Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 35, 25 March 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

- Mr Henderson proposes to re-open the Terrace End sawmill. Taranaki is jubilant because it sent away some . butter and grass seed the other day. j Pigeons aTe very plentiful this season. One young man went out the other day, and bagged 24 birds. T ; i : Ten days hay* passed sin,ce thfr , Mm* iiter for Public Works telegraphed fcbjthe County Chairman tha.t Mr Roohfort would start the- inrvey of the Oroua r Vall*y Route '-In about a week^'and M? Rochfort ha« not yet made his appear.Ance., ,Will heeTercomer i, ■ ; i •Inspector Jnmes' made an 'official ' enqn'tiry yesterday f into' the circumstances attending thie arrest of, a lunatic^ named KeeWiat • Awal»u^-on the 16^1 ins. t.- : We are glnd to learn that Mr James has exprpSsed liiMself perfectly satisfied With the cendiict of Coiißtable Price, and 'has commended him",fbr,,^he and ' prudenoe «x«cioeJ in tnearwsL :'

Four more informations for forgery have been sworn against Watty.

Judge Hardcastle has applied for six months leave of absence ou account of ill health.

A meeting ot the Oroua County Council will be held at the Corncil office, Feilding, on Wednesday April 2nd at noon.

Trinity College, North Carolina, has 19 Cherokee Indians as students this year.

The Smith family occupies 15 closely printed pages of the London directory this year.

The first watch ever made in America by machinery was made in Kosbury, Mass., about 1850.

We call attention to Mr Lewers' new advertisement, which appears on our third page. From it our readers will learn that his stock of winter goods is now open.

Encouraged by the example of Wanganui, Palmerston is about to send out a gold prospecting party. It has been suggested that only practical and experienced gold miners be employed.

A lady aged 40 who lives in Worth County, Ga., has had an- eventful life. She recently married her fifth husband. Her first husband was killed in the war, her second was killed in a difficulty, her third was divorced, and the fourth died a natural death.

When pneumonia attacks the steady, square drinker, one who carries regularly his pint to a quart of whisky^daily. says Dr L. H. Washington, the treatment comes exclusively under the domain of the undertaker, as the first case of recovery has yet to be reported.

A curious freak of a recent wind storm at Arcade, N.Y., was the rolling up of cylinders, not bulls, of. snow, many of which were hollow, like a muff. On one farm near there there were 400 of these curiosities rolled upas perfectly ns though they had been turned in a lathe.

The prospectors have taken their departure from Wanganui, for Tuhua. We wish them every success and hope thut no unforseen difficulties will crop up to interfere with them. - The number is limited to four, with three Maoris as a crew for the canoe.

An Arabic manuscript dating from the latter half of the fourteenth century (1365) conveys the curious in f6l mat ion that the merchant vessels trading at that time in the Indian Ocean carried four divers, whose duties were solely ts discover and stop leaks in the hull of the craft below the waterline.

The plans and specifications of the building for the Upper Taonui schoolhouse are now lying at the Stab offioo for tne inspection of intending contractors. As» it appears on the plans this erection should not only be a great convenience to the pupils, but an ornament to the district.

The following bold bit of criticism appears in an American paper: — "Tho ' Faust' of Signor— — was industriously stupid. Its fervor was clam-like in flabbiness, and its passion infantile in harmlessnees. In its most thrilling moments it never rose above the calm insipidity of a cold potato."

A hygienic writer has just given a practical receipt, which has the merit of simplicity at any rate. It is nothing more nor less than rendering boots and shoes waterproof. . If they are soaked in thick soap-water for several hours a fatty acid is formed in the leather by the soap. This renders the leather completely impervious t» water.

A letter from a London footrann, which appeared in The Times the other day, has created .quite* ~a sensation. John Thomas complains that the men-servants in the houses of great noblemen are lodged

far worse than the poor, and instances cases of footmen who parade marble halls in velvet and plush during the day sleeping in dog-kennels and slush-tubs at night. . . . „ ,

The executors of the late Mr Thomas Holloway, carrying out the wishes- of the deceased, called together xeceatly all the clerks of the office in Oxford street, and announced to them that the heads of departments- would each be presented with a cheque for £100, with an advance o £30 per annum ; and that the other members of the staff were to receive sums of money and an increase of salnry proportioned to their time of service.

An illustration of the fees obtained by leading consel in England is afforded by the suit Alexandra Palace Company v. Kelk and others, now being heard in ViceChancellor Bacon's Court. In this case> nearly 60 counsel are engaged, including all the lights both of the Common Law and Chancery Bar, and the fees are reckoned by .thousands : of guineas; Several of the leaders had 800-guinea fees, with 50 guineas a day refresher. One of the solicitors said the -other day that the "hearing" alone would t probably, cost £20,000. ' : ...'■' I"], 1 ;; £%™ ! The stewardess of the Waverly, Miss Gardner, was drowned at Tateabrt^ituVi j day evening last. It appears .that the deceased, wiui two young men named /William Mitchison and;Thos^Law,eqence took a wrong turn in jind got on to the wharf. Before they could notice it they .fell intothe water, and were-strug4 gling for dear life— Mitchison was rescued, but Miss Gardner : and' liawi-ehoe 1 were drowned before' assistance could 1 be reh-j dere'd. Miss Gardner was afiou^lyeiaM of age and was the daugbter' of M*r s an 4 Mrs,^Gardner, of Liverppol, strc^t^^an-j ganui, who have, been throwttin^oa ; bit^erj state of grief. ; The f Chronicle^ further states, that Mr Gardner and his son have gone to Patea in connection with the sad affair.-:. -'' ' :c ':' a ■' .-., ;: \

The attention of footballers is directed to a notice elsewhere that a general meeting of the Manchester Club will be held at Roe's Hotel to-morrow evening, at 7 o'clock, when all footbal lists are invited to attend.

At Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale this afternoon the attendance was moderate. There was scarcely any-de-mand for cattle, but for sheep, of which a good number were yarded, the bidding was tolerably brisk, and most of them were sold at fairly remunerative rates.

We are glad to announce that the Promenade Concert to be held at the Town Hall on Thursday evening next promises to be a great success. All of the performers are in active rehearsal. Large numbers of tickets have already been disposed of. As the object is to raise funds for a Sunday school, every one should assist.

George Price was charged at the R.M. Court this morning with wilfully damaging property at the Endymon Hotel yesterday. He pleaded guilty but as the prosecutor, Mr Samuel, was not present, the case was adjourned until 3 o'clock this afternoon.- The prisoner was brought up at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and^fined 69s in all, or one month's imprisonment. He elected to go to Wanganui.

-The last contribution of modern chemistry to science is the production of quinine from gas tar. Professor Fischer, Muuieh, has succeeded in obtaining from distilled coal a white crystalline powder, so fur as regards its action on the human system, cannot be distinguished from quinine except that it assimilates even more radily with the stomach. Its efficacy in reducing fever heat is said to be remarkable, even rendering, the 'use of ice unnecessary. The importance of such a discorery as this consists not so much in the actual fact achieved as in the stimulus given to scientific research by the opening up of a new channel of investigation. The romance of gas tar, is evidently far from being exhausted. In addition to the sweetest scents, the most brilliant dyes, the most powerful disinfectants, and even prussic acid are some of the numerous and wonderful products of its decomposition.