LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 October 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The Feilding Borough Council lias consented to be included in the Foxton Harhor Hoard district, conditional on the rate not exceeding one-Awcntieth of a penny in the pound. 13y advertisement on page 3. 31r. J. T. .Martin, census enumerator for the County of Horowhcnua. notifies that all census papers will be called for on Monday next, 16th October, or as . sot li thereafter as practicable. Any householder in the oountv who hn« not received a paper should communicate with Mr. Martin immediately. A dairy cow (rod) with crumpled born. Ims been lost- by Mr 1. 13evan, of Manakau. A reward is offered for | her return. The Railway Department advertises excursion rates trom this district .in connection with the races to be held at Treiitliam next .Saturday (21st Octiber) and the Monday following. For the IJawke's liny show, to be " held n. Xt week, the Government railway department advertises excursion faros, available to passengers from this ' district. The advertisement appears on page 3. Sunday, loth October, will be observed as young people's day at the Presbyterian Church, when addresses suitable to the occasion will be delivered; by the pastor; hymns also in keeping will be sung at each sorviee. Special attention is drawn to the evening service, at which Mr Jesse White will preside at the organ, and also sing a solo; as Mr W bite leaves for the military camp on 'Monday, no doubt his many friends will seize this opportunity of hearing him play and sing, and also to wish him God-speed. Mr and .Mrs T. Edwards, who have been residing in Shannon for the past twelve months, have returned to Levin. -Mr Edwards has enlisted and leaves for the trilling camp oil Monday morning. The census papers for the taking of the census on «3Unday (to-morrow) night have now been distributed throughout the borough and Wirokino riding of the county. Any person who lias failed to rccoive one should apply to the sub-enumerators, Mr C. Curtis, of the post office, for the borough and Constable JBagrie for the Wirokino riding, or to the enumerator. Mr J. T. Martin, postmaster, Shannon. A substantial .sum of money will be netted from the entertainment given by the Pierrots on Thursday evening, the expenses having been kept down to a bagatelle. The idea of the entertainment originate! some time hack with Mr Jesse AYliite. whose work ill oj'"gamizing the Pierrot part of the program was warmly acknowledged; by His Worship the Mayor. Pressure on our space prevented our giving the portion of Mr Hlenkhorn's speech wherein this acknowledgement was mad". Amongst the contributors to the evening's amusement was Mr Donald Matheson. whose comic song evoked the heartiest of applause. Ry an oversight. Mr Matheson's name was omitted from the list of contributors published in yesterday's Chronicle. A grandson of Major Liddlo, of Levin. is returning to New Zealand today, invalidcdi from Egypt. Another grandson (an Auckland boy) has been -everely wounded, a,ml will he returning in January. Major Liddle has four other grandsons on active service, one of whom is in the flying corps.

Councillor Kebbell sadd on Saturday that tho County Council had found contracting for maintenance of roads had proved unsatiisactory, and the council had abandoned! it. It of tens happens that letters to the County Council arrive on the morning of the meeting and sometimes while the meeting is in progress. This gives councillors and officers little chance to give due consideration to the matters thus brought under its notice. The council objected to this at its meeting to-day and several letters that came to hand by the late mail, and one from Messrs Loughnan and Jacobs, were held over till next meeting;. The chairman said they had a. resolution in the minute book dealing with the matter, and it was not necessary to further advertise as suggested by Councillor Kebbell. The county ranger has been instructed bv the county council not to impound off all district roads in tho county on and after October 21st between the hours of 7 a.m. and o p.m. "I am not going there again! The last time I went they (the settlers) rousted on me after all the trouble we took to smooth matters over," said Councillor Catley at the county council meeting to-day. H'e bon'tinued that one settler had taken the part of the man whom the council had compelled to clean his drains, which in their uncleaned; state were a nuisance to tliem. A figure in county finance was placed in front of a deputation by the chairman of the council to-day. He told them that the amount of revenue collected by the county was about £13,000. Of this sum £3300 went in levies made by the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board; another £1000 went in salaries and office expenses. etc., so that about one-third of their revenue went before the council could spend anything on county works. The new Otaki Town Boardi is reviving the question of lighting the township by means of electricty, and at a meeting held last night it was decided to ask Mr T. Bastin, C.E., of Palmerston North, to report' on the possibilities of harnessing the TVaitohu river as a source of supply. The chairman of the county council at its meeting to-day informed a deputation (of whose coming he had received no notice) that it was the rule of the council not to receive deputations without being advised beforehand, otherwise they would not bo able to arrange the business of the council, and wouldi be unable to get