LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 24 March 1917, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The concert to raise funds for the .Belgian poor, to be held on Thursday next in the King's .Theatre, Levin, promises to bo a good evening's amusement. Besides the children's items, outside talent lias been secured. There will be a lady and gentleman soloist from Palmerston, and an elocutionist from Chriefcchurch. An examination of plumbers for pur. poses of registration under The Plumbers' Registration Act, 1912, will » be hold iu June next. Details are set out by Government advertisement 011 page 3. There will be holiday excursion ticivets i-ssucd 011 the New Zealand railways during Eastertide. The -iEta-lmi'tiiK-nt advertises details 011 page 3 ol' to-day's Chroniflc. A lad by name Sidney Hall was charged at the Juvenile Court, 'Levin, last Thursday, with having stolen a bicycle wheen valued at £1 os, the property of J. AY. Thompson. After hearing evidence, .Mr Kenrdc-k S.M. decided to caution the lad but entered no conviction. A iMaori by name J3ob Rore pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen <a buggy whip valued at 3s, the property of A. Saxton. Eore was convicted and fined £2 (with 14s Gd costs); in default of payment seven days' hard labor in Wellington prison will 'be exacted from him. He will be allowed seven days 'in which to pay the money. Levin Presbyterian Church will have the Hon. J. G. W. Aitkeii, modera-tor-elect, as preacher at to-morrow's services. The occasion is opening of the new church buildings. The Catholic Church services 111 Levin will be conducted by Father Melu; at 11 a.m. i and 7 p.m.

The committee wish to-thank the following for donations of produce, etc., for the Red Cross shop last Saturday. Mesdames Wilson, 'L. Woollett, Hud-s-ii, J. Avery, Dew, AViilliams, Avery, Liddle, Mc'Donald, F. C. Retter, J. D. AVhito, K. Simpson, Hitehiiigs, ODcnuell, S. Hall, Porter, Prouse, -Morgan, Storey, Suiiley, Wildbore, llichtcr, Blcnkhcrn,, 1". Brown, Page, E. 'Robertson, Procter, Pink. The doll and bed given by Mrs D. S. Mackenzie was drawn by Mr iH. Harvey, and won by Mr X. Kirkcnldie. The traycloth given by Mrs A. Plimmer was won by Mrs R. Butt.

Land agents licenses hare been issued to O. A. Mark and J. W. Perkins, respectively, botli of Levin.

Referred judgment in the case of N. C. Holdawny v. H. O. Barnett, claim £35 19s 9d, was given at Levin on Thursday by Mr Kenrick, S.M. His Worship gave judgment for plaintiff for £31 18s 3d. Judgment for plaintiffs by defendants' default was entered in the following cases: W. Lovejoy v. T. Nepia £2 os, costs £1; T. Slierlaw v. Mrs Ada Molloy, 10s, costs 9s; J. P. Ivess v. Hanita Henere £5 19s 9d, costs £! 5s 6d; Parker and Vincent v. Robert Aitken, £15 lis Bd, costs £1 10s 6d; Sidney Hall v. Robert Aitken £10 3s fid, costs £1 10s 6d ; Alfred Whiley v. Edward Quill, £15, costs £1 10s Gd. In the judgment summons case of Robertson and Co. v. E. V. Schramka, defendant was ordered to pay £14 3s forthwith; in default one months' imprisonment in Wellington prison. The warrant stands suspended until 22nd April.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited advise having received the following cablegram from their London office under date of 20th inst.: "The wool sales have opened and the attendance and competition is good. A good selection of merinos was offered, and as compared with the close of last sales prices are unchanged. -There were not any erossbreds offered." Says an English paper:—The other afternoon soldiers home on leave marched' from Waterloo across the road to the Union Jack Club singing lines that, it is believed, were composed by a man in the Somme district" We beat 'em at the Marne, we beat 'em at the Aisne, we gave 'em 'ell at •'.Nerve Shapelle"; And here we aro again!" The 'following Jetter, published in the Marlborough Express recently, is from Mr. E. Thomas, a former Mnv Zealand resident, now living at Fort ■jamieson, Northern Rhodesia:—"Mr. Ernest Home, an old resident of Blenheim, Marlborough, and who now is own?r of Mt. Pangive tobacco, cotton and coffee estate, 45 miles south of fort Jamieson, loft his estate to the mercy cf a boss boy and twelve months ago went to German East Africa. Although over .the age limit he was accepted, as he is one of the finest allots in the country, having killed more elephants than all the other hunters put together. I received news that ho is an officer in the advanced scouts, and is doing excellent service, having been mentioned in despatches. When he left Fort Jamieson the general comment was "God help the German who will show his head to Home, even at 500 yards." Horne is a 6011 of the late Dr. (Lewis Keele Home,' one of Blenheim's earliest medicoest Lieutenant Raymond Asquith, of the Grenadier 'Guards, barrister-at-law, eldest son of the late Prime Minister of Great Britain, who was killed in France on September 15, aged 37, left unsettled estate of the value. of £3189, of which £2011 is net personalty. By his holograph will, dated October '19, 1915, and made on a sheet of notepaper, headed 10 Downing street, Whitehall, he gave everything he might- die possessed of to his wife, adding, "'Many of my friends would like books or other things of mine for remembrance. She will know what j to give, and to whom."

