The Chronicle LEVIN. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1917. LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 April 1917, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1917. LOCAL & GENERAL

The latest ballot for men to fori: reinforcements for the Jfew Zealand Expeditionary Forces beyond seas lias been drawn. A Government Gaa*tte giving the list of names will be published next Monday. Those requiring their income tax returns made up will find' an advertisement on page 3 of to-'lay's issue that will be of interest to them. At Pahnerston North last Thursday nil appeal by Godfrey Walter Read, farmer, Fairfield, was heard by the Military Service Board. As appellant was elased 02, his appeal was adjourned indefinitely. A Post reporter interviewed the Acting Prime Minister this week, and was told that only war legislation was to be dealt with in tlie approaching session. The new War Loan Bill would be the chief feature. The bill would carry extra taxation in its train. Until the Hiiht iHon. 'W. F. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward came back ,tlie Acting-Premier could * not ay what general measures, if any, would be gone on with. "We passed the Garden of Eden conning up," writes! a iMasterton member of the wiireless troop in Mesopotamia to li s friends. "Great changes mulst have - occurred since Adam's time, for there is very li+tle 1 'ft in the Garden now. A few date palms, apples trees, and a fig tree are about all that remain. We also passed the tomb of Ezra, one of the prophets mentioned in the Bible." The largest locomotive in tlie world has been put in service in the Virginian railroad. It is hauling coal trains rver the mountains. Tlie locomotive is a mammoth triple engine, and it was built at the Baldwin locomotive works 'in Plhiladelphjia. lit (has 44 per cent -greater power than any other engine in the orld, and is 101 ft long, and weighs 422 tons. Its pulling power is at rated at 2375 tons. John I>ovn, the escapcrl prisoner arrested at Levin recently, by Constable Grego;an. will come up for sentence at the Supreme Court, Wellington, nest week. The death is announced of Mrs Oolin 'L'ogan. She is stated to have been the last direct descendant of Viscount O'Diomosaigh or O'Dempsy. iLord of iClanmaliere, Baron of Pliilipstown, Chief of Offaley, head of one of the most ancient and powerful Irish dlans. The Rev. Walter Weston, lecturing to. a. juvenile audience at Kensington Town Hall on "The Children of Japan' in connection with the Royal Geographical Society's Christmas lectures,' saic that every year there were a largi number of" suicides among Japanese boys who had lost their reason througl over study: During the first nine months of last year eight boys com mitted suicide at one school in Toki< alone. For allowing the church clock t< strike on Christmas night, Charle; Clifford, the parish clerk at Stoki d* Abernon church, was at Kingstoi ordered to pay the costs, the summon being dismissed. The defendant said "The clock was disconnected from tin ■hell, but I thought I would like to' hea it strike on Christmas night; t dii it'on my. own initiative." -

G. A. Sutherland, a conscientious objector, formerly master at fiarrow School. who lias already served a term of imprisonment at Lewes, has again been coiirtmartialled at Dublin for refusing to obey orders, „and lias been sentenced to one year's hard labor. In a statement lie said: "I am proud to think I shall never be anything .but a disgrace to any army in which I may be deemed to be enlisted."

In. the. second annual report of the women's branch of the Bombay Presidency "War and Relief Fund, the president of which is (Lady Willingdon, it i 6 announced that the public subscriptions in the year ended August 20, amounted to nearly £38,C00, compared with £28,257 in the previous twelve months. A "war sale" which was recently held realized £40,000. While the Germans are weeping hypocritically over the fate of humanity and the horrors of war, says a Serbian official statement, Bulgarian and German artillery bombards the open town <jf Monastir, occupied only by unarmed inhabitants. In three (lays 18 person®, including nine children and I three women, were killed by enemy shells. Five children were wounded. President Poincare has telegraphed his congratulations to the new President of Nicaragua, General Emiliano Chamorra, recalling the fact that the General's brother, Salvador Chamorro, died in the service of France after having won the Military 'Medal and the Oroix de Guerre. Salvador Chamorro, who joined the French army in August, 1914, as an auxiliary doctor, contracted pleurisy in the trenches and died on November 7tli last. The military Service Board at Palmarston North has further adjourned the hearing of the appeal of "\V. Y. Letford of Otaki. The following .ap- j peals have been dismissed: — iH. S. Saint (Oliati), 'F. ! L. Askew (Otaki), S. L. Jackson (Levin). . The following appeals were withdrawn.—'H. Byrne (JLevin), P. G. Bevan (Otaki). A story is going the rounds of the New Zealand newspapers that a man who rescued a swimmer' from drowning at Sumner last month first turned him over "to make sure he was not Jimmy Mc>Oombs." The same story "went the rounds" in England five year.' ago; the objectionable man of the paragraph was the present-day popuSr idol—Lloyd George.