The Levin Daily Chornicle FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 August 1925, Page 2

The Levin Daily Chornicle FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Peter Moko, secretary to Ratana, will appear at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court on August 31, charged with common assault.. It is alleged that the defendant kicked a Maori girl at Ratana recently.

The Levin District High School commenced the winter vacation of two wteeks to-day. School resumes on August 31. Sheep-worrying by dogs has been .prevalent in the King Country. On one farm alone, near Raetihi, thirty ewes were killed. The new spring goods are selling freely at “Davie’s," the popular draper’s. Another large parcel is ;o 'hand. The ladies of Levin and dis trict are urged to call and inspect while the selection is at its best.* An appeal has been inaugurated to raise £IOOO for the artist, Louis Wain. He commenced to draw' in 1886, and has drawn 150,000 cats. Despite past prosperity he has sold the copyright of his pictures, and is now a pauper in a lunatic asylum. The importance of the poultry industry to Levin is well illustrated m the sum paid out lor eggs supplied to the depot for July. This amounts to very nearly £SOO and with the price fairly firm andjnoreased supplies coming forward, this is likely to be exceeded for August. Demands for assistance this winter have been at a minimum, reported Mr F. Aisher, Charitable Aid Officer, to the Palmerston Hospital Board yesterday. This was especially so in the Poxton and Levin districts, where he had only been paying out approximately £2 10s as against £l6 to £lB per month last year. A despicable act of cruelty occurred in Manaia on Friday afternoon when someone fixed with wire a bicycle wheel to the tail of a- horse ffnd set it galloping down the Manaia Road (the Witness reports). Maddened with fright the poor beast galloped wildly through the town, narrowly missing the children who wore leaving school, and careered through the back streets of the town lashing out wildly at'the wheel. When caught it was found to be. severely cut about the heels both hind legs being running with blood* The senior room of the High School are responsible - for a rather good magazine known as “L’Amiraute." The editor introduces himself and reviews current events—both school and town—on (he first page, and fur (her along the reader finds criticisms of literature, the school debating society, football, and exam, papers; while each issue is to contain a tab loid history of the lives of famous characters. The magazine is entirely hand-printed and carried out with good taste, while the work of arranging and securing contributions must have entailed a fair encroachment on the leisure hours of the writer, who produces-a, very readable little magazine. Whilst Mr S. R. Macdonald and Mr W. B. Steel were on their mission to Central Otago, as representing the Otago Expansion League, the Uppo l ' Clutha Railway League took them for a cruise ozi Luke Wanaka as far as the neck, which (states the Wakatipu Mail) will some day be the site of a great power house. At the neck tile water of Lake HaVea. is distant, only three-quarters of a mile from Lake Wanaka, and there is a fall ot 180 ft. between the lakes. This volume represents 1)0,000 horse-power. Such a superrgiant will not be allowed to sleep. It is one of the sure things of the future that it will be put in use and made one of t]ie very big hydrot-electric installations of New Zealand. The colloquial term for an American seaman in his own country is the short but forcible word, “gob," but according to an officer in Christchurch, the men do not approve of it. “A wrong impression,” says this officer, “is that our sailors like to be called ‘gobs.’ As a matter of fact, the older men resent it. I have heard a senior officer reprimand a junior officer for referring to the men by that word. He said that they should be referred to as sailor, blue-jackets, or simply as men. The word came into use before the war, and was more generally used during the war, but it never has been anything except a term of derision. Young fellows may say they like it, old and experienced sailors, who are proud of the service, certainly Jo not." Wanganui and southern motorists complain bitterly Qf a nuisance, in the form of a number of cattle, that for weeks past have beep permitted to graze on the road between Wangaehu and Turakina. The cattle obstruct the road nightly, and are permitted to browse at ease, to the constant danger of motorists. One mo-tor-car owner informed a reporter yesterday that he was more amazed than surprised that a serious accident had not occurred at night time on this stretchf of road. “It Is abso lutely criminal,” he said, “especially in view of the heavy fogs that feature this part of the country at this time of the year, that these cattle are allowed to wander to the immediate danger qf the travelling public."— Wanganui Chronicle. Most smokers like a change now and then. They may smoke one brand for months, or for years, but sooner or later, comes a hankering for a change. If tired of the foreign manufactured brands you are accustomed to use, try the New Zealand grown tobacco. Here you have an entirely different tobacco and a thorough change. Its purity will please you. Comparatively free from nicotine it appeals to the man whose pipe is constantly in his mouth. He can smoke “till further orders" without experiencing the disagreeable effects following the constant use of. some of the imported brands heavily charged with nicotine, the very free use of which will certainly affect the nerves in the long run, and possibly the action Of the heart. New Zealand tobacco is peculiarly soothing, and a taste for it is quickly acquired. Obtainable in three strengths. Riverhead Gold, very mild and aromatic. Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) is of medium strength and Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label, is recommended to those who like a full body,*