LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 672, 2 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The first hydro-electric scheme in Samoa was opened recently at Vailima. -

To-morrow afternoon,, i n St- John’s Church. Mr I. Holmes Rs-.nnicies, org. nist at All, Saints’ Church, Palnicrston, will give an organ recital, commencing at 3.J0 o’clock.

Ancient lamps in which melted butter was used in the palace of the' Talai Lama at Lhasa, Tibet, are to r,n rep nice 1 liy electric lamps.

British people, it seems, eat more butter than any other people on the face of the* earth. It is partly through this that the British complexion is the purest in i.e world.

Masierton borough, is remarkably free from noxious weeds,. states the borough inspector. Among the commonest is the elderberry.

Early in the New Year a large combined meeting' of New Zealand private Inis proprietors will he held to protest against the proposed new regulations regarding the running of buses in the cities.

The godwit shooting season opened yesterday and closes o n ? March 31. For the first time in many months the Wanganui river has lost its muddy appearance, due‘to the absence oi rains i u the back country.

lb appears that there “are more things than mice, rate nnd birds that the domestic -tabby seeks for its prey (says the Age). A resident in the Wairayapa district has a cat which makes a practice of catching eels.

When the Dundee Tramways Commit, tee was discussing the question of workmen’s fares recently, one member said that in Aberdeen “people dirty their faces lo get cheap fares.”

Quite a number of athletic Wanganui residents included pig shooting as a holiday diversion. Pigs are very plentiful in the Waitotara back country and the. shooting rights arc free. A disastrous fire occurred at the Wanganui Matipo Park Reserve as the result of which about 10,000 one to two-year pine trees were destroyed. The fire swept over several acres. i Four cento la nans (all males) died during 1924 in New Zealand. One reached 106, one 104 and two 104. Thirty-two persons (17 males and 15 (females) died between. 95 and 100, and 139 (SO males and 59 females) between 90 and 95.

A bank dork in Vienna who had taken a ticket in the Austrian State lottery was listening to the Vienna broadcast programme when the winning numbers were aitmninevCk 77© beard his own number read out.

Experiments conducted by Mr A. Tonnoir, entomologist at the Canterbury .Museum, Christchurch, show that green lacewings, introduced to New Zealand from British. Columbia for the purpose of dealing with the green aphis on oaks, can lie acclimatised in New Zealand.

The death rate in 'New Zealand of children under one year of age during i 921 was the lowest ever recorded, being 4.0.20 per 1000. The total uea’TTs -ere 1127 (044' males and 480 females). in 19 Id, 1910 and 1920 the percentage was over .00 .per 1000. In, 1922 (flie next lowest to 1924) if was T! .777.

AV!i.on the Alaori goes visiting he never dreams of going empty handed. Several hundred Maoris from Hie North and round <*bour Auckland going to Katana, took hampers which comprised three tons "'of good solid food, including potatoes, pipis, and cabbage'.

II the state of the money market should put a check upon Government; and local body ’borrowing, so much fhe better (says the Wanganui Chronicle), provided the result were to line capital for diversion to the primary .industries. 'Unquestionably I armors are experiencing difficulty in obtaining'the funds they require lor capital expenditure upon developmental work which is ail urgent need in the Dominion,

School diTldre’n in East Ham. England, received 400 free pairs of boots in a recent 12 months. There was a large gathering in the Drill Hall yesterday at the annual reunion of Plymouth Brethren along this const. - The rainfall in Napier'during 1925 totalled 25.0 f inches, compared with 30.72 inches in 1921. The" average over the past 10 years is about 34 inches. Earl .lellicoe spent a strenuous time in .Newcastle on November 10, but there was, at least ,one humorous interlude. Introduced. to his Lordship as a famous storyteller, County .'lt rniaii J R. Hogg rose equal to the occasion, by telling a nappy' tale. A little girl in a Sunday School was asked by her teacher for the'names of the three Hebrews who wore cast. into the. iigry furnace. “Shadraeh, . Mesliaeh and Jellicoe,” replied tb® cnnfidentv.

Last year there were received and ■sold on the Chicago market over .18 million animals or the stupendous sum of 190 millions sterling. Since the Union Stock Yards of Chicago opened for. business there have been received and sold within its gates a grand total of more than 6181 million animals for the inconceivable'sum of 3!)00 millions sterling. The elements that have contributed most to this wonderful showing by far live greatest of any live stock market in the world* are an open public live stock market, with sales on, dav of arrival, for

.snot casin' with remittances on. day. of sale, together with Chicago's . favourable geographic;.; and commercial location, her unrivalled transtrading an, ( ( manufacturing point between the densely populated consuming East on the. l one hand and lhe vast producing West, North-west and South-west on the other.