The Chronicle LEVIN: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 November 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

j As usual the drapery stores uf Levin | Viill close tile whole of next i'riday ; (Irr P;iliiH.i'fttaii' X. show). To-day. i odiU'SJ.iy, the si-ores will 'remain open ! till (j p.m. | ll:;ttlos collected by the school chil- • (Iron ol Dniiedin were r-o!d by publi'I iiuctii.il />n Monday night lor the Iseli imtm I'olief Fund. In all 907,000 I bottles were sold, the amount 'realize ! being" ever A cabled message From Sydney says the latest referendum figures are: No. OGl.Oruj yes, 873,100. It is estiluaited that there are still 350.000 votes of ali-eJasiKS uncounted.

! The Native J,and Court that hag boon sitting at Levin for the past few , day,s has been rdjoir, ned in order to : allow Judge GiFedder t-o hold a court ;at Otaki. The business at Otaki is i expected to last several days, when i tlie Levin court will resume.

A novel but very practical scheme lias been prepared in Chnstehureli to help tlie J Jed Cross .mil tlTc Uelgian Agricultural T?estp; ation Fund. The proposal is that okl implements and other pieces of iron and other metals should be collected oil Canterbury farms taken_toji depot and sold to the foundrics. At first the scheme seems to he a somewhat liinimportant one. but those who have given it serious consideration believo that it can be developed and that as it is cliifFicult to see whevj the war will end it can be made an item in the policy of national economy. A line 10G of five-year-old crossbred ewes, with lambs, sold by Moskvs A. •J. Cooper and Co., Mastcrton. realised the bis price of £2 'lis Od per ewe and lamb at a clearing snlo near Mas. teiton 011 Monday. A Press Association message states that yesterday afternoon nt the Christelujreh Magistrate's Court, before Mr. H. AY. Bishop, S.M.. George Berry Hitchie, solicitor, of ('hr'stchurch, was brought up on a change of converting tru-.t funds to liis <.wi! n.se v : ,7... the ■sum ol £338 lfo 8;1, part of the trust created under the w : ll of Diedrich Kruve, who died in 1905. The Chief Detective stsited that there were, other I'harges ponding, and it was expected that the deficiency would reach the sum r.f .£3OOO. Accused was remanded and; ad iM'tved to bail, himself in £500 and "!Svo sureties of £250 each. Yesterday Dr Hryson proceeded to the Kaiwiu and made a post-mortem examination on the remains vf Tiripa Tancka, whose death on Monday was accompanied by cireunitsanco.s out of the ordinary. Dr Bryson was assisted by D'r Huthwaite, of Otaki, and it is understood! that evidence of concussion of the brain was found. The taking oio evidence /is being proceeded with to-day. Meamvhle deceased's ■lepiiew Kekeheke Taueka. who knockeel her about when lie was suffering from what is sa.id to be religious mania has been committed To Porirua Mental Hospital by iMessrs M. Gilfedder and B. R. Gardener, J's.P.

Considerable improvement has been effected) at Dalgetv atidi Company's Levin saleyards where sixteen pens and tin* races leading to them have been concreted. The work lias been carried out for the firm by the borough overseer, and the main object aimed at, | the elimination of r.ray nuisance, should be attained. The fall given to the ■concrete i« so little. 9in. in 150 ft.. that the solid matter will not be washed into the soak p'ts at the rear, and as a further precaution the p'ts are fit tod with gratings. I.otter mails iov expeditionary forces will close <11 "Wecliesciay. November 8. at 8 p.m. at Wellington. Mr. C. P. Jensen, of Te Horo, wl > waited upon the Horowheiiua CVi ity (.\mnsil at its October meeting, fr«kes exception to the Chronicle's desc iptro i < I' him us a deputation of one. Fie attended merely to put his o'vn case; Mid inasnuich as the dictionary defines the word deputation to mem 'a person or persons deputed to act on behalf of another person or party," Mr. Jensen is correct in his contention. He also takes objection to the statement that' he was introduced to the council by the county engineer. Mr. Jensen informs us that after he had applied to the county engineer to lie introduced to the council the engineer stepped into the council chamber and sa'd: "The matter of the Pahiko drains lias been disposed of. so you won't see him.'' Thereupon Mr. .Tensen spoke to a councillor and to the County Clerk, and thus gained an introduction to "the council. Mr. Jensen contends that there was no joking matter about his application; and he asserts*- that the council, as an administrative drainage authority, was in duty bound to hear him. and as an act. of mere justice.