NOTES AND COMMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 19 May 1922, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Back to Buckmanism. The Buckman family, as they were known in Marborougti, in Apiti, and in Taranaki, were of the land. It would appear that although that family exported a prima donna, she still has the family hankering—she has a little farm of her own, bought with her top notes. It is in ancient Anglesey, in Northern Wales, "and I hate leaving my little farm," she told a reporter. Adeline Patti, former prima donna, had acastle and estate in Wales, Tetrazzini has a vineyard in Italy, and Molba.' has a farm just out of Melbourne* Oh, These Great Guessers! After Mars, the meteor. Thus, according to Dr Gillingnii, the earth is increasing in weight by sso tons a day owing to tho falling meteorites. There is really no need to worry, for as the earth weighs between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 billion tons, it will take 400,000,000 years to increase the dia- | meter of our planet by a couple of inches. Last week it was cabled that a meteor had caused a depression of 500 square feet in Virginia, U.S.A. But we were not told that the Virginians were, depressed _ even by such I a depression as woulcThave swallowed lj,p the F'eilding Post Office and itsL outbuildings. .. ~.•.„. ■': ',