The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN: THURSDAY, AUGUST 7. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN: THURSDAY, AUGUST 7. LOCAL & GENERAL

Allah's in connection with the Stale Farm Weraroa, arc being' enquired into by a Commission consisting of Mr A. D. Thomson (of the Public Service Hoard) and Mr J. 0. Rutherford, of llemiiera. The Commission visited (he farm yesterday, and is sitting at Levin to-day to hear witnesses. The proceedings are not open to the press. Mr 11. .Newport, of Kawii: I'oad, has been very busy thiseason execul illorders for Fruit trees for people all over the North Island. Last week Mr Xewpori sent a consignnient of nearly three thousand apple trees io Pal incision Xorth. The (ioverunieu I is ,ii present having (he blind-; of land secured by (hem from Mr •7. U. McDonald surveyed, and they are taking possession at the end of (his monlh. An interesting ; ,,-t jde ~,, ] vention and the Flax rmlustr\" appears on page -I of to-day's Chronicle. An appropriation of £:!()() i s to be decided by ballot bv Levin Terminalin»: Uuilding Society on ;ui early dale. 11l Ohau Institute (his evenJ II W !' Pinafore Hall will be held, dancing commencing at <So clock. Music will be supplied by pinno and violin. Ilorowhenua Fruiigrowers' Association holds its ordinary meeting next Friday evening, in the Oddfellows' [fall. Levin. Levin Debating Society's mod ing. which falls due nex( Friday, is being postponed, on aecounl of a farewell funclioii lo Mr .las. Matier having been organised for thai evening. The robbing of orphans is an otfence that even the bloodthirsty pirates of Penzance discountenance. What will we say, then (asked the Dunedin Star), of a person who would rob orphans Y There is such a person in or about Dunedin. He got into the vestibule of the Hall wherein the Dunedin Orphans' Club were enjoying themselves, and made off with six hats, and overcoats and a pair of gloves. So the orphans say. They at first though! it a jopk, but the matter is now in the hands of the police. The opossum is a little thing which the public in general has heard a great deal in tlie last lew weeks. Yesterday the Agricultural Societies' Conference added lo the volume. Finally, the conference resolved thai as large areas of scenic reserves and mountain wastes in the South Island are capable of car- ( lying thousands of pounds sterling of opossum furs annually, ' it should urge the Government ' to utilise this source of "greal ' national wealth.''' Speaking ' to the resolution, South Island farmers said thai the opossum didno harm whatever except in fru if -growing areas. They added I hat flic animal could never become a pest as it was so easily killed off. Dominion.

During on (lie question of agricultural colleges at tlic Wanganui Technical College Commit toe meeting it was officially stated that it would cost the Govern men t £">O,OOO, independent of the land, for each agricultural college erected in Now Zealand. were based on AustrAifJ?" expenditure, and include a thorough equipment, embracing stocks, instruments, etc. Some days ago a lady consulted Dr. AlcUowan, of 33a 1larat, Victoria, in regard to an old wound in her leg. An operation was performed by Dr. McGowan, who took from the leg a tube of about three inches in length. The lady said that some time ago she was an inmate of one of the Melbourne hospitals suffering from an affection of the leg. Three tubes were inserted in the wound to facilitate healing, and finally, when they were no longer required, the doctor in attendance proceeded to remove them. It appears, however, that he withdrew only two of the tubes, tTic presence of a third one being either forgotten or unobserved. An electric automobile service has been established across the Alps at a cost of approximately £100,000. The line, which is about twenty-live miles in length, extends from Airulo, Switzerland, through the Bedret to Valley and the I'ass, and ends at 1.1 lichen in the \ ala is region, on the Italian side of the Alps. The automobiles have a capacity for passengers and make the trip in one and three-quarter hours on express service, running a! the rale of L'<? to 2'-3 miles an hour. The company has ten stations along the route, and j three irips are made daily in each direction when there is no snow on the road to interfere with the passage of the vehicles.