BOWLING NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 8 March 1915, Page 2

BOWLING NOTES.

Whilst the weather was showery, iho Terrace lOud Club called off the games five rinks from the Feilding Club were, to have played on Saturday afternoon. And the weather turned cut to be so fine thai, play was eniovably indulged in on I be . Fcililing creeii. In the Colts' Handcop Singles. Simad defeated Room. The latter in a previous heat bad beaten Short!.. The visit to Terrace ft ml takes place ne\< Saturday. On Wednesday Chappell takes a rink, to Terrace End to meet Sinclair's rink for,the Manson and Barr Cup. Christehurch ratepayers, by 2080 to 1029, refused to repeal rating on the unimproved value. A London message says the New Zealand National Mortgage and Agency Company is issuing £000,000 of debentures. For issuing a valueless cheque ot Ho at To Aroha, John Lionel Turnbull has been sentenced to three months-' liar/i labour. T. Moore, a coa.ch proprietor, has been remanded at Taumarunui on a ; charge of assaulting a man named ; Boyle, who is now in hospital. It is stated that one settler in the Eketa.hu district has between GO and 70 bales of wool stored in his woolshed, lo lie scut forward to market when pr!<■■■•* are ripe. Up to the present the sum of £>vi\JO'S has been'transmitted by Governor Liverpool for Belgian relief, and £2y,t!J2 bo- the poor ol Britain and Ireland from Sew Zealand funds. The railway revenue for the- four weeks ended January o0 show: North Island {.•185,010. South Island £135.!»2;j. The expenditure was: North Island ill23,bi<l, South island £101,701.

Mr Justice Chapman on Saturday at Palmerston granted an application by George Harry Garrett, of Feilding, cycle agent, for a discharge from bankruptcy. Mr Ongley appeared on behalf of the applicant.

Mr W. J. Newman, of the Bluff, opened live sacks of oysters on Monday in live hours, which he claims, is a Now Zealand record. Five sacks contain 420(1 oysters, aud the opening rate worked'out at 14 per minute.

It may no I be generally known (li-it under the Licensing Amendment Act of 101.4 it is now an offence for holders of licenses to supply intoxicating liquor to youths under 21 years of age, whether for consumption oil or on the )>remises. Under the principal Act liquor could be sold for consumption oil' the premises.

Several local booksellers (says the Palmerston Standard) have been victimised in an impudent manner. An individual has entered each shop and asked to see packets of foreign stamps for sale. He deftly goes through the packages, and at the same timo apin'opriates several. One bookseller has suffered to the extent of £2 14s, and another has lost Jos Gd worth.

In view of the. noxious weeds controversy, the following experiment of rust inoculation winch i.s being tried on a patch of California!! thistle at Mangatokj should be of interest to farmers (says the Wairaiapa Age). A supply of rust-infected plants was sent up by the Agricultural Department in February last. The infecteo* plants were bruised for a few hours in water, which was then sprayed on te the healthy plants. In the (irst and second months there was no result ; iv the third month the plants started to rot, and during the fourth month had completely rotted on top, with a reddish streak showing as though the rust had affected the stem tissues. During the fifth month the plants had rotted to a depth of 2ft. In October and November the young shoots were appearing, but in November there was evidence of disease on several plants, which, towards tho end of November, were becoming very sickly, and the rust was spread-

"I don't mind the autumn coming on," said a man the other day; ''overy cooler day here means a wanner day in Europe where our hoys are fighting for our Empire." How eagerly those soldiers have been watching for signs of spring and summer. There aro other signs which Feilding men have been looking forward to —signs of autumn as (evidenced by the new autumn showing of Ready-tailored Suits at McMenaniin's. Turn to his advertisement elsewhere in this issue.