LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4576, 29 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

'WARE POACHERS! The New Zealand Times says: It is anticipated that a number of prosecutions will result from the reports coming to hand from the body of rangers, honorary and otherwise, organised by the Wellington. Acclimatisation Society, with a view to preventing the fiaughter of wild pigeons and other New Zealand birds. PEERAGE ROMANCES. Apropos of colonial romances of aristocrats, a correspondent writes to the Dunedin Star: The older residents of the prosperous little township of Mosgiel are doubtless quite unaware that for many years a baronet lived and worked amongst them. He was a direct descendant of James, second Lord Dalkeith, of the great Scottish House of Morton ; and in his younger days was a keen volunteer. He never married, and on his death at Dunedin, in the year 1887, the title which he had not used passed to a cousin, resident in Hong-Kong. MARY MARRIED. Some curosity lias been evinced as to the title by which the recentlymarried Princess Mary will now be officially and socialh- known. According to a London paper just received doubts on this point have been set at rest by the Court Circular, which was issued on the return of the young couple from the honeymoon, which announced that "the" Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, and the Viscount Lascelles had arrived at the Polace." It may bo assumed, therefore, that Her Boval Highness is to be known as "Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles." NOT MORE EFFICIENT. Lord Riddell, in his impressions of America, while attending the Washington Conference, says: "It is a huge mistake to imagine that Americans—by which 1 mean the population of America—are moie efficient than the population of the British Isles. Thev are not. British brains are just as good, but the Americans work harder,' they liave higher ideals of comfort, and they know that from this point of view the dollar is all powerful. Therefore most people arc bent on making money. Everyone is anxious to make the best of himself, or herself, and everyone is grateful to and proud of the wonderful country which has been so bointcous." POSSIBILITIES. Will the history of the Golden West Coast re-neat itself? To those who know the Coast (says the Christchurch Sun) this is a burning topic. Old miners declare that the diggers of old have touched but the surface of a mammoth treasure of the precious metal. They declare that the supposedly worked-out claims of Brighton," the slopes of the Paparoa Ranges, and the cultivated plains 01 Reefton are rich enough to bring to the Coast thousands of adventurers—if only someone knew how to strike the seam in the right place. Potential fields in Stafford, owing to the high cost of material and the low price offered for the metal, have been deserted, and from both Stafford and Kumara (where, to protect miners' interests, a Water Board was instituted last week) virile young men. lacking nothing but patience, have diverted their energies to the timber mills, where remuneration is at least more certain. BLOOD FUSION. Between 12 ana 14 healthy young fellows came forward at ..the Public Hospital to offer their services for the blood transfusion operation, in answer to an. appeal. The medical authorities, after testing the blood of all the applicants, selected two, from each of whom half a pint of blood was taken. This is believed to be the first occasion on which such an operation has been performed in Wanganui. The two young fellows who gave their blood will be gratified to learn that the operation was a success. The medical authorities at the Hospital desire to record their thanks to those who came forward in response to the appeal.

SALVATIONIST EXODUS. Feikling's Salvation Army Band and a party of young people from the corps went to Wellington by the Main Trunk train this morning to take part in the annual congress. The Feikling Silver Band is to play at the reunion' to-night and the young people are to sing at the great gathering to-morrow evening. Fishing in a stream at Thanet, a fisherman caught a pike inside which was found a sparrow intact. Among the achievements claimed by the League of Nations are the settling of four serious disputes with threatened outbreaks of war m Europe. The Great Western Railway Company has asked its 90,000 employees to save one penny pe.r day per man. This would mean an annual saving of £l-10,000. Chinese Emperors are never mentioned by name from the moment or their accession, and are generally alluded to by some such title as "Lord of Myriad Years" or "Tho Son of Heaven."

The Levin branch of the Acclimatisation Society last year paid Is 6d per pair for 114 pairs of shags' feet. It has been decided to pay 2s per pair for the coming year. ' Illustrating tho difficulties with which headmasters have to contend, Mr F. Bennett reported at the annual meeting of Berhamporc householders that last year there were 20 changes iu the teaching staff of the school, and already this year there had been six changes.. Masterton sportsmen who were in the Tararuas during Easter in search of pigs report that they had no luck at all. There were recent signs of pigs being about, and they had evidently been eating the miro berries, but deer stalkers or some other cause had aparently frightened them back. "I have recommended the Wanganui to tho Government as the most suitable river in' the North Island for quinnat salmon." —Mr L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries for New Zealand. Thoro aro nominations from Feilding for +he Masterton competitions. At most Japanese weddings a great feature is a bonfire built up of the bride's old toys. Mr G. L. Denman, who has just retired after sitting for many years as Magistrate at Marlborough Street Police Court, London, is bidding farewell to the solicitors, staff, and police, paid this tribute to the Press: "I cannot remember any occasion on which I have had to complain of an unfair or misleading report." A prisoner named Redshaw, who is undergoing nine months' imprisonment for appropriating moneys of the Foresters' Lodge at Napier, applied to the Court of Appeal for a reduction of his sentence. /The Court not only refused the application, but increased the sentence to 15 months.

• Cool for Buller Gorge fields is being brought by lorries to Westport and retailed at prices similar to those ruling for the other best class house coals. Why there should be any talk of unemployment in the Dominion with the rich mineral resources of the Buller Gorge undeveloped passeth understanding.—Westport Times. Seventy-three freezing works employees ""ere fined £5 with £2 5s costs each at Gisborne yesterday for participating in an unlawful strike last month. It was. not exactly love's young dream,that was shattered in a case that came before Mr W. R. Kean, S.M., at Auckland last week. A wife 76 years of age sought separation from her husband, who was two years her junior. The Magistrate granted the separation. It is estimated that 500 wreaths were taken to the Karori Soldiers Cemetery on Tuesday from the city schools.