NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 527, 21 March 1908, Page 4

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE

ITEMS GARNERED FROM OUR EXCHANGES. A Califomian centenarian named Wilson was surrounded by 228 descendants at the celebration of his 100 th birthday recently. Nearly £25,000,000 was given to charitable, educational, and other causes Hast year in the. United States. Mir John D. Rockefeller led with gifts exceeding £8,000,000, while Mrs Sage gavo £2,000,000. It has been arranged that the meadow near Kensington Park, which the London Comity Council recently secured, shall be used by the Lambeth scholars in connection with the new sclieme of organised games. This is tho last meadow in Lambeth. A United States special census report shows that in ten years the number of women employed in various occupations has increased from 3,712,144 to 5,007,900, the total engaged in the law being 1010, against 207, wliilc there are 3405 "clergymen," compared with 1143 ten years ago. Professor E. Rutherford, the brilliant young New ' Zealander who startled the world by his ney theories on radium, said, in a lecture at the Royal Institution recently, that owing to recent discoveries it was hoped that radio-active substances would soon be on sale in large quantities, and at a comparatively low price. A telegram from Rome published n the London papers on February 4 says: Tho employee at Krupp's works, Essen (Germany), who has been arrested tor high treason, offered a competing firm of another country the specifications of certain important manufactures turned out by Krupp. Tho foreign firm, instead of accepting tho proposal, denounced the culprit to Messrs Krupp, who thereupon had tho faithless workman arrested. The Right Hon. James A. Campbell, tho British Prime Minister's eldor brothei-, was for 26 years in the House of Commons as Conservative member for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities. Curiously enough, tho brothers, liks their father and uncle, belonged to different political parties. The former, the late Sir James Campbell. Lord Provost of Glasgow, was a.ll .hib Jifo a strong Conservative, while the latter, William Campbell, was an ardent Liberal, and a financial pillar of tho Freo Kirk. Mr J. A. Campbell is 11 years alder than the Premier, and retired from Paliam-ent in 1906. ? Tho "smart" woman in London this spring wiil buy her perfume to suit her hat. Floral toques composed of every kind of blossom in velvet, silk and gauze are sprayed with their natural odours. An entergfising French milliner, who is making a speciality of floral toques this year, will sell a tiny vial of perfume with each confection. The floral hats are made of lilies-of-the-valley, shaded heliotrope, pink, crimson, white, or yellow roses, violets, carnations, wallflowers, and all the flowers which exhale a fragrant odour. Hie secret of success is to allow ono drop of tho perfume to all in tho centre of the flowers. This is quite sufficient to make the whole hax smell Hko a bouquet of real blooms. A decision of importance, in that it was practically an interpretation which affects all employers of labour, was given by tho Arbitration Court it Wellington. A bricklayer was charged with having employed a labourer to do bricklaying work. This, the union submitted, was a breach of tho ■award, which stipulated that only bricklayers and apprentices should lc employed.' It was shown that the main had been paid tho wages stipulated by the award. The Court held that the position taken up by tho union was untenable. Any man working under any award could employ any person ho liked so long as the wages provided in the award under which he was working were paid. A blacksmith could be employed as a butcher, £. milkman as a baker, whether tho men were competent or incompetent, provided tho stipulated wages were paid. While in Auckland Mr J. F. Arnold, M.P., was much taken with the manner in which public bodies there encourage sport, and he considers that the city and suburban councils of Dunedin. might take a leaf out of Auckland's book. A splendid cracket ground, lie says, has been provided at Freeman Bay, and within the last five years a large park has been formed for a cricket ground at tho cost of the municipality. Mr Arnold states that last Saturday week ho saw thirty cricket matches being played at one time on this ground. A small charge is made on each ©Tub, and the ground is kept in order by tho Council. He added: "I am not at all surprised fit the great progress being made by Auckland in the games of cricket and football, and if the Dunedin councillors will not rise to the occasion, then the supporters here of healthy sport must come to the rescue and see that something is done." In reporting to the National Dairy Association on British dairy produce markets. Mr Charles Mackie, tho Homo representative of the Association, says that since the passing of the Butter Bill consumers are not so much inclined to take to margarine and mixtures. This has naturally had the effect of putting a severe check on the sate of these goods. Two significant statements are made by Mr Mackie. Ono reads: "Wo have .had few complaints on tho score of quality in butter, owing to the scarcity. Ihe . other: "There is a slackness in the I cheese market, and with the slackness buyers aro more apt to find fault with quality." The statements bear out what has been repeatedly contended in these columns— that complaints as to the quality of our dairy produce must bo accepted with considerable caution. On a weak market they are common; on a strong market complaints are practically unknown.

An unfortunate episode, in which the would-be rescuer lost his lite, while the endangered man was saved, occurred a few nights ago in Sydney Harbour. William Steele, an A.i 3., belonging to the timber barquentme Alexa, was returning to his ship about 11.15 p.m. Apparently in attempting to board the vessel he missed his footing, and fell in. Thomas White, the cook, hearing the splash and tho cries for help, plunged in to Steele s assistance. Steele was secured by his shipmates all right, but meanwhile, White had disappeared, his body being recovered the next morning. White, who was 50 years of age, was a colored man, and a native or Liverpool, England. He was well liked on board, and the sad nature of his death, while endeavouring to save a fellow seamen, was strongly felt by his shipmates.

Some time ago it was affirmed that a Tauranga resident had discovered some preparation which possessed the qualities needed to bring about an immediate extermination of cockroaches. This concoction has since been tried upon well-known Auckland coastal steamers, which the travelling public have reason to know were infested with cockroaches, and the result is said to- be simply remarkable. Boats which were alive with the pest are now absolutely free. Likewise the preparation has been tried ashore with similar success. A Star representative was shown the bake'-liouse of a well-known Auckland Dakery, which for 20 years has been over-run with the cockroaches. A week ago the Tauranga patent was tried, ,with the result that there has been a steady evacution, and the premises are now free of what has for many years been regarded as an immovable host of cockroaches. One of the most extraordinary features consequent upon the application of the concoction is that the vermin ( disappear, leaving no trace behind." ;