LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3848, 3 October 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A thanksgiving celebration of the recent Methodist reunion is to take place in Jerusalem in February next.

Gandhi will not represent, India at the next Olympic Games. Not fast enough !

William: Do spectacles help y our eyes? Henry: Do they? Why they’ve kept three, fellows from hitting me!

Although the New Zealand armed forces have “refresher courses,” wet canteens are barred.

There is a boom in fencing wire in Taranaki. The bigger the boom, the greater the strain.

B ram well Bros. have another special price list on page ono of today’s Star.

!\ fau rice Chevalier first gained success as :a. singer at the Casino des lourelles. He was paid 3s an. evening for lour evenings a week.

Customer to and Door: I want some wood—not a large g. ity— er*—just- a piece to make h. bridge for mv fiddle.

Al Capone, Chicago’s gang leader, in his seclusion, a 1 Atlantic prison is writing “Advice ,to Evildoers : Flow I Achieved -Success.”

“1 notice occasional glimpses of reason in your political and economic. outlook.” For this opening to a Jotter received Mercuiio (in the Auckland Herald)' # wishes to make tlie most heartfelt* acknowledgment.

“Whatever we do with Sunday or on it,” says a writer in. tho Manchester Guardian, “we shall lose something precious if we fail to make it different " from the rest of the week.”

A book containing 36,000 words wa s recently' transmitted by wireless from tho Dutch Government station to. the Dutch West Indies, or.gaging four for seven, hours each.

An assurance, that an- agreement satisfactory to New Zealand had been reached at the Ottawa Conference was given by Mr David Jones, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, when speaking at a luncheon in Christchurch.

The year 1032 already stands out iu modern history as the year of. great and critical' conferences. Geneva, Lausanne, Ottawa and,

soon, London, Disarmament, reparations. British trade and econo mics world economics.

“The Ottawa Conference was not a. place for ‘smart’ men. \Vc were dealing with cold, hard facts- New Zealand by her very frankness got Further than some fc>f the other countries that were not so frank.” Mr David Jones.

Lord Snowden has nearly run his course in life and the pity is. that the splendour of his recent, services to the nation should be marred by an untimely resignation that may open the door for him to complete political oblivion. —Taihapo Times,

Mr C. B. Cochran, the English theatrical veteran known so well to Americans as the Ziegfold of I.ondon, has received .an offer irom Chicago to take charge of a series of theatrical, musical and variety productions in connection with the impending World’s ' Fair.

During the first six months .since the opening of Sydney’s big bridge, nine people have jumped into the harbour from it« deck--more than have ever gone over the Gap in a year and more than were killed by accident in the five years’ building of the bridge and approaches.