The Chronicle LEVIN. THURSDAY, JUNE 14. 1917 LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 June 1917, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. THURSDAY, JUNE 14. 1917 LOCAL & GENERAL

Shannon ratepayers yesterday resolved that a borough of Shannon be fmined. Mr P. "W. Goldsmith, county clerk, acted as returning officer. .Yinety-onc votes were recorded: G7 in l'avor of forming a borough and 24 against. V..M.C.A. rooms against will be open or the young men of Levin this evening, when games and exercises will be indulged in. The executive hopee to see a better muster of supervisors this evening than has been the case of late. Next Sunday's services at the local Catholic churches are arranged as follows:—'Levin, mass 9 a.m. devotions 7 p.m.; Oliau, mass 11 a.m. The IRev. J. T. Wardlo Stafford, of Xewcastle-on-Tyne, -while lecturing at Coalville, Leicestershire, said there were colliers in Durham who were earning £12 per week. A memorial in support of some form of military training as a qualification for the first degree is being circulated for signature among the resident graduates of Cambridge university.

Considerable damage was caused by an explosion of a gasometer near Cook street-, Glasgow, belonging to the Caledonian Railway Company. Scores of windows were blown in, and some fires broke out, but the firemen prevented tliem from (spreading far. The explosion " involved several warehouses. No lives were lost. Tlie relieving officer nt Spalding, Lines, has discovered £176 hidden among the belongings of Mrs Piatt, who, before her death, had been in receipt of outdoor relief. Pnbilc attention is again directed to the missionary meeting to be held in the Century Hall to-morrow evening. Tlie Rev. R. C. Nicholson, a missionary. from the Solomon Islands, accompanied by Daniel Bula, a native chief, and convert, will tell of some of the oxpei'ierfjdejs and work tin donneobion with this wonderful mission. Mr 'Nicholson was the first white miseionery to visit and work amongst .the natives, who were savages and head hunters. The story of the mission is interesting and appeals to all, showing the great self-sacrifice and undoubtedly grand results which the work gained. IXmiel Bula will speak in his own tongue which will be interpreted by Mr Nicholson. The meeting commences at 7.30. and it is to be hoped that the hall will foe packed to welcome the visitors. Tlie Catholics of Wellington have bought lato John Duthie's estate at the Lower Hutt for £8500. It will be used as a Catholic boys' school.

Mr Oliarles F. Re id, who lias resigned the post of clerk and treasurer of the school board at Latheron, in the county of Caithness, received his appointment in 1872 at the passing of the Education (Scotland) Act. .He is in his 80th year, and has never been absent from any of the 700 school board meetings held since his appointment.

The entrance of women in England into unaccustomed lines iof business prompts this genial bit of humor on the part of the Manchester Guardian. "The lady bank clerk had completed her first week, and a friend asked her how she liked the work. 'Oh, it's beautiful,' said the girl. 'I'm at a branch where nearly all the people we know have accounts, and it's so nice to see how little money some of your friends have in the bank."

Essex justices sentenced a Munition worker to two months' imprisonment with hard labor for having carried hot tobacco pipes into an explos ives workshop.

A special lifeboat award of £1 each was made at I>eal to fifty men, comprising the crews of the Deal and Kingsdown lifeboats, who during the liuricane of .November 19 and '20 rescued 82 men from the Italian (steamer Val Salioe and the American steamer SibirLa, wrecked on the Goodwin Sands. In addition, Coxswains Pay, Adams, Stanton and Holburn were awarded silver medals and testimonials on vellum by. the Royal National Li'eboat Institution.

Professor Osborne, who recently returned to Melbourne from a visit to the United Kingdom, is not the only Australian, who has been impressed by the fact that "oppressed Ireland" is better off in many respects at present than "England, the oppressor.' A wounded soldier on leave in Ireland has written homo a glowing account of life in the Emerald Isle. "Everybody is so cheerful, so easy to get on

with," lie writes. "For instance, compare the Jarvey with our cabmen. When at the end of a ride in a jaunting oar. I askedtlie Jarvey the fare, he replied, 'Begor, sir, I'll let it to yourself. Sure I'd sooner take the three half-crowns you'd offer me than the five shillin's I'd lie askin' of you!" Among the names of reservists in the Wellington district drawn in the latest ballot is that of Mr F. 3>. Thomson, private secretary to the Prime Minister.

