The Chronicle LEVIN: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 December 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Levin's new board—the Horowhenua Lake Domain Board—held its first meeting last night. It was decided . to pay a visit of inspection to the I lake reserve on Wednesday next—l3th ' et -i?inber—in company with represen- , Natives of the Horowhenna County | Council (pirobably the' njenibers for : Wirokirio riding). A full report on j last night's meeting appears in ani other column of to-day's Chronicle. j Mr J. SiVi'itli, of Levin, has received ! a - letter from his soil. Rifleman Sid. 'Smith, of the Rifle Brigade, who was wounded in the Homme fighting. The letter was written from 'an hospital j iu francs, and stated that lie was j-wounded by shrapnel in the chin, arm i and chest. The wounds were not i very serious auul he expected to get ' back to his mates in about six weeks' ; time. Four sections held as education re- , .serves, in Levin and Foxton respectively, are to be offered for lease by auction on lltli January, 1910. Details •are set out by advertisement appearing on page 3.

Mr J. Herbert iHankias (Palrspmioii ■North) has reieived a letter from the office of the Director-General of Voluntary Organizations, Scotland House, ■London, in which lie says: "1 am anxious you and your club .should know ];\;t great :.s the demand for cigarettes and tobacco in the various theatres of the war and also in the army hosjiical.;. The assistance given by <S .ur club has indeed been excellent. I know how fully it is appreciated. I

want, ];<:nvvei\ io a;;p:nl to you to iout liiif, and. ;i p-.svible, extend this branch of your work by providing pv&a greater quantities of tobacco and Cigarettes for genera! distribution to tiie tro-ps."

Lieutenant Watrnu-l Thomas Sedclo'iJ, v.-'o li::.s gained tJio Military Cress, is the second ot the late Mr 'Robert ■Siddcn. Mount E.leii, Auckland, and is twenty-six years of age. He was educated at the Tauranga .Public tSch<o->l riiul the Auckland Grammar School. Prior to joining the Slain Body of the Neiv Zealand Expeditionary Fo 'co lie was employed in one of the Government Departments. He is n nephew of Mr Richard Seddon, oi Hillside, Waikato, and a .grandson, of the late Mr Samuel T. Seddon, of Hamilton. He was wounded at Gallipoli, but recovered and rejoined the forces b.-ftre thvir transfer to France.

H'orowheaua Fruitgrowers* Association wi'l hold a special general meeting next 'Friday evening, to discuss an important communication receive:! from the X.Z. Federation of Fruitgrowers concerning the annual apple show 'fixed for May next and to he held in Ihinedin. Details of the meeting are advertised on page 3.

I : r. (Jill My. of T>unr<lin, lias been adi ised by tlie War Office that his sen, >Seoond iLieutenant C. M. Gilray, was admit ted to the general hospital at Etreat on November '15. suffering from gunshot wounds on the head and lei't side. Lieutenant Gilray is the well-known Rhodes scholar and the N >iv Zeakind and Scottish international footballer.

A speaker at a Band of Hope meeting was recently impressing on some boys and girls the advisability of neither tasting nor touching strong drink in any form. "Promise to have nothing to do with it, and keep your pion.ise," he said; then he told them a I t,lie story. A buy from the count.v, wiio, before setting Cfut from heme, Inid promised his father and mother to have nothing to do ■ with intoxicants, was induced to enter a R.fl'le, and chanced to win a bottle of port wine. The moment the wine was in his possession, he felt uneasy and unhappy. "Why," he asked, "wny was this lad unhappy f"' "Please sir," piped a bright little lad, "becos e' 'adn't a corkscrew.'

-Messrs Abraham and Williams reports as follows:—At Levin s'ale on Tuesday, 29th ult., we had a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle. Competition was keen and practically all lines changed hands under the hammer, late prices being well maintained: Fat wethers 3-Js to 35s (id : 2-tootli wethers 30s Gd; store ewes 2(3s lOd; cull ewes. 10s; woolly hoggets 30s; ageel ewes and lambs 37.s Id; fat cows £l'i to £15 3s (id; fat heifers £11: ve.-ilers £2; 2-year heifers £8 18s (id : forward cows £8 2s to £10 13s to £11 7s: 15-months heifers £7 10s; 18m'ontlif steers £7 Is; yearling steers and heifers £4 16s : bulls £7 12s 6d to £18; cows in milk £'11 15s to £21 10s; springing heifers £10 los to £12 15s; weaner pigs 10s Gd to 14s Ocl; slips 15s 6d to 21s; porkers 31s to £2 17s; baconers £3.

This morning's cablegrams from London report tliiit the Morning Post's Petrograd correspondent says: "Uticharost is doomed; its fall is a matter of time only." Mr W. G. Price, of Levin, lias received postcards from liis son IHarold (Franco), dated October, .'reporting all well. Price reported lively times at the front, and added that it was "real war" they were in. He mentioned the death of Private Arthur Baker, of Levin j a shell blew him to pieces. "I know a nfcin who scoured this town for two days and could mot get a carpenter or a labourer," observed a couneilfcr at the Palmerston iNtorfh council meeting on Tuesday night. A Press Association message states that the Napier Main School Wa destroyed by dire last niglit. The damage is estimated at £5000. Pigs are reported to be very scarce in Palmerston district just now. A local firm is unable to obtain one hundred needed to complete an order. A London cablegram runs: — The "Vossische Zeitmig" asserts that all British merchantmen are to be armed, tire shipowners and insurance companies agreeing to share the cost.