Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 122, 31 March 1885, Page 2

Local & General News.

Wo have to acknowledge receipt of the March number of the Industrial Gazette. The Makino Band played on Manchester Square on Saturday evening aj>rogramme consisting of gome. excellent pieces, which were well and tastefully rendered. A man was recently admitted into the Dublin Hospital who had swallowed 17 half sovereigns. Eight and a half pounds is rather a good feed. ■ Another woman has been discovered in America who sat on 'Washington's knee. The number shows no sigh of falling off, for as soon as. one dies another takes her place. ' ' • '.■•'•■'':• An Irish colony ja to bo established at Utah. Tlii« wttlement, if at all successful, will sap' the . foundations of Monnonism, for, as a people, the .Irish are the most virtuous in the world. ' . An occasional imbiber went intq a local. 11 pub" a 4?y xir tw» ago, andwasjiuit finishing" a ''long one, when a friend asked him to drink with him: " Thanks, Til take a laeerboer," said the first. "A larger beer ! astonishingly ejaculated the the Beconjl,-wio hadinot heard of the German /importation, . and ■ turning to booiface; Baid, " give.me a/long beer, and . IMr Blank ar; larger one." It iascarcoly I neciensafy -io tjtoy+ih&t this little; mnoct«t ■ mistake <eau^ isp^udeTable amuwnjout ' :^-|jhe,-c,qmpi»,py'pEepent.,. )U ,, v ; _ / „'i

