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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 800, 10 February 1909, Page 1

NEWBY NOTE 3. There are 2070 post offices in Ne Zealand. ■XSummer is the time to make all r< pairs in the hen houses. * J The fat hen is good for nothin . but the pot. , What soup would cannibals prefer ■ — A broth of a boy. \ * What sort of men are always above board ? — Chessmen. 1 Big bargains at John Cobbe's sal ; until the 20th, closing day. I England's turbine fleet already in, I eludes sixty-two warships and forty four vessels of <!ne merchant marine •VThe attendance at the Hutt Catho lie school has fallen from 120 to 35 scholars. For shorthand and typewriting, quickly done at reasonable charges. Miss Miflls, Manchester street. Customer: Look here, waiter, I've found a button in my salad. Waiter : Yes, sir; that's part of the dressing. Curate (at Sunday school): Now, children, we'll close with Hymn 589, "Little Drops of Water." -Now, do put a little more spirit into it. "The plural of 'wife' is what? The teacher asked. Said Bess, A most precocious little tot, "It's bigamy, I guess." * It is understood that the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Railways and Marine, will pay a brief holiday visit to Australia next month It is reported that a back-blocks family in Otago came to the nearest town and had 75 teeth extracted in one day. Visit the remnant tables before John Cobbe's cash sale closes. "Ah, I see you are married," exclaimed the merchant. "No, sir," replied the applicant for a position. "I got this scar in a railroad accident." Appraise the Spring before you drink the Water. Observe the Mother ere you take the Daughter. liichard Respass, a Baltimore trades, is offering free funerals and monuments to those customers who obtain a certain number of trading stamps. v Final clearing of millinery at John Cobbe'6 sale. * ' Farmers in New Zealand own over '13,125,000 acres, which is greater than the total area under sown grasses in the whole of Australia and Tasmania. * "Australia is getting to be known as the avairy of the world. Our country gives birth to fine voices with astonishing fruitfubiess." — Lone Hand. . ■self you have one or 100 articles you'd like to turn into money— advertise in the Stab. ■* Husband (entering the house with a bag of chestnuts) : I brought home some more chestnuts, dear. Wife (wearily, without glancing up) : I'm listening. * Cornish washerwomen did not wash on December 28. They believe that if they were to work on Holy Innocents' day one of the family would be r ' washed away." it T Twixt Optimist and Pessimist the difference is clear: The first' one thinks that life's a smile, the other one a tear. Final clearing of dress skirte at John Cobbe's cash sale. * Miss Layard, an Ipswich antiquary, has returned from Ireland with 800 flint knives, arrow-heads, scrapers, turtle-backs, and borers which she picked up on the shore of an Irish lough in the course of seven hours. * The village of Lindsell in Essex, which, owing to the lack of cottages,, has only witnessed one wedding during the last eight years, was in a state of great excitement over a double wedding which was celebrated at Christmas time. A man and his wife who keep a poultry farm at Tambook, on the River Amur, found a number of grains of gold in the crop of a goose they killed last month. They at once killed ten other geese, and dis- ; covered gold in each of them. ', * The 10 per cent, cash discount off tailoring ceases on 20th, John' Combe's. * / So much success has attended the openair schools at FojegtfHill, Woolwich, and Hollowav^that the Education Committee of/the London County Council is <)6nsidering the question of the opening of a fourth next summer. y / * Among yfehose who attended the weekly>*at home" of the London Sociefcyfor Women's Suffrage, in the Dope Gallery at the end of the year, was Signora Carlotto da Oomara da Vasconcellos da Conto Cardoga, of Madeira, who, by feudal right, possesses eighty votes in the island. * The outlook in Wellington for car. penters and joiners is by no means bright. Work has been slack for some time past, and it is feared that there will be a greater scarcity of employment in the near future. Already about 200 men belonging to Wellington and suburbs are unemployed. Bargains in boys' serge sailor suits, sizes 4, 5, 6, 5s lid, at J. Cobbe's. * Paris detectives are endeavouring to trace a gang pf sharpers who have ingeniously defrauded holders of lot. tery tickets. The gang obtained the names and addresses of well-to-do ticket holders, and wrote to them announcing that the- had 1 won a motor car. The "winners" were asked to send £4 to cover the cost of delivery, but, of course, the cars never appeared. j^BojsAs«B^g^»^tofs^7 prlftUag;