Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue IV, 4 December 1909, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Ikki.and is having justice done to ii by King Edward, who seems deter ii'iinecJ to make up for the negiet-i of previous momm-hs. Queen Vie , toria was almost a stranger to Erii ! and her people, Info already Kinj. Kdward and Qu'oen Alexandra hav< crossed the Irish Sea tlirice — in IDIKS in 190-1, and in 1907, the latter occa sion being for the opening of tin Dublin Exhibition. His Majesty re. cently announced that 'he and hi: Queen intended visiting Ireland agaii in July next, and will spend som< 1 days motor touring in the- west. Theij : Majesties will be the guests of tin Duke and Duchess of Manchester a Kylemore Castle, in Connemara. Tin King is a past master in the art o welding the peoples of his Kingdon and empire. At tTie time of the Ferrer furore h Europe, when our columns were beiiij lilled with sensational news concern. I ing riots in Spain, Italy, France, am even England, we dwellers in tin outermost seas wanted to know whai it was all about. All we had beei informed was that Ferrer lias beei deemed to be the power behind tin ' Anarchistic rebellion in Barcelona The latest newspapers from the Ole World contain many details regarding the case. The pro-Ferrer demonstrations- in France and Italy, we an ' told, "caused a painful impression ii ' official fiuarters in Madrid." ( Thet Senor Alleude Salagar, tFe Spanisl ■ Minister of Foreign Affairs, made : i statement in which lie told the work! , that the court judged Ferrer, noi :as a propagator of revolution ary i ideas nor as the organiser of school; intended to nurture the young or .subversive ideas, but as having actually taken part in and directed act; of ' rebellion for which he ought tc undergo the capital penalty. This bears out our impression noted at the time, that Ferrer deserved all he got. If the receiver is as bad as the thief, how much more guilty is the man who pulls the wires making for murderous revolution than hi* tools? A itATHKit serious complaint against jour farmers was made by a leading buyer on behalf of his fellow Argonauts- at the opening of the wool | sales in Wellington yesterday. The j sellers had sent in their wool late, ! and this, said the buyers, militated | against them and their clients' interests. But the grievous tiling was contained in the following remarks by the spokesman of the .buyers: " Somo of tho wool appeared to have been shorn in the rain and ' rushed ' into the store, and some hundreds of pounds allowances ought tp "be made for the losses which would accrue from this cause. He had no hesitation in saying that some growers were unscrupulous enough to send in their wool wet in order to gain advantage in weight. He did not think it would be too much for buyers to ask for a guarantee that the wool should arrive home in the condition in which it left th© Dominion— ' and,' he added, ' I don't think some of it will.'" The danger of spontaneous combustion has also to be considered when damp wool is baled.