LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 November 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

In tue list of 1110,11 drawn for coinjHusuy military service there are to be lound the uaimai i.f many wko .11 tue have vo.unteeica and .v.-o have been rejected as unfit for active service, itius .is accounted 'toi ■iv tiij l.cc tluu the names of ali men •.I military age had to be put 111 the o.U.cc. iiad tli.s not been, done, the visibility of unfair discuiniinatv. would have been broadened. Any man 111;. fit to serve who has bee— . awn in the ballot is ent.ttea i j eli.iin exemption; in .fact tlijj .lists .i..ie I.eon 11.ad.' enough to al-•.-,.i at i'.iit.e i'iv..,:ction before .1 ■ c .iicibie minimum be reached.. A iciiiinder is given that Saturday vt--j;j.,rro\v) s Red Cross ' Shop" day voa.r.vntions are .nvited and purchase. s requested to call—there is usually a useful collection of articles 011 na!e including dairy and garden produce, uikes, sweets, etc. In additi on l!i.s week some prime wether mutton and poultry is promisod.. The Rod i'l oss iSooiety needs all the practical help that it can be given for lis strenuous work 011 behalf of tli s.ck and wounded soldie^. On present appearances the risk of the borough council having to pay out the £2 reward offered in respect to the damage done at the public gardens is great, and an insurance company would demand a high .premium. Dil gent enquires have been made by the police during the last few days, with the result that there will be some interesting interviews between several gay youths and Mr J. W. l'ovton S..M. at the next sitting of the Levin S.M. Court.

In the ballot .held under the 'Military Soi'viee Act the following names of residents in Levin and district were drawn : Leslie Bradley Doig, blacksmith, Levl.n ; Garry Edward Denton, labourer. Kopntaroa ; John Albert Taylor, farm hand 'Levin Harold John Batton, jockey. Oliau : Fra .-cis H. Bennet, law clerk Otaki; William Slater Gardner., farmer, dhan n 11; (George Judd farmer Moutoa; -Maxwell -McDonald laborer, Khannon; Daniel Kox burgh, tailor, OtpJti; Albert Cribb. flaxmiller. Otaki; Among the name.< of men drawn from Palmevston North appears James Francis MeManus, priest of the Catholic Church. The Oliau school girls have procured a may-pole, which was kindly lent by Mrs Hanson of Weraroa who taught the niav-pole. dance which was performed at the recent English Church B.izaar there. The school gfrls will therefore be able to give some exhibitions of this oldi English dance on the green at their bazaar on the 9th prox. The enthnsiasm shown by all connected with th(s event is quite unprecedented. The settlers are "giving and promising most generously; a large percentage of the population of Levin, consisting of all who really count will be present or otherwise to a'-flTst; the children- and their friends arc striving to out-do one another in manufacturing articles for the stalls and even the vegetables and other produce for the produce stall are growing faster than tliov ever grew before. A person of great experience and 'undoubted proplietio powers has been ap proafched and lias consented to toll the fortunes of any who may be in doubt about their future, at a quite nominal figure; the whole of t!ie proceeds, bong lie voted to the objects of the bazaar. Mr Henderson is in comin mication with some of the cleverest native flax and is arranging t-6 have a stall where these ladies may be seen making their beautiful and ingenious fancy work. Several other novelties are in. tlie course of development and will be mentioned in due course.

The death is announced of vMrs Mc Corniick, of CYilian Kash, at the age of 97. She (spent all her life in the parish of Diumkeefin, and for (36 years had not ml.lssed a Christmas Day service at tlie parish church. As a girl she nursed her grandmother, who Jived to be nearly a hundred, and who in her youth had also nureed her grandmother, who lived to the age of 113. Thus '.Mrs McCormick was one of three lives which reached back to the year 1(390. Two of her grandsons have been killed on active service, and four others are now serving at the front.

Tliroe Belgians, •who had been munition makers .in England were sentenced at the Thames Police Court to four months' fiardl labour oil a charge of attempting to leave tlie country without permits. They were found in hiding in the steamship Maastrorm, lying off the Toiver of London. Two Diitcli firemen belonging to the ship were sentence:! to three mouths' hard labour for assisting the Belgians to get away, and another Dutchman, who a:Vii ttc 1 to the police that he had received £13 from the Belgians and had given £8 to the two Dutch firemen, was sentenced to six months' hard labour.

I'Yr several years an eccentric old man named Mark Kemp and his wife have been living at Xewlyn n very pew cireu :r\st:mc;fc, and tliev frequently begged help from their neighbours, it was known that they had spent ilu ir earlier life in Arizona. Recently the woman was sent to an asylum, and the ccndit r >on of the husband b,> came so deplorable that an ordier for his j cmoval to the workhouse was made, and a sanitary inspector and a constable vi.sitod the cotta.ee. In a trunk in the kitchen -they discovered a -p'osieer miner's belt, the pockets of which weve full of sovereigns and halfsovereigns, amounting in all to £1,o;.o.

Colonel Paul Frederick M. Baddeie.y, H..A., whose death has occurredi at the age of 74, had been a prisoner, first in the .common. gaol at Bruges (xl) 14) and then at Griessen and Sch-loss-Calle, Hanover. He came of an old military family , whose name appears n the army list in the Guardis of Charles 11., and onwards. He leaves behind his two sons, Major J. Halkett Baddeley, 1-jtli Lancers, and Captain S. E. Lodiington Baddciley, 19th Lancers. Hs fatlier served 3ti years in India; and his uncle, Lieu-tenant-Col :nel John Fraser L. Baddeley, who was in the Crimea, was the inventor of the smooth-steel oval band oil the Enfield rifle, which the Government purchased in 18G2, and which has been universally adopted. Colonel Baddeley married, in 1865, Katharine, daughter of Captain /Robert Malkett Jackson, 97th -Regiment, wh:> survives him. His elder son reooived the Military Cross for services in Gallipoli, where he was severely wound ed.

In some of t-ho Canton villages w© go into," stated Miss E. E. Wright, foreign niisLoner, at tlie Presbyterian Assembly, "they quickly send ais out ■again. They say: 'Britain sent us the •accursed opium. Nothing-good can come from Britain.' " That was the sort of thing, said Miss Wright, that missionaries had to Jiaht against.