The stallion St. Gris died recently at the Rivertown stud, county Westmeatli. He was bred by Mr. Leopold Rothschild, by Galopin out of Isabel, dam of the Two Thousand Guineas winner St. Frisquin, and was foaled in 1896. He was the sire of Gleiiside, winner of tlio Grand National in 1911. Altogether his produce secured 180 races of the value of £28.487. An old Crimean veteran, Mr. Riclid. Hankins, died at Wallingford, in his 86th year, last December. 'He volunteered -from his office in the Civil Service when war broke out, and served for some time as aide-de-camp to Lord Hag]an. He was for 57 years in the Civil Service, "being chief clerk in the King's Remembrancer's Office, Royal Courts of Justice, for several years before liis retirement in 1904. The anonymous soldier whose identity long puzzled the British "War Office and the Courts of Justice last year, and who was claimed by some GOO women as their missing husband was truly identified last December. . No information is given as to whether ho was sent home or back to the Army. A soldier has died in England from fatty degeneration of the heart while suffering from goitre which the medical evidence attributed to shell shock and wounds. v "Spring Onions," or to give him his full title, William "Spring" Onions, the police-court poet, and a well-known character in East London, has died at Ratcliffe, aged 83. A few years ago Mr. Onions, after making police court history with a "record" of 500 appearances, came under the influence of the Church Army (says the London Times) and thereafter chase to appear 'before a magistrate to "report progress" and record his spiritual progress in strange verse—a kind of spring song—of his own composition. At the inquest into the cause of his death it was stated that he died in a very neglected state. He had £10 in 'bank notes and gold in his possession; possibly hoarded so a« to safeguard himself against a pauper burial,

Special re-opening services will be held in the Levin Presbyterian Church to-morrow, morning and evening, when the iHon. J. G. W ; . Aitkeii, M.L.0., will preach. Mr Aiitken holds the distinctive honor of being the first layman in New Zealand to .be eleefced to the highest gift of the church: that of moderator of its General Assembly. That he is worthy of the honor is man. ifested -by the unanimous vote of tlio church, which placed him in this position. There will be a children's service at 3 p.m. Dining the evening a special feature will be the rendering of the "Te I>eum" and- the anthem "[Daughter of Zion" by an augmented choir under the baton of Mr H. E. Keys. On Monday night at 7.30 there will he a public meeting when a splendid program of songs, recitations, anthems and addresses by visiting ministers will be given; special collections will be taken up at each of these meet, ings in aid of the 'building fund. The Eastbourne Guardians (England) are recommending poor people to buy clogs instead of boots for their children. The Rey. H. Scott suggested that the fashion of going barefooted should be re-introduced.