LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 146, 9 April 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Host: What is your Alma Materj Mr Nurich? Guest: I neior touch it, thanks, but I'll take a cigar instead.

Permission to enter the United Kingdom was refused to 873 immigrants during October, November, and December, 1023. and 157 Germans were, refused permission to land during the year.

Asked in the Sou fit if he was awaro that, a Country Party had been formed in Canterbury, Mr Massey replied smilingly that lie was. "1 know all about it," Iks said.

A large complement of'assisted immigrants, totalling 314, will arrive in Wellington to-day by (lie Rauhine, from London and Southampton, via Panama. They are for the various ports.

.Miss Winifred Botterill, aged 47, who died in the Retreat Menial hos pital in York recently, committed suicide by pushing a needle through the wall of iter heart. Other needles were found in her lung and chest.

It is stated that an application is to be made shortly to get the speed limitonthe Mutt road, Wellington, (which ha.s been bituminised) increased Io 30 miles an hour, and that such an application will probably receive favourable consideration

"J never gamble al cards, and although I am reckoned a good cardplayer in the district, if anyone ever suggests having a '.■-■hilling a corner' [ immediately get up from the table," declared an elderly applicant for admission as a solicitor before tl)e> Pull Court iu Wellington.

In suggestion that the Labour Government in Britain should be given a chance, Mr Massey stated, at'tlie luncheon in the South that they reminded him of a wild elephant. In order to tame this animal it whs usually placed between to lame elephants for a period. (Laughter).

Five members of the Masterton Tramping Club succeeded in climbing Shiapai on Sunday. They camped 1000 feet up, nenr the Mangatainoka .stream, and starting off early on Sunday morning got to the top (4195 feet) after a stiff climb. The view was obscured by fog. in a" beautiful gorge they saw. a waterfall /50 feet high.

The statement was made by two elderly defendants in cases heard at the Pahiatua Magistrate's Court that they could neither rend nor write. "Although they have lived in the same house they have not spoken to each other for the last 10 years, except in anger," remarked counsel during the hearing of :i maintenance case in the Pahiatua Magistrate's Court; At Piopio, .'i township about 1/5 miles from Te Kuiti, the first consolidation school in the North Island was opened last week. To this school over 100 children avill be transported daily by motor-buses, the distance' from which the children come averaging about six miles. Six small oneteacher schools have been closed as a result of the opening of the central .school.

The mills which 'left' Wellington on March 4 via San Francisco arrived in London last Saturday.

The Angora Government has. ordered the removal of the Cross and other religious emblems Irom the Christian schools in Turkey.

Twelve old Chippendale ribbonback mahogany chairs, realised £7OO at, Sotheby's salerooms in Loinvm. They were formerly in the possession of Admiral Moiintlord I'eile, who died in 1871:

Mr Petty, of StrawTierry Acres, Makino, reports that he is gathering a splendid second crop of strawberries. They are as large as the best of the first crop. If good weather ■onUmics, with sunshine, he will be picking'the fruit for another month.

No great suecass has been reported by (.leer-stalkers at Galatea. fe'omc 20 opened the campaign then., nut the stags were tit her sh.y or had not commenced rearing. Many of tl'- 1 sportsmen have returned,and await a mora Httinnr opportunity. Professor Vaquez, (be French heart specialist, who want specially from Paris to Athens to examine M. Veuizelos, presented the ex-Permier with, a bill for £I4OO sterling for his services. Madame Ventzelos, who has a private fortune of more than £2,000,000 sterling, paid the bill immediately. Some men evidently keep a very accurate record of their (tendance j>t race meetings. A judgment debtor was being examined, in the Magistrate's Court in W'anganm as to what he did with his earnings, and when asked as to his spending.s on betting be replied immediately that he had only been on a racecourse 22 times in his life.

A most interesting lecture was given by Dr. il. 11. Allan, of the Keild. ing Agricultural College, at the Luncheon Club in .Palmer.ston yesterday. The speaker's .subject was "Trfe Little Things of Science." Holding up a small phial, the speaker it contained 100 million of "the little things of science.'' On the motion of Mr J. R. Hughes, a hearty vote of thanks to Dr. Allen was carried by acclamation. Coming up from the Ross Sea ticwhalers now in New Zealand waters called at the Campbell Islands. Four settlers were, found living there, lonely guardians, of some 45.000 sheep. Three of these men were brought up to the TiluAT, together with SO bales of wool, which are going on to Port Chalmers. They have had the wool waiting for over a year for a vessel io call and pick it up.'

A new use for the bagpipes lias been found, A Highlander who owns a sheep farm in a mountainous district of California is in the habit almost daily of playing his pipes all over the ground. The skirling has had the effect of scaring eagles out of the locality, in which these birds of prey had formerly done considerable damage by carrying off lambs and even grown sheen.

"The whole of the old atmosnhere lias disappeared in our present-day infant classrooms." declares the Minister for Education, the Hon G. J. Parr. "To-dav the infant rooms ar."> /the best in the school, whereas in the old days we were, made to sit up «and place our hand* behind dur backs, and were, placed under rigorous discipline." The present-day sys'tem was a great aid to Ihe moral and mental training of the little ones.

The popular idea of Tongariiv, Na. tional Park is that of a cast area of snow, grass and tussocks, quite unsuited to the growth of the ordinary products of the earth. It will therefore probably come as a surprise to many people to know That, although strawberries have been off the. market for a couple of months,past, they are growing abundantly and ripening well at Waimarino. The National Park, therefore would offer a promising outlook so far as "berry glowing is concerned, the huckleberry and bilberry slips which were planted some time ago being now for a flourishing condition.