TO-MORROW'S HOLIDAY.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 2

TO-MORROW'S HOLIDAY.

Tin* Feilding Holiday Committee recommends that all shops be closed at noon to-morrow for People's Day at tho Show.

Tho rotilrii cricket match 'I>etween Wanganui and I-'oikling will lie played mi Kowbai Park next Saturday. The men in the Kangiutti Camp refer to tho Foxton-Palincrston train as the "whitebait, express." It is expected that the new Shaw Savill .steamer Raranga will make her first appearance in Wellington cither in April or -May next. Colonel Tiiicey inglis. R.A.M.C, of Auckland, lias been appoinlcd to the comiiiaiul of the Awapnni camp. Returned soldiers uho lind it difncult to secure-employment (Hays the Auckland Star) are inclined to resent the fact that young men who are apparently fit to serve manage to secure Government positions. A case has cropped up in Auckland, where a young man has informed two returned soldiers (hi;s erstwhile- mates) that lie docs not'contemplate K<>iii} r . to the war. He told them that be has secured a Government job. and intended to bo married "without delay. Mr Lander made an interesting find lately on tho -western slopes of Mount Egmont. At a height of about 3000 feet be discovered a number of bones, some of which he recognised as mna bones, but others he could nut identify at ail. He brought what he could carry away with him. 'One of tho bones is the, under part of tho skull of a large animal in ii complete- state of preservation, except that one tooth was lost in transit. It is a little like the under jaw of a horse, but other bones do not bear out a theory that it. is a horse's skeleton that Mr Lander found, though ainoiitx thorn is the shell of a hoof, like a horse's. His idea is that it is the skeleton of an extinct animal, and t.lwt this particular animal ami the nio;i whose bones wero found in the same place met on the mountain side and both succumbed in .'in encounter, si in I rolled down into the gully whore, lie found the remains.

Two of tin , successful applicants at the ballot . for sections held at the Crown Lands Ollice, Auckland, on Thursday aro soldiers. Sergeant ■). I Joss, of Auckland, was invalided home some time ago. His application was forivijided from Chri.stehnrch. Private W. J. Bauer. Jim., of JViu.sonby, the. oilier successful applicant, is now at. tb« front. His application was put through his father, Mr W. .J. Mimcr, sen. Tho sections drawn are in the Clifford Settlement near Tirau.

The Rev. J. A. McKenzie, lute of Apiti, who went with tho IJitlo Brigade, writing Jrom El llaniiiiaui, near Alexandria, sayw'thu place is remarkable, for wind and dust. Hμ hus bceu [earning the mysteries of camel riding. Along with him is Lieut. Castles, a young friend of tho Kelly's, of Tokomaru. He. could not hear anything further oi his nephew, John Lcvien, who has beon missing since August l! 8, lid ward' Ley Ten lute been invalided to England, At Alexandria be saw Chaplain JJurridge, who went out with tho b'th, and who had escaped from the boat that was torpedoed on the way to Salonika. Uurridge had been eight hours in the water before he was picked up.

Whilst, two well-known- habitues of the racing world in Messrs, Li, 3. King and J. McCojiiibo were., race-books-in baud, discussing tho pros and cony of tho Hold in the Wellington Cup, a bee settled ou the blank pa,nl of the page which oa-rried the tail of tlho iiekl. That; of course, was suggestive, and became more »/ v.iien, on marking the place where tbe bpney-giitberor had momentarily alighted and 'turning over the leaf, it was found to be directly opposite, tho na.ino- of Bee. .both proiuiipitily " tlhrew away '' £1 on the Ma.rtiaiii —Lady Disdain mare, and informed I'lio owner o,f their iiwpirntkjii, who u<ldud unofb'jr teijjiior to his conimJs&iicMi on the tojle. As t|K> dividend pswl appronched a fifth of L'lOO, the investors were, pleased, although when people aro "stung" it does not as a rule .result in helping to till their pockets.

In order to provide the necessary accommodation for tho ever increasing nuiabor of pupils at the Napier Boys' High School, "the Governors have just completed anaiigeiuonts tor tl*o purchase of 25 acres of 'and, with a tVontago oil the beautiful Tutaekuri Kiver, within a fe\y chains of the sea beach and .just including tbo boundaries oi tbo town of Napier. The new si to is an admirable one for 'the 1 purpose, t^iul tlj.e scliool ,ci,iu look forward ty cvpn b'ett/Lsr scholastic results than tiios« in ihe lueiitorwijy rcjoriJs of Hio past. Tba scliool was established in 1872, find has » record second to noiio in the Doiuiftit'nj Napier's general cliniato having midouhlYedl.v had a beneficial iu/lupiice on pupiis' jyJi.v.nical and mental develop nifut. 'I ho M'tiool in under tho direction of Mr W, A. M-Kioiir, M.A-. At.Sc, assisted by one of tho jnosj. highly (junlifit'd and able fitafl's in fho c'>)ii).';-y. Altliougb groat attention is given to tiit. ,;;,?nt;):! education of tho j boy;;, their physical 1. , ; 1 ! receives jui-t at; ".keen, and capable sifperyis.iur,, and in tk.if.lb d'T.ec.tioii the' schooj i:- ;- ---justly proiui or ij.vj powers o.f its present and past pupils, !fiio jnaiiagomenfc of the boarding eßtablis'timetib connected with tbe school is in I.hw jW/ijerjorieed bands of Miss ArIMO^μ. Alt kinds <)f job pHntiug jj-v tV sxab Printing Workf). * '