Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 28, 19 August 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

, D. H. Macarthur, Esq., M.H.B. left by the noon train yesterday en route for Wellington. ,

I The resignation of Lieut. Hector James Booth, of the Manchester Rifle Volunteers is gazetted. Date of resignation 4tl» August 1884 '

Mr Harker. of Napier, has instructed his solicitors to commence an action against the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph. Damages are laid at £10,000

It is likely that a meeting of the members of the Feilding Horticultural Association will beheld to amend the classification of exhibits as arranged at the last meeting of the committee. '

Messrs, Stevenf and Gorton are about to begin regular monthly sales at Wood* vil!e, ; and are now arranging for the erec:

tion of sale' yard* in that rising township. We wiih the firm all the success their enterprise deserves. ' : ' The town was enlivened "on Saturday night by the strains of the Makino Bras* Bandy which played a selectf ofi(J>| -air* aear the Denbigh Hotel in a style which was much admired by a large number of spectators*!' [/\!L i'.j. lvi! .".'■ i Yesterday rooroinif ft was reported to the police rtiat a man named Bobert Jones, . ;ai* engine- driver working a. Taonni,'waa missing. As his horse w«.« discovered with, the saddle and bridle on. dn* the^Tirer was veryihigh, fears wenentertained that he had been drowned in attempting to crossr "Constable Gillespio was aV6iii- M to< -start- int search when the news was brought in that Jones had turned opiaU safe- . ,

In the event of Mr Izard's petition to upset the Foxton election being successful, we are informed that several candidates, wh o were defeated for other electorates, will come forward to woo the suffrages of that much-scattered constituency. A mom: those mentioned, with Messrs Jzard, Wilson, and Browne, are Messrs Fitzgerald and Stevens. It is oa the cards that Mr Arkwright will be requisitioned to stand.

Says the Hawke's Bay Herald :— " Mr Tanner has now received the returns on his hop crop. Two bales sent to England to test the market there were sold at the rate of £7 per cwt., and 32 bales sold in the colony brought eighteen pence a pound or £8 8s per cwt. The average yield was over 4} cwt per acre, and this, is must he remembered, was from cuttings, not rooted sets, planted only six months before the hops were gathered. Such a yield was never heard of in England.

A contemporary says : — " A sensational story wont the round of the juvss roomily to the effect that a rabbiter on Grwnfield station had been attacked by dogs, and in self-defence had to despatch several of them. It has been represented to us that the whole story is a hoax. A dog did jump on a rabbiter, and drag a akin from his back, with the result that the rabbiter killed tie dog, but llu»re was, our informnnt asserts, nothing in the ualure of an attack."

The celebration of the annirersnry of the Feilding Primitive Methodist Church was commt-Dced on Sunday when the Key John Wesley Worboise of Woodvillo conducted service both morning and evening, preaching two excellent sermons to good congregations, tlie attendance being especially large in the evening. To-night the annual soiree will take place in the church, and after the tea addresses will be delivered by several ministers and gentlemen as already advertised, as well as by the Rev R. S. Bunn, of Palmerston. Mr Linton, of Halcombe will preside.

Large mobs of cattle are now being driven from the Wangnnni district to Castlepoint via the West Coast, Wellington, and Wairarapa instead of comingthrough the Gorge. Thanks for the ruination of the traffic of the district to the heavy ferry charges. But there is a little more behind it. As soon as the railway line is opened between Napier and Wood - ; ville, Palmerston will lose all the trade of the district. This will be rewarding the Manawatu people properly for their apathy in regard to the bridge at the Lower Ferry. — Woodville Examiner.

The following letter from a correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury will be read with interest at this particular juncture : — " I am willing to risk my reputation as a public man if the worst case of smallpox cannot be effectually cured in three days, simply by cream of tartar. This is the sure and neverfailing remedy . One ounce of cream of tartar dissolved io a pint of water, to be drunk when cold at short intervals. It can be taken at any time, and is a preventive as well as a curative. It is known to have cured in a hundred thousand cases without a failure. I hare myself restored hundreds by this means. It never leaves a mark, never causes blindness, and always prevents tedious lingering. If the people wonld only try it and report all the cured to you, you would require many column* if you gave them publicity."

