LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 3 May 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Witness, to a solicitor; Don’i slop me—l am speaking the truth at last !

“It is the privilege of the public to hoot a referee,” said a member of the Referees’ Association at Hunter-

Magi.strati* to man charged with drunkenness: Anything to .-ray? Accused : No, sir. Magistrate: No re grets? Accused: No.

Herr Siegfried Wagner is conducting a cycle of his father’s music dramas at the Soala Opera House ’it Milan.

Special efforts are being made to save a splendid old oak tree in St. Mary’s churchyard, New Plymouth, from a disease which has attacked it. Cawthrnn Institute is providing the specific.

Recently a traffic inspector called a motorist’s attention to dirt obscuring a number plate on his car. “Yes, it is a bit dirty,” was the reply ; “but you have no front number plate at all !” Collapse of the inspector.

Attention is called to Cobbc’s special suit advertisement on this page, featuring English fancy worsted suits at a low price. Also, look up the Corticelli silk hosiery advertisement on page 8.

“It’s a messy business driving .pigs,” said a man in the Police Court in New Plymouth answering a charge of cruelly ill-treating them. “And it’s a more messy business to be here on a charge of this kind,” answered the Magistrate.

Says the book reviewer of the bondon Daily Express: Mr Hugh Walpole has written a very long and very diffuse book, “Rogue Herries,” containing 736 pages. If about 400.0 f the pages had been left out: the novel would have been better.

“I have come to the conclusion, after 35 years of social work in many large cities in England and Scotland, that theie is more charity in Auckland for Its size than in any other city in the world,” said Staff Captain T. \V. Holmes, prison chaplain for the Salvation Army.

Lou Tellegen, the film actor, was married the other day to Eva Casanova, Jjis leading lady in recent music hall appearances, and his fourth wife. Mr Tellegen first married the Countess Debrnurberc in France, and next'Geraldine Farrar, the grand opera star.