LOCAL & GENERAL

Levin Daily Chronicle, 26 June 1917, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

Dr. Bryson. of Levin, is doing extra duty at present, in consequence of Dr. Mandl, of Poxton, being incapacitated with rheumatism. As Dr Bryson's practice for the next month must cover the whole district, he will be obliged to cancel his afternoon hours for consultation at Levin. There is only one doctor left to the 13,000 people of Shirebrook, (Derbyshire, where an epidemic of scarlet fever has broken out. To provide work after the war, Lambeth Guardians have submitted a scheme to the Local Government Board involving expenditure of £25,000. A further sum of £3000 has been allocated to Cleethtorpes (England), from the Canadian Fund, to aid distressed' boardingjhouse and lodginghouse keepers. The City of London Guardians are levying (says the London Times) a precept On the Corporation for the payment of £192,000 as poor-rate for the half-year ending September next. "'When I first visited the gaol," said Mr T. P. Mills, master of the Presby-' terian Orphanages and police probation officer at Wellington. "1 was struck with the few Presbyterian prisoners there were there. I mentioned tihis to the gaoler, and liis reply was, 'You are right, sir. there are not as many heroins there ought to be!' " At Levin S.M. Court on Thursday. Paul /Pamahana was convicted of having used abusive language in Oxford stieet. He was ordered to pay £'1 2s costs.

It sterns hardly necessary to remind tho Levin i»nblio of tlic treat in store for them to-night ;it the patriotic concert and ''send-off" in the Century, Hall to-night. Tickets have been selling very freely (hiring the last few diays. and judging by the interest this concert appears to be creating there is going to be a bumper house to 'greet the performers. D'ame Rumor continues to enhance, her reputation in connection willi tlio training camps. It has been reported in Wellington during the last few days that there has been as many ,'ts Jivo snitides at Featherston lately. A Post reporter sought exact information on the subject and was officially informed that only one man had committee suicide at /Featherston since March Inst—a period of nearly three and a half months. 'In February there wore two suicides at Featherston and one in January. [During .the whole of the present year there have been no suicides at Trentham. Cyril Claude brings one snappy story from England which has a bearing on current events. A recruiting sergeant hailed a muscular village laborer: "See. 'ore my lad." lie said ingratiatingly, "are you in good 'ealtli?' "I are," replied the youth. '-Are you married?" "T aren't." "'Ave you anyone dependent upon you?" "1 ain't." ''Then your king and country need you. Why don't you enlist?" "What," lie said in amaaement, 1 "me enlist with that blooniin' war goin' on!" At a meeting of the Wanganui Hospital- .Board it was reported that an old man who was an inmate of the Jubilee Home, had relatives who could pay £200 a year and not feel it. He was receiving the old age pension which had been passed on to the board. '1 lie board decided to communicate with the man's relatives.

ißiiig (Bill Squires, the -heavyweight boxer of Australia, was the tho victim of a -savage assault at 'Newcastle the other night, and had to be treated at the hospital where 28 stitches were put ill tho knifo wounds in his right shoulder and left side. His assailant was a lUiiisfeui liamed Mesau.