Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 858, 21 April 1909, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Therk is a keen, demand for houses in Feilding at the present time, and local agents are finding it difficult to j meet requirements. This is promis- i ing for the workers for the oncoming winter season, as it indicates that work is likely to last. It is stated that at the present time there is not an .empty house near the centre of the town, although on the outskirts there are a few empty houses. There is no demand for farm land, andi consequently no sales are reported. A Htfcle bit of oxclyjnging is gofug oh." l)Ut nothing indicative of business being done. It should scarcely be necessary to remind burgesses that the period within whicn nominations close tor the municipal seats closest; at noon to-morrow. It seems probable, at time of writing that there will be only two candidates for the Mayoralty — Mayor Trewin and Cr. jriltzherbert. For the nine seats on the Council, .the following gentlemen have decided to go to the poll: J. r \V. Bramwell, Theo. West, A. H. Atkinson, A. Hichniond, A. Williamson, H. Tolley, G. H. Saywell, and Cr. O. Hubner. We understand there are others who will be amongst the nominations to-morrow. That they take their football very ■seriously in Great Britain and Scotland has again and again been demonstrated, and yesterday's cable news reported a scene at a Scottish match that rivalled some of the massacre cables through from Turkey. Because the teams would not play on after the final whistle had gone, the crowd gave a display of satrag-> cry. And this sort of thing does not seem to be uncommon in the Old Country. Towards the end of February last the <vrowd took possession of the Tottenham Hotspur 'Club's grounds, and created a not. On the tenth of last month, again, the crowd rushed the grounds at fchmderlan3 at the tie match between the local club and the Newcastle United team. At Sunderland the crowd got in its work because the entrance charged had been raised from 6d to Is. For a few minutes the. police' were overwhelmed. Reinforcements arrived, however and after the police had used their batons freely the crowd was driven back. Eight policemen were injured so badly in the rush that they had to be detained at the infirmary. One had his ribs broken, another a leg, and the others are suffering from internal injuries and shock. A number of spectators were also treated at the infirmary for minor injuries. It is stated that 27,393 persons paid the admission fee. For this match from 4000 to 5000 looms were idle, and the Burnley Council adjourned for the match ! Who are the ten greatest living Americans? The New York Herald, one of the greatest of the great daily papers of U.S.A., with an enormous circulation, has been making an elaborate and extensive endeavour to get a plebiscite on this question. It did not include politicians .in its list. The canvass, which extended over several months, concluded at the end of February, and here are the successful ten: Thomas A. Edison, Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller. Mark Twain, Admiral Dewey. Prof. Charles W. Eliot, Cardinal Gibbons. Henry Clews, and Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone). 'Among warriors, besides Admiral Dewey, only Rear-Admiral Evans, Commander Hpbson (the much-kis-sed), and William F. Cody (Buffalo 'Bill) were voted for. Among inventors George ostinghouse came next to the winning ten, and the flyinp. right brothers were quite out of the running. William Dean Howells made a bad second to Mark Twain among representatives of literature, and others far down in the list were James Whitcomb Riley, Jack London, John Burroughs, and just dead 'F. Marion Crawford. Henry James, Winston Churchill, and "Mr Dooley" Dunne were quite forgotten. Booker T. Washington (a negro) ran Dr. Eliot very close for a place on the list among educators. Many votes were received for <r Bob" Fitzsiniraons (a New Zealander) and "Jim" 'Jeffries, the prize-fighters, but not enough to place them among the first ten.