Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 43, 13 September 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

Mr Maearlhur left yesterday with his family for a holiday trip to iVlson. Nelson hops (vide N.ZL. and M. ompany's report of September G) are selling at Auckland at from Is 7d io la 9d per lb. Local contractors aro reminded that the tenders for 8_ ehai.is of fencing at tlie school grounds elo.-e to-morrow, and must be lodged at Mr Thompson's store by noon. The advertisement re the clos'ngof tbo .hops in town at 7 o'clock has be.n altered to tlie effect, that Saturday evenings are excepted. Mr Nye arrived from Foxton yesterday, and commenced work at the Oromv Foot Bridge with two carpenters. A month should complete the job. The Herald says it has been arranged that the Native Land Court will hold a sitting in the Wanganui District in October. Col. Gorton returned to Bulls a few days ago. He resumed his business duties to-day. We are glad to learn that he has now completely recovered his wonted health and spirits. We notice that neat fencing of the town and suburban properiicsis becoming the general order of the day, adding much to the improved appearance of various parts of the Borough. A considerable enlargement in goods storage and office accomodation at tbe Feilding Railway .Station is rendered necessary by the increase of business, and will shortly be carried out. " Taonui" asks : " Can one of your readers kindly inform me what elevation the Cheltenham township stands above Feilding? The question is asked to decide a wager." Mr Kilgower, of Greatford, haa purchased land in Kiwitea, and has let a portion of the bush felling. He will fence, build, and remove there with his family in a few months. Though several months constant work was necessary to cut and split the twenty thousand sleepers which h-ive been -tacked near the railway -tition, nearly all of them have been taken away by rail in as many days. " Your ship is in two off Holyhead," was the message received recently by telegraph by a well-known Glasgow itun of shipowners. The horror thus caused was modified by a message from the post office half an hour later to say .hat the word " two" was wrongly spelt, and sh.uld have been " tow." We bear complaints on all hands of horses running loose in various, parts of the Borough. Several were roaming abont the Square last night, and one gentleman informs us that five or six sought amusement in his garden, the effect to his flower beds being anything but a satisfactory one to himself. Mr Eade has on view in his furniture warehouse a baby's chair called the gem folding chair. It is a marvel of ingenuity, and contains a variety of conveniences, viz., a table chair, playiug table, j child's low chair, perambulator, and rocking chair. As an article of furniture it is very elegant, and at the same time its simplicity is remarkable. The cost is very low, and we recommend parents to make an inspection of it, if only to see a really wonderful piece of workmanship. We call attention to the new advertisement from Mr Park, stationer and book md music-seller, of Palmerston. He has just imported un immense stock of goods in all the lines of business, and he is prepared to supply both the public and the .rade at the lowest rates and oa liberal ;erms. The stationery. &., has for the _iost part been manufactured to his ipecial order, and is of first-class quality. We maj' mention particularly the "Manawatu Exercise Books," with that title m the cover. These arc a marvel of :heapness, costing no more than they vould at Home. Mr Park has a large md splendid selection of library books of ill descriptions, and altogether his estabishment is quite a show, and well worthy if a visit.

Pope Leo's income is given at £360,000 per a num. The oldest member of the English newspaper press is J. Payne-Collier, who is ninety-five years of age. Tbe Palmerston football team will try conclusions wilh the Feilding i:;.'n on tie Ovid oxi Saturday uext. The growing of European flax appears likely to become widely popular among the farmers of Canterbury. A Scotch paper claims the champion ] mean man, saying be insisted upon beu>g ! admitted to a panorama at half price j because he had but one eye. ! Messrs Halcombe and SherwiU held a s:)le at their Feilding yards this affer- • noon. Previous prices were realised with 'an advance in all kinds of stock. A full ! report will appear in our next issu*'. J Brigbam Young's grave is utterly negj lected and his widows never visit it. They | went there once to cry over his remains, j but it made the ground so sloppy that j they all caught cold. Cremation is gradually coming into J vogue in the United States. Twenty I cremations havo now t:\ken place in the 1 Lemoyne crematory. A majority of the J persons cremated have been Germans. I Arcordiug to the Weisz system of typo .setting. ro-'-Mifly ritro-liicod in Vienna, th. type is cast in sTuMes, common prei (ixi-s, suifi res, Ac, instead of letters, and ; ifc is claimed that a groat saving of time ia thus effected. A Russian paper devoted to Nihilism says country mothers liave adopted the i custom of earring infants to the bedsides of persons afflicted with diphtheria, and wrnpping them up in blankets so that they may become infected and die. The wine producing districts of the Old World have stock now in hand equal to 109,000,000 bottles, or about the quantity required for five years consumption all over the world. This docs not include chemicals, essences, ami various poisons used in tlie pioduciion of the "trade wines," or for purposes of adulteration. The Queen o_ Madagascar will not •illow intu_ici!ing liquors to be manufactured, imported, or sold ia her dominions, and. fir.< :•:'._■ the regular police unreliable in enforcing hor laws, has orgnn.Ved a police force of women for this department. Christianity makes but slow progress on this island. Th? Wanganui Herald says.— "The Feilding importations to our Hospital do not appear to be all of the most desirable kind, to judge from one gentleman who was making an exhibition of himself in town tins morning. He was one of the " boarding out " patients from the Hospital under the new system, and, taking advantage of the change, indulged in more liquor than was good for him, which he will have to account for before the R.M. this morning." It is remarkable what. little bites a woman takes when eating in the presence of her sweetheart. What a little mouth then 1 She nibbles with her little white teeth like some dainty squirrel eating a nut. But wait until wash-day comes. Watch her wlfeD she goes to hang up clothes and gets in a furry. By the time that she gets the big ends of 15 clothes peg hid in her mouth, you will begin to think that it is a pretty good-sized, hearty mouth after ail, and yet she can go 6n talking to the other girl and not even stammer, or swallow a single peg, or if she does she won't let on.