Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 76, 7 June 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

—_ * Edward and Charles Orton indentify the lunatic Cregswell, at Sydney, as their " long lost brother" Arthur, Mr G. Tnrnbnll, of Dunedin, who traded for mnny fears as W. & G. Turnbull & Co. has filed his schedule. Fred Strong, aged five years has been lost in the bush near Aratapa school, Auckland. Large search parties were out for two days but no traces of the lad have been fonnd. Among the contributions of St. John's Church was found n marble and a button. These were given in perfect gocd faith by two lads, who gave what was of value to them at least, if not to the church. A Wellington paper says — " Mr Fish, M.H.R., is so fond of ' spouting' that one might imagine that he belonged to the whale tribe, were it not for the fact that naturalists teU us that cetaceans cannot properly be called fith"

Mr Fry is a candidate for the seat | vacated by Sir William Fox on the Wan- | ganui Education Board. A number of cigar makers have arrived in Auckland from Sydney for the New- , Zealand tobacc manufacturing company. Miss Georgie Smithson is creating quite a furore in Wanganui by her splendid impersonations and inimitable powers of mimicry. j There is a considerable rise in (he hop ' ! market. A London buyer wired to a Nelson firm offering £6 per cwtorlld I per lb f.o.b. i his is a rise of 3d per Ib. Tl'e officers of Mie Feildins: Lodge have ' received a request from the Grand Lodge of Kngland that the local Lodge should go inio mourning for a period of three months, as a tribute of respect to the late Duke of Albany. The officers commanding the volunteer corps in Wellington and elsewhere have been notified by the Defence Office that in future the marking expenses for target practice will be at the fixed rate of £1 per j annum for each garrison and 15s for each country corps. The London Times says that one fact emphasised by the returns for the year is that wood has practically, if not abso lutely, gone out of existence as a shipbuilding material. Iron is now the general material of which vessels are constructed, though steel is year by year coining to the front. The Manchester JtifiVs paraded for the Government quarterly Inspection on Thursday evening last at the Town Hall. After the men had been put through the manual and platoon exercises, they were marche.l out on the Square, and smartly drilled for upwards of an hour by Serut. Major Henry. ' Mr Montgomery has given notice that he will nsk tor a return of 'oan expenditure in the several districts of the colony. If the Government is weak enough to grant this request it will cost "an impoverished people" four or five hundred pounds, at the least estimate, to compile, and yet the member for Akaroa says he wants " retrenchment." At the opening of n new central sci'.ool at New Plymouth lately, the Mayor of the town, who presided, held out the following grand inducement to the boys and girls to exert themselves to gain the highest object of human ambition. He said " he was sure there were among the boys in the school those who would rise to be the future Majors of >ew Plymouth, aud among the girls would be found the future Mayoresses." What is the " Salvation embrace ?" in quires Truth. I read in the Midland Echo that David Withers, of Leamington, has run away with Kute Key, a girl of seventeen. Withers was the standardbearer in the 94th corps of the Salvation Army, and Kate was a private. "No 'familiarity between the two had been noticed by the wife of Withers beyond what is known in the Army as the ' Salvation embrace."' We learn from the Chronicle that an interesting ceremony took place at the Tongariro Lodge of Freemasons on Thursday ereninjj last when P.M. Brother Manley presented P.M. Brother Parsons with an address from the officers and brethren of St. John's Lodge E.C. Timaru. The address is rery well executed in gold and colors, in an arch supported by two well- traced columns, and is splendidly framed in a heavy gold Alhambra moulding. Sir George Grey addressed a large meeting at Gisborne on Wednesday night A vote of confidence in him as leader of the Liberal party throughout New Zealand was unanimously carried. Three hearty cheers were given for him, and three groans for Mr Eees, Mr Gannon was also cheered. As the meeting neither groaned nor cheered for Mr Loeke, it is safe to assume that he is the candidate the electors mean to put in. By a parity of reasoning Mr Ri'es will run Mr Locke very closely, and Mr Gannon make a decent third. The Domesday Book which the Ministry are compiling at Sir George Grey's suggestion, and which will contain a descr ption of all the properties in the colony, their extent, name, and respective owners, is to be issued in two volumes of 700 pages each, compiled from the Property Tax assessments. The Canterbury Press points out that it has been slated over and over again that the information obtained under the Property Assessment Act is strictly confidential, and that every officer is sworn to st- crecy, and is liable to heavy punishment if he reveals anything. A school-board man called to sec why Johnny Winslow had not been to school recently. " Why," said Mrs Win.slow, '• he was thirteen years old last week, sir! I'm sure he's had schooling enough." •' Schooling enough !" exclaimed the official ; " why I did not finish my education urn il I was 'three-arid twenty I" Mr Winslow, who heard tins remarklooked at the school board man a moment, and then pxc aimed—" Lor, lor ! you dont moan to say you were such » thick-head as that ?" The official did not reply. i A man from one of the wild sections of Indiana went to Chicago last month, his wife and daughters accompanying him. The party passed the day of their visit in " seeing the sights " Among the sights wns an elevator. One of the daughters was first to discover the elevator moving silently up and down, rerei ring and di.< : charging its passengers. She pulh'd her father's coat-sleeve to direct his attention] to the wonderful thing, and, Jn. ; w.prds : that wen- heard by every one, in^the room, she asked— '• What's that, pdvP-'thiit funny thing g^ing up and di>wn, witn the softies in il ?' The father gave the elevator a long, calm, deliberate- stare, 1 and exclaimed, wirli joy, •? .My Bakes aiive! it's a telephone— the first 1 ever see 1"

A well-known American physiologist, Dr Clevenger, has published a paper on "The Disadvantages of the Upright Position" in man. He thinks that the useless presence of valves in the intercostal veins, in the external and internal jugular veins, of the femoral artery so near the surface, and other similar facts, all point to man's having originally gone "on all fours." In the upright position these anatomical peculiarities are a source of actual danger — in the quadrupedal they are easily accounted for. It is a wonder man ever worked his way into the upright position with so many chances against it !