SCHOOL FOOTBALL.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2732, 31 May 1915, Page 2

SCHOOL FOOTBALL.

The Feilding Technical School (nigbt class), against Wanganui Technical College, at Wanganui on Thursday, will-be .-represented by the following: W. Turner, V. Hopping, G. Wilson, G. Shore, J..Stewart, H. Stewart, L. Bramwell, J. James, H. Hewitt, B. Turner, A. Palmer, H. Howler, L. Gcison, J. Weingott, and S. Foster; emergencies R. Neill, L. Gill, and E. Toosc. The team will travel'by the 7.50 a.m. train, all players are requested to be on the station not later than 7.40. A meeting will be held .at the Technical School at 7 o'clock to-morrow night.

There will be no publication of the Stak next Thursday (the King's Birthday).

It is stated in Tiniaru that offers have already been made- of (3s per bushel for next season's wheat.

A ruuholder in the Eketahuna district has just received advice from Home of the sale of his wool at IGUI.

Mr Hugh Ward has handed the National Belgian Fund £125,001), as the result of Belgian Day in N.S.W. The collections at the race meetings exceeded £10,000.

The Kaikoura Star reports that petroleum has been struck iv a certain locality of Marlborough by the Government. Site and particulars are not available for publication.

Parades for No. 55 Company Senior Cadets for Juno aro notified in this issue. The Company will assemble at the Drill Hall on Wednesday, Juno 2, to take part in the procession.

Ab the next Napier Borough Cuiicil meeting the following motion will be moved: "That iv future no German, Austrian, or Turk, whether naturalised or not, bo employed by the Napier City Council."

The Hastings Tribune says a reduction in the price of meat in Hawkc's Bay may now be looked for, as it is stated that butchers are getting fat sheep in that district at practically prico. A correspondent writes, apropos a Note in Saturday's Star: "As another instance of Why Send Them Away? Percy EU'orm gained the highest marks in New Zealand in the Senior Civil Service examination for botany!"

Rongotea people arc disappointed that the Kopano block, which is reported to have been sold to a Hawke's Bay buyer, hay been disposed of in one block, as they wen; hopeful that it would bo cut up into dairy farms, for which purpose the whole of the 1100 acres in the block was suitable.

A young man', Clarence Hayden, engaged carting a taukful of water from the river on Mr E. Short's property, was jolted off the dray and as he fell a wheel of the loaded vehicle passed over his leg. Strange to say, no bones were broken, but the runover limb was so severely strained that the young man has had to resort to crutches.

Lord Kitchener a few weeks ago inspected some defence works in a district iv the South of England. The great man motored from point lo point, walked over the ground, but said not a word all the afternoon until the moment he was leaving for London. Then he opened his grim mouth. "Those trenches of yours," he said, "wouldn't keep out the Salvation Army."

The London correspondent of tho Lyttelton Times states that Mr Geo. Beelham, of Masterton, who gave a magnificently equipped motor ambulance to tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt, has had several letters recording the gratitude of the authorities for his gift, and has heard that it was constantly used during the active operations of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade on the Suez Canal, between El Kubri and the base hospital at Suez.

Mr J. Penny, of Mangatoki, has a splendid crop of lucerne ou his property. Half of the crop was limed, about 14cwt. being used, plus slag and potash. The crop was drilled in November. Another paddock was put down in December, broadcasted with slag and potash, under Mr .Brown's direction, and is doing very well. Both crops have been fed off three times. Tho unliined portion Ls doing better than the drills that"were limed. The crops (says the Elthain Argus) aro being watched with great interest by fanners of the district.

Thus the Dunedin Star: Varied experiences in collecting. One of tho wealthy farmers in North Otago, asked for a donation in kind for the Belgian Fund, gave three sheep 1 Another settlor in the samo district risked an attack of enlargement of the heart by taking from big wellfilled barn, for the samo cause, ono bag of seconds I On Saturday, during the Red Cross canvass in Dunedin, a professional gentleman answered the appeal by saying: "1 suppose I'd better give a sixpence, but it's worth only a penny" ; and live minutes later the .sanio collector, approaching a Chinaman, was cheerfully handed a half-sovereign.

"Trade with the enemy is still going on." said Mr A. H. S'onnctt, while addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Wellington. Merchants had been offered enemy goods and had refused them. At the same time they had identified goods of similar make in ■ retail shops. In support of his statement Mr Sennett read a letter from a man who stated that, in the course of anti-German canvassing, he had visited over 1.000 firms. Sonic of these ho had found inclined to bclicvo that German trade would lie resumed as as possible after the war, because tho bargaining instinct would soon override patriotic impulses. • Mr Sennett suggested that every chamber of commerce should at once sot up an Empire Trade Committee, as had been dono in Auckland. - Doininion-mado Blankets and Flannels are still obtainable at last year's prices at Spence and Spence'B, tho firm having placed their orders for these long before the recent rises in price. Also genuine Down Quilts at less than last year's prices in some instances. . ~.,._•

LCCAL AND GENERAL.