LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1352, 12 March 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is reported from Wellington that Mr M. .Myers, K.C., is to be leader of the new Liberal Parry. Domestic fires are responsible for about 30 per cent. of London’* 1 fires. There is only £‘lo in rates outstanding in Hunrorville Town District. There was an earthquake in Messina last week. The earthquake of 1903 resulted in 77,000 lives being lost. .Money orders totalling £1,000,000 were ••• on at Christmas from Irish enii.grantis in Amorion .to the people at home-

At Invercargill the other day a, fuelled a. bloom whieh measured 8-Jin. in circumference was brought into the Tunes office.

The official opening of the Tau-ranga-Waih: section ol the. Last Coast railway has now been definitely fixed to take place on the 28th inst. Greyrnonth is to he the locale of a. cinema comedy production. The producing company will he local, and also Lite senario writer and the ernemalographer.

W. Balderstone, a. Blackball player, was disqualified by Lite Vest Coast Association for one year for using* '"offensive language- to an umpire at a. cricket match recently.

Among those present at the official opening of the Maori Girls’ College at Mar ton were Air and Mrs Hamilton, who conducted the college at Turn kina when it was first open id in 1905.

Selection a,s an Olympic candidate has thrilled. -Miss Wilson, the Poverty "Bay and New Zealand champion runner, hut il has not occasioned any change in her manner, says the oi.shorne Herald.

Two Maori girls. Agnes Moon and Hariata Micenii, aged ten and miw respectively, while swimming in the Waikato river got into difficulties. Hiue Gannon,sway, another Maori girl, aged 18 yearn, jumped in fully clothed and saved them.

Wednesday last wau the hottest day experienced in (■ rev mouth this year, the temperature being 86 grees in tin* shade. It ie-lt as hot as that in Fending on Saturday afternoon.

Kitty AfcHalo, aged 13, broke all records at Wombwell, Yorkshire, 0Y skipping 3028 hops without a break. It was her response to challenge from a girl who hail skipped L 22 hops.

Bon Lliln mi. is every year increasing i lir> facilities- for llie motoring tonrist, a ikL under the all spices of the .Motor Association camps have been established at Queenstown, Riverton, Tuatapere and Invercargill during the Innf 18 months.

The question of declaring; lupin a noxious ue<‘<! was discussed at the Poliangina County Council. ft was decided, to ('all a meeting of ratepayers at Eauinai, to discuss the eradication of upiu in the river bed.

Hepresenting an aggregate payin?nt of Co 18,750, the proceeds of the second Auckland wool sale, dist-n* buted to growers, last season, reflect the most favourable season for several years.

Summary and official justice was dealt out to a party of mischievous small hoys by a. shopkeeper in Victoria, Avenue, Wanganui. The hoys were, amusing themselves by marking the shop windows. The shopman brought them hack and made them remove the result of their prank.

No fewer than four cyclists crashed in races at Cook’s Cardens, Wanganui. on Saturday night. J. Heffernan and A. Crichton received painful abrasions and shock but tlicir injuries were not serious. Heffernan, however, was admitted to hospital the same night suffering from an injured shoulder.

W r hal is probably a record since the establishment of quinnat salmon in the South. Island rivers was taken by Messrs C. L Denhy and tV. B. Berry, from the Rakaia river during week end, (states the Ashburton Guardian.) The tiro rods landed 25 fish, weighing 4351 b., All the fish were in excellent condition, and were very even in size, the largest being 25Tb.

There is no quackery or uncertainty about the Violet Ray Treatment. and while it is by no means put forward as a cure-nil, yet it is of the utmost aid in restoring to normal the physical condition impaired from almost any cause. Rheumatism," Neuritis, Lumbago, Sciatica, Goitre, Eczema, etc., are quickly relieved. Consult free. R. A. Billows, Darragh’s Buildings.

An average fall in the wafer level of four inches a day is still being recorded in the Nelson district.

A syndicate at Roxburgh, Otago, lias struck a very promising face some Sft. high and 70ft. long, which carries good gold all through-

Morn than 20 competitors entered for a mouth-organ contest for the championship of London organised oy Bermondsey Labor Parv. The Dunedin Tourist Bureau reports that- Milford and Doubtful Sounds experienced a record season this year. HALS. Nelson and Rodney, which oneli cost £7.500,000 to build, call for £-133,000 apiece in annual mainten a lice. . Mount F.gmont, which has hart a record number of visitors during this summer, continues to grow in popularity with climbing enthusiasts.

Dunedin Harbour Board recetved 70 applications, for the position of apprentice in the engineering department..