The Levin Daily Chronicle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1921.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 August 1921, Page 2

The Levin Daily Chronicle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1921.

A cow which realised £2O last year was sold hi the local yards yesterday in an empty condition lor 17s 6d. It was stated at the meeting of the Levin School Committee last evening that the recently-erected addition to the school would he completed in about a week’s time. The Levin District High School Committee received from the education Hoard at its meeting'last evening an enlarged port rail of the Prince ol Wales, together with a facsimile ol the letter which the Prince wrote to the children ol the Dominion prior to his leaving the Dominion on his return lo England. It was decided to have the portrait and letter framed and hung in the pchool.

Pigs continue to command good values on the local market, Veaners being in short supply. A generous vendor at yesterday’s sale offered to throwr in a low-con-ditioned heifer Avith a line of cows he had just sold, but a bid of 2s 6d came across the yard, and when the competition ended the owner was 17s 6d to the good. A sitting of the Native Land Court wi-ll commence in Levin on Monday. . Owing to the boisterous weather, there was only an attendance of. 14 at the ladies’ Ambulance Class last night. Dr. Macdonald postponed his lecture till next Tuesday evening, but gave those present some useful instruction in bandaging work. A day or two ago an Otago builder made preparation overnight for going on with a repairing job, and after taking off his coat in the morning be had io put it on again and start to search for—not a chisel, nor a hammer. nor anything of the like—but two screwjacks, one for lifting 5 tons, the other 6 lons that had disappeared during the night. It would appear that' Southern Huwkes’ Bay farmers will not have cause to complain of any lack of rain this winter, though the early mouths were considerably drier than usual. During the week-end close on two inches of rain were registered. The rain, though of a mild temperature on the lower levels, was evidently much colder on the ranges, which bore a light mi. idle of snow. While the Auckland City Council’s trawler Cowan wasjtrawling off Miners’ Head (the scene of the Wairarapa wreck), the net brought up a horse’s skull in a good state of preservation, but thickly coated with barnacles, one or two of which were quite l.jin in thickness, this showing the great length of time the head had been, submerged. The Wairarapa, on her ill-fated trip in October, 1804, carried a largo shipment of racehorses from Sydney. No fewer than five appiicajjions were received at last week’s meeting of the New Zealand Rugby-Union for special trains to run from die provincial centres to the city on the occasion of the test match, New Zealand v. South Africa, at Welington. The applications were from New Plymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Palmerston North, and Masterton, and they were all referred to Mr S. S. Dean, who undertook- 1o interview the general manager of railways on the subject. In conversation with Dr. Sym«s, who for many years wasTlovernment medi cal officer in Christchurch, New Zealand, t lie Samoa Times learnt that the doctor had been investigating while" in Tonga, die condition of the natives, which be thought very satisfactory so far as he bad the opportunity. The birth-rate now is 3!) per thousand 'and the death-rate only 71 per thousand, a. favourable figure lor a tropical country, though much above the New Zealand rate of 0 per thousand. The population of Tonga now is wed over 23,000. "It is enough to make one sick,” said die Bev. W. F. Grove, secretary of the School Committee, at the meeting last night when the Education Board asked -for a plan of ground improvements which the Committee proposed to carry out, and for which it asked for a subsidy. Mr Grove said that a plan had been sent when the application for the subsidy was made. This was duly acknowledged by the Board, and now came another request for another plan. Mr Grove .said he bad reolied, “and it was a stinger,” he added. The two Farm boys responsible for the died of £lB 7s 6d from Mr Keedwell’s shop one evening last week absconded from the institution on Sunday night. They were to have appeared before the Court on Monday to answer the charges, but were still missing when the Court sat. They were recaptured later in the day and were each sentenced by Mr J. 1.. Stout to receive six strokes of the birch, and an order was made returning thetu to. tbe, farm. London bands have been rather unfortunate lately in suiting the tune to the occasion, tlie Times remarks. It happened, as the l.qrd Mayor and Aldermen were moving in their stately way towards the platform at the Guildhall, that the band of Hie Coldstream Guards were in the middle of “Chu Chin Chow,” so the brisk melbdy of the “Robbers' March” accompanied the imposing progress, and somewhat marred its impressiveness on die beholders. The hand of the Royal Irish Constabulary accomplished as pleasing a feat when Lord French took his farewell of Dublin Castle, by playing “I’m for Ever Blowing Bubbles.” The offer of a reward of £250 for.information leading to, the conviction of the murderer of the youth .Tew at Auckland indicates (says the Star) the difficulty encountered in the investigation of what is believed to be a foul crime. Dozens of persons with knowledge ofMhe deceased and of the "locqlitjj have been interviewed, of have volunteered statements, but the prospect of the information obtained leading to anything helpful is not convincing. Closest scrutiny of the home, shop and social life of the young man has failed to reveal anything that looks like giving an effective direction to the search. The movements of the young man on Saturday night still remain unknown.

- > It is reported that a permanent body is being organised in England under the Ministry of Agriculture to test agricultural machinery and implements. The idea is to publish the results of all tests in the way of a certificate of achievement and performance,' from which the purchaser could draw his own deductions. • The Clyde correspondent of the Dunedin Star- says that after the long spell of remarkably mild weather (the almond trees are in bloom and the 1 apricots are showing the pink colour),, a howling gale raged on Saturday, followed by heavy rain. In a short time the water courses were running full, and the Fruitgrowers' road opposite Clyde suffered two washouts, while renter w r as running across the railway line near Freed's in the Gorge.