LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 August 1917, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

A cablegram Iroiu '-Melbourne states that the federal Goveriuent issued ijfatructions tiiat".liin Larkin" is not to be allowed to land ill Australia. Ihis decision will be cof-tly to Jim; and, what is worse, it coats 'I'lie Chronicle one .shilling tor the rubbishy in— formation. Yesterday tho Levin hockey team journeyed to Palmerston to play a return match with the combination which visited Levm on the preceding Wednesday. The first game had resulted in a somewhat ea.-y win for i'almerbton, a ratber formidable combination including bome of Manawacu's most noted veterans. Yesterday's game was a keen and evenly-contested one, and Levin though beaten wore by no means disgraced, for their opponents only netted tne ball once.

Private. Abraham, formerly of Wereroii, Levin, is reported to be held as a prisoner ol war in Germany. I'Yesh eggs arc quoted at Is -kl per dozen, wholesale, in Wellington this week. The Prime Minister tokl the House of Ilepresentatives this wok that it was possible the Xew Zealand General Elections would be held this year. He added that personally ho was not in favor of holding them while things in the empire were troubled as they now were. A reward i'k offered for the return of n gold l ruble bange lost in Levin °n Tuesday- last.

A heart-rendering story reaches the Chronicle if to m tli o A\*;i irn r;i pn. A young mother, in despair of making a. ww garment fit her baby, presented ■it to the Rod .Oiws shop. Next day, it came batik, with a note from the baibv's gran'ma that she was sure the erarnient would he "just the thing for he.!' little grandson." (Torment would' fit nicely. -An address oil "The Key of tho Kingdom," V to ho delivered in LWin this evening at the Church of Christ CWcrnron) by Mr H. Grinstead, of f'almerston Xiorth. Tn the House of Representatfves, Mr W. H. -Field, OIL P., hajy igiiven notice that he will ask tho Minister in Chan-go *4 the Valuation Department. wliethe're he will give instructions that ail portions of the Dominion which hare not been valued within (V-nv) the past five years shall be valued without delay, so that land taxation may in future - fall as nearly as possible equitably throughout the country generally f

The; distribution of trout fry from the Mastertou fish hatcheries will shortly be commenced. The allocation will include: Brown trout: Levin. -JO.OOO. Palmerston 10,000. Rainbow trout: Marton 35,000, Hnnterville 23.000. Tatfliapip. 20,000, tun 12,000. Palmerston 10,000, Levin 10,000.—Alaliawatu Times.

In a note on the Messines tattle Mr Malcolm Rnss, New Zealand official war correspondent, pays : — No one will deny that the German soldier is usually a brave and determined fisrhter. But so far as the New Z<?alanders are concerned it is true that have an absolute contempt for him. Not only will one New Zealander tackle half a dozen Germans bur, in this battle the morale of our men was so high that they were even seen to charge through their own barrage and single-handed tackle a whole enemy machine-gun crew. And anyone who saw that barrage on the morning of the 7tb, mixed as it was in places with German high-explosive shells, will knowthat such action required heroism and self-sacrifice in the highest degree. To the combined music of our own barrage, the crunch of German high-explosives and the ceaseless chattering of the machine guns on both sides, our men simply waltzed into Messines. And once in there they knew exactly what to do. No time was lost. What had to be done was done quickly. And then on with the dance !

Wellington Hospital Board has approved tho proposed transfer os Horo-whenua-County from Wellington Hospital District to that of l'almoraton North.