Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 75, 4 December 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

«. W ;,, 'nm B'shop. a voiy old resident, d'ed in We^'ig-'on oa Tuesday last. Tbe ComoiiUee of tbo Benevo^nt Socefy will meet to-nigbt at Mr Bray** office at 8 o'clock. Tbe defalcations of Roskell. the bite sl ation master at Normanby, are reported o be very be.iv/. The latest nopidar movement >n Auck land is to remove all harbor dues aod make tbe place a f *cc poifc. At Fulbam, England., tb^ee children vaccinal ed i.-ora the same infant have d'ed f^otn blood poison-is*. Tbe sl earner Ringarooma, with Chiarim's C'rcns on board, went ashore on a mud bank near Pic? on last Tuesday. Dr Howe, of the United Stales, in his report on idiocy, says that tho habits of the parents of 300 cf tbe idiots beins: ascerlained, 145 proved to be habitual drunkards. Members ot the Salvation Army to th* number of 2000 piraded in fho streets of Toronto lately. One person in the procession was a millionaire, who was re cently converted. Lord Randolph Churchill's ideal of a happy bfe is to go to bed in a qmor room. **ay there through the day reading nnd dozing, dine in slippers and dressing gown m the evening, and as soon as convenient thereafter go to bed.t James Wilkinson, nf Uelki, who is conßiderable as a scientist, recently committed suicide by a very ingenious method. He drank half a quart of fluid dynamite, and then swallowed a seidlitz powder. The. explosion was terrificA proposal lo hold a " baby show" in Paris wfts nipped in the bud by th--medical men, who represented tbat it would out-Herod Herod in causing infanl mortality, and that an exhibition where 3700 infants were on show would be a slaughterhouse of innocence. When Daniel Sullivan was brought before Mr Justice Gillies at Napier, a few dayß ago, for attempted suicide, the prisoner -was discharged, his honor remarking on the absurdity of magistrates committing for an attempted offence which, if completed, could not be punished.

j lhe English n.A. via Sur. F*M*ici*co : , Trill close to-morrcw at 7 p.m. An important notice from the Property tax Commissioner appears in another \ column. An ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will take place this evening at a quarter past 3 o'clock. Capt-'shi Edwin telegraphs to-day: — Barometer — Further fall everywhere, but rising generally after 12 hours. A big salvation tea meeting is to come j oif here shortly, and will probably be j j held in the Town Hall. The CiAoras revenue for the colony ; for xvoveinber amounted to £95,397 4s id, i and for the corresponding month last year to £100,402 9s 6dThe knee pad of a lady's side saddle has been left at the Stae ofiice. The owner can hare it on application. An "inset" from Mr D. R. Lewers, published with to-day's issue, of his list of prices, is worthy of the attention of heads of families and others. The Town Band held a dance in tbe Foresters' Flail fast evening, wbich waa well attended and very successful, the. " fun " being kept up till about 2 a.m. i In South AustraPa tho Salvationists have 3o corps, 30 outposts, 05 officers, and sitting accommodation for 18,000 persons. We are glad to learn that Mr James Sloven?, our local postmaster, is steadily progressing towards complete recovery, which bas been somewhat retarded by the very changeable weather we have experienced for some time. Candidates for seats on the Central Board of the Government Life Assurance Association are becommg " thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks in Vallambrosa." John Maginnity is to tho fore, and the cry is " Still they como ! " Mr Christopher Brown, of Manchester House, has presented to the President of tbe Feilding Sports Committee a handRome silrer cup to be competrd for at the Boxing Day sports in tbe Oval. He bas generously left tho committee to decide to what event his trophy wiil be attached Tbe arrangements for carrying out a direct steam service witb Groat Britain havo now been satisfactorily settled, and the first steamers will leave Great Britain and New Zealand respectively on the 20th instant. The postal difll"ultj which existed with the Home authorities respecting the despatch of letters has been adjusted. We regret very much fo learn that a number of eggs exhibited at the Horticultural Show yesterday were stolen. Mr Wilson, whose property they were, recommends the thief to oat the eggs, for if . thoy are used for breed int? purposes he will certainly identify the produce and take immediate proceedings. An accident of a rath»r nerions nature happened to Mr Edward Eiddiford, of the Hutt, on Saturday last he had put his horse in his stable after returning from tbe races, and was walked up to his house when he stumbled over a displaced slip-rhil and fell heavily upon his left arm breakiug tho small bone j ust below the elbow. One of the advantages of judicious advertising was pointed out to us* to-day by one of our most substantial local tradesmen. Hi 3 price list, as published in. tho Stab, brought him in a Inrp-p order from an adjacent township, and this one order more than paid for the whole cost of printing and publishing his list of prices. And yet there are people who do not see the use of liberal advertising ! A brutal outrage on a woman was made at Christchurch shortly after. 12 o'clock on Tuesday night by throe young men. Two of them in turn held their hands over her month, while she was criminally assaulted. The assault took place in a paddock near the railway station. The* woman's screams were heard by a constable, who arrested one of the men, named Austin Tyrrell. Two others, John Arthur Cotton and William Peacock, have since been arrested, who are supposed to be Tyrrell's companions. At the next sittings of the R.M. Court here we understand that, a very amusing case will be brought on for hearing. It appears that a difference of opinion arose on a recent festive occasion as to the elegance or otherwise of an article of appnrel worn by one of the youmrnr members of the family of one'of the litigants. Some of the bmguageused in tho argument, was of so forcible a character that Mr Ward will be asked to settle the point, unless the parties havo the sense to keep it out of court. Notwithstanding its sadness, .there is a: certain comic element in a circumstance which is reported in the Wanganui Herald of yesterday. A married cnnph> were knocking about both the worse for liquor, the man carrying an infant in his arms, and Constable Brown arrested both. The man clung to the lamppost of the Rutland ■md the bystanders helped the policeman to loosen his grasp. He was afterwards handcuffed and locked up, and in the morning be wan fined 10s and costs. The Government licenses one man to sell the •ntwyicant, pays a second man to wait at tbe door of the licensed house to catch the purchaser as he comes ont. and a third in the shape of the R-Vf. to fine him for buying what the first man is authorised to sell. Very funny! A W'irarapa storekeeper has been induced to off>r on behalf of a valued friend to a local school committer a spwmg machine, value £4 4s, for the girl best qualified to become a good useful settler's wife. The name, age, and appearan •• ot the settler are not mentioned. While we must express our jladnoss that the money value of "a best qualified girl" in the Wairarapa ha* been thus clearly defined, and is within the means of nearly all "good useful settlers." yet we must expresw some doubt as to whether parents will allow school committees to trade off their daughters in exchange for sewing maehmes, or any other articles of furniture. Besides, there is n^ clause in the Education Act permitting ihis. A Fact Worth Knowing. — Are you suffering with Consumption, Coughs, Severe Coldi settled on the Breast, Pneumonia, or any disease of t> c Throat and Lungs P If so, go to your Druggist and «et a bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. The people are going wild over its success, and Druggists all over onr < country are writing us of its wonderful cures among their customers. Tt has by far the largest sale of any remedy, simply because it is of so much value in all abecti -ns of his kind. Chronic cases quickl v yield to do. Druggist r< commend it and physicians prescribe it. If you wish to try its superior virtue, get a ■ Sampl ■ Bottle for od. Large -ize bottle ' 3s fid. Tliere doses will relieve any case. Try it.