Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 51, 2 October 1883, Page 2

Local & General News.

Mr and Mrs W. H. Levin, who are at present the quests of Colonel Gorton, at Bulls, visited FeUding yesterday. Tenders for scrubbing the road line through Aoraugi, No. 1 block, will be received by Mr A. McDonald, of Awahuri, until to-morrow. The usual fortnightly meeting in connection with the Feilding Assemblies will be held in the Town Hall, on Friday, the sth of October, instead of on Bth instant, as stated in the cards. The bankruptcy notice of Mr Thomas Gordon, blacksmith, of Feilding, appears in the Wellington papers, in which city, at the Supreme Court, a meeting of creditors will be held on the 9th instant. The New South Wales Government intend to encourage the manufacture of iron and steel rails in the colony, and are calling for tenders for 150,000 rails to be manufactured from native ore. To-night a Captain's parade of the Manchester Ilifles will be held in the Town Hall, after which the men will be taken out and drilled on the march. The band will be in attendance. A full muster is requested. Mr Lloyd, of Palmerston, has secured a suitable spot for an extensive hop garden on Mr Thomas Fraser's property at Awahuri, and ha 9 commenced operations, perhaps on a larger scale than has hitherto been attempted in the district. The teetotal reformers are numerous and earnest. When persuasive powers fail, another means of securing, not victims, but converts, is sometimes effectual. One gentleman was induced to abstain for a year by a wager of a complete outHt. The meeting of the Cheese and Butter Factory Company shareholders, advertised to be held in the Town Hall, will be held in Roe's Denbigh Hotel sample rooms instead, for the convenience of country settlers, at the same hour and I date, viz., Friday, October sth, at 7 p.m. j The Palmerston Borough Council propose going in for a loan of £25,000. This will be expended oy devoting £10,000 tc paying off the present loan and £15,000 for now public wor^s.. We congratulate the Palinerstonians on their enerey and determination to make their Borough one of the most progressive in the colony. A committee has been appointed by the Paris Hygienic Council to revise the instructions to be issued in view of a possible.visitation of choUra, though rather with a view to show the authorities are on the alert than from any actual apprehension of danger. This would be an excellent example for our Borough Council to follow in regard to nuisances and a probable visitation of typhoid fever during the summer, if this is neglected. Some of our larrikins have, within the last few days, been amusing themselves by tying various tin articles to the necks or tails of dogs, and storting the poor brutes off at a run. We wo»ld remind the offenders that this practice, however innocent it may appear to them, is a very unwise and positively dangerous one Jo others, as it may cause horses to shy and bolt, and result in some serious damage to life or properly. We are by no means exaggerating on the possible consequences of such a silly amusement, as cases have come under our notice in which these contingencies have actually occurred. We understand that a strict watch will be kept by the police hi future so as to fin.l out who are the guilty parties, and bring this foolUh game to an end.

What's ia a name? The Auckland Observer dubbs the Wellington Post as a " graveyard journal." Professor Rowley, tonsonal artist, has returned to Feilding, where he will take up his permanent residence in order to follow up his profession. Further particulars will bo advertised in a few days. We have received a copy of the first number A The Freethought Review, published in Wanganui. It is well printed, and the reading matter is interesting and "advanced." We direct the attention of our readers to the letter of " Sport." We would suggest that the secretary of the Sports I'ommittee c«H a public meeting at an early date in order that a working committee be elected. We (Post) understand that a requisition, containing nearly 401) signatures, has been presented to Mr Edward Shaw to allow himself to be nominated as a cun.lidate for the Mayoralty at the next election. No answer has, we believe, yet ben given by Mr Shaw. The funeral of the well-known Maori chief, Mete Kingi, took place at Wanizanui yesterday, in the presence of an immense concourse of people, numbering between 6000 and 7000. The deceased chief was accorded a military funeral, and the volunteers mustered largely. The Native Minister, the Hon. J. Bryce, whs also present. Contractors should bear in mind that fresh tenders tor the formation of Campbell streets and aportion of East and Derby streets, also 17 chains of Warwick and Derby streets are invited up till 4 p.m. on Thursday next. Tenders must be lodged with the Town Clerk, who will show the plans and specifications for the work. The latest anecdote about the old lady who thinks that she " know everything," is about how she went to a church sociable, and as she entered the room the young ladies said : ' Good evening auntie, we arc glad you came ; we are going lo have tableaux this evening.' ' Yes ; I know, I kaow,' was the reply. ' I smelt 'em when I first came in.' The new bridge across the Firth of Forth, now building, will, when completed, be among the most remarkable bridges in the world. The main girder will be within a few feet of a mile in length, and will rest upon round cylindrical piers, each of which will weigh 16,000 tons. It will of course be high enough for all vessels to pass underneath, and about 42,000 tons of Bteel will be required in its construction. The estimated cost will be £1,500,000. A very beautiful girl named Mamie lioe appeared in the corridors of the nary department at Washington on July 11th, wearing in a wide belt a large pistol and a bowie knife. " I am looking for a clerk in this building," she said, when interrogated, " and if I find the villain I will kill him on sight." She would not divulge the name, and was finally induced to depart without carrying out the bloodthirsty purpose. She was a pretty girl, and was riding in a Fifth avenue, New York, omnibus, when she felt the gray whisker of an aged " masher" touching her cheek. He was asking her if she wast cold. "Oh, no," was the reply. "Are your ears cold." " Certainly not," the man replied. " Bat why do you ask ?" " Because you evidently want them warmed," she answered. The only other occupant of the stage laughed, the gray-bearded man pulled the strap, got out in haste, and the stage rumbled onward. The preservation of dead meat cargoes (says the European Mail) is a problem to which many solutions more or less satisfactory have been offerod, but it is still open to the ingenuity of inventors, and there it yet room for practical improvement in the methods adopted for rendering available to any country the most distant flocks and herds as sources of fresh- meat supply. Professor Hunting now claims to be able to keep the carcase of a sheep perfectly Sood for over five months, and that by a process simple and inexpensive. This plan dispenses entirely with refrigerator.? and the machinery connected therewith. Professor Sattler, of Munidi, claims the distinction of having solved the problem as to the year in which Christ was born, and of having demonstrated tha fact that the current year is 1888 instead of 1883. ihe worthy professor takes a credit to himself to which he is not entitled, as the following will show . — "The < hristian era was first ÜBed at Rome in 527, adopted in France in 750, in Spain in 1340, and in Portugal in 1410. The birth of Christ was, in fact, four years earlier — that is, in 1838 — really 1842 since the birth of Christ." > s o the fact was well-known and admitted at least 45 years ago.