The Chronicle LEVIN; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 November 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

— .——— - An Eclemlalo farmer who is on a visit ito Taranaki in search of farming land. lia.id to an Eltliam "Argus" importer"i admit that the dairying lam?, around here us excellent, but the price is too high by 50 per cent. In tlie -south 1 can clear £G an.acre off land which cost me £30 per acre, in the rio.nity of Hawera I hare been asked anything from £80 to £100 pelade. 1 don't saiy that a man cant' e.N ist it he pays that price, but I am certain that- ho \v:ll be unable to make a fair profit on hi/s labour." Adjutant editor of the War Cry, is visiting Levin lor the weekend, and 1 is conducting services en | the local .Salvation Army Hall torn orrou - . 'I he Ashhurst-Pohangina races will be held at Aslihurst on November 22 ■and in connection therewith .the rail- ' way department will issue excursion tickets to Ash'hurst from Levin and intermediate! stations. The ttiokets ' will be avil'lable for retiwn the following day. The timetable is advertise:l ; '- on page 3. Adjutant Glariville has received per Mr Mason, the sum of 10s, a donation . towards the; Salvation Army iPatit- j otic War I< und, from the iLevin troop ( of Dominion Boy Scous. I I

The Salvation Army during the first week of December, a.re making a spcd'iil effort to raise (funds throughout the Dominion in, aid of the Belgians. The money raised mil be admin,'stored by the Salvation Army, officers in Belgium. The local corps me having a grant musical festival on Monday, December 4th. The firm of John Edward Butler and 'Jo., Ltd., leather merchants d'oing business in Wellington. Dunedin, Christehurch and Auckland, has been muictoa in the .sum of £'-1000 by the Customs Dept. A paragraph in the Government) Gazettq runs :—''lt is hereby notified for (public information that the firm of John 'Edward Butler (limited), merchants, having t;n the 2oth July, 1910, adntttcd in writing that it had from time to tiine prior to that date committed offences against the Customs Acts, the Minister of Customs has accepted from the said firm, in full satisfaction of tho penalties thereby incurred, the sum of four thousand pounds (£1D00) isteiiing." . - A wn.ter in the \Sy<!ney /Referee «tates that iDaroy is heading for Vladivostok, or possibly Valparaiso (Peru) or ChiKi. Tho vessel which lie joined is an ocean trader, 'and is a frequent tripper between Australia and oti'.er parts of ths world, and may go stra ght to South Ameir/ca,, but he mentions Vladivostok as the more likely <!fostcnation, :a.s well-informed indivi duals state that the vessel, the name of which is known, may make lor Russia's naval sea port on the Japan Sea. A message from Sydney .says that yesterday, amongst the luggage of a passenger departing by the Ameu.can steamer, two letters we:e found addressed to Darcy, one bearing the pencilled signature of a w?l!-kncwn Sydney sportsman. The passenger andi luggage were taken ■ashore and proceedings w-Ml be taken u"der the War Regulations Act.

r lhe cost to Xciv Zealand of the occupation of Samoa to date has been £23iJ,r08. The principal items in the cost have been as follow Pay, £139 --S; 'transports. £84,!777; rat/.ons, L'3;j,o9S; and forage, £11,537. Ihi' liusftian Government has decided, as the result of careful deliberation, to prohibit absolutely the importation of articles of luxury from all countries. The tremendous growth of the use of motors at the front may be gathered from the fact that the 'English war authorities are calling for an additional 15,000 car-drivers. Jhe backblockers in Waimailiio are labouring under unenviable transport difficulties. We were informed save the Waima'il.iio Call by a Mangatiti settler that he saw within one week, on the road leading to Mangatiti land ing, three pack-horses which had fallen off the track i.nto the stream far bel..w. The six foot tracks have been rendered extremely risky by numerous filips which block the narrow ledge kke tracks and compel man and beast to negotiate a precarious passage over the "toe" of the slip and on the edge of etern.'ty. It is not often xliat a seaman who has lost his boat »v;ll walk 80 miles to tiie next port to re-join. This happened, however, in respect to two sailors on the is.s. Somerset, who, havng missed the ship at Duucdin, walked to Oamaru. On reaching there the men found 1 the ship had gone on to 'J imam, so, not relishing another 00-m:i!e walk, they gave themselves up to the police, who sent them on to the Canterbury port.

The Telegraph Office states that all cable messages for wounded or invalided soldiers should be addressed, care of ''Zeadivocate," London, whicli is kept advised of all movements in hospital and will arrange lor the 'deli very of. messages.