LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3645, 13 February 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Grey Ygllev Colleries are resuming- coal production at an early date, after several months of idleness.

Presbyterian congregations are to be urged to observe Good Friday with some suitable service by the* Christchurch PresbyVerv.

At a meeting ibis week of ihe Inglewood Ilorough Council it was reported that 94 Tier cent, of the rates had been paid.

Korea may be known as f boson, but we hope (adds the cynic) that Manchuria wo-n't be known as Taken.

The Railway Dopniimmi advertise in this issue- particulars of train arrangements and cheap excursion tickets in connection with the Wanganui races.

“I have been struck most forcibly. by the lack of bird life in New Zealand,'* said Mr Charles E. Falk to a Wanganui reporter. Mr Falk is an American who 'is paying a holiday visit to this country.

Heard over the wireless from Sydney: The visits of 1 lie Commonwealth athletes to Los Angeles will do more good than the visits of Cabinet Mpnisiers to other countries during- the last 10 years. Receipt on. the London County Council tramways from April 1 to November 4 of last year were ,£2.519.924, compared with £2, 575,691 in the corresponding period of the previous year. The Christchurch Poet who 11aNa’d the Press got this retort from another correspondent: “Sir,—Mr D’Arcy Cresswell has not as yet been adequately classified, lie may be starred in He! lie! and boomed in lla ! Ha! but his proper place is at ihe head of Tie Haw! Yours, etc.” After three hours, Mrs Eastham Guild, writer and sportswoman from Tahiti, landed a black marlin swordfish weighing 82 jibs off Piercy Island, near Russell. This is the largest, game fish caught in New Zealand waters this season and a.s far as is known is the largest fish caught in any waters by a woman. Two Jersey bulls, after fiercely battling on the common at Sale, in Victoria, suddenly joined forces, and with wild roars bore down on a quiet and peaceful audience of draught, horses. They gored and killed two of them, and then one bull tried to toss a prize pony belonging to the herdsman, ft tore a hole in the pony’s shoulder. in returning a verdict of guilty against a, young man who stood his trial in the Supremo Court in Auckland the jury added a rider commending a number of boys connected with the case on the manner in which they had given their evidence. The judge, Mr Justice Smith, said that lie fully agreed with the rider.