Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2321, 27 March 1914, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

To-day's Anniversaries. James I. died, 1625. War declared with Russia, 1854. Sir Gilbert Scott died, 1878. John Bright, statesman, died, 1899 Walt Whitman, American poet died, 18!)2.

The Latest in Leagues. Not the Lib-Lab-lied-Fed League, but the Silent Funerals League—a league for the preservation of silence at funerals. This much-needed reformative body has been formed at Dijon, France, its members undertake to maintain silence and a respectful attitude throughout the ceremony, and will endeavour to encourage silence by never provoking conversation at'a funeral, and by replying as laconically as is compatible with courtesy when spoken to. There is a suggestion that a branch bo formed in Peimerston.

The Palmerston-Standard Spirit. The Standard must, bo feeling pretty sore mider the collar when its editor passes into his column such a scpionlor as this letter, which appeared in last night's issue:— A COIUU'X'TION. Sir,—ln Wednesday's issue you quote a leader from your Feilding contemporary on "The Feilding Spirit." Don't worry about it. The wrong name has been tagged on to it. It is not the "Feilding Spirit," but the "Star Spirit"— quite a different thing.—l am, etc., &. K. Wisamr. Feilding March 25. Pretty specimen of a Feildingite, this Squealer; high-class journalism and neighbourliness that encourages such anonymous correspondence. And that's the Palmerston Spirit}