LOCAL & GENERAL.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 15 February 1917, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Levin Bowling Green, yesterday resembled a poultry-yard in March. A rink from Foxton plucked every feather in the Ivinniburg Trophies from their local possessors, and departed in triumph for their seaside home lamid congratulations from the bowlors they had despoiled of their finery. The final score in the game read: (Levin 9, Foxton 22. The local team consisted of illoe, Kirk, Porteous and Pollock; the visitors were skipped by .Rimmer. A car-load of creamery butter — the first consignment for England—has been shipped from Regina, Saskatclie-i wan, to Manchester j the product ;ilijaiv-j ing come from all three puaifio • provinces. A communique from Serbian headquarters states that the Germans employed explosive bullets for their rifles and machine guns when the Serbian troops were assaulting the forts northwest of Veles&lo.

Fifty sons of members of the Canadian House oif Commons and Senate are serving the Empire in the army and navy. Fifteen members sent two sons and one three sons to the front.

Following the medieval custom, the Tofivn Crier of Colchester on Deceinboj 1 ushered 1 in winter by walking through the town ringing his bell and declaiming the lines: —

Cold December hath come in, Poor people's backs are clothed thin. The trees are bare, the birds are mute, A pot and toast would very well suit. Mr Chamberlain states that .in the Indian Army the rank of lieutenantcolonel may be attained after 2G years' service, and is attained earlier by selection for certain appointments. The only age limit affecting promotion to general officer is the age at which retirement becomes obligatory—namely, 57 years for colonels, G2 . for majorgenerals, 67 for lieutenant-generals and generals.

An antiquated-looking individual was hawking fish. "Fine, fresh fish, fower a penny!" roared he. A woman Clime to the barrer. "Are they fresh j"' she asked. "They're fower a ■ penny, mum," was the guarded reply. • "Yes," responded the. other. "I heard you say so, but are they fresh?" •'Can't say for sartin, mum," came the sarcastic reply. "I applied for the birth and death certificate of every fish on the barrer, but at fower a penny it simply Couldnt be done."

The British Minister of Munitions has made further orders under the Munitions of War Acts, 1915 and IS'Ki, under which 129 additional establishments ii:ive been declared controlled establishments under the Munitions of "War Act, 1915 and 1916. The total number declared under these acts is

now 4512,

An address and a wallet of Treasury notes were presented at Bricklayers' Arms one Saturday on 'behalf of the South-Eastern and Chatham railway staff to Mr Thomas D. Smith, who has just completed 50 years' service nv-ith the company at the station. He started as a junior invoice clerk, and is now station cashier.

The 20,003 weavers who are employed in the district of Lancashire controlled by the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners, were officially informed that the 5 per cent war bonus granted to tliem in January, would be altered into a permanent advance and that from January of this year a further 5 per cent advance would be granted. Amongst the names of those drawn this week for active service were those of William Lang, junior, of Ihakara, and Claude Ingram, telegraph linesman, Fwxton.

Although mentioned in the roll of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition as "secretary," Mr V. G. 'Hayward, who perished in the blizzard, was selected as a member of the party on account of his unusually powerful physique. Be spent many years in Canada, and came from there to join the expedition. iHe was selected as one of the party that was to meet Sir Ernest- Shackleton when lie made bis dash across from the Weddell Sea to E-Oiss Sea. The object in selecting him for that purpose was because he would be able to do heavy and strenuous work in the way. of hauling the sledges. Some good stories are told of the quarter-deck and flower-deck in - a Grand Fleet chaplain's note-book. Here is one:—"One of our destroyers was in action and in the course of the fight was struck by a shell which penetrated into the bunkers and there exploded. Fragments of the bulkhead and a litter of coal came flying outTinTo l the stokehold and shot out with them in a cloud of black dust came also a stoker who at the time had been trimming the coal inside. He picked himself up slowly, and gave himself a shake, and then, turning to the chief stoker, said 'I don't see that I'm doing much good in there; the hloomin' coal's trimmin' itself.' "

A sensational case >of robbery by masked armed men lias been reported to the police at Palmerston North. When Mr Sinclair, manager of Watson Brothers' grocery, reached his house he was herd up by two men who were hiding in the garden. They rifled his pockets, but fortunately he only had sixpence with liim. They then marched him ia considerable distance down .the road to an old gravel pit, where they took the keys of the store from him. Sinclair made an attempt to bre;:k away, but one of the men fired at him. He pretended to be hit, and his assailants took to their heels. On tire previous Saturday night a. taxidriver was robbed of a small sum of money by two masked men.

A quantity of timber, secured for the purpose of erecting the Mungakotnkutuku bridge at Panaparaumu, has been stolen. According to Inspector Cudby, of the Hutt County, such acts are fairly, frequent.—Otaki 'Mail.

The Acting-Prime Minister has notified the Auckland Presbytery that Cabinet has considered its request for the suspension of all totalisator permits during the war, and that it has been dccided to defe'r the matter for three months, when it will be necessary to consider the issue of permits for the next racing season. The Government it is stated will then give very serious consideration to the representations made by the Presbytery and others concerning the issue of permits.

A garden fete in aid of the Belgian Poor will be held an Levin on Wednesday, 21st February, at Mrs Bowen's residence, "Queen-street).- A public procession (decorated cars, vehicles, etc.) will be a feature of the preliminaries to the fete. . Details are set out by advertisement on page 3.

| A Wclington merchant wrote as folI lows, under date of February 14tli, to Levin settler:—"We can recommend j immediate consignments of potatoes, as j out market is bare. At to-day's sale Iwe obtained £9 to £10 per ton for I prime quality."

There was a good attendance at the Red Cross rooms, Levin, last Friday, those present being llesdames Porter, Chaplin, Reading, Porter, Phillips, Vincent, Kingdon, Aitken, "Walklcy, Hoslop, Fulten, Keedwell, Richter, A. F. AVilson, Kirk, Messrs. Sedtole, Stewart, Adkin (2). Mrs. J. Wliitaker and Mrs. S. Hall were iu charge of the Red Cross shop on Saturday last, and were very successful, as the takings amounted to £8 10s 2sd—the largest since the shop was re-opened. Th<! committee wishes to thank the following for donations of produce, etcMesdames Moxham, Weston, W. Collins. Eidward Malcolm, Rokton, G. Kingdon, Duckworth, Whitaker, Hall, Palmes, Dotson, Liddle, Gimblett, Ray Brown, Collins, Holdaway, Keedwell, J. Ryder, Plaster, Allen, Da vies, Mclntyre , Oliaplin, Vickers, Hitchings, Bowen, Park, Cutfield, Prouse, Thomson, .Nicholas, O'Donnell, R. McDonald, Procter, Lancaster, Pollock, Portions, Xicliolson, Richter, Sharman, Harknciss, Clark, Blenkhorn, F. O. Smith, Porter, Walkley, Essex, "Windley, He.ilop, Pyke, Hanson, Kirk, Eggleton, Wright, Frechling, Aitken, •Smollie, Broadbelt, Gardener, Misses Harvey, Adkin, Sedcole, . Pink, McKegg, Mr Burlinson and Mr Finlayson (senior). ' . .