LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 February 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Prize money in connection with the ITornwljoniifl A. and ?. Association's annua! show, hold last week, is being posted to-day to the various prizewinners. Tliwc total eighty in nil, and the money* won total some £200. There will be two extra, days' J grace allowed for gas bill discounts j this month. Discount will be given lon all accounts paid on or before Monday'next, 12th February. j On Friday evening next the Horo- | wiienua Fruitgrowers' Association j will hol(l its annual meeting—in the Oddfellows' Hall, Levin. Intending members are invited to attend the meeting. The chairman of the Borough Council waterworks committee (Cr. Blenkhorn) went out to the new waterpipe tunnel way yesterday— the headrace tunnel—to make an inspection. This tunnel is being concreted by a gang of corporation employees, and good progress is being made with the work.

A special meetiug of the Grand ' Lodge of the Druids' Friendly Soj iety (North Island) will bo held in Marton next Monday. Over a hun--1 dred lodges will be represented at ■ the meeting. Mr 13. R. Gardener will be the Levin Lodge's delegate. j Lord Morley, in a speech at a dinner recently served at the Victoria University, Manchester, of I which he is chancellor, remarked that j it was said that democracy worship- | pod incompetence or was indifferent [to competence. He did not hej lievo a word of it, hut, if if vrrro so, the facts and the emergencies of j daily life would soon pull democracy | up and there would T>o «n end of it. I He confessed, however, that he. saw j occasionally some signs of that fatal heresy that one man's opinion war as good as another's. Many years back the then King of Prussia visited a needle manufactory in his kingdom. He was shown a number of superfine needles, thousands of which did not weigh half an ounce, and marvelled how sucdi minute objects could he pierced with an eye. But he wins shown something, even finer. The workj man whose it was to bove the eve in the needles asked for a hair from the monarch's head. Tt w\s readily given, and, with a smile the borer placed it under his maeh- ; ne and made an eve in it. Tin's be I H'-ntshed with a thread, and then j handed the shicvhir needle to the j astonished King. F-irl Crev. who was an earnest ad- | "'neat" of proportional representation ?.~) vivirs ago. and has beep •, j "i'" ; «h'iti supnorter of thai pripj eM.V. returned to Fn gland free: i ("'■iichPi increased in Ins fait'' fh"* ! thin swlpiii of election is an oi«eivti:>! I '•■iiwlilini! of flu. success of donoI "i'atic institutions. Ho jpdb.ifr/! in Ims speech, del"v< red at Newcastle on December 1, that the proportional r 'oresontation movement w.as "one of the directions in whMi Ins ener "ips could but be devoted to fie sor--ico of tii« country.'' and it is n,,v announced that he has accepted Mv vieo-prcsidencv of the Proportional Society. On active service, every soldier carries what is known as an emergency ration, though its use is forbidden except by order of an officer oi' in extremity. When occasion ftpits use arises, the centre band is torn off. and two tins are disclosed. One tin contains ',1b of concentrated hoof, and the other Jib of cocoa paste. These rations can ho eaten dry. hilt if water is available greater benefit can he derived. An ounce of the beef boiled for an hour makes •a pint of excellent beef tea, and bv si rumoring lay, of the cocoa paste in a pint of water for a quarter of an hour, a liquid cocoa of good strength is obtained. Tf the ration is eaten in small quantities at a time, it is calculated to maintain strength for •10 hours.

I -Ui' JJ. i{. Gui'i'.ciicr, Levin'.-, repivjsentative on the r'oxton Tlarbour Hoard, has gone up t„ J'aliuerMon North fo-da.v U> attend an oiclin.-i:v [general meeting of tin- boUJ'tl. The j meeting will discuss details o\ the ' now bill (to be presented to Parlkiinent this year) anthoi ising tile construction of a special rating diMrict ■l» iillmv ill' the board purchasing r'oxton wlinrf and its environs from the Government. |( j s uiiticijnito'l that if tiie board can achieve (his purchase a very marked improvement will he effected speodil.y m rfIP Itoxton Harbour, with roMdling be-. "Wits to Levin, Shannon, Pahuerston Xorth, Feilding and other centres of population. .A balance sheet of the board, recently issued, shows receipts to 31st December, 191], which total l'7B(i 3s od. expenditures amounting to C 52-1 14s, and a credit balance of C 261 Bs.

Several good stories are told of the difficulties got into by rustic Berj vants cnid gillies when they addresslod the King when, as Prince of Wales ,he went fishing or deerstalking with them. Onee, when he j was fishing in the Tweed, « clover gillie had been told to look after him. The man, who had never before been left alone with a real live prince, was embarrassed at first, and afraid he might not address him with sufficient respect. That happened to he one of the Prince's offdays. Ho was nowhere near his usual form, and at last, for some reason or other, made a short cast and mussed a fine salmon. At this the gillie lost patience Altogether, nnd like the Psalmist, "spake with his tongue" "An ye fnsh in that fulc way again I Why, domn it, mon, ye'd best gae hame!"

j Dr. Morison, The Times corrcsj pondent at Peking, has had an in- , teresting interview with Yuan Shi- | kai, who, he says, is advocating the j retention of the present dynasty as jsi limited Monarchy, fearing, if the | demands of the Republican party ! prevail and the dynasty is removed, ! that there would be internal wrang- • ling leading to anarchy, in which I foreign intereste would suffer and ' foreign lives he endangered, and so foreign intervention and partition would follow. Already, Yuan says, there arc signs of dissension among tho revolutionaries. Each province has- its own objects and aspirations. The view of the north cannot be reconciled with that of the south. The Prime Minister said ho believed that seven-tenths of the population were still conservative and satisfied with the old regime: three-tenths

, only belonged to the advanced pnrty. If the revolutionaries should : succeed in overthrowing the present ! dynasty another revolution might ! take place, headed by the Conservatives, having for its object the restoration of the Monarchy. Amid i such chaos all interests would suf- ; Per, and for several decades there 1 would bo no peaco in the "Empire.

