LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 May 1917, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

On Sunday next the Mayor" aud Councillors of Levin will attend a

special service at St. Mary's (Ohuich of England), Levin. The service is to commence at 11 a.in. The Be/. G. B. Stephenson will preach, and his termon will touch upon civic duties from the Christian standpoint.

The Petrograd correspondent of tlio London Times states that the Central Supplies Commission discussed an interesting proposal to utilise the large depcsits of shale on the Finnish coast for the purpose of fuel. A satisfactory series of trials has beei. made. It is said to bs passible to furnish. laige quantities of shale to Petrograd, 'thereby easing the fuel famine.

Fa their White, rector of the Church of San iS'ilvestro, in Rome, gave a reception last March in honor of Count de Salis, the new British Finvoy, Ito the /Vatican. lOardinif.,l Boiime.. wlioi lias just returned to Rome from a visit to units of the British fleet, Cardinals Gasquet, SliarSbarretti, and Vannutelli,, and' num'.tt'ciis ;ropr,?!sentatives of the British colony were preent.

in vivw of tha. present shortage of ?oal, tlic Petor.e Bnrough Council has dooided to again approach the Gov•rnivent for permission to sel'i firewood in conjunction with its retail coal busd\-oss.—Poione Chronicle.

A curious case is one in which two -■•oiirg munition workers were charged witill disorderly conduct at IXtortli London in Marc-h., They were singing ''T' o Long, Long Trail," and when told by a- constable to be quiet and go nway, they dernanderl his number. The remarked it wou'd he a r ;nr: : t pity if the song were to die out in the country; fortunately prople were free to sing and wliist'e in the streets in the-early evening, uii?es> iV "■ns to the annoyance of others or else if it were later in the evening and woke up sleeping people; it was not an offence for which (anyone should be charged so he dismissed the case.

"As far as uniforms go, the 'New Zealand troop.s are _the least smartly dressed of all the British drafts taking nart in the war." says an officer who •recently returned from England and France to New Zealand. He might have qualified this assertion by adding "as far as the rank and file are concerned." The smartest-looking men on furlough are the Australians. Hence, about a year ago, many :New Zealatxlciv. when in 'London, furnished up their kits to such a degree that it was almost impossible to tell a private from an officer. The men with the means went in for a'l kinds of fancy riding breeches and shiny leggings. Then their officers, who arc the gieatrs' sticklers and monopoliser? - f swank rn the face of the earth, put in an anpeal. They claimed that the men were departing from tihe regulations. Of course, the one and oaify Grdley said "That was so." The Australians, not being so amenable, as our men to discipline, swank just as much n« their officers—and the latter being more in sympathy with men, don't m'nd it a little hit.—X.Z. Times.