FOR DR. BANARDO'S HOMES.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1795, 16 May 1912, Page 2

FOR DR. BANARDO'S HOMES.

On Tuesday night next, at 7.30, the Rev. G. Budd is to give an life and the work of Dr. Banardo Abo-irfc 100 excellent slides will be shown and the explanatory notes should be full of interest. A collection in aid of the Homes will be taken up. L as t week a similar gathering at Awahuri resulted in the sum of £2 being handed over to lur i<. a Glasgow, local hon. secrecy, aud two collectors being appomt «l for the Awahuri district. The Auckland Hospital trouble has been settled by the acceptance of the resignation.of Matron Griffiths. *}*- Southland last year the sum of was paid in wages in the sawmillmg industry. The steamers Maunganui, Moeraki Coruithic, and Victoria should be within wireless range of Wellington to-night. Raetihi ihas decided .to take a poll on a. proposal to Borrow £11,000 for water supply, electricity, and drainage. The Nelson Colonist of a recent date contained eleven death notices, seven or which were of persons whose aces ranged from 62 to 89 years. Wonthaggi (Victoria) coal miners' ballot favoured linking up with the aa'vStaW 6 Mmers ' Fe *"»*°? h y A party of twelve prospective settlers in New Zealand leave Moose Jak, Saskatchewan, Canada for Wellington shortly. h A *w7 of two a S° ( sa y s the Timaru Herald) a trail of nails covering nearly a mile was seen on Wai-iti road, and one or two motors suffered in consequence.

_It is _ said that the New Zealand limes is about to come under the direction .of <tOie United Labour Party, with Professor T. W. Mills, of Milwauiiee, as one of the active controlling heads.

A large order running into £1000 has been received by a Pahiatua orchardist for fruit trees for the Argentine. The amount was paid in advance. This is believed to be one result of the orchardist's championship exhibit of fruit ait the Melbourne Horticultural Show.

Stoats and weasels are responsiblo for a marked and regrettable decrease of bird life in the Catlins Bush (Otago). Robins are now rarely seen, and parakeets, kakas, tuis, and various native birds that used to make the bush alive with song, have almost disappeared. The native pigeon is also disappearing.

Mr Hugh Mclntyre, an old and highly, respected resident'of Wanganui. died on Tuesday at the age of 71 years. He was a native of Scotland, and settled in Wanganui 40 years ago. Mr H. Mclntyre, of Feilding, who is a son of the deceased, went to Wanganui yesterday to attend the funeral.

This is a .good Yankee yarn: At the trial of Peter Musso, accused of robbery in New York, the speech, delivered by the counsel was so moving thav the prosecutor, the judge, and jury forgot that' Peter was present, and lie walked quietly out of the Court, disappearing outside among the crowd. It should be added (that Peter winked at the reporters before .•aving the dock. A resident of Napier has received a return from Home showing the increase in the weight of sheep and cattle that has taken place during the last century and a half. In 1732 iji l .® ■ average weight of cattle wasmHm? wlule nowad ays a beast of J-OUOib is not considered anything extra? special. The average weight of sheep and lambs in the olden days ™? + '«££? is vow an y thi ng from oolD to oOIb. . TKe little wax-eye, as he is commonly known, the "blight bird," is reported to be doing good work in orchards and gardens this year. A Mateterton resident states that the little bird i s frequently to be seen making a hearty meal, on the woolly aphis, a pest which clings tenaciously to the branches of fruit trees and flowers. The blight bird is very fond of the aphis, and more good is done by the bird than by all the spraying possible. Information about mules is conveyed in an American letter to Mr H. D. Vickery, secretary of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce/ from a Mr Mowers, of Los Angeles, who states that he is arranging to visit New Zealand. "If a few high-class 'jacks' could be sold/ he says, "1 will ship a very few along of the kind that sire the 14001b Missouri and Kentucky mules. The best class American-bred; mammoth' 'jacks' range in price here, in the United States, from 2000 dollars to 4000 dollars, and in height; 15 to 15.2 hands, standard measure.'. .

Harry Lauder, the famous Scotch humorist, has broken down seriously through overwork.

Sir Joseph Ward and Lady Ward are expected to return to Wellington during tho first week in June.

There is a proposal amongst some members of the Pahiatua Bowling Club to introduce winter bowling in Pahiatua.

Wo have been approaching "the end of all things" ever since history began; but wo have not arrived there yet.

A member of no profession—apart from the medical —-has such potentialities for harm as the unskilful plumber.