Harvest Thanksgiving Services will be held in St. Mary's, Levin, on Qirinquagesima Sunday, February 18th. A harvest anthem will be sung by the choir at the evening service. The St. -Mary's Communicants' Guild, Levin, will recommence on Kriday evening next at 7.30 p.m., in the schoolroom. A full attendance is requested, to discuss plans for the ensuing season. During the year ended lust month the Levin Fgg Circle sent away over 1.3.000 dozen eggs. Now arrangements for collecting eggs were innde which it was hoped would work out satisfactory for all members. A -lewisli fanner in Alberta, according to the Jewish Chronicle, is at present engaged in inscribing an address of welcome to the Duke of Connaught. in Hebrew, on a grain of wheat. There will be over 300 Hebrew letters in the addra-s. Otaki howlers- by a substantial margin retained the Kinnibnrgh Feather,-;, which a, Shannon team endeavoured to pluck from them yesterday afternoon. Levin will visit the Otaki green, next Wednesday, on a .similar quest. Levin cricketers pleased and surprised to hear of three teams in the held at Fox ton. I't is likely that a match will be arranged with one or more of those teams, keeping in view the idci of forming an asocial ion with then!. Otaki, Levin, the Training Farm, .and any of the old clubs (hat might revive. The l!ev. !). C. nates' weather forecast states that present indication.-; are for a falling barometer everywhere soon : westerly and northerly winck will probably freshen, with increasing cloudiness and unsettled weather will follow shortly in 'most parts of the country. The work of layiag the rails of the railway extension U, Glonhope, in tin- \ei'-i)!i dislrjet. will be completed by the Publie Works Dopartnienl iu about a fori night (says the Dominion 1 ! and (he new section will he handed over shortly to the Railway Department. A returned \ew Zoalnndor affirms that Queensland has outstripped the dominion in its progressive land policy, and big areas are being secured. The next step it-; the conpi ruction <if a railway to open up (ho Crown .setlenienfs. and townships are springing up like mushrooms. A Levin cricket team is to play Otaki. at Otaki. nexi Saturday. A drag will leave i lokhi way's shop at 1'J.30 p.m. The team will consist of Field. Kei t;.. r (>2), Williams, Young. .Sloan. Knight, Eggolton, Dixon. MoKon/.ie. Carrol and Harding. All members are requested to turn out to practice each night; or, unable to go. to notify the secretary. Shannon bowlers had a good mus- ; ter on their green yesterday after- ! noon. Two full rink games were j played, and a third rink went down i to Otaki to look for feathers (Kin- ! niburgh brandy Tennis players also were strongly represented on : the Shannon grounds, and the howlers and tennis players fraternised over afternoon tea kindlv provided and served hv the ladies of the club. Very .satisfactory public patronage was given to the moonlight earnival hold on Horowhenna Lake last night by the local boating club. (Several hundred people were on the lake. Full details will be printed in to-morrow's Chronicle. The art union held in connection with the gathering wais drawn, and the handsome oil painting which formed the prize, went to Mrs T. Cameron, of Poroutawhoa.

J Mr (.'. Williams, secretary Hoi'Oi tt'hcnua Mineral Prospecting Association reports that the shareholders ;;ire paying the recent call struck very freely, arid thflt nut of over one hundred shareholders alieady called on he has only met with five refusals. Mr William*, who recently had an interview witli the Govoriiment Geologist, informs us that the geologist expressed an opinion thai, there wns every likelihood of rich mineral wealth being contained in tlie Tanarn-i ranges*. About iwonty bowlers were on tho l-evin given yesterday afternoon, and some interesting rink games wcvf played. A contest for tho ISowen Stars took place also. The holders' lead (Park) was absent, and his place was taken by Mclntyre. Tho challengers were Marriott and Glackin, but their attack was not f-drong enough to shift the stars. Palmer and Mclntyro's final score being 20 against 10. Afternoon tea. j was provided, by the ladies of tho dub. Tlie. green was in first class

condition. An offer <ii' boat building work at 'I'liurangji lutH been made to Mr C. Novin, dl' tli.. Ilorowhemia Lake sheds, and lie ha.s resolved to take lii.s departure at the end of tlie present month. An unreserved sale of the whole of his boating plant will be hold on the 2Lst February, nfc the- lake, by Messrs Hitchings, Hankins and Co.. Ltd. The work of Mr Ncvin in popularising the lake as a recreation resort baa been favourably noticed by many Levin citizens, ami his departure from tlio town will be re arretted. The trial of the Camorriste in .Ft- | ■fily is reviewed by Mr Arthur Train I a well-known American lawyer, in McClnre's Magazine. Mr Train finds much to approve in the methods of the Ttalian courts. Neven in liis experience, ho says, has he seen a judge presiding with greater ability or keeping a more perfect control over liis court that in this trial, and he declares that he knows no legal procedure better fitted than the Ttalian to br'ng out the truth of the charges being tried. American | newspapers, he s-a.w, had uniformly j given a wrong impression as £o this I celebrated trial. j