LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1130, 18 June 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Marama loft Sydney at 4 o’eloek mid iho Maheno at (> yesterday afternoon. It is hoped the Tinkling and Disti'iot Public Schools Athletic ■Association will reinstitute the elocutionary and musical competitions ne.Nt year. “The Heritage of the Children ofNew Zealand’’ and “Weighed in the. Balance’’ will he the liev- 'I 1 . Miller’s subjects in the Presbyterian, Church to-morrow morning and, evening. ■ Arrangements are being made under the auspices of the Federal. a : n<l State Governments tor holding an Australian, New Zealand and Internaitional Exhibition in Sydney in. 1031. / Last year 1 received 20001bs increase of hutterfat. but due to the Control Board my returns brought in CSOO less money,’’ said a member of the Milking Shorthorn Association at Palmerston. The services at the Methodist Church to-morrow will be conduct,ed by Pev. A. Mitchell. Miss Dolce Grigg, of Blenheim, will sing at the evening service. and community singing will start at 0. 10. Many spurious coins are apparently tendered to tram conductors in Auckland. An item in the tramways balance sheet that claimed attention when the accounts came helore the City Council last week was “spurious coins C 4 13s 3d.’’ A coincidence probably without parallel was related hv Professor F. P. War ley when addressing the Auckland Chemical Society. He said the professors of chemistry at the Auckland. Canterbury and Victoria University Colleges each graduated in the same year and each, after sitting for final examinations abroad returned as professors of eliemi.sti \ to their own eolloegs.

That there were almost 1000 owners to a native block ol 2500 acres on the East (’oast was a statement made by a witness at the Supreme Court in Gisborne. Ihe block, said witness, was owned by a Maori corporation and besides grazing the stock belonging actually to the estate, the horses and cattle oi the niußitudious individual native' owner's were grazed there also.

Tito Stewart Inland correspondent of the Rontlil;in<l Nows, in a .special in ossa o, states ' that when landing Air Adam Adamson at his now ambergris cam]) at Dongh boy Bay, All George Br agg piokod n|) a bottle containing papers drat tod by the Ttrisbano Weather Bureau and signed by Clement L. Wraggc, to indicate the direction of ocean current. The bot'tlo was thrown overboard from the "s.s. W’ailiora by Captain Neville oil June 22. iSOo, near the Hobart const.

The newspaper representative m On mam witnessed a demonstration of the possibilities of the new malice power discovered by a farmer of the district by the combination of two small particles oi the elements in a bottle. Ibe glass crock was set in action and continued io move up and down for some time. Tlia elements used are such that they produce enormous power without ignition. .Further developments in connection with the discovery are. expected at an early date. when working models will be operated.

“To me to-day going omul the world, and as one who has had an opportunity in other spheres of meet ing- people of all (‘lasses, and o! ail sections and all ideas throughout the world.” remarked Sir A. BoydC'arpenter, ALP., at the Town Hall in Wellington. “there has been brought borne to me this curious thing; that the Englishman, that the "Britisher, never changes bis mental outlook wherever he may he placed. He always has the liberty and, always has pleasurein growling. There is no race under Clod’s providence that is more definite, in bis grousing and growling, than the British race, and there is no race under heaven that is more determined to prevent anybody else doing them down m that respect (laughter). But it is our continual grousing ancl growling that has really made us what we are and it is, after all, a sign of the vigour and virility of our people.” (Laughter).