Speaking of the War Regulations, Hon. A. L. Herdman says:—To suggest that useful political discussion is barred is mere fudge. The people of iNew Zealand are free to say what they like about politics and politicians provided they do not endanger the public safety or hinder the defence of iNew Zealand or interfere with the effective conduct of military or naval operations. The regulations only prohibit speech which is incompatible with the effective prosecution of the war, and they have been made wide purposely so as to obviate the possibility of necessary military operations being hampered by iu'xal quibbles.

A soldier from Hatumn, Hawke's Bay, Private John Williamson, whose age is over sixty, has written from France to n friend, regretting' that lie has been ordered home. He put in three solid months of fighting, and while on leave took to ice skating.

While skating he received injuries which prevented his return to the trenches, and the doctor finally ordered him back to New Zealand.

A well-known resident of iHokitika had an annoying experience while en route to Christcliurch by the overland route. He had been asked to look after tin old lady who was also making the journey. Upon reaching Otira he placed the old lady in one of the coaches, and then saw that her luggage was put safely aboard. Just before coaches left Otira the lady complained to him that she had lost a sum of money, consisting of two ten-pound notes, out of her bag. A search failed to discover the money, and when the coach reached Arthur's Pass the Hokitika man had the mortification of being taken to the lock-up and searched. Eventually he was alDowed to procetedi. The Sold lady found the money later in one of lie* boxed.

At the funeral of a Barnstaple octogenarian named James iKidwell, for over thirty years Coporation parkkeeper, merry peals were rung on the church bells in accordance with a wish expressed by him during his lifetime. Kidwell also gave instructions as to the good fare to be provided for the mourners attending his funeral.

"Ear-eye" in the Wellington Defender writes:—"l hare worked out a mass of figures for the Efficiency Board. . . . Needless morning and afternoon teas, which spoil the main meals, account for 300,000 hours per day in New Zealand; and 70 tons of food. In a year of 300 days waste of time amounts, to 90,000,000 hours. If this time were used in work the result would be equal to employment of 37833 persons eight hours a day during 300 days. The waste of food in 300 days 21,000 tons for morning and afternoon teas alone—not counting late suppers.

A Casualty List to hand this afternoon records the death of Private K. Morehu, of .the Maori Contingent, and the wounding of ten members of the contingent. The position of senior inspector to Wellington Education Board has been conferred upon Mr F. H. Bnkewell, M.A. who for many years has -been ou the board's inspecting staff. An inquest was held at Shannon on the body of the boy, Morris Browne, who was killed at Tokomani on Monday. The evidence adduced stated that deceased, in company with his father, was helping to repair a shed situated on the. farm. A fierce gale was blowing at the time, and the deceased left his father for the purpose of getting some nails. Just as he left the shed a gust of wind carried the building away, and the deceased was struck on the side of the head hy some of the falling timber which killed him instantaneously. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

The Government Meteorologist telegraphs as under:—The indications are for northerly winds moderate to strong and freshening. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather with" increasing haze and cloudiness for westerly change. 'Hie foiarometer is 'fairing ihortly. The Eden Gazette is prepared to throw every column of its space at the "scorcher"—if necessary. In its latest issue the Gazette says:—M. Harding, who hails from somewhere 'Howick way, has written a defiantly impertinent letter to tho Mount Eden Borough Council demanding that Mt. Eden ratepayers shall pay ifor Balmoral road to he adapted as a scorching ground for his motor. The impudence of such people knows no bounds, and their indifference to the Jives and welfare of others is worthy of the German. And they seem powerful enough to control our Reform Government; otherwise there would long ago have been an annual tax, starting at £25 as a minimum and rising on a graduated scale. They contribute nothing to compensate for being a public nuisance, clamant in its grossness and stupidity.

The effort of the navy to overcome the U boat menace is being vigorously backed by women in England. 11l shipbuilding yards and marine engineering shops they have mastered every kind of work of which their strength is capable. On the work of making the engines of the submarine hunter they are continuously busy, and their services in other directions in the shipyards are equally remarkable. They are helping to increase the output of merchant shipping—a national asset of the highest importance—and. are adding to the reserve of lifeboats.— London Times. In the Central Criminal Court at London a young woman of 20 put in a plea of guilty to a chargo of bigamy. •She was the wife of a soldier at the front, to whom she was married <at the age of 15. The bigamous marriage was contracted with a wounded .soldier, who was employed at the factory as the defendant. -She was bound over in her own recognisances to attend at a subsequent scw-ion, the police being instructed to make a report as to her conduct in the interval.