Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 18, 14 February 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

It is confidently asserted that prices for hops, good sample, will be 2s 6d ppre r lb this season at the very least. Mr Lankshear is erecting a dwelling house on his section on the Awahuri road, just beyond Fern hill. It is rumored that the Armed Constabulary force on the West Coast will be considerably reduced. The youngest daughter of Mr D. H. Macarther fell and broke her arm yesterday when playing. There will be no meeting of the Borough Council this evening, as erroneously stated in the Advocate. The New South Wales mint coined and issued last year was £1,352,565 in gold, and £39,600 in silver coin. The timber trade is active in Auckland. One company has been delivering a quarter of a million feet per week lately. To-day is St. Valentine's Day. The officials in the Post Office have been occupied the greater part of the day iv , stamping and sorting valentines. The Defence Minister, at the request of tbe member for the district (says the Waipawa Mail) has promised to station a police constable at Danevirke at once. A county match, Rangitikei v Manawatu is engaging the attention of west coast cricketers. It will probably come off on Saturday, March Ist, circumstances permitting. The people at Kkatahuna were thrown into some confusion yesterday morning by the disappearance of the State Schoolmaster. It is understood that a lady and a lawyer are at the bottom of the affair. The last of tho survey parties for the Taranaki-Mokau railway route have now taken the fit-Id. All the men are well armed with excellent rifles. This looks like business. No fewer than nine members of the legal profession were engaged at the Feilding RM. Court yesterday, viz.. Messrs Goodbehere, Prior, Sandilands, Hawkins, Warburton, Perkins, Hankins, i- sam, and Staite. We are informed by the Daily Tele- , graph of the 9th instant, that eight lima , tics left Napier by the Waihora on that day for Wellington. Wanganui may now " hide its deminished head." In its palmiest days the latter town never could raise more than two for one shipment. Advance Napier! We would remind the ratepayers and all interested that tbe nomination of five candidates to form tho Licensing Com mittee of the Borough of Feilding for the ensuing year takes place to-morrow. The nomination papers must be addressed to Mr G. C Hill, the Returning Officer, and must be delivered at the Borough i ouncil office by 12 noon. The Daily Telegraph says — "A general impression is abroad that the next session of Parliament wiii be very short, to enable members to obtain the honorarium at the least possible cost of time and lodging money, that they may take something in their pockets to cover the expenses of the general elections." We do not give the mnjority of members credit for so much sound common sense. They must talk, if they starve for it. There was a meeting of the council of the Manchester Kifles held at the Stab Office last evening Present — Captain Lethbridge, Lieuts Booth and Blackmore, Colo-Sergt Nicholas, Corporal Goodbehere, Vols Wright and Kirton. An im portant resolution, relative to the band, was passed, and the secretary was instructed to forward a copy of it to the bandmaster. Arrangements were made for sending Home by the next outgoing English mail for new uniforms for all efficient members of the corps. Prelim iuaries were arranged for a rifle match at the butts on Saturday, the 23rd instant. Also for a company parade, the date of which will be duly advertised. Mr Fred. Towler has discovered what he believes to be a certain preventive and cure for the American blight. The manner of the discovery was very simple. He had tried every reputed method of curing to a particular apple tree, without success. By accident as much as design he planted an onion bulb at the foot of the tree, and he found that as the onion grew and developed, the blight gradually disappeared, and now not a vestage remains. If Mr Towler is correct, in his opinion that the growth of th* onion near the affected tree wa.s the cause bf the, extinction of the blight, a most useful (discovery has been made..' A few experiments with an extract will be made, the results of which we will watch for with nroeh interest.