Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1727, 23 February 1912, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

"Lolidarity at the ballot-box" is the sweet axiom a jS'cw Zealand paper adopts for its political cry. I Tiie Housewives' Union is the latest \of Gisborne's organisations, and, I very appropriately, its President is I Mrs Walker and its Secretary Mrs ! Goffc. Tho name of the Christchurch j Secretary is Mrs Hunter. No wonder jj they ai-.e-restless! -

XV a man. makes his wife a weekly allowance .with which to run ~the home and keep herself clothed, his financicial responsibility ends there.; This has just been held to be the law-in a civil case heard in Auckland. The S.M. (Mr-Kettle) held that the wife had not been authorised to pledge her husband's credit, aud the husband Jiad ..-completely rebutted; the implied authority. which a|wife generally pos-; sesses to '-pledge the' creditof her luishaiid for Vjuecessarios. -■" ■Only ./the ■■ draper'; at : "whoseshop the .;;wife: had

run. up a £5 bill felt sorry over this judgment of Solomon—for the woman is dead. For once the husband has had the last word I

It is proposed in New PlvmoutJi (says an exchange) to start a Spanish class at the Technical College, in view of the expected opening of .the Panama Canal before the end of next year, and the consequent establishment of more ample business relations between the Dominion and the Spanish-speaking countries of Central and South America. The course should include dieting in Spanish onions and liquorice, which will do just about as much good for developing "business relations" as Spanish slanguage. The whole, of the Panama Canal zone is Americanised, and all tho people clown that way can give you change for a sovereign just as readily as they change a President for a republic.

It is time they took to reading the Feilding Staii over in Rongotea. Asked what he thought of the enterprise of our Chamber of Commerce in organising the twice-a-day motor-car service from Feilding to the Ron-gotea-Sandon district, a Rongotea business man said he had not seen or heard of it! When it was explained to another hadn't-seen-it Rongotean, he said: "What fools those members of the Palmerston Chamber of Commerce were to give their proposals away so cheap to the Feilding Chamber!" Commercial travellers aro already finding the new servico a great convenience, and a valaublo time-sav-er. They can come to Feilding by the 8 a.m. train, get right away on the motor car, and be back in Feilding within .a few hours. No .need now to spend a useless night at Rongotea. The business folks out there will get quite busy entertaining lightning conductors. Certainly the new service brings the Rongotea-Sandon district hours nearer Feilding—and that is enterprise *iud facility for town and country.