MAURICE VAN CAM.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2453, 22 September 1914, Page 2

MAURICE VAN CAM.

Maurice Van Cam is a young Canadian who started on a walking tour of the world some years back, and is now half through the journey. As the war restricts his exercise to the British Empire, he is leaving for home by the next Vancouver boat, and will resume his walk when the war is over. He struck Feilding yesterday, and gave a 10-minutes' talk on his walk in the Lyceum last night. It has been a strenuous tour, but as Maurice looks fit on it and is nleasing-himself about it all, no sympathy is due or expected.

The boycott of German and Austrian tyres, etc., is advocated by the Wairarapa Automobile Association.

The patriotic exhibition of physical drill by the teachers in Wanganui resulted in a profit of £35.

The celebration of the Jewish New Year began yesterday. The Day of Atonement will be" observed next week.

Yesterday the artillerymen left Palmerston camp for Wellington. The Mounted Rifles leave to-day and the infantry to-morrow. The Engineers are already in Auckland.

A sad feature of the destruction of the residence of. Mr J. P. Hansen, of Hastwell, was that Miss Hansen, who is to be married shortly, lost the whole of her trousseau.

Potato planting was continued at Lower Hutt on Saturday afternoon, volunteers offering their services in encouraging numbers. Altogether about li acres at Dr Mason's propert- were planted. It is anticipated that next week will see the completion of the work.

A sentence of three years' penal servitude and five years' preventive detention, passed at Essex Qu-*.- :er Sessions on a man who stole <* cigarette case worth 3s 6d, was r- v -lucec in the Court of Criminal Appeal to one of twelve months' hard labour without preventive detention.

Sanson District Rifle Club has decided to join the Rangitikei Defence Club as a sub-unit. A large number of members havo been sworn in, and everything points to a live and successful organisation. With a view to overcoming certain difficulties, it has been arranged that those nearest to Sanson will drill in the Sanson Town Hall, but the shooting of the unit will be done on the Bulls range.

So generously did the farmers respond to the appeal for fodder for the horses for the Expeditionary Force that after loading the 900 tons required for the troopships leaving Wellington there are still 250 tons left. This produce, which is now lying in No. 3 shed, King's 'Wharf, will shortly be sold by public auction, and tlie proceeds will be handed over to the Prime Minister's war fund.

The Prime Minister states that the Government has made all arrangements which will tide the kauri gum industry over the present crisis arising out of the war. As far as possible, employment will be offered to men on the gumfields in need of work, aud if there are no buyers for the gum tho Government will make advances on a proportion of the value and store the gum until matters return to their normal position.

Tho results of the Schools of the Empire Shooting Competition for 1914 show that. the Otago Boys' High School occupied the 28th position on a list of 45 schools, with a score of 44-5 -joints out of a total of 560. Tlie positions of the other New Zealand schools which competed were as follow: New Plymouth High School, second; King's College (Auckland), 17th; Auckland Grammar School, 18th; Waitaki Boys' High School. 20th; Wanganui College, 31st; Palmerston North High School, 33rd ; Christchurch High School, 36th. In the junior competition tho Otago Boys? High School was third.

The war can make no diil'ercnce to spring cleaning, which is a necessary piece, of work. It is marvellous when one rummages about the house how much is found necessary to replace, and this is particularly true of floor coverings. Door mats havo a way of getting out of condition; they are trod upon so much that destruction is inevitable. The best door mats are tlie fringed Liskurl, and it i.s a leading lino with Sutton''-. —A. H. Sutton and Co. Tho firm is: now offering six down of these door mats at very reasonable prices.

According to latest reports, our "IToch der Kaiser" friends are having a pretty warm time in Europe. But the menfolk of 'Feilding are in for a hot time; also when sultry Rummer invades our frontier. Tims McMenamin's advertisement regarding Straw Hats. Panamas, aud Soft Felts is of special interest just now. Turn to it. 'WEAKENED BY DIARRHOEA. "f had a bad attack of diarrhoea, with severe pains, which made me exceedingly weak," says Mr Archibald King. Fskdale, N.Z. "I had been suffering in this way for eight or ten days when a friend recommended Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, and I found it gave me immediate relief; in fact, at the oncl of the first day I noticed a wonderful improvement in myself." Sold by al) chemists and storekeepers.