The Chrøicle. LEVIN WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1916, Page 2

The Chrøicle. LEVIN WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1916. LOCAL & GENERAL

A leoture on "The Hon. D. Lloyd George" is to be given in the Century Hall, Leviu, tomorrow evening (Thursday) by Mr Herbert Grinstead. Mr Grfnstead lias had a personal acquaint-ance-with Great Britain's reformer. Several oases of diphtheria are Imported in I'almerston North, and it is stated that it is more widespread than appears as people fail to report all eases that occur. It is stated that in one- instance a medical practitioner did not send in particulars for several days. This week the children^attending the Levin school are collecting money for the relief of the B'el'ginn :chi:ldren. Monday was "children's day" andi on thai day they collected £22 15s. Yesterday another £3 was taken up and it is expected that the week's total will come to close on £30. A nasly accident happened last evening, at about 10 o'clock, to Mr. W. L. Bryant, Miss 'Muriel Baylis, and Miss Bertha Beach, residents of North Manoka u They wore driving home and were passing through the Hoiowheuna Village Settlement when a motor car collided with the ihorse and trap and tiilew the three out. Miss Beach sustained a dislocated arm at the shoulder, Air Bryant had his wrist strained, and Miss Bayiis escaped injury. The' driver of the car (according. to reports supplied)" did not stop to render assistance; just dirove straight towards Levin. It is reported that rock paintings in the Weka Fuss, (North Canterbury, are in danger of being obliterated. Dr J. I/. Elmore, of Kansas City, who is ntertsted in this kind of work, stated recently that he had been told that the paintings are in a cave and that cattle which have a free access to the place, rub against the rocks, and cause a great depreciation -in the scientific value of the paintings. They include several grotesque figures, some of which roughly reeemble fish. IThey are unlike the carvings and wood paintings of the ancient Maoris, and. there has been some speculation as to the people who made them. l>r Elmore suggests that steps should be taken to have tlie paintings preserved. He says that in other countries he has found a strange indifference towards the necessity for preserving these primitive records, ■which have n very TrigK value to students and investigators.

A remarkable accident occurred in Dennis street, Waverley, Sydney, on Tuesday, July 4th, as a result of whicli Joyce Mason, a six-months-old infant, was killed. Mrs Mason wa« walking along Dennis-street with tho child in her arms, and was opposite a blacksmith's shop, when a pair of pincers eliot over tlie fence and struck the baby cm the head. A man had thrown tlie pincers in the direction of a horse in the smithy. Tlfey hit the horse, but rebounded and flew over the fence to the footpath, striking the chjldl on the head. Dr Hipsley, who was passing in a motor car hurried the child first to. the Children's Hospital in Valentine street, and later to the Royal "Hospital lor Children, at Oamperdown. The little one died the same night. Some of the straight stretches of railway in the South Island are dwarfed besides the records in this respect which are being made on the Australian Transcontinental! Railway, says the New Zealand Railway Review. For a long tame Cobar to Ntyngan held the record for the longdtet piece of straight railway in Australia—a GO-mile stretch. There is a straight run of 40 miles where the lino leaves Southern Cross for Coolgardie, but the Transcontinental line beats all records with a iangth of 340 miles without a curve. The good folk of an Auckland back country township were visited recently by a man who gave himself out as a returned soldier (reports the Auckland Star). He was receivedi with open arms, and deluged with hospitality. Tales of derring-do on the hills of' Gallipoli rippied from his tongue to tlie delight of tlie ladies and the interest of all. He became the lion of the neighbourhood, and invitations to Bocial functions fell thick upon him. At a banquet he responded! to the toast of the Anzacs with tears in his eyes and the tremolo of deep emotion in his voice. Upon his departure he had a great send-off; but he assuaged the township's grief by an assurance that lie would soon return. He was back in a few days as principal witness for the police in cases in which several of his erstwhile hosts were, on his information, charged with sly-grog selling; Til* the witness box be save his age as 27. and followed this up w : th the startling assertion that be had been a memb"r of the Sixth South African Oont"ntro'it. Counsel fo" tlie defence drew attention to the fact t(hat lie must, then, have been a soldier in South Africa att 13. heedless to say the ca<e was dismissed. 'Mr Herbert Larkin, who has been selected to manage the Commonwealth Government shipping line at £2000 a year, entered the service of the Australasian United Steam 'Navigation Company in 1890 as a clerk. in 1911 he had risen to the position of chief clerk, and had charge of all oversea business. On the outbreak of war. one of the leading shipping men in Melbourne was asked to recommend a huitaffle man to control Commonwealth transports. He recommended Mr Larkin as one of the ablest shipping men in tlie city, and Mr Larkin Berrices were commandeered by tlie Naval Department. After managing transport work in Australia with complete satisfaction for some time Mr Larkin was sent to London to control the business of the Australian Naval Department at that end.