KIMBOLTON SHOW COMPETITIONS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2885, 3 March 1916, Page 2

KIMBOLTON SHOW COMPETITIONS.

Following were the winners in the guessing eonipefiitioii" at the Kimbolton, Show: Sheen. Mrs Noble guessed the correct weight, 1201bs, and took the first pr'.ze. Beans, Messrs Cragheod and Hoappy tied, and m tho draw olf Mr Heappy won. Stenograiplhie drawing. Miss Gibson (Kiwitea). Ka>iso,r Bill competition, Mr A-Pe-'ffigrew The YVo.sleyait tfoii'vexiofi of Great Britain and "Wales has furii.ished the Army with more than 100,000 men. Soldiers' messages- may now be accepted for Teniedos on the same con<lit,ions 'a.nd at the .same rafes as those for Salonika- aitid Mudrow. No fewer flia>ji 110 oases of pears have been seiiit to Ijhe Treiii.t.h.am Cirniji by Mr 11. ('!. Ivin.gsl.and, of -Apjdel.y, Nelson. The Hey. (.;. 11. Waltis, Methodifil niinisler, of Newport (Wales), who was formerly a.n a.ngle-iroir smitji, has gone to work in the Government shipyards. Members of the first division of the Railway Service —the clerical and head office staff —propose to make representations to the Government ar an early date regarding their claims for increases in salary. Mr Percy Taylor Coyle. who goes into camp "with the N.C.O.'s next week, was tho recipient of a wristlet watch from tho officers of the National Provident and Friendly Societies Department of tbi! Government service in Wellington, The IvaupokoiMii Dairy Company* last pay-out a.mouiulod "to £30,182. in addition, to this very big Tarami-Ki concern, the J oil's and River-dale companies- are al no operating in a large ivav, and it is estiimaled that fully LT'l.OtlO wa. s distributed among the suppliers of a little s'l.rip id' Ta.ranaKi iirea-suring about, leu by seven miles.

It is confidently anticipated that tho value of the exports from Paitea this yean- will bo close on £1,250,000. Tourist travel in Canada is being j beneficially a fleeted by tho Stoppage j of winter sports in Switzerland owing to the war, and great numbers of Americans who formerly went to European resorts aire, taking Wioir wititer recreation in the Dominion. After thoroughly investigating Ihe Wellington Post Office system, the Hon. "W. Webster, Federal Post-master-General, stinted that lie would coir tail ify venture lo adopt some ol the features of-Ihe, New Zealand service in the Coii!inoi)iwe.a.l,! h. Forty-five Chinese ring- necked pheasants, consigned to the Auckland Ae.cli.ma.Usii.ti.on Society, were .aooam the steamer Kiimiiira, which arrived at Auckland this week. The birds wore purchased from an English firm, a.ud cost .<J3'l 12s b'd. Figures published in. .)anuary_ by British life iussiir.a'.nce, corporations show that .since August 1014 nearly .C 7.000,000.000,000 has been pau'd in war ela.iiiis. Tihe industrial eompanjes alone have disbursed £1,120,000 on 80,000 policies. Six months ago the German, companies broke all their .insurance contracts by arbitrarily reducing the aimouut-s for which they wore liable, but the British companies will, of course, coiiifiiiiiue to pay all claims in, full. At the .meeting of the Dominion Council, of the New Zealand Catholic, Y-ed-eraitiou, the following resolution wais adopted: "That this council dra.ws- attoniioii to the exorbitant nursing amd 'medical I'ees now obtaining in conectioin with maternity oases, which fees are. a severe tax upon poor people, Mid suggest the Government Should take proper stops to provide some moans of reducing such charges, cither by extending the St. Helens Hospital' principle, district nursing, or otherwise." A stingray, measuring about f<> H J fecit across, wals ca.ugliit on a,u ordinary kabawai line at the mouth of tho" sfreti.m on the Wa.illni beach on Eriday afternoon (reports the Ha-wom Slar).' The lisli was Ihjoluml in .sh.oal wafer, ami this fact should nuike bath(M"s a. little cautious. The stingray will never attack a.uyone, but, as with the Biilish lion, n't'is a ease of "beware how yon tread on Mi is fail (buck)." A thrust from the barb-like spear which forms the tail ca.uses an awful wound—o-me that is most, difficult to heal.