PHYSICAL DRILL SQUAD FOR TAIHAPE.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2313, 16 March 1914, Page 2

PHYSICAL DRILL SQUAD FOR TAIHAPE.

The following team of Senior Cadets will journey to TaUiape to-morrow morning to enter the lists in the physical drill competition at tho Hibernian sports, for the banner which is at present held by the Cadets: Colour-Sergeant E. Buckeridge, Sergeant E. A. Mason, Sergeant A. L. Eado, Corporal R. J. Fowles, Cadets H. Hewitt, S. Freeman, S. Packer, and C. H. Eade. Emergency, Corporal Galvin.

Consequent on the letter scut to tlie Wellington Wluirf Labourers' Union Premier Massey offered employment on public works to 50 waterside workers who arc unable to find work, large juiinbei\s of applications have been received, and will he forwarded on to the Public Works Department.

At the Rangiwaliiu Show on Thursday a little girl named Daisy Jacobs, of Runhine, was run over by a motorcar. Mr Grant was coming out of th c show gate in a .motor-car when h<? rau over the child. The car was going very slow at the timo, suul tho child <lid not sec th« machine. No boims were broken, but the little girl was severely shaken.

Tho judges at tho Rangiwahia Show were: Draught horses, Mr E. Short; hacks, ponies, hunters, and light horses, Mr Banßs; fat cattle, Mr W. Hair; dairy cattle, Mr W. Mitchell; fat sheep, Mr W. Hair; other sheep, Mr W. Gibson; wool, Mr G. Bailey; cut flowers, decorations, pot plants, Mrs EllorinT; vegetables, Mr J. Grant; fruit, Messrs J. Grant and W. London ; general, breach, and sweets, Mr E. Whitehead ; industrial and children's section, Mrs Temperloy; amateur photograpKy, Messrs D. H. Guthrio iuid H. Mclntyrc; music ami elocutionary, Mrs J. Gutlirie and Miss Bryce; school gardens, Mr A. Grmit,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A reminder is givon of the Ohakea Sports, to bo held in Mr Bailey'e paddock on Wednesday next.

Mr and Mrs Tickle, of Feilding, who have been spending a holiday in Rotorua, left there on Friday en route for England.

The Rev. R. P. Keall, a son of the late Rev. W. Keall, who travelled in Palmerston, Sanson, and Marton circuits, is to succeed the Rev. George Frost at Sanson, Mr Frost is going to Pukekohe.

At last Thursday's meeting of the Taradale Town Board, Mr and Mrs N. A. Pethybridge, of Napier, and recently of Feilding, were appointed to 'dual "positions of clerk and librarian, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr T. W. Manly.

C'r R. W. Brown, was at the meeting of the Poliangina County Council on Saturday appointed to fill the vacancy on the Hospital Board caused by Cr. Howie resigning through Ins serious illness.

By the Sydney steamer at the end of this month, Mr F. W. Fairey, of Nelson, is shipping two bullocks to compete at the Sydney Royal Show in the fat cattle section against the pick of Australia--

Dr Buck will not go unopposed to the poll at the «ex - u elections in the Northern Maori district. Two candidates mentioned are Mr Hauraki Manning (eldest con of the late Judge Manning), and Mr Leopold Busliby, of Pukepoto, near Kaitaia.

An extract from .special oi'dci-s for th c camp at Takapu, which should interest all territorials: "Witliin 48 hours of the commencement of the camp the names of all men absent without leave will be handed to the police for prosecution."

At the Dunstan Hotel. Clyde, the friends of Mr T. Urquhart, rabbit inspector, who has been transferred to Feilding, presented him with a case of pipes and a tobacco pouch. Mr W. Holloway acted as spokesman, expressing the regret of Mr TJrquhart's many friends at his departure.

Rather an expensive way of getting rid of the unwelcome overplus in the ranks of the family felines was selected the other day by some individual out Newmarket way (says the Auckland Star). Investigating the cause of a block in a man-liole the borough workmen found iji a service pipe a neat paper parcel containing three much-drowned kittens, it took three days to remove the stoppage, and the cost was £3 12s—"£1 4s pei- cat," as the Mayor remarked.

The District Engineer of the Public. Works Department forwarded to the Pohangina County Council at its meeting on Saturday two copies of the phtns and specifications prepared for the bridge over the "Pohangina river at the Pinpiri crossing. He advised that the" design had been prepared to suit the amount of money available, and that the Department did not hold itself responsible should the middle piers fail through erosion, though it was believed that this would not occur.

During the last decade dairying in Germany, thanks to tlio constant extension and improvement of cattle keeping, lias developed to such' an extent that the yearly production of milk is now worth about £150,000,----000 in round numbers, and is consequently superior in value to the bread stuffs, which in 1909 amounted to £141,000,000. Notwithstanding the extraordinary increase of milk production, it lias not been able to quite keep pace with the' rapid increase of population, which is, in round numbers, 900,000 per annum.

Mr and il'rs Esson hail a narrow escape from an accident on Thursday when going home from the Rangiwahia Show (says the Mangaweka Settler). ■ They were driving fli a gig, and when turning a corner came in contact with a motor-car driven by Mr Low. The vehicle ami car wore just stopped when- the wheels locked together. Had either the horse or car gone on a few yards further there wouk! have been a serious accident. On one side wher c the vehicle stood tva« a big gully, while the car was on the cliff side. "Wheii stopped, the car was in a water-race, and feaning against the cliff.

Major W. H. King, who has just been appointed riding-master to the King at Royal Mews, Windsor Castle, has had the unique experience of being the only Wesleyan Methodist in the commissioned ranks of the Household Cavalry. For some years lie has been riding-master in the "Blues," and is reputed the finest horseman in the British Army. At the naval and military tournament he was the officers' champion at swordmanship. He became a Methodist early in his army career, and during his service in India was the constant and devoted helper of the missionaries. During Lord Kitchener's Soudan campaign Major King served with the 21st Lancers, and took part in their famous charge at Omdurman.

It is a popular notion that tlie niere fact of sleeping in a tent is a healthy thing. But this is not so. A great deal depends on the tent, as Nurse Rochetort pointed out in dealing with consumption and its prevention, at the Tuberculosis Dispensary (states .the Christchurch Press). A ten'l which was fastened round all round was practically hermetically scaled, and did the person sleeping in it more, harm than good. The tent which would do any patient good was one which would allow a fre c circulation of air by reason of one end being open and the sides rolled up. Unless the air really got to the patient, indicated Miss Rochefort, the mere specific of sleeping in a tent was not the slightest use.

The London Daily Citizen, the British Labour Party's newspaper, is stated now to be running at a loss of £30,000 a year.. It draws heavy subsidies from the trades unions, but it has, nevertheless, a deficit of £100 on each day's issue. In other words, the task of establishing a morning daily is more formidable than the Labour Party once thought it to be. From all accounts (writes a London correspondent) the Citizen has been conducted with scrupulous economy, and its staff has borne up under distressing circumstances. But for one thing the advertisement revenue has not met expectations, and for another thing the unavoidably heavy outlay on distribution has proved too much for the paper's resources. Distribution means almost everything in the fierce newspaper competition here, and distribution is a constantly increasing charge. The up-to-date London evening paper, it is estimated, spends about £1000 a week on motorcar and other transport.