OLD PEOPLE'S HOME.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2180, 25 September 1913, Page 2

OLD PEOPLE'S HOME.

. MrT. Collins, builder, of Feilding, is the successful tenderer for the faction of the Old People's Home for the Palmerston Hospital Board. The contract price is £9634, and the time allowed for the job i s 38 weeks.

The bowling season has already opened in several towns in Taranaki and at Auckland.

Seventy-three domestic servants are travelling by the Athenic to New Zealand, in charge of Nurses Roden and lomson.

•fi -? T tll ° of nistrumentalists, with Mr John Prouse as the vocalist, will g!ve a concert in the Lyceum tomorrow -week.

Ihe Australian Rugby team yesterday defeated .Marlborough at Blenheim, by 30 points to 3. The AustralerY 9 quo team defeated Nelson by

~A P r ?secution i. pending against tlie Waikato A. and P. Association in connection with the raffling of a Cadillac motor car. Considerable interest is being taken in the case.

Mrs Harrison Lee (Cowie) who lias been campaigning j n tho interests of no-hcense in New South Wales Victoria, and Tasmania for the past sixmonths is m New Zealand again

At the Masterton Court' the jury was empanelled without a single challenge having been made this beinothe first occasion in the history of the Supremo Court that such has occurred.

One person in every 272 of the white population of New Zealand is mentally defective. That is but one of the mauy arresting statements made by Dr Hay, lnspectoi-General of Mental Hospitals, in his-annual report.

A farmer informed the Manawatu Herald that this is the finest growing season lie has .yet experienced over a long residence in this district. There is a splendid growth of young grass and all stock are m prime condition.

Reports received in Auckland this week indicate that more fruit is offering in Rarotonga and Tahiti than can be shipped, and the season appears to bo v very prosperous one for the growers.

Sir Wiliam Russell left two sons, Mill. A. Russell and Captain Russell, of the Northamptonshire Regiment! aud four daughters, Mrs Nairn Mrs Fox, Lady Price and Miss V.' Russell.

The Oroua Tenuis Club's courts have; been well patronised of late, but they will probably ' have to be closed for the purpose of top-dressing prior to the opening- of the season at''the end of next week.

A freak calf lias been discovered on Mr C. Blake's .farm at the Waingawa (Wairarapa). This animal has five legs and an extra pair of hoofs. The fifth leg grows from the brisket, and ends close to the ground with two feet. It is alive and well.

A creditable passage of two days 2:3 V hours was made by the Union Company's mail steamer Niagara from Suva to Auckland, 1140 sea miles, the averago speed maintained being 17.. knots, using oil fuel.

A vote of £1000 appears on tbe Estimates' for the Auckland Exhibiton and Mr Massey, in answer to a question, said he had authorised the Department of Agriculture Industries and Commerce to spend £2500 in exhibiting.

Inquiries from headquarters iv Dunedin with regard to a statement by the Sydney Shipping List that the Union Steamship Company is shortly calling for tenders for two pasenger steamers i'or the Pacific trade elicited the information that it was true that tenders for steamers were being called.

_ The voting strength of the Opposition m the House is not estimated according to those who arc- for Sir Joseph Ward, but those who are opposed toJVIr Massey, and there are at least 37 such members in the House at the present moment, while reflection may bring two or three converts. —Southland News.

"My experience is that the railway men stand as high in the estimation of Parliament as any set of men in the country, and the reasons are that the railway men have been loyal to themselves by sticking togeteher as unionists, and loyal to New Zealand by recognising their responsibilities," "'said Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P. at the annual smoke concert of the Railway Engine Drivers', Firemen's and Cleaners' Association, at Wellington.

E. H. Hiley, the new General Manager of Railways, was met at Auckland by Mr T. Ronayne, who is retiring shortly from the position which Mr Hiley is to take up. Mr Ronayne will accompany Mr Hiley to Wellington this week. On his arrival at Wellington the latter will receive an official fetter of welcome from the Railway Officers' Institute, and on its behalf will be personally greeted by the president (Mr J. Young, of Christchurch).

A dairy farmer who was summoned at the Supreme Court in Masterton applied to be excused from duty on the ground that ho bad fifteen cows to milk, and was unable to secure a person to milk them for him. His Honour: "How many cows have you?" The juror; "Fifteen." His Honour: "When do you milk them?" The juror; "At 4 o'clock." His Honour: "How far away do you live?". Tin juror: "Eight miles." His Honour: 'You aro excused from duty, lou can go."

An oft-recurring problem is tho shortage of labour in the "manufacturing, centres of the Dominion, and even the most pronounced optimist does not contend that a solution of it is m sight. There is a steady demand for boy and girl labour, and, at the present time, no great shortage—that is, as far as Christchurch is concerned — but those interested in the matter state that a grave position is arising, owing to the disinclination of tho young people to apply themselves eerioulsy to their work.

A resident of Arrow, against whom the police hadap plied for the issue of a prohibition order, made a pathetic appeal to the bench at the sitting of the Magistrate's Court last week. He asked to be allowed access to the hotels for a couple of days in order that he might "taper-off" while at the same time he promised to be "square" within a week. A sympathetic bench decided to give defendant another chance, and the case was adjourned for a -week in orer to ascertain whether or not the promises would be kept.

Tho following New Zealanders were awarded prizes at tlie National Competition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Miss Hilda Edgar, Christchurch School of Art; Mr Charles F. Oliver, Palmerston North Technical School; Miss Ethel F. Gyles, Mr Wilfred N. Isaac, Wellington Technical College. And the following were commended.: —Christchurch School .of Art: Miss Anne M. Gibb, Miss Marjorie Harris, Miss Ruby Partridge, Miss Caroline Poison, Wellington Technical College: Miss Evelyn Dawson. Miss Mary Green, Mr Wilfred N. Isaac.

An early meeting with Dr Featherston, First Superintendent of Wellington Province, was recalled by tho Rev. J. Paterson at the Early Settlers' Reunion in Wellington. A fine man and a thorough gentleman was Mr Paterson's description of the Superintendent. They met" in a little accomodation house at Waikanae, where they had both gone for shelter after getting wet through in travelling on horseback along the coast. Mr Paterson was drying his sermon manuscript before the fire, and when Dr. Featlierson learnt what it was he remarked, humorously: "Take it up to the pulpit. "-It will be dry ei-ough."

Says Saturday's Pahiatu'a Herald: The Ballance Co-operative' Dairy Co. completed the sale to-4ay of the greater part of its this season's export output of buttej. to an Auckland dairy produce} firm, The actual price has not boen..divi.lged, but it is stated to be the best yet paid to aiiy butter factory this season. It will, however, ensure the ftiippliers recciv T ing ut, liyist 12_<1 \wv lb. for butterfat, wi.l) the prospect of that figure being increased by tho end of the season to Th.'output is destined for San Francisco which is a new market for tho Ballance Company, though it "shipped several hundred tons last year to Vancouver,

I LOCAL AMD GENERAL.