The Chronicle LEVIN: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 November 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horseflesh. once the cheapest and must popular food ■ for the poorest classes in Vienna, costing less than •id. per lb, now coste 2s. In Berlin the price half-a-crown. Hor.semqat sausages, which before the war cost only a halfpenny, cannot now be got for less than 4d to -3d. •H-eierrin-g to the 'clean up'' audi "paint-up" scheme started in Levin last week the Fox ton Herald sayrs : "Ilie promoters of the scluime 'aire to bf commended ~pjnd other towns wi :EI watcli the 'experiment. Of course, the pa! Corporations Act provides the machinery whereby tall tilings proposed may be done by the Council. But any Council would welcome the operations of such a society, and give it official backing, Anv how. good luck to the Ix l vi 11 organis•'tron, the operations nf which we will watch and "record for Foxton's benefit." Count Reventlow finds the idea or the destruction of London by 110 means unpj; amt, but "to speak publicly of .such t!rt'.g« and after the mariner of the anc-': :it Prophets," he cannot regard it as precisely expedient, -in view of the British character for tenacity andl stubborness.

A cable massage from Copenhagen says that during the last seven months fiiuv> amounting to £300,070 have teen imposed 011 Danish smugglers. Many heavy terms of iniprisonnKlat have recevntly been imposed. As heavy a line as £30,000 lias been inflicted for a single offence, yet such penalties fail to deter offenders. A Copenhagen merchant was convicted for smuggling GO.COUIbs of rubber in sealed herring t;'.:i>. It ;js believe ! that German pav the fines. l'rivata J. A. Harwor.d, son of Mr. J. Ha.nv-qid u Heat le/'ea is cnc cf the in-va j d'ed soldiers rcluniijg by the Malicno clue in Wellington on ••December 14. -Mr V. (J. Day. S.M. express;-.! tuo opin <11 in the Wainmto Cv.nr;, ;,:s{ week (says the Advertiser) that ;;nv .snowground. racecourse, etc., whore a license to .sell intoxicating liquor w:h held' constituted "licensed prenns is" u/nde'r the Act and that no prohibited person therefore had any .right to attend a show, cr raccs, or ;' fair where such a license existed. This question had never been decided yet but if owe looked at the Licensing Act there was no doubt about it. liven a yard or an enclosure was '■premises' under the Act. Ihe Trade Uji'oiii Cong'ress at itf | nuntiiig in Jiiiiningha.:n in .Septembei | was recommended by its Parliamentary Committee to accept an invitation from the Amor.can Federation of Labour -Congress to be held at the same time and in the sa;mc place as tne conference of the belligerent nations which will settle the terms ol pence. This recommendation the dolocates re.jocie.l by a majority of twe t« o:lc '- not be«ui«? they thought that hi hour wr is not entitled to express ;ts view on the terms of settlement, but because they refused to parley, even at that late stage of the war, w'.th the Socialists of Germany and her allies. •S.mictime during last . night the hoodlums (that exist hereabouts did much damage to the Lev'.n public gardenri: plants wore broken and t'rampi'd down, and seats broken and thivun into the pond. The petty thief still keeps his eyea w.de open in Levin, and anything worth taking disappears quickly. A newly-enamelled motor bicycle wheel. m:nus tyre and spindle has been taken from the rear of Robertson and ' CVs. premises, where it was placed to dry. A London cab'© message re!poa-ts that in some English towns eggs are Belling at sixpence each—a record price. The registrar in Melbourne expects that the filial .figures for the referendum will be available to-morrow (Tuesday). At present the "noes'" are leading by 59,202. At a mass meotling of the Auckland Drivers' Union, held at Auckland yesterday it was decided to give the 'Minister of Labour seven days' notice of the union's intention 'to strike. The men are dissatisfied with the recent award of the Arbitraton Court. The executive of the 'Manawatu Flaxmill Nmployec.?' Union diecided on Saturday to assist the drivers in any way they deem advisable. An advertisement that recently appealed in a country paper was as follows:—For Sale.—A good hen now laying eggs, also new potatoes, fencc "posts, and russet apples. The Newfoundland seal fishing season w h.c 11 has just ended has been financially the most successful! for •years. The catch numbered' 243,000, and the value is returned at £200,000. In consequence of the war the number of vessels engaged was only 12, the smallest number employed for many years.