ON THE BOWLING GREEN.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 3647, 2 December 1918, Page 2

ON THE BOWLING GREEN.

There has been scarcely any bowling weather so far this season, but Saturday provided an ideal afternoon, with the result that on the bowling green every rink was occupied. Substantial progress was made with the Pairs Competition. Harford and Pirani beat Murray and Wright, Davidson and Oakley beat Fruisli and Pagan, Mills and Lambert beat Garrett and Williamson, Goodbehere and Entwistle boat Innes Jones and Culpitt, Geo. and N. Bartholomew beat Murray and Wright. Fniish and Pagan beat Chappie and Miles. In the Champion Singles, Murray beat Garrett and J. Bartholomew beat T. Taylor. In the Handicap Singles, Davidson heat Haybittle.

Just one year ago yesterday 6 o'clock closing of hotel bars came into operation throughout the Dominion.

A reduction of over £20.000,000 was shown in the total operating income of 123 of America's largest railroads during tho first five monlTis of Government control.

The Feilding and District Patriotic Society wishes to acknowledge with thanks a donation of £1 7s from the Colvton Girls' Club, for the Copper Trail.

Sir Joseph Ward states that the whole accumulation of parcels for soldiers in Wellington will be cleared out by the next two despatches, and the public need not hesitate to continue posting parcels to soldiers.

"They will cheat you (the Allies) yot, those Junkers! Having Avon half the world by bloody murder, they aro going to win the other half with tears in their eyes, crying for mercy.—Carl Roeemeier, a German in Switzerland.

The Christchurch Press has received the following cable message from Buenos Aires: "Representative New Zealanders in Argentine are full of pride at splendid efforts and achievements of Dominion; congratulations on glorious victory.—(Signed) Douglas Stewart, Noel Tribe, Ernest Baydon."

When all the breweries in the United States close, on December 1, breweries declare there will be no more than six weeks' supply of beer on hand, and consequently beer will not be obtainable after January. It is estimated that in New York alone 10,000 licensed victuallers or saloonkeepers will go out of business. The revenue loss to the Government from the suspension of the breweries in the next twelve months is estimated at £28,000,000. _ Advices received from Wellington indicate -that the Government may issue the writs for the Wellington South and Palmerston by-elections in a few days.

Although a certain amount of reasonable latitude has been allowed hotelkeepers in the observance of the Health Department's order closing hotel bars, a number of instances in which hotelkeepers have* in the language of the man in the street, "made it too hot," have come under the notice of the police, states the Auckland Star. In consequence several informations have been issued charging licensees of hotels with having committed breaches of the order requiring them to keep their bars closed.