During the discussion on the cemetery matter at the meeting of the Kiwitea Road Board meeting yesterday, the general feeling expressed was that the distance of the feilding Cemetery was much too far for the convenience of the settlers on the Kiwitea and Otamakapua Blocks. The opinion was that the time had come when steps should; be taken towards securing for the district a cemetery of its own. -In this we concur, and therefore commend the action of. the Board in resolving to apply to the Government for a grant of Waste Land for cemetery, church,' recreation, and other purposes. We think the Board would do well to get their resolution backed by a petition signeff by~all the settlers on the blocks named, and believe' there would then be little doubt of the success of the movement. .

In tbe window of Mr Jamet Hugli. watchmaker, Fergusxon street, may be seen n waterproof lever watch going, in a "glass of J*ater. j The T jr aterpropf; i'fcs 'it* nameinmcatesasjcpmplcteljr proof against the intrusion of water, and consequently of moisture, dost, or other disturbing, influence. Dipped into water heated up to 60 cent, or into petroleum, one of the moftt penetrating substances, and exposed to the finest dust, the waterproof watch has come out uninjured from all those trials. Persons 1 who by ' trade or habits may be exposed to damp or dust will doj well : to use the waterproof watch. Inhabitants of warm .climates, of sandf deserts, travellers, sculptors, stonecutters, masons, miners, divers, seamen, Sec, may hare full confidenoe in the water andj 4u«tproof «atcl|j iodeecf. tjitf/m) of sach, a watch does not thicken — an immense advantage to -». person who has no time to wait for the repairing of his watch 1 In order to wind up the watch, turn the crown as in keyless watches half round to the right, then wind up as usual. In order to set it to time, i^urn the crowij three or four times round, tliendraw \% slightly towards you." click will warn 1 'you the hands are ready, for setting, push back the crown and screw it rtightly. Th? tight screwing of the cr.own iutervrindin<! up and settinK to time is most .important. As there is ;no winding «topper,-a click sounded by the motor spring will wurrt the owner that his watch is ! wqund u\y j "he waterproof wntch is a Ictit wntcU 1 , made up in any- style, all- metal bt'ini; j used according to drsirc. its diameter being 18 or 20 lines. A dvi. i

"A new, liberal, and trustworthy evening paper " is about to be started in Napier. It is to be worked by a company with a capital of £10,000, in shares of 2< *s each. This money would be much better expended in establishing a local industry in the shape of a woollen factory.

The Wanganui Herald's Wellington correspondent writes — " I have it on the best authority that Mr Ormond will give a general support to the new Government. This will probably upset the calculations of the Opposition, who hoped that Mr Ormond would not give his adhesion to the new party, and the action of Mr Ormond will probably affect a few votes.

Late last night when a member of our Bluff was wending his way homeward he observed the body of a man lying on the Hide of the railway line. The head was hanging low, supported by some ballast, one arm was under the body, and the lower limbs were much distorted. On passing his hand over the face and bosom, which were partially exposed, no animal bent was observable, while a sticky substance was encountered which led to the belief that the unfnttutiate man had been struck by the engine and killed, and the hand had come into unpleasant contact wilh the blood of the slain man. A match was lighted, and an examination of the features revealed the linoaments of an individual on whom the local custodian of llie poaeo has had his eye for some time. On proceeding to arrange the body wilh some degree of decency, our good Snmnritan was not a little surprised to be assailed with a volley ofcur^es from the supposed corpse. A feeling of disappointment crept over him, and he went on his way, not a little disappointed that our new coroner, Mr Snelson should not havo an opportunity of hanselling his new office by silting on the remain* of a useless member of society. The blood which our sympathetic friend- found on his hands was stale beer.