The Chronicle LEVIN: FRIDAY, SEPT. 22. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 September 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN: FRIDAY, SEPT. 22. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Ai tin' Wanganui rares yesterday liie Mini til' £21,3:29 wa,s put thruugh tin- lotal.sat.or ;i.s against, C 22.231 last ail increase (! | £2098. The AYan.u.iiii'M Guineas foil to Bjornoburg. with tiiol ay i n-tra ined Sweet Tipporarv in Mv .nd ])lac«', and Elation third. Ylad-i-iii reounti cl lor tlii' Okeliu Hurdles. Marton ami Sty rax filling second ano. third pi -'100 respectively. The Gonvil'o Hurdles Handicap was won by I! i.-ord. Guidon .March t>ecoiid and Ar-tin third. Onyciuin won tin- I'u.t ki Hack. I* :doio and Stareugo filling pi, -co-. IX'predation won the Spring Hindi ap tiv;in Holtaiie, Rewipoto oo<ii|jillir third place. The Durie Hackloll to Hylatu.s. Cleft being stolid and (.'amp flaaid third. >'eod potatoes continue in demand at tlii' Horowheniia Krn it growers' AsM)eiatii!iffrlepot and are wiling at from £0 10s to £10 per ton. Tomato plants in good healthy condition arc now coming in and .selling freely, while enquiry for cabbage and cauliflower plants remains u nsat-isfied.. any lots offered for sale being cleared quickly. Last night was the coldest felt hero for .some four weeks past. Frost was experienced at Henltlierlea .settloniont. and many of the early cropis of potatoes wore damaged. The Government has advised in regard to the liability or othenv'sc to military .service of shearers and slaughtovmcn from Australia visiting this country, that no definite time is fixed by the Military Service Act during which men mav reside in Xew Zetland hefori' becoming liable for sorvico. The test is residence in the dominion, and the mere casual presence in New Zealand for a temporary and special purpose is not residence, within the moaning of the Act. Visitors to New Zealand therefore do not liecomo subject to military service unless the e-'reninstances are snob as to show a decision to remain in the eonntrv permanently or for an indefinite period. Plans ire being drawn for oxtonsivad''.i>i ions to the Levin Presbyterian Church, which when completed will be one of the best church buildings in the district. The additions will include Sunday school room, ladies' room etc, at the roar of the present building. while a now entrance and porch will bo erected in front. The total cost will lie .about CoflO. and towards this amount the sum of over £100 is I'ssiircil already. A niuch-no;vlori improvement has been effect"d by the Borough Council in l.erbing aiulrputting in a concrete channel on a length of several chains along the west side of 'Oxford-street in front of Dr. Davies's residence. The work has boon well done, and all cause for complaint i.s now removed. At preiseiit the roads overseer is having the roadway on each side of Queen-street opposite the Levin Hotel, tarred and sanded for a width of nine or ten- feet from fjhe kerb. Both sides of Oxford-street from Queen-street to Rath-fitreot will bo treated similarly.

A meeting of the Manawatu Flaxmill Employees Union will be held on 30th September, at J'almcrston X'ortli. Details are set out by advertisement in 10-day's Chronicle. A wholesale paper meicliaiit ha.s received advice from England that a further rise of 4d per lb —to Is—will take effect in a month's time on job-printing papers. Hefore the war these could 1)0 bought from 2-itl to 3 ; Jd per lb. For .some time past l.ev.'n has been asking that land iji the vicinity shall acquired for closer settlement purpose? ,'says the Evening l'ost), and the member for the district (Mr W. H. Field) has made representations to the Government on the subject from time to time, with the result that negotiations have been entered into for the purchase of portions of more than one large estate in the district. The estate of the late Mr John.R. McLean, owner of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, who died recently, is estimated at nearly $100.(100.000. (£20,000.000). 'Mr McLean's son, Mr Edward R. McLean, married a daughter of the late Mr Thomas F. Walsh, owner of the famous Camp Bird Mine in Colorado, and their son. the heir to the fortune* of both families, is popularly known as the "hundred-million dollar baby." When a prominent Eolith American boxing promoter recently offered Georges Carpentier. the French cahni- : (in. nearlv £20,000 for two bouts at Ruenos Aires, with a percentage of the gate receipts for the French 11 e; 1 Cro<s Fund, the boxer replied, though the French authorities were willing to give him three mouths' furlough, "No. I do not fight for money now but for France. When the war end*, if I survive, 1 will fight in your country, but not before." Lord Milner. speaking at the Speechday celebrations at Shrewsbury School, ,' iid he held with absolute conviction the view that after tlr.s war the future