ' generosity of Germany, but there are crimes which annihilate, the past and close, the door for nil time.'' Horse flesh is selling now in Cologne at from 2s Oil to 2s Oil per lb, as compared with Oil a year ago and -Id before the war. Most of it is obta/ined from worn-out army horses, which are sold to the butchers at an average price of JU2O each. The butchers are accused of malting exorbitant profits. In Liepzig horse meat costs 2s a lb. liefore the war it could be had for 3d. The alluring prices of inutton and wool are tempting many agricultural fairmers who can <aftord to do so to make the plunge into pastoral farming. It is no easy thing to change the habits of a life-time, and one would imagine that the stocking ol even a pmall run just now would entail the speedy return of which was problematical, but the fact remains that that 110 less than four properties in the niid-\\ aituki district devoted to agriculture have changed hands recently (says the Oanraru Mail). Their quondam owners are going in for sheep farming. It is not. improbable that the discouraging wheat outlook is responsible. The question of forming Shannon into a borough for the purpose of local Oovernmenf is agitating the people ol the township just now, • Last Friday evening a meeting was he'd to consider the proposal. The meeting was a lively one. and after much talk was adjourned to Tuesday. It is reported that a majority of a committee set up to deiil with the matter is in favour of a borough council, but no definite information has been made public.

; The excess of deposits in the I'cst Ollice Savings Bank for J'tlly, IUUi. was (.'372,11)0. In July 1!J15, the total was L' 210,020. Tli.- time for the sale of War Loan' I Cei iifieatcs from i'l to L'."iO will ho . i xicnli'.l to the end of November or I December. I 'he Anglican Church choir concert look place last night in St. Mary's school 100111. A capital program was provided which was much appreciated hy tlio.se present. The Uov. 11. T. Ntoaiey presided and explained the object towards which the proceeds were to ho devoted. The list of pertorm- ? (,| ' s «"!!« as folows :—Piano .solo, LUiss McNiekle; song. "Shipmate o' Mine," Mr (J. Gardener; song "Knthleon .Mavourneen," .Mis Malcolm; song, "The King's Own," .Mr Woller; recitation. Mrs Reodwell : part song. "A Woodlaiul Serenade," choir; Sony; ".Soinewhere a Voice is Calling. Miss Soott; comic song, "The Polka and the Choir Hoy." Mr Jones: pinno solo. Mrs Matthews ; niee "See our Oars with Feathered Spray." choir; song. Mrs Gappor: musical monologue, Miss Malcolm ; nigger song, "Wonezer Webb," Mr Woller: song, "The Little Silver King." .Mrs Mmtthews; song, ''Beautiful Bod." choir hoys; "God Save the King." In a little Rhineland village near the border of Holland there is. .says a Dutch report, a .smith whose three sons have been killed in the war. When he hoard ol' the death of the youngest ho hurst into fury at the consolation tendered to 11i 111 that his sons had met with an heroic death for the Fatherland. Ho exclaimed "What do the Fatherland and the Kaiser matter to mo!" and hurled a beer glass at a flnist of the Kaiser which stood on the mantelpiece. For thi.s a charge lias been prepared against him for "gross misconduct.'' •'Hy a combination ol measures without precedent in her history, Great Britain has thrown ioito the balance of the present war both men and her wealth. Wile understands clearly the gravity of the struggle, and there is no sacrifice which she is not prepared to make in the common cause." —it. Andre Lehon. Sir Arthur Conun i>oy!e, who has just completed a visit to the French Iriint, says in the .Matin "Like all Englishmen 1 have mot here I am enthusiastic over the French army, itrofficers and men. it organization and iis spirit. Not even in the greatest days of its history it. 1 believe, better than it is to-day." Admiral von Tirpitk on the North Sea battle: — "Happily the battle speaks for itself. It has destroyed the unjustified prestige of the British Hoot. Howi ver highly 1 appreciate the valour of the foe, their severe defeat on the seas over which lOnghind claims sovereignty will long live in history." The Illinois O'teol Company has suggested the following plan to their employees: "For the married man who cannot get along without drinks the following is suggested as a moans of freedom from bondage to saloons: Start a saloon in your own home. Be the only customer (you'll have no license t.o pay). Go to your wife and givo her two dollars to buy a gallon of whisky, and remember there are sixtynine drinks in a gallon. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife, anil by the time the first gallon is gone she will have eight dollars to put in the bank and two dollars to start business again. Should yon live ten years and continue to buy booze from her. and then die with snakes in your boots, she will have enough money to bury you decently, educate your children, buy i house and lot, marry a decent man, and quit thinking about your entirely." At the Dannevirke races yesterday £12.003 was put through the totalisator >:is against jL'12.39-1 on the corresponding day last year. The heavy rains of the hist few weeks has put a stop to the flaxmilling industry /along the Manawatu line and on to I'oxton. The whole of the country is 1 still under water and the loss to millowners and the workers is a heavy one. The laiinfall in Palmerston North for the first three weeks in the present month has been quite out of the ordinary. In the time mentioned 3.1)7 inches have fallen. The fall for the corresponding period of last year was 2.48 inches and the for the like period in the preceding year 1.80 inches. In the last twelve months 53 Hindus arrived in the Dominion and 32 departed. Of the arrivals no less than -l.'J arrived during the last live mouth;. The Hindus came from Fiji and the most of them find their way into the country south of Auckland along the Main Trunk line. Fanners who employ them say they do not do as much' . in the same time as a white man : two white men being equal to three Hindus, and so for a considerable time six shillings per day has been thought good pay for the latter, but lately they are demanding higher wages.