WEATHER FORECAST.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 August 1916, Page 3

WEATHER FORECAST.

Wellington, This Day

The indications are for variable ;md moderate lireezes. There is a prospect of fail- to chuukly weather. The night will probably be very cold with frosts inland. The barometer has a rising tendency.

Owing to the shortage in the I'nlmcrston North quota, of the 20th Hem I'orceiue its. still more men are require:! to go into camp immediately for th - divi-ion. Any local man desirous of responding to the call are requested io apply to Ml' C. S. Keedwell, Levin's Inn. recruiting; officer, or to SercrfMajor .Sell, Defence Office. Levin.

( lassie ol instruction for women probationers in telegraphv have now been opened at- Onniaru. Wellington, i'on souby. Ptineclin. and Christcliurc'i. Tli; number of vonng women attending tin elapses i.s 2(50. ()icha.i'dists may obtain copies of tb O I'liard Tax Bill or. application to the (liivi-niim-nt printer. Mr F. Parker's whare at the Hoh'') beach was destroyed by Are aboul 8 o'clock on "Wednesday evening.

j A c »Me message from Xew York rc ports tlmt arrangements have beei j made tor a second commercial credi to fiance of Jive'million pounds uh' ' , j ''rings l' rmiee * borrowiuys Iro/ii t..i 111 itod Status .since tile war to neai . , one hundred million pound*. An an,u. sis shows that before the war banks ii Jiaigland, I'ranee, liu,i|iid Oer'»auy held 1)80,000,(KIO dollars more in gold than the United .Sla.tes. Now tlie Limed States is within Jill.y millions ol their combined holdings. Al the Old I'euro's iiume on l'ark Ishind, Napier, there is a ,-mai! weiliiiied farm o, , lc , (>) u hie,. la,si. yeyir i-upplietl j>io,lnee va.uod at CWJfi. One hundred pigs were reared, .and pork and ba-on to the value ei 1:271 was obtained. Over 20:, pairs ol Jowl, am! -0 ;i(l dozen ejigs were sold, reprosentinv; -One and a hai! acre produced i 1.1:5,1b o| potatoes, valued at C7:.\ and the isale ol other vegetables and fruit realized about C2OO. 'I'be eow.s yielded 2182 gallons of mlik. ol the value of iB'J. A shower bath of red paint is an unpleasant experience (says the Auckland He raid). On Tuesday morning one of the men engaged painting the fortstreet Iron! of Victoria Arcade, It'd lb misfortune to drop his pot, wlib-b. .judging by the after results, nll its fc have been pretty full. The pot bounced along the verandah and then threw a copious dressing on to i;, roadway. .Some of paint .spattered over several motor cars that were lined up in Fort-street. A New Plymouth soldier in cam]) on •Salisbury Plain. England, says: Ali<uu eight miles away is Salisbury, a fairly old town full of interesting ml beautiful things. The cathedral T eannot. desci ibe. We attended there on Sunday night, and three of us from New Plymouth toeOv up t<he -colljoetion in the ancient edifice. One of the • >fK*• - ial - asked us to. and evervbod'v \v:'s s> kii fl to us that we couldn't refuse, so we. with four Australians, collected the offerings and clattered ui> «ver the" fill".-, with our hobnailed boots to t'e altar. .Some of tile old s:fin(.« buiied theie must have wondered, T think.

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