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Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 January 1918, Page 2

One Mastertoii farmer is paying as high as five shillings per hour to a Maori stacker.

Pte. Albert Purcell, of Levin, i« reported as having been wounded.

A horse sold in the Levin pound last week realised 10s and was purchased for the lions at Wellington Zoo.

The man who puts off advertising until the need for business is acutely felt, is in the same fix as the nation that puts off military preparations until war is declared.

Mr 11. Channings, Borough poundkeeper, notifies that two liorses —a bay mare witli foal at foot and a bay colt—will be sold by public auction on January 2'l, if unclaimed bv that date.

Tomato plants in some of the Masterton gardens have this year been attacked by a peculiar form of blight, which causes the leaves to wither and the fruit to decay.

The Shannon Women's Red Cross Sewing Guilil are arranging for a stall at the gymkhana to he held at Shannon on February 1(1 for patriotic purposes. They will be glad of gifts of produce,

fancy work, 'plain sewing, or anything saleable for disposal at the fete.

The rainfall in Auckland during 1917 established a l'ecord for that. city. The total fall was 74.51 in., as against 07.10 inches in 1910 and 54.48 inches in 1907, which was the highest annual fall recorded up till 1910- The average annual fall for the 63 years prior to 1910 was 42.03 inches.

Major G. M. Burlinson has retired from the Government service on superannuation, after a protracted illness, due to a severe attack of ptomaine poisoning. Major Burlinson had been in charge of the Caversliam Industrial School and Truant Officer at Auckland before coming to Weraroa.

An unfortunate individual, who has a notion that be is going to break the totalisator at the coming Wellington races and afterwards become Premier, was taken in charge on .'Tuesday by the Mas. terton police. In anticipation of the event, an order for a £450 car was placed at a motor garage.

As showing how some soldiers have a premonition, a letter received by a Gisborne resident from a young man who made the supreme sacrifice in the Passchendaele attack, contained the statement that "somehow or other I cannot get rid of the feeling that I am going to catch it," and lie asked 'the recipient to assist in cheering up the home circle if the worst did happen.

The late Mr Charles Parata was ail enthusiastic 'footballer. He -was responsible for the formation of the original Kia Ton Football Club in Otaki, in the year 1892. Under his coaching this team of raw recruits, mostly mere boys at the time, put up a wonderful record. In the club's first, year, its members won the Horowhenua Championship, and made some wonderful scores. At the time the team was really a remarkable combination, due almost: entirely to the enthusiasm and skill shown by Mr Parata.

It is generally believed that sly grog selling lias been going on • quietly in Otaki for some time post. In consequence of his suspicions being roused, our energetic local police officer (Constable Satherley) made a raid on a local fruiterer's shop in Mill road, Otaki, on Sunday last, and secured a quantity of liquor—some seventeen bottles of Chinese whisky—which he found on the premises. As a result, the occupier of the building, a Chinaman nam. Wong Tin?, will be brought before the next sitting of the S.M. Court to answer certain serious charges.— Mail. A comedy at St. Clair (DunIn two acts. Act the. I first: Big boys bursting with merriment as they removed two gates from seaside residences on Monday night- It was a hard job, and took a while, but it was great fun. Act the second. The same boys, four of them, dejectedly toiling with the same gates the following morning, carrying them back and relianging them, the local constable acting as the prompter. One of the gates had to be brought back from the surfline abreast o ftlie St. Jvilda dres-sing-sheds.

A correspondent writes to tinPalmerston Times:—The death of the late Peter Stewart, of Levin, recalls an interesting experiment conducted by him when farming at "Birnam," near Awahuri, on the property now occupied by Mr John Matthews. Having read much in those days of the cost and difficulty of dying woollen fabric, Mr Stewart collected and selected all the black ewe lambs to be obtained, and endeavoured to raise wool dyed by nature. He succeeded so far as to obtain a predominant colour; but found that it' would take more than a lifetime to fix the type, and further that he obtained no better I price for his self-dyed product.