LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 December 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The Chronicle will not be published on Monday and Tuesday next, being Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Foxton Rowling Club's representatives have wrested the Kinniburg Feathers from the Otaki ©lum's team hat has held these trophies for several yea'rs past. The game was played last Wednesday afternoon, when the Foxton men won, by one point on the last head. Christmas services will be held tomorrow in the Methodist Church (Century Hall). The morning service will he a special mothers' day. Mothers are cordially invited to be present. The subject for the evening service will be the "Star and the Child"—a message for the democratic age. Mr Howard An dew will sing "The Star rf "Bethlehem." The usual Christmas hymns will be sung by the congregation. There were close upon 1300 person's travelling north by the Auckland express at midiglit last night. At the Auckland Police Court on Friday James Thorn was charged with using seditious laaiguage in a speech at the Globe Theatre. He was convicfjsd and sentenced ito twelve month s' imprisonment. At Hamilton William MclManus, aged 45 years was sentenced to one month's imprisonment of a charge of seditious utterance. A letter 'received in j-.ev ; i labt r.'enth mentiolfe' that Prival? Charles Howe, of Levin, was still in hospital in England. The reports that were current in Levin last August or September to the extent of his injuries seem to have been exaggerated, though the writer of the letter mentions that Private Howe has lost a leg. A cable message from London reports that the lit. Hon. H. E. Duke, Secretary for Ireland, has announced that all untried prisoner concerned in the Irish rebellion are about to be released. Rev. C. L. Hall, of North Dakota, for forty years a missionary on the Fort Bertliold reservation declared in an address before the American Missionary Association that the Tiuliau and white races wiil;l be completely merged through intermarriage within the next fifty yea'rs. Despite the fact that the Indian birth-rate is increasing and the death-rate falling, I believe that the Inda.n race will have disappeared fifty years from now, the speaker said. A working baker who found a purse containing £'115 in notes and gold .alld a cheque for £4.1 took it to the owner and was rewarded with one shilling. When an old-age pensioner was (summoned at Kingston it was stated that lie sometimes earned £2 a week at munition work. Because be mailed to pass the medical "board for combatant service, Joseph Jordan. 30, a Mertliyr Vale draper, inhaled gas with fatal results. • Mr. John Aelxander, who was chief clerk at Bowstreet Police Court for over 18 years, and who retired in 1895, has died at Sevenoaks, aged 85. ■

Jsabelle Marchioness of Sligo to&s fined £'4 at Guildford for not suffit> k ntly screening six windows at her residents, Mount Browne. At a sale of pedigree Holstein .Friesia.ni cattle at Driffield, a bull and ■ heifer imported from Holland in 1914 realized 560 and 500 guineas 'respectively. 1 Dr. <W. Kerr Hislop, B.A. MB., Ch. 8., of Foxton, has been appointed medical superintendent of the Wanganui Hospital. The New South AVales Niational Belgian Relief Fund Conmititee, has decided that owing to the Germans commandeering and i equsitioninig food supplies in Belgium, they will not ask for further •contributions to the fund or send forward any further sums pending developments. Very heavy rains have fallen ill Auckland in the past few days. In two days the fall was 6.22 inches. A loop line is being constructed round the big slip on the Main Trunk line south of Auckland. .New Zealand produce entered for export last week was valued at £479,-3-13, including butter £20,718, cheese £93,(93, frozen meat £2!),05, gold £21,548, hidce £10,866, flax £17,491 and wool £268,753. Speaking to representative of the - Manawatu Standard the chairman of directors of a dairy company In the Palme: stcn district said his company ' was -feeling the pinch very acutely from the fact that they had £12,000 worth of cheese in store in Wellington. The storage rate was 3s per ton per week and his company paid out - no less than £15 per week in this way and had been doing so for some time past. A deputation representing I>abor asked the Hen. W. iHerries, Acting- ' Minister for Labor, to have the Compulsory Military Scrvice Act repealed. The Hon. Mr Her.ries agreed to con- . vey the wishes of the deputation to Cabinet, but he said it seemed to him that there was no chance of the request being acceded to., the Act having been passed by an overwhelming - majority of Parliament. Those who objected to their M.P.'s votes should move in their own districts, lie said. Mr. Herbert Samuel is threatened with opposition at the next election in 'Cleveland, the Qeivldand minors having suggested a Labour representa tive. A Press Association liicissnge from S'ydncy reports that William lOhidley, the apostle of the simple life, is dead.