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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 816, 1 March 1909, Page 1

T NEWSY NOTES. Maori population, 47,731. d * }. Total population of New Zealand, one million. : "* j- Area of New Zealand and islands, >. 104,750 miles. [. * *j No part of our country is moro r - than 75 miles from the sea. ;• * y. If you have one or 100 articles ._ you'd like to turn into money — adver- ■ r tise in the Stak. :. * Why is it that when a man's watch '. keeps good time he always boasts of ' it, ina* : spiritof vainglory, as if he r had made tho watch himself? 1 * It is more blessed to give than rc~ - ccive — especially in case of something - that will cause a dark swelling over . the eye. r The directors of the Crystal Palaco, • London, have decided not to continue • the London County Cricket Club next • season. Of course, it isn't absolutely suro that the man who never puts oil: till to-morrow what lie can do to-day was working yesterday. > * The superior person who looks upon making love as the occupation of fools is guilty of contempt of courts and should be treated accordingly. [ * ' First chauffeur : There's a thing I 1 hate to run over, and that's a baby. I Second chauffeur: So do I; them ' nurse-bottles raise Cain with tires. * : Young doctor: Did you diagnose his l case as appendicitis, or merely the 1 cramps? Old doctor: Cramps. He didn't have money enough for appen- , dicitis. ■* It was reported at the meeting of ' the Acton Electricity Committee that 1 one of the transformers at the council's generating station had broken down. in consequencG of a mouse getting • into it, .and that it would cost £50 to '• repair it. ; A Boston horticulturist has suc- [ ceeded in producing a new and rei markable fruit by crossing cucumber and orange plants. The new fruit, which is yellow in colour and devoid j . of seed, is said to possess a most , agreeable flavour. 1 For shorthand aiid typewriting, quickly done at reasonable charges, 1 Miss Mills, Manchester-street. i * , After Mr C. L. Pippin Ead drunk a glass of wine on the stage during , an amateur dramatic performance one Saturday night at Marydel, Maryi land, he staggered and fell dead. It ; was discovered that the wine had been poisoned. It is stated that during the recent race meeting at Woodvillo a publican 1 iv. that town was robbed of £150. Ho was knocked down outside his own 1 door at a late hour in the evening and tho money abstracted from his pockets. •3f A correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung, who has just returned from a Swiss resort, complains that the proprietress of tho house where he was staying chargod him 15s extra for the company of her dog, which had followed him on three occasions when he was out walking. The agenda for the ordinary meeting of the Chemical Society at Burlington House, London, on January 21 contained the following item among the list of "papers communicated" : "Experiments on the resolution of dl-benzylethylpropylisobutyl-silicane eulphonic acid." •XThe churches of all denominations in Willesden (Eng.) have formed themselves into a voluntary board of guardians, and since the beginning of the winter they have been able to find work for nearly 500 men, in addition to food and clothing for many others. * A young servant named Amy Keeton, who was employed at Tressilian road, Brockley (London), was found at an inquest on January 12 to have committed suicide by drinking a bottle of whisky, after receiving a letter from a man breaking off their engagement. ■X" Mr Morris Howlett, the professional • four-in-hand whip, will drive a coach . from San Francisco to New York, ■ starting about June 15. The length ■ of the route is 4000 miles, and he expecfe to complete the trip in less than ninety days. Some hundreds of hor- ■ ses will be used. ; * '• "My grandfather," said the new > neighbour, who was making a duty call, "was a great portrait painter. 1 With one stroke of his brush he could r change a smiling face into a cad one." . "Huh," exclaimed small Johnny, who . happened to be in the parlour. "Our . teacher can do that." i A woman was accused at Prague on January 14 of slightly injuring a i man's face with the long hatpin which ■ aprojected from her enormous hat. was fined 15s, the magistrate re- ; rking that there was no excuse for ' _jt, as the "Merry Widow" was r quite out of date. * During last year 194,0(29,000,000 3 t cubic feet of gas were sold, as compared with 189,000,000,000 cubic feet In 1907, according to the new issue of the Gas World Year Book." Taking an average iprice of 2s 6d per thou» sand cubic feet, last year's consumption of gas cost £24,250,000, and of this sum Greater London paid about £6,000,000. i, «^— — —— , Mr William E. Goode, 107 Vic--1 toria-street, Christchurch, N.Z., says: "I have been a bilious subject all my j, life, and though I have wied all sorts ' m of things for it, have never found j anything like Chamberlain's Tablets s for warding off bilious attacks. When I feel one of these attacks coming a on I take two of Chamberlain's Tablets and I am soon well again." For ~ sale by all chemists and storekeepers. £ Saddlery, Harnesß, and Horse and . Trap equipment of every kind at the '' most reasonable prices at HEALEY'S . Saddlery establishment, next Motor '' Garage, Kimbolton Road, Feilding. .£ As a competent staff of workmen are t kept, customers can rely upon the quality and tradesmanship of «H c _ cood* tnpplMd — Air*. y , — WANTED KNJWN. A. H. 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