was going to be for us a new world, with new and immense difficulties and problems. We should need all our strength to reconstruct this country on lino* that promised a worthy, not to say a glorious future, ft was not a choice between "muddling" along" and ,a huge new effort of reconstruction : it was a choice of such an effort., of chaos and ultimate national decay. A severe Hash of lightning dud damage at Runanga the other day. A woman who was feeding poultry and who had her arm resting on the railing of a fence, sustained a paralysing seek. A post in the fence was smashid into splinters. The tops ot chimneys in an adjoining cottage were knocked oft', the bricks sent flying in all directions, and l , the foundations were severely shaken. The family was at a ucal at the time, and received somewhat of a shock at the unexpected bombardment of bricks and mortar. Indicative of the keenness with which i he Custon.,- authorities of the .dominion l.>ok out for possible enemy goods icaching shippers undrr some plausible T'.ilse description, an incident is related in connexion with a certain class of goods which, prior to the war.'was iinp n ted from Germany, and bore the I 'gend, ".Made in Ciernriny." The suspicions of the Custom.- officers were ja;ous<d.. and they probed the whole j matter very c.irefully. when goods of a !1 ke description, but bearing the leJ L'cnd "Made in France." and in tin'' -a:ue lettering, came to hand after the war had been some time in progress with the result that t'ley found that a .sample of the German manufactured goods had been sent to a Parisian manufacturer ivho had produced an exact facsimile of the enemy-manufactured. article, even to the use of similar typo to designate the country of manufacture. For having recklessly driven a motorcycle on the main road at Wereroa, Valentine .Schramka was convicted, on the in formal ion of the police, at the Levin S.M. Court yesterday. The magistrate. Mr. J. W. I'oynton. ordered him to come u]» for sentence when calI d upon, and to pay costs amounting to 9s. There was only one civil cane heard at Levin S.AT. Court yesterday. Mr. •J. W. I'oynton. S.M., presided. J. T. Oak sued Titi Rroughton for the sum of 275. Judgment, by defendant's default to appear, was given for plaint'ff. with 8s cost*. 'I he mayor of Levin invites the business people of the borough to observe next 'lliursflav afternoon as the weekly half-holiday, ill lieu of the usual AVedliesday. the occasion being the day allotted by the Racing Conference to the Horowhenua Racing Club for its annual race meeting. The Chrisiehurch Star reports that the directors of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, at 1 a meeting on Saturday, decided to donate the slim oi £-">OO to the Red Cross Society. To enter a first-class smoking carriage. and to find; snugly ensconced there a young lady who looks no more than twenty is nowadays not worthy of remark. savs a Taran.aki paper. Rut when. as on n Xew l'lvmouth train, the young lady brought forth a cigarette and smoked it. repeating the action again and again, the surprise of the men in the carriage, though not openly manifested, was verv real. The establishment of an experimental farm on the West Coast will be attended; to at once (states the Wesport limes). Its location will depend on the reports to be submitted by experts to the Minister of Agriculture. At least three agricultural experts will be sent to the Coast by ihe Minister. One will l;e required to report upon the most suitable locality for lime-burning. Rifleman C. Howe, of Levin, who was wounded. at the front a few weeks I is reported to be lying seriouslv ill m ! the A\ altoii-on-Thames hospital, ling- J land.

Wstorday afternoon portion of tlio cloth stolen from Mr Frechtling'S tailor shop last week was found by some children under the trees at the back of Mr J. Smith's stables. Seemingly the whole - lot was too great a burden for the thief and he considered the getting ■«way with half the plunder better than none at all. This leaves a hope that he may one da.v be led to dock himself out in stolen plumes and proclaim his identity to those most anxious to know. A pre. s association message from Aucklai.d says: "What were said, to bo th> iii>t prosecutions in the Dominion under the Foctweiar Regulation Atffc came up for hearing in the Police Court yesterday. 'Two Auckland firms, MilIciiS.Ltd. and Hallenstein Hros., were charged with exposing for sale certain footwear composed partly of leather and partly-of other materials without 'having a statement of such materials legibly stamped on the outer surface. Finos of .Co were imposed in each case. The Conscription Referendum Bill has passed the third reading of the Australian House of Representatives. An amendment permitting naturalized enemy .subjects with sons serving in the Australian forces to vote was neceptedi. The date fixed for the taking of the referendum is October 28.