The Chronicle LEVIN: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 December 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL.

-X--X- The- Chronicle will not be published O'li Monday and Tuesday next, being Christmas Day and Boxing ! Day. . An lha.kara -Maori named To Atua Ropilia saw a perambulator outside of his house when he rose at -I o'clock tlii.-i morning (I'Yiday) to milk his cows. He did not investigate, thinking that some neighbour had left the j pram there for a few minutes. On j returning to the house at 5.30 a.m.. J he heard a child crying in the pram, j It was well clothed and evidently I had been well eared for and nouri>li- ! ed. It is a girl aged about two or | three months. The matter was re- ! ported to Constable Bagrie, who Is j making enquiries n,s to whether any 1 child is missing from Shannon or j Levin, hut so far lie lias been unable j to .find anything 'that would estab--1 I : fih the infant's identity. : The cost of the military occupation ; of balnea to November 30 was j £291,780. New Zealand's expenditure on the war to October 3.lst was i £'12,708,108. but adjustments with ! the Imperial authorities may involve ' another £2,000,000 or more. | The "Lyttelt-on Times in getting spiteful. It says editorially: The . Government- is inclined to be over- : awed by • the articulate farmer. "\\ e do not mean that Ministers lay sleepless in their beds because a df.-si'ro i was expressed at a fanners' meeting : for their annihilation by a German bomb; buti we do think they are moie ■ or less bluffed by non-repre.sentat'ive ; bodies of producers whose souls have 1 boon chloroformed by two seasons' war I profits. . j

Up to the end of November last a total of 7570 officers, non-coms. and men have returned to New Zealand. Of- these 1091 have gone back to duty. As a result of a conference between Dr Yaljntine, Inspector-General of Hospitals and the Wellington Hospital Board an agreement has been 'reached whereby the Government will take over the Otaki Hospital and Sanatorium from the beginning of next year for uee of returned sol fliers requiring medical and surgical treatment or suffering from consumption. At .Hamilton, William 'McMauus, a middle-aged man. was charged yesterday with seditious utterances. He was remanded, bail being fixed at £600. A new Ord'er-in-Cotincil under the War Regulations provides as follows: "If 1 the Commissioner of Police is satisfied that any place is about to be used for holding any meeting or meetings having reference to tlie war and of the kind injurious to public safety or to the interests of His Majesty in respect of the war, the Commissioner may by notice prohibit the. use of that place and declare the meeting illrgajr. -Every person other than a const able who is present at an unlawful meeting shall be deemed guilty of an offence. "Meet ing" means any assembly of more than twelve persons. Another order prohibits the importation into New Zealand of a number of American newspapers and periodicals, including the Hearst papers. German papers, and the ''Cosmopolitan Magazine." The "Defence Department has ocmmitted some foolish blunders since the war started. Tint one committed recently in connection with Regt. Q.M.-Sergt. King, the eldest son of a former mayor of Stratford, would be hard to heat. Q.M.S. King recently returned to duty after Rome days' furlough and was ordered to Fentherston Camp, instead of Trenthaul. where he had been previously stationed. A few days aso the authorities telegraphed to i Q.M.S. King's father and reported that his son was missing from Trenllla ni. The telegram caused the greatest consternation to Mr and Mrs N. J. King, the slmck to the latter being of a serious until re, while Mr King made for Wellington post haste, merely to find tliat his so-i had been bard at work at hi- duties in camp at Featherston all the time. Such a blunder is absolutely inexcusable.— JWanganui .-Herald. A sl : p of about -1000 tons of eari'i on the Main Trunk line at Runciman, within 2o inil.es of Auckland, has blocked traffic. One train ran into it and three cars were derailed, but no one was injured. It is ex-' pected that it will take a week to clear the 'slip. From the Herald (Foxton) advertisements : ''Wanted, a General, zds per week." A drop of £20 is reported in tho price paid for the publican's booth at Foxton Racc.s to be held next month. The Anti-Shouting law is-put down as the cause.