The Chronicle LEVIN: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 November 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

I Mr J. W. Poviiton, ri.M.. gave judgj ment for plaintiffs by default in the following civil cases lier.nl at the Levin S.M. Court yesterday :—Thomas ('il>son v. Stephen Eagle £18 Os lid. costs 16s; J. W. Perkins v. D. | P. Matthews £17 10s, costs £1 Is; J. jW. Bertram v. A. C. .Mason, £5, j costs £1 3s bd : J. P. Ivess v. V. H'it- | chin,gs, 10s 6d, costs ss. i I'or permitting five cows to graze jin Winchester-street, F. O. Smith, | who pleaded guilty, was fined 10s .and' j ' ix.lered to pay 7s costs by J[r J. W. J Poynton, S.M.. yo.storday, at the sitting of tlie Levin .S.M. Court. A similar penalty ivas inflicted on Henry Hook, who also pleaded guilty, for aHo wing three horses to graze m Winchester-strcet. The borough rani ger prosecuted in both cases. S:r Joseph Beecham, of pill fame, who died recently, left £3,000,000. His success was mainly due to advertising l;n the newspapers. From the outbreak of war to the present date the number of men from Dunedin and suburbs, excluding Taieri a.iul Waikouaiti Counties, who registered is 8081 and the number passed as medically fit is SWJI, while the num. ' bcr sent to camp is 4900.—Pross Asso- j ciation.

| Pu'vate George Wilson, V.C., discharged from the army through wtounds and rheumatism, (is selfing evening newspapers at a street corner in 'Edinburgh (says the London Observer). Wilson, who wais |in t!he .Regular Army when the war broke out. fo.ight at IMons and in the battle of tin; Marne. In the early days of the war ho stole from his trench against his officers order, to attack a maclnne-guii crew who were pouring in a galling fire. Entering the wood he fought from tree to tree, killing eight Germans and bunging the ma-chine-gun to the British lines. Su'bsecjuentl,y he was wounded .and invalided home, but returned to the front. With Gd a day allowance for the Vietoii'a. Cross, Wilson has a pension of. 16s per week. ■Figures relating to the purchasing tower of money in Australia during the third quarter of 1916 have been published by the Commonwealth Statistician. They show that, compared with the preceding quarter, the prices of food and groceries decreased 2.1 per cent ; while house rent's remained P'i acti. cally stationary. Compared with the corresponding quarter (July to September) of 1915 the cost of food and groceries decreased 4.8 per cent, while house rent showed no change. The aggregate effect of the variations in prices of food and groceries and housing accommodation shows a decrease in the combined cost of 3.1 per cent. The decrease in Melbourne as comparedi with the corresponding quarter of 1915, was 5.6 per cent, which was a larger decrease than of any of the other capital towns. Over 10,000 women are now empLy<".l as letter-carricrs by the UiiVish Post Office. The Federated Seanieus' Union recently requested the Jlinister of 'Marine to place the crews of the Government steamers ~ Htinemoa, Tutaneka.i, and Amokura under the Union's jurisdiction. So far as the working conditions of the seamen and firemen are concerned the Minister declined to accede to th\s request and) the Seamen's Union executive lias passed the following resolution:—"That the three vessels named be declared "black,' and that deck, stokehold and engine-room men employed thereon from (November 15th shall be considered- working in opposition to the Union and liable to exclusion or non-admission as the case may be." The ships formerly worked! under agreement between the Government- and the Union, but this terminated in November, 1913, dining the waterside strike.—Frees Associa-

Rifleman K. S. Ambler, writing from Brockenhurst Hospital, England, states that in the big advance on the Somme he went as far as one and a half miles ahead of tlie front line before he was hit by a bullet in the leg. He could not walk and so crawled into a shell crater for a time and bandaged, his leg. Then he again started to crawl and was about half a mile from the dressing station when he met Jim and Morrie McTntyre who were on Jatigue duty carying water and they carried W!m out under heavy shell fire. He thought they would not get through alive. He saw Harold EDorlobiii who was carting ammunition to tlie big guns. Fred Astridge, at the time of writi'ng. was in the next bed 1 to him in hospital. He mentions that he met nearly all the Levin boys: J. Hooper, Alf Gray. L. Smith, 'Hector -McDonald, S. Smith, Hughes (Bros K. Cameron and Puku. He was separated from George Winter and B. Lal:ng and does not know how they fared. He concludes: "It's marvellous how a man got through alive. It was a great sight: the ground we went over was riddled with shell holes." "Householders whose residences stand some distanoe back from the street or road have repeatedly been asked to provide suitable letter-boxes at their gates. Yours is such a case, and 1 have now to intimate that unless a. letter-box is provided at your gate within four weeks from date, the delivery of mail matter at your residence will be discontinued. The pressure on tlie time of letter-carriers due to the conditions brought about by the war, has made it necessary for tlie Department to take this step, and I hope you will see your way to comply with tlie request now made without delay. About 1300 householders are being notified in similar terms." The above is the text of a circular letter wincli lias been issued/ by the chief postmaster in Wellington.

A large sale of sheep lias just been reported. Mr diaries Hanson, proprietor of the Waiouru sheep station (76.000 acres), having tfeposed of his fl(sck at a price approximately £30,000 cash. Mr Hanson was a member of the Ist Xew' Zealand South African iContl ngentj under Brigadier-General Robin (then major). He now is enlisting as a private. At St. Helens, Lancashire, Police Court recentlyj a confectioner, Thomas Mkldlehm-st was fined! 40s for exposing /ior sale chocolate creams which 'had become unfit for sale owing to flies crawjihig over them. "Both the medical officer who 'brought about the prosecution and the magistrate who imposed the fine deserve the nation's thanks," a medical correspondent writes to the Daily Mail. "Flies are the commonest means by which typhoid bacillus and the germs of numerous intestinal complaints attacking children in the summer are introduced into food), yet thousands of butchers, conli'cctioners, dairy men, fishmongers and bakers habitually neglect the slightest precautions to protect tlieir wares from contamination." A farmer in the AVillowbridge district has earmarked 140 per cent of j lambs from 270 ewes, writes a corres- [ pondent of the Oamaru Mail. The ewes (Romney cross) are a particularly good line, and have had an abundance of feed all the year. This is oonsidereu' very ,good, as the majority of the lots earmarked so far have been from 90 to 100 pe>r cent.

Some idea of the quantity of fertilisers imported into New Zealand .may l>c gained from the fact that ei'nce the war began 3(5,000 tons of ground raw phosphate have been received from Makatea Island and 4000 tons from Ocean Island. This would represent a total over 70,000 tons of manufactured superphosphate if it were all turned into this fertiliser, but a portion of the phosphate lis used as a base fo'r other manures. About three-quarters of the imported phosphate from the sources mentioned was landed at Auckland.