LOCAL, & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 August 1916, Page 2

LOCAL, & GENERAL

It is announced that tlie Land Purcliiific Board lias bought .Mr Goorjre "NYattsV. Krina Station, situated in tin* "VYairaii Valley. 'Marlborough. as a settlement lor returned soldiers. It comprisofi 7700 acres, of which 2000 acres is agricultural Ihjhl. Mr A. W. Rutherford, juii., Brookdnle, lias purchased the Erina merino floock, also this year's crop of lambs.

An Opunake Times story of a local resident who carried home a cradle recalls to a Yorksliireniaii living in Levin a similar incident. A man living two miles from Bradford tramped to the city and carried home a cradle for his first child. On the way he met a crony, who "chiacked" him. "Ah, John," be said, "tlin wouhlst get married and now thee's reaping fruits o' matrimony!" The cradle-carrier replied : "Nno, laddv ; this is no fruits of matrimony : it's no but the fruit basket I"

A complaint was voiced at the annual meeting of the Tatua tive Dairy Company that some suppliers were taking away from the factory more skim than they were entitled to. Instances were cited whore five suppliers one morning recently had no skim milk to take home. -News, To Aroha.

An interesting item with regard to Lord Kitchener comes from the London Observer: "Lord Kitchener's coat of arms was a perfect menagerie, lor' it contained an olephant. a camel, a gun. « stag, an eagle, a lion, and three bustards. The selection reflects his connection with Egypt. India and South Africa. An orange tree and „n Egyptian flag, and other touches of local colour. The. motto' 'Thorough,' was perhaps the most- appropriate to its holder of ill'any Dehrett."

Old lady (who has just heard his tale of woe): "Ah. poor man. you must indeed have gone through some dreadful tri/ils." Mr. Duntime: "I believe yer. mum - an' what's more, mum, T always was convicted."

Exchanges to* hand report advices from Denmark to the effect that the prices of German cattle 'are enormous. The price runs out at about 2s <Jd per pound. I lie high prices hflve induced German farmers to sell without regard to breeding or milk production. The German authorities have now lixed

in,minimi prices on tin- same basis as the February ]M'ici>s. which are muro than double the prices realised in tin l year of 1!)15. The authorities. according to the Hamburger Xachrichten, aPowed prices to go up to a very largo ex tent, but now they have at last fixed tbe limit. The Danish Government' is drawing up an interdiction against the exportation and killing of ciiws and heifers with young.

Though they largely increased their production during the past year, Messrs Bryant and May. Liimted. London, in their annual report, state that they ivere unable to .satisfy the demand for their matches. The requirements of the Expeditionary Force and the Navy, however, had been fully met. The accounts show that after deducting interim dividends paid on the preference and ordinary shares, there remains a balance for distribution of £91,2(iT. The directors recommend payment of further dividends at the rate of 1-) per c«'nt for tlie half-year ended March HI on the preference shares. 5 per cent, (free of income tax) on the ordinary shares and a bonus of 2 per cent (free of income tax) 011 the ordinary shares.

A message from Xapier snv.s tlint Bishop W. L. Williams died of heart failure at 7.30 last night.

From .September Ist the freight to London on hemp will be increased by per ton, which, with the usual 10 per cent primage,t-will bring the total to £11 per ton. On tow the increase will be L's per ton. making the freight I'll (Is per ton. Previous to the war the charge was £4 per ton.

The weather was so bad la.st Friday tint there was ;i very small attendance t tlio Red Ci •oss Rooms. Levin. Thoso present wore: Mesda.mcs Pink, Cork. Porteous. MeTntyro, Keedwell, Kirkoaldio. Goldsmith.-Kit-liter. and Misses Sodeolo, Weston and Gordon-Glassf'ord. On Satimlsiy Mrs Mclntyro and Mrs Porteous were in charge oi'_ the l{cd Cross sliop. The amount -fcsiken was £8 8s od. The Following sent donations of produce, etc. Mesdanies Stewart. Gimblott, Dean, McTntyre. Porteous. Brown, Bryson, Mackenzie. Stansell. Oak. Ransom, Thompson. Hall, J. D avies. J. W. Procter, J. C. Proctor. Gray. J. Protise, Pink, Stealey. Hitchin gs. R. T). Wallace, W. S. Park. Whitaker, Salmons. Clark. Ingram, Goldsmith, Palmes. Jones. Simpson, Smith. "Richte.r, Hislop, Bartholomew. F. O. Smith, Tickers. Kirkcaldie. Parsons. J. Better; Misses Whitaker, Cathie. Hitchcock. M<*Nickle. Bartholomew. iHitchings, Cotter: Messrs Oak. Ingram, On Tip, Wong. Dnivdfton: "A Friend." Mr Bolton's name was inadvertently left out- of tho list of last week's contributors. The proceeds front the shop on Saturday will go to the general fund of the Patriotic Society.

Mr William T,e Quoux. the wellknown writer and novelist, writing to the Daily Sketch, says:—"Tt is to be hoped that the authorities will now a f . last awaken to the fact that Germany possesses some very rapid and secret mode of communication between Loudon and Berlin, a truth which T have several times endeavoured to pot :it out. The tragic end ol Lord Kitclie ier once against reiterates the peril.. Tho first news of the disaster was issued by the Press Bureau at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, and instantly' the evening papers gave the news to Britain. lot within <i 0 minutes the same news was nct-uallly being distributed in Rorlt.t. •Now. in peace time an ordinary message. even one of those with tho red docket, gummed to it. marking it as a Government message, would take as long or longer to rod oil the Tern.an capital. The Germans have a secret mode of communication, which our In telligence Department—excellent as it i>.—has not vet discovered! A leakage, and n very serious leakage, apparently from some official quarter somewhere, has boon in progress since the war began. Berlin knows what is going on in London before the .nan in the streets knows!"

It is reported that a hitch has occurred in connection with the war bonus to civil servants owing to the discovery that the £400,000 allotted In- Parliament will not he sufficient for the purpose. A South Island fanner arrived in j'ainiei'stoii about a week ago. and being struck by the general appearance of ilie district decided to investigate with the idea of buying a i'arm properly and settling here. When the visitor enquired about land rallies he received some surprises, and he is of opinion 'thait 'whereas farms are isokl at per acre in the South, they rate it as per foot in the North. He informed a l'e.porter that lie had seen sotlie good • land about the district, and the prices asked ranged from £60 to £130 per acre, the latter being the value put on a property on the Rangitikei line, not far from Palmerston, The southerner, once over his first shock at the high land values hero, is not pessimisti' l about the matter and hope* to clinch a deal in the next week or so.—Standard.