LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 554, 31 December 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There will be no Star to-morrow, but it will be published as usual on Saturday.

C hilmington, a, Kentish village, contains 18 houses, the inhabitants of which own more than 20 motorcars between them.

Compulsory anti-rabies va’ccination hits been decreed for all dogs in Lisbon, where lately there have been several rand-dog scares.

Three Palmerston anglers spent Christmas and Boxing days on the Otaki river, landing a bag of 47 trout, none under 3lbs.

The bankruptcies in the Palmerston district lo r 1925 total 35, ol which three were on creditors’ applications, com pitted with 30 for last year, 38 in 1923, and 44 in 1922.

Col. R. Henry, chief secretary for tlie Salvation Army in New Zealand, lias received word of his transfer to a similar position in Eastern Canada.

Mr F. L. Comb, headmaster at Th’a Featlierstoii school, declined the

headmastership of the Mount, Cook school, Wellington. Extensive tests are stated to have proved that short sight, or myopia, is neither caused no increased by reading or any other lorm ol near work.

Two Chinese secret societies have been carrying on a feud- in New York. As a result. 450 Chinese were arrested in an all-night raid organised bv the authorities.

Postage stamps that are v being printed in England for the Turkish, Republic show the figure of a legendary hero with his pet wolf, at his, feet.

No fewer than 80 Rotorua natives are visiting Rata tin to take part in the’ Christmas and New Year festivities and ceremonies.

Seventeen years’ labour on the part of a Spanish, peasant has resulted in bis acquiring a house carved out. ol a Solid ' rock. It possesses a balcony, garret, and cellar.

A finely-wooded area of 40 'acres, adjacent to Rotorua has been placed at tlie disposal ol tlie Borough Council by Messrs Steele brothers lor a camping ground for motorists during tile holiday season.

Captain F. L. Barnard recently flew a big air express from Paris to London above the clouds without once' seeing the ground, being guided the whole way by wireless telephones from the Crovdon ' aerodrome.

A Stratford monumental mason nas just completed an unique order for a farmer in the Pohokura district—a small tombstoife to one of his sheep dogs which was accidentally killed.

‘‘There was no room in the inn, ’ said Bishop Taylor Smith, a visitor to New Zealand, in the course of his Christmas sermon at St:. John’s ( Imroh, Chris toll uit-I i. “It was like your overcrowded steamers from Wellington, and your overcrowded trains to Dunedin!”

A sivami of bees alighted on the roof of a residence in the Oarnaru district, and finally made its way clown tlie chimney. The drawing room was taken possession ol by the winged visitors and it was with considerable difficulty that the bees were removed.

A ship in St. John’s Harbour, Newfoundland, lias brought in a million seals since it began its worli.

While a cutter was crossing the ■Korn Sea, in the Fijis recently, her passengers and crew were startled by the stqlden appearance of a huge meteor in the north-west sky. The 'meteor was the largest anybody on board had ever seen. It took quite a time to complete its flight,tone estimate being 40 : seconds.

A recent; arrival in Wellington from Rome is Father Chapman, a New Zealander, who has obtained his ecclesiastical degree arid is also Doctor of Divinity and Doctor ot Philosophy. Father Chapman is at present on the relieving staff of St.

-Mary of- tlie Angels Church,, Wellington, but he is to take charge of a parish in the New Year.

A dispatch to the Miami Daily News from Nassau, British Baha'ma, states that Sir Thomas Lip ton’s yacht, Shamrock 11, a three limes defeated international cup racer, is now engaged in carrying liquor under --ait alias. She was acquired by the Nassau Liquor House, of Binder-, Collins and Brown, and last November was ruling at anchor with 50 other liquor schooners in Nassau harbour.

In the course of a sermon at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Dunedin Bishop Richards referred to the shortage of clergy and made an eloquent appeal for help. “At present-,” he said, “through no fault of theirs, many of our people are in a stale of spiritual destitution, and we do pray earnestly that we may he enabled to fill our ministry so that the children 'of the Church may he brought up in a knowledge of the love of God, and that grown-up people with their- families who are in remote and scattered districts may have the. means of grace within their reach.