The national flag is at half-mast on the Post Office tower to-day to mark tho death of the King of Donmark.

Mr F. F. Haggitt, solictor, who is laid up with erysipelas, shows no improvement to-day, though it is expected he will be on the mend in a day or two.

Out of nine applicants, Mr W. H. Barnard has been axipointed Superintendent of the Palmerston Fire Brigade, of which he lias been a member for 19 years.

Mr S. ("Tony") Massena, of Foxton, owing to ill-health, has decided to relinquish his connection with tho turf and dispose of his racing stock.

A Manaia syndicate of three purchased Mr Dick's farm a;b last week at £45 a>n acre. Twentytour hours afterwards they were offered £850 on their bargain.— Witness.

Mr Charles Wilson was last night re-elected Chairman of the Victoria College Council, and Sir Robert lihe council's representative on the v mversity- Senate. Tho Postmaster-General has authorised the erection of 40 additional posting boxes iii«*iiitterent parts of Auckland city. Uan't you some more for Feilding, Mr E...-' An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the • iiathani .itive jJairy Company conhrmed resolutions autnorising 'the raising of the capital rrom to £40,000 in oraer co instal a cneese plant. Fat lambs have gone up to a good price in tne ximaru uistrict £j. p>tr nead is usually considered good lor iat iumos, out a very prime iuie reentry sold at mat district at 25sb per nead. Lambs are fattening well. Tdie timber workers, including cimuer yards and sawmills, drivtrs or ail classes,, ana bakers, are applying tor new awards, and the matter is receiving the -attention of the lUana.a Employers' Association. 'A farmer in the I.revin district has been experimenwng in regard to the growing or pumpiuns tor sheep, it was found, nowever, that the sheep were not partial to them, and The .txperimciii. could hardly be looked upon m the nature of a, success. Mr E. Brown, of Raetihi, had the misfortune to lose one of hia best draught horses, last Saturday, by a singular mishap (says the Call). The animal stumbled forward on its head, and before it could be released (from the harness, it was suffocated. The death is announced of Mr G. A. Pauling, District Land Registrar at lnveroargill, aged 47 years. Hfo entered the Government service at Wellington 30 years ago, and was once a representative Rugby footballer. He leaves a widow, but no family. , ;

Dr. A. K. Newman,, M.P. (Wellington), is not among the admirers of the new Local Government Bill. "The more I .study this Bill," he says, "the more I want to murder it. If it . were to pass into law it would be the worst calamity that ever befel this city."

The legal contest over the estate of the late Mrs Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, has ended at Concord, New Hampshire, U.S.A. The Supreme Court has sustained Mrs Eddy's bequest of £400,000 to the/ First Church of Christ, Boston.

A Baptist Church is likely to bu started again in Timaru at an early date . A substantial grant in aid has been made by the Baptist Church authorities, and the Rev. Mr Kirkwood, of Auckland, has rbeen asked to take charge of the church. Many years ago there was a strong ■ church in this South Canterbury town.

A resident of Auckland has received a copy of an American trade journal, in which reference is made to the gums and resins employed in the manufacture of varnishes. Included in the list of raw materials is kauri gum, which is described as one of the most important of the varnish gums produced in large quantities in New Zealand, "where it is used as a chewing gum by the Maoris" 1,- .

' Rabbit trapping for export purposes is in full swing just now ■in Central Otago, and despite the fact that rabbits are fairly numerous at present, the price has been increased to 5d per pair. Some remarkably good cheques, according to the Dunstan Times, are being made T>y local trappers—one or two averaging as much as £2 per day—while it is said that a man and his two boys made over £6 for a day's work.

Students of nature in Victoria maintain that an accurate idea ot the seasons is to be gained by a close observation of insect life. Anglers have consequently become alarmed owing to the absence of grasshoppers throughout the whole of Victoria and the Monaro country across the border. Ten years ago, when the State was in the 'grip °* a vei 'y *"S drought the same phenomenon was noticed, and from this it is assumed that a repetition of the dry conditions which then obtained must be expected.

Great interest has been aroused by the mission which is being conducted in Sydney in connection with the Church of Christ by Dr. Chas. Reign Scoville. He is a famous American evangelist, and is to be in Australia for four months. In America he is regarded as one of the most magnetic of evangelists. In ten years it is calculated that he had added 20,000 people to the Church of Christ. In Oklahoma, where he was holding meetings before he went to Australia, he secured 1400 converts. Last year (3000 people joined the Church of Christ through his evangelistic services.