LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 November 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Letter mails for expeditionary forces will ,close at Wellington on Saturday, November 25th, at 8 p.m. Newspaper-- and parcel mails will close on Thursday November. 23rd at noon. Rifleman W. W. lsitt, son of Mr L. lsitt, M.P.. is reported in thei last casualty list dead from wounds received at the front. Hautere Rifle Club closed the year with a credit balance of £7 Os 9d, as against £2 17s 2d for the previous yea)- Liabilities are £3 lf)a ■*, Mr W. 13. Weggery, a well-known resident of Paraparaumu died on Wednesday morning. He was 63 years of age. The first ballot under the Military .Service Act is being taken in Wellington to-day. The warrant authorizing it was issued by the Executive Council yesterday. The marriage of Mr Neil Campbell, of Gbau, and Miss E. McLeave.v, only f'mijrhter of Mr and Mrs J. Mel ,eavey, of Ohau took place at the Catholic Church, Weraroa., yesterday. Father Henry officiating. The wedding breakfast was .served in the Druid's' Hall when the customary toasts were honored. A press message from Pahiatun says that Tim Troy, Maurice Costello, and Joseph Scctt were jointly charged the .Magistrate's Court yesterday with ennsi/'ring to defraud Frederick Crossley a veterinary surgeon, of Wellington. of a sum of £52. The charge was the outcome of a game of poker in a local hotel on race night. After a portion of the evidence had been heard the ease was adjourned to Wellington on December 19th. The accused; are well-known in sporting dircles. The joke of the season is recorded against the Customs Department in Wellington. Recently, a well-known Oiristchurch wool dealer asked for permission to export a thousand bales of golden fleeces to America. He was turned down. He made repeated re- ' presentations. It could not possibly be done. Then he heardi that an application from Armour and C'o's. representatives to be permitted to export one lb usand bales of crntchuigs to the United States had been granted. Burning With righteous indignation he took the first- boat to Wellington and interviewed the Customs head. He demanded an explanation. The head was dumb-founded. . "To toll you the truth Mr ." he explained with great gentleness, "we did not know crutchings were wool." "D)xl you think they grew on trees " asked the exasperated southerner, and then, realizing the general perturbation of his fellow victim the wool merchant's resentment was extinguished by a perfect gale of laughter, and he is now retailing the story, in places irere men most dlo congregate as really the best he ever heard. ' Speaking at the Empire Theatre, London, during a pause in the exhibition of the great film "Britain Prepared," the Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty, said;: '•The portion of the Grand Fleet which you see is actually engaged in the groat operation of war. On it depends the whole of the operations carried out by the Allies from Archangel ill the north to right round to the Persian Gulf." This is the testimony of the man at the head of the British naval department. He concluded : "If what j yon see with your eyes gl'.ves you a clear concrete image of the general and abstract truths. I shall feel that this entertainment is-even more than an entertainment—that it is a dleep and vital lesson to all who are interested on the future of mankind." "Britain Prepared" was. taken with the sanction and under the supervision of the Admiralty and War Office, -and is easily the finest views of Britain's fleet and army in the making and at woi J k ever shown. It will be screened here for two flights only—Friday and Saturday, November 17th and 18th. A special feature will be the music, which, played by the orchestra, contains the stirring marches to which British sailors and soldiers so often have swept on to *> 1 have performed some miraculous cures at the front, writes "Ensign" in the Outlook, with the help of a little ehloTodyne or aspirin or tlfermogene wool, plus the devil of a lot of belief iil my powers, and you will get a lot more satisfaction from carrying some simple medicines in your kit than in a box of cigars or silk pyjamas. I once had a patlient with a very bad neuralgia. 1 cast my medical eye over him and said, "I shall give you some, whisky" ; his face brightened' in an instant, and then 1 added, "Externally." I put- the whisky on some tliermogene wool and tied it on his face, assured; him that he would be all right ! in an hour for certain, and he was. Mind you. he was not malingerer—he was a good soldier and had never asked for anything, but I noticed that he could hardly see out of one eye ; but my tliermogene wool and stupendous belief in my own skill as a doctor did the trick. The Military Appeal Board to hear appeals under section 35 of the Act, dealing with members of families with no representative iji the present "forces, will sit at Palmerston North in theS.M. Court on Wednesday, November 2nd at 11 a.m. The motion submitted to the meeting lieldl in the borough chambers on Tuesday night "That a 'clean-up' and f paint-up' campaign be Started in Levin" was carried unanimously. This was inadvertently omitted from tho report published yesterday.

A benevolent old lady looked out of her parlour window one day and saw a man walking up and down the pavement, apparently On great dejection. There was .something pathetic and appealin gin his manner, so she took a sovereign, put it fn an envelope, and wrote on the envelope "Never say die." OS'e slipped out of the house .in the niC'St ei'Siifil manner she could assume and handed the envelope" to the mail as she passed him. Next day the same melancholy man called at her house and presented her with ten sovereigns, "it's funny," he said ; you're the only one that backed that horse called 'Never Say Die.' " The Rod Cress shop was in charge of Mis Piaster and the Misses Parsons and Weston on Saturday In,si. Tho * following wore the contributors :- Mesdaiv.es Soronson, J. Parsons, Goldsmith, R. C. Mark. Adkin. Sobyc. J. Prouse, Walkley, Allen. Vickers, Pink. Astridge. Saxon, G. P. Brown, F. O. Smith, Phillips. F. Whitaker. J. Procter, T . Ti'o,ok, Reading H. Hook, MivUenzie. Smellie. Blackburn. A. R. Jlarberi 'Wright. F. G. Roe, Gardener. Mioses McJvcgg. Page. A. F. Wilson, Sod cole. G. Phillips. Master S. Hall. The following attendede the Red Cross GuildMcsdames Prouse. Vickers, Kirkoaldie. Cork, G. Phillips. Walklev. Hoc'k. Gi v son. Pink, Plaster, Davidson, Park. Mackenzie. "Edwards. Goldsmith. Aitkon, Misses Sodcole, Hook, Weston. Pink. Malcolm. Aitlcen. Butler. Mr* Plaster dispensed afternoon tea as usual. The takings amounted to £4 3s 9id. For the previous week the receipts were £2 14.s 7d. The Misses Cameron and Moil had charge of the .shop and 1 contributions were sent in by the following: Mesdames -J. Prouse, Goldsmith, Whitaker. Dolwon. G. Phi'lips, G. P. Brown, Vickers. R. A. McDonald' O'iDannell. O'Dnnohue. Essex. Hanson. Blenkhorn. F. Roe, F. 0.. SmPth. Tn the cake corn petition Air R. A. McDonald was the lucky winner. By advertisement the borough council invites tenders for the leasing of municipal sections amongst which are six sections fronting Oxford-street. These sections are valuable business sites, andl it may be the last opportunity to secure one or more. Conditions may be seen at the borough office. i