PHILHARMONIC CONCERT TO-MORROW.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2733, 2 June 1915, Page 2

PHILHARMONIC CONCERT TO-MORROW.

Our readers are reminded of the Philharmonic Orchestra's concert to be held in tho Drill Hall to-morrow eA'oning iv aid of the National Fund for assistance to our wounded soldiers. The cause is a good one, and so is the programme. Tickets.have been selling readily, and it is confidently anticipated that "the enterprise of this talented body of musicians will be rewarded with a full house, and that a handsome sum will be raised for the Fund. The orchestral items alono wiU provide a musical treat, and in addition several of the supporting items will introduce performers new te Feilding audiences.

The Star will not be published to morroAv (King's Birthday).

It is estimated that the war Avill this summer cost Europe £50,000,000 of American tourist money.

Fciilding Bacon Co. (Mr Murphy) this morning obtained judgment against J. A. Duncan for £5 10s Id.

Amongst tho recruits registered in Wellington on Saturday last lvere Tom Redpath and John Ballance Hostick, both .well-khoAvn Feilding boys.

Tho Education Districts' Boundaries Commission concludes tho taking of evidence this week. It will have its report ready for the Minister for Education towards tho end of this month.

Owing to the procession in connection Avith the National .Reserve movement this evening, the meeting of the local Foresters' Lodgo has been postponed until Friday evening, so as not to clash with this movement.

Speaking at the meeting in Feilding yesterday afternoon, Mrs Preston said that in 30 years' residence in the capital sho had never seen it in such a state of enthusiasm over anything as it avus over tho Queen Carnival.

Card-players as well as dancers are. renvnded that a good time aAvaits them at the Parish Hall on Friday night. The Druids have decided that cards- will start sharp at 8 o'clock. Dancing commences at 10 o'clock, and will be kept in full siving for three hours.

In conversation Avith.a- gentleman concerned in tho dairying industry, a Standard reporter Avas informed that tho late season this year had not been so good as the previous year, owing to tho drier conditions prevailing of late. The opiuion avhs also given that a fall in the price of butter could not be looked for until next spring.

A remarkable case of cross-fertilis-ation in fruit occurred this scasoli near Sydney. Sonic Packhain's Triumph pear trees Avere growing adjacent to a number of Washington navel orange trees, both coming into bloom at the .same time. The result Avas that all the pears wero absolutely deA-oid of pips, which each bore a welldefined navel.

The Trannvnys Carnival Committee of the War Relief Fund in Wellington was anxious to secure a British piano, made by British labour, as a prize for a competition in aid of their Queen candidate. They interviewed the Bristol Piano Co., Ltd., with the result that that firm has most generously presented a very flue instrument north 75 guineas, made by Wm. Sanies, the famous English manufacturer. This is merely one of a number of handsome contributions by the Bristol.

English papers report the death of J. B. Johnson, a noted diver and swimmer of other days. He Avas the Avorld's champion diver, and in 1871 croated a sensation by diving off Loudon Bridgo into the Thames. Ho was the recognised champion swimmer of the world in the sixties, and in 1867----8-9-70 lie avou tho 550 and 500 yards professional championships. In 1871----2-3 ho was tho milo champion, ivilining tho professional cup outright at tho Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, London, and in 1873 ho won the twomile championship, again winning the cup outright for that distance. He accomplished' a remarkable performance when at tho Alexandra Music Hall, Peter street, Manchester, ho stayod under water in -a tank for 4niin. Bscc.

When the Turks delivered their attack on the Suez Canal and Avere driven off by tho British troops, including the New Zeaianders, thoy made a hazardous attempt to cross tho waterway on pontoons. One of these vessels avhs taken possession of by the New Zeaianders and fonvarded ou to this Dominion. It is now in Wellington and i.s to he exhibited in a shop next to the Noav Zcalandcr Hotel. A charge of sixpence lor admittance is to be made, and the money collected will lie devoted to the fund for wounded soldiers and then'r dependents. The pontoon, which accommodates forty men, has a length of 25ft, 4ft beam, and is 3ft Gin deep. It i.s built of metal, riveted together, and boars tbo name of a German maker. The most interesting feature is that it 'is full of holes made by shrapnel and shell lire. Attached to the bottom are skids on Avhich the boat was hauled for many miles across the inhospitable desert. It i.s painted a drab colour, somewhat resembling khaki,

LCCAL AND GENERAL.