Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 762, 24 December 1908, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

FuiijiMXtt business people have dcLcimined that their town shall no longer hido its liyut under the bushel oibackwardness, lo that end, as we havo already indicated in tlio Stak, a campaign oi : publicity is being urbanised by the Cmunber oi Conmierce. ! ,\leanwkile, Feilding is getting a splendid advertisement dutring the holiday season per medium oi : the running ol : the special Alain Trunk express trains between Auckland and Wellington. Feiliding is one of the tow stopping-places for those trains, and that fact is being advertised extensively throughout both islands. 1 So that people all over tho dominion ! now know the name avlio knew not Feilding before. And it is an object lesson, which must be observed by many travellers, to see two such big and important trains as the second express train to New Plymouth and the dowai Main Trunk train side by side at the Feilding station these afternoons at 1 o'clock. Feilding is certainly advancing. The hollidays are here — and so is the weather. Jupiter Pluvius, who is the ancients condemned for alll time to carry the watering can in the heavens, has been spilling much in the carrying during the week; and the clerk of the weather has been more accurate in his tips thaai .a clerk of the course at a race meeting. Rain and races are both in season, and many folks could do without both just now. But it takes all sorts of j things to interest all sorts of peo- | pie, and there are other mixtures i besides those in a tin of lolllies "laI belled Scotch. To-morrow, however, will be a quiet day, but on Saturday everybody will be out of doors looking for the desired "good time"— if the ' weather permits. Feilding on that day will have its athletic sports, Palmerston will have its races, and at Sydney Burns and Johnson will fight 1 with their fists for the championship lof the world. So that, near a/nd far, i there will be excitement in plenty, j and on Sunday the world will rest • before getting. to work again. A protest has been made by the Nonconformist clergymen oi Palmerston against the Christman Eve Hospital Collections being shared in by a Church of England Home. Yesteruay we were asked whether the same division was to be made in regard to the collection, to be made by a bevy of youing lladies in Feilding this evening. We are asked to notify that the whole of the Feilding collections j will be given as a contribution to the j Palmerston Hospital, and the colleci tion will be counted by a Feilding Committee and sent direct to the Treasurer of the Hospital. Of your charity, dear reader, be liberal 1 this evening, for a cause that needs assistance. Remember that this is Christmas Eve, and that to-morrow will be Christmas Day, when the prevailing sentiment should be "peace on earth, godwill toward men."