LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 319, 21 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A few days ago nine swaggers were counted along the road hot ween Wanganui and Marton.

To stop German propaganda ,in CV.eclio-Sluvakia (Central Europe) ihe Government has. prohibited the sale of more than 100 German newspapers and 'period icn Is.

A new British embassy is to lie built in Tokio at.a cost ol £300,000. The old embassy, which was damaged in the earthquake oi 1923. is crumbling to ruins.

Church collections are as tiresome and irritating ns the. old toll-gate system,” is the opinion of tne Bishop of Exeter, who suggests their abolition

Nearly one quarter of a miflion. will have to be paid by the London County Council to their employees who come under the Sutton judgment with regard to the war.

More than £IOO,OOO is to, be divided among numerous charities under thr- will of Mrs; Elizo Nixon, of Brighton, England, who died at the age of 92 years, leaving U ." 3,480 gross. Gorman . firms are to undertake iTi respect ol reparations the building of a tunnel under the river Seine at Rouen to cost £2,300,000 and a railway to cost £750.000. A New York to Chicago overnight aeroplane service has been established by a new aiicrnt’t operating corporation known as.the National Ait Transport Incorporated, with a capital of £2.000)000, During riots, in- the French West Indies colony of Martinque, due to the postponed municipal election campaign, three, county councillors and several other persons were killed.

A Bill recently introduced into the Ontario Legislature in Canada empowers the authorities to call on every able-bodied male citizen between the-. ages' of IS and .00 to aid in extinguishing forest fires.

The Stanhope Gold Modal for the bravest deed of .last- year Mias been awarded t oGeorge Ingham, of Manchester, England, for trying to rescue a comrade from Dimes in boiler.

A we I lien own trades unionist official told the Nor Li i Otago Times that 'he leading spirits in ‘lk- Labour and I’nionist movement in New Zealand to-day are Australians. ' Very lew natives of New Zealand hold official positions in ihe m gansations.

Of interest, not only to men. but to mothers, wives and sisters. Sutton’s better values than ever, compromise men’s and boys every day wearables at absolutely bedrock prices and the end ol sale evet c°m jnjr nearer. Buy now at Sutton’s and effect a substantial saving.

Fifty years ago the Provincial Government of Taranaki (says the Herald) let a contract to Mr .John Bucklv for the erection of six cottages in'town for the housing of immigrants. The contract pi ice vas £75 each. We wonder what sort of a dwelling would be built to-day .oi that money.

Referring to his Nationalist Party, the N.Z. Times gives 'Mr Wilford this backhander: The whole affair'is

it joke, if perhaps a wintry one. When 'his audience has finished smiling with Mr Milford, it will laugh at him. He is destined to (<o down in our history its a man who was always too clever ever to lie a. big politician.

Paderewski, tin? great pianist and fn>£ President of Poland, has been giving a series nr recitals in the music centres of Front Britain, the proceeds of which have been devoted to FeildMnrslisi’l Kill flaig’-s fund for exservice men in all ranks. Members of ilio Royal family encouraged the movement' by their attendance at the first eonecrl in the Royal Albert Hall of London.

‘•New Zealand has twice as much mileage of road, per bead of population m k Ameren and much more than Knghmd and oilier old countries,” mi id Mr A. Tindall, Highways-, engineer, speaking at Mash) ton. ‘•Thme’s greater proportion of-surlaoo roads here than in the- United States -Ml per cent as against' Rl per cent, so we have very reason to be proud of our reading,”

“In mv ■ address last year, said Bishop Spruit at the Anglican Synod at Wellington, “I. spoke of the dearth of clergy. 1 am glad to. say that in New Zealand tilings-appear to be brightening. .More oI oar young men; seem• ready lo oiler themselves for Holy Order. St. .lohn’s provincial College, Auckland. is. ! believe*, cpiite falß and I. am looking forward to admitting to Hciicon’s Orders in Advent three Si. .Tulin's men from our own diocese.”