LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 13 February 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rafael Snhatini,. the novelist, tins just sold his Hampstead home.

The electrification* of the Lvt-tel. ton tunnel will be permanently establisliM this week.

A. letter written by Thackeray was sold recently for .£450. In. it he. mentioned that ho had met Dickens at $ Drury Lane Theatre.

There are about 120,000 motor cycles in use in the United States a fid 700,000 in Great Britain.

The annual ’picnic of the Stairway school children is to be held on Kowlini. Park on the 19th inst.”

The New Zealand Methodist Young Men’s Bible Class Union is to bold its Easter camp in Foilding.

‘‘Trousers for all occasions” is the Heading of Simson’s replace advertisement/ on page 8.

AI iss Barron , of Foxton, who ran in Feilding, bias been, included in Wellington’s selection for the championship athletic meeting.

The Poetry Society, of England, has withheld its gold medal this year as none of the 23 entrants was considered worthy of it.

TT. G. Wells Has provided bis son, who has adopted tile eayeer of film producer, with the senario lor six short films.

Attached to the United States Navy ar e 2031 motor cycles, while 7941 machines are privately owned by naval men.

For the next Wanganui, wool sale to he Held on th 0 29th inst., the wool committee has increased the/ allocation from 20,000 to 25,000 bales.

Mr G. V, Hudson, of Wellington, reports three largo sunspots in. the centre of the sun’s disc, and says auroras and magnetic disturbances may he expected.

“It is becoming a. scandal that a. town like Palmerston North should not have a proper water supply,” said Mr Fuller at the Chamber of Commerce meeting.

•Out of 13 A grade ’hands nominated for the New -Zealand Band championship, 11 notified their intention of being present at Manga-

The Imperial Aggregate, embracing the Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago, Taranaki and Dominion Matches, was won by W. N. Masefield, of Blenheim,: at the -rifle meeting yesterday.

. Although, the South of England enjoyed good weather during 1928, inWestmoreland it was one- of the wettest on. record, with a- total rainfall of 72in.

A Masonic hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of ailing members of lodges is shortly to be erected in Sydney by the Grand Lodge.

“The best way to advertise our country abroad is to advertise our goods,” said Mr W. >T. Jordan, M.P. for Manakau, who has just returned to Auckland from abroad.

Luxurious motor eoachs are now running between London and Manchester in less than 10 hours, tho fare being only 16s fid for the 184 miles.

Some extraordinary mileages are being obtained from buses operating

in England. Recently, one bus running between Nottingham and Leicester, completed 38,000 miles in four months.

Tn'Christchurch a group of young business men of Liberal views is exploring the possibilities of the lormation of a new party to contest the forthcoming City Council election against tho Labourites.

Two 18 year old American girls have started from New York bn a trip to the Pacific const on a motor bicycle. The. sidecar is piled so high with luggage that one has to ride on the carrier. THey are- covering 250 miles a day.

The Hon. A. ,T. Stallworthy, Minister of Health, conferred with the Hospital Board at Whangarei regarding the proposal that the Kamo springs®shoufil he taken over by the Government for spa, purposes. The Minister promised to bring the matter before, Cabinet.

Over 50 years ago the late Mr C. Davy, a farmer in Turakitta, lost t gold seal -or signet-, highly prized, handed down from a previous generation. A few days ago Mr F. Davy, of Gonville, a son, was informed that the seal had been found on the property formerly occupied by the Davy family at Turaliina,