LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 576, 30 May 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Star will Pot lie published next Wednesday, the - King’s Birthday, that being a holiday under the industrial award.' I lie monthly musical service will be conducted in the Methodist ( burch to-morrow evening with an organ recital. It has been decided to establish h Roman Catholic College in Oamaru in connection with the Chrrsfian Brotherhood. Holland and America have both agreed to arbitration' on the- claim of Lite two countries to the possession of the tiny island of Palmas in the Philippines. Though only a small portion ol the territory lias been developed, ! the Yukon has produced gold to the. value of ;C00,060.000 since mining began there, about 50 years ago. An American Army airman, flying 10.000 feet hi the clouds above Williamsport, Pennsylvania. dropped safely to the ground by parachute when b i;s aeroplane caught fire. A miner’s wife, Mrs Florence Show, of Bur Lon-on-Trent, England, vim helpr-T out her husband’s small wage by taking in washing, has inherited CnOOO by the death of an uncle in America.

Percy C'olqulioii, a fisherman, found guilty of fishing with a Danish set-' net within prohibited limits of the Thames, was ordered to pay the cost of athe prosecution. his boat and gear to be forfeited.

“Snowdroppers” are busy again in Auckland suburbs. A lew mornings ago in Ponsotiby a lady discovered that her line had 'been stripped of much valuable clothing during the previous nighty The popularity .of the "Wanganui Collegiate School is evidenced by the fact that the whole of the- accommodation is fully taxed, and that quite, a number of boys have had to lie refused admission.' : There are entries reserved for every' year up to 1956 While in most' districts it is fin offence* to allow stock to graze 'unattended on the roads, it appears that in sonii'' parts of the Taranaki province, licenses are issued permitting people to let their cows and horses wander on flu* country roads.

“Tin' 1 Bankruptcy Act was intended to,. Llio protection of traders.” commented .Mr Justice Alper.s in eke Supreme Court at New Plymouth, “hut in Taranaki it seems to he used, principally h.v Natives and laborers.” The estimated population of tlio Dominion of New Zealand and Mandated Territory as at March *ll, was 731,894 males and 699,186 females, a total of 1,431.079. The estimated Maori population was 64,460, including 62,279 in the North Island. “Municipally,” says City Solicitor O’Shea, who was abroad recently, “Wellington is one 1 0l the finest—cities of the world. People do not seem to appreciate' this, hut when they know that its gross revenue is over one and a quarter million pound's, they will realise that Wellington is no mean city.”

Thoi last word in originally was in strong evidence' in Tam ti street, Greymoiith, the ol he r day. A local sportsman, off for a day s shooting per motor hike, was seen with his dog sitting comfortably in a benzine box which was cunningly attached to tin* rear right hand side of tile bike. The dog was thereby conserving his surplus energy fo r tire- supreme moment, when lie would lie required to “put up” the quaiTy, or bring in the result of the shot.

“A Coffrt without a Bible!” was the wav Mr •Justice Frazer described the Arbitration Court at Christchurch when it was found that the customary volume for the swearing of witnesses was missing. “I suppose nobody lias . got a copy in his pocket. A. Court without a copy of

the Scriptures is a bad state of Affairs,” remarked his Honour. “We have sent out to borrow one from another Court.” “Apparently,” said Mr van Ascii, “this is a Court where there is no lying.” “I hope so,” said hi s Honour. ■