The Bunks will be closed fur the Easter | holiduys on Friday, Saturday, and Mon- j day next. Mr Henry has come to the front as Urfual, and has his new stock of saddles ready for inspection. Fruit is very scarce in Wellington and plentiful in Feilding, but the local prices make its export impossible. The football season was opened in Obriatehurch on Saturday last. The Feilding men will follow this example in about a month. On dit that a Feilding resident is importing a balloon, and is about to experiCO9B in his flights celestial,' and' on every merit as an aeronaut. We wish him sueoccasion a safe return to terra firma. Telegrams received by the Native Minister respecting the native craze in the North state that the natives are quietly dispersing to their homes, and that by, Thursday next the whole of the alien tribes will have left. The Manchester Eifles will send 40 officers and men to the Nelson Easter Encampment. They will leave here on Thursday afternoon by the 6.30 train. A few men in charge of Lieutenant Blackmore will go to Wanganui in the morning to arrange about berths, &c. It is expected that the New Zealand Volunteers will be encouraged by the Government to increased attention to drill, that a better class of arms will be issued, and that an officer will be appointed to tho command who will inspiro the esteem and respect of all arms of the service. Mrs Matson, who is the wife of a) settler at Kiwitea, was a passenger by train this morning for the Wanganui hospital. We learn that she was severely burned by falling into the fife some time ago. Sue being subject to fits, it was during one of them tnat the accident occurred. A fatal accident happened to Isaac Meyer, a miner working near the Waikaia Bush, in Otago, «n Saturday. While boiling his billy for dinner agaiast a tank, a fall of earth took place and buried him. He was promptly rescued by hi* mates, but his injuries were so serious that ; he died before medical assistance could be procured. The musical people of Feilding (nays the Standard) will har« an opportunity of having some exceptionally good music at the Catholic concert to be giren there shortly. The Paltnerstoa choir are nowpracticing some of the choicest portions of Farmer's (in b) and Mocart'B (12th) Masses, besides other selections from popular composers. Talleyrand, horrified at the success of the first .Napoleon fomenting rebellion in Ireland, said, with more warmth than was costoinnry with him, when stating his opinion, 'Tremble, fools that yon are, at the success of the Irish ! For if the English constitution is destroyed, be well assured that the civilisation of the world will be xhakeit to \U very foundations.' At the Marton Fire Brigade banquet, Herr Norberg, in replying to the toast of " The Volunteer Baud," referred to the great assistance he had received from the Feilding Band that evening, and incidentally mentioned that the two bands were going to amalgamate on the occasion of the encampment at Nelson. A partial eclipse of the moon, visible in Now Zealand, will take place to-night. The following aro reduced to Now Zealand mean time : — First contact with the penumbra, lh. 20m. a.m. ; first contact with shadow, 2h. 29m. a.m. ; middle of the eclipse, 4h. 4m. a.m. ; last contact with shrdow, oh. 40m. a.m. ; last contact with penumbra, 6h. 4'Jrn. a.m. Although the gross railway revenue for (he financial year will probably fall short uf the Colonial Treasurer's estimate, th« reductions which have been made in expenditure will almost, if not quite, counterbalance the deficiency, and leave the net receipts above working expense*, equal to expectations. The system of excursion trains, recently inaugurated by the Hen. Mr Richardson, lias had a most beneficial effect on the railway receipts. Mr EIHb, at the close of his lecture on Sunday evening recommended the formation of a society for the purpose of investigating and discussing spiritualistic phenomena, and scientific, religious, moral and social subjects generally, and invited those persons desirous of forming such a society to remain. Upwards of 30 persons did so, including some half-dozen ladies. It was proposed, seconded, and carried unanimously, that a Lyceum or Liberal Platform be instituted, and that a meeting to take further steps in the matter be held in the Foresters' Hall next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, and be advertised in the Stab. In the event of it being necessary to call the citizens to arms in the Colony, this is what the Government has to issue ' for that purpose: — Snidor rifles, 11441, of which 5019 are in the hands of volunteers, and 6422 in stock; ammunition, 85 rounds per rifle. There are 256 Enfield rifles in store, with 107,355 rounds of ammunition. We have 75 pieces of artillery, and as there iB do return of ammunition it is safe to assume there is nono in existence, or if there is a little it is not worth montioning. In twelve months this will be changed, as by that time supplies ordered from abroad will be to hand. It is to be hoped that the volunteers will be armed and drilled with the Martini-Henry instead of the antiquated Snider now in their hands.. „, . r ' ,:■ A problem that has brought dissension where formerly there was harmony; a h- nil'le sort of conundrum that, wherever it has been introduced, has severed the most intimatb family relations ; in working its evil way in Napier. This is whnt it is. A goes in fi's jihop and buy* a pair of tr»us<»s for 16*, tendering a pound-notr in payment. B, not having' change, goes across the street into C'f "hop and gets twenty shillings for- the note, and burning hands the trousers and four shilliags' cluing* to A. In the co«rs« of thfe Afternoon, C goes to B and complains that the note lie changed was a bad one, and demand* his go«d twenty shillings back again. B gives him back tiie. money and re-tnkes the bid note, and sits down to pnlcula'e his loss on the transaction. What did he lost* P— Napier Ttflegra b. - A Bkautifui. Painting.'— Mr G. G. Green, of Voodburjr, ;New ..Jersey, ' U.S.A., is presenting to druggists nn<J others in this country some very fine pictures in oil or hi* magnificent house and grounds nod laboratory at tbajt place Or GreW \* tWe proprietor of Bbsfhe<-'* German Syrup and Green's August Flower, two tfery valuable 'medicines, ' which are' meefinc'wifh great favor, the first as a remedy for Pulmonary ,«»6inplaints. and the latter for Dyspepsia and disorders of tli<? Liver. These preparations have attained an immense sale solely on their superior merits and are sold by all: druggie throughout the world. The price. i» the same for each, 3* 6d- per .bottle, ,or sample .bottles for 6A. " The sample bottles enable sufferers to prove- theif.ra^u^alajtriflijUgcoßt. ;

R. A. Ed van telegraphs at 9 a.m. toddy :— Warnings for gales and rain after from 12 to 16 hours hare been sent to all stations. Mr Levers has to-day opened up a I second consignment of choice dress materials, to which he invites the attention of his clients. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale today was well attended. Bidding ' for cattle and sheep was ra her slow, but . for horses and pig* there was a little more demand. | Arrangements are being made for a lecture in the Forester*' Hall on Sunday j ! next by a wall known resident of Palmer- , ■ton, particulars of which will be advertised on Thursday. The manufacture or all the railway wheels and axles required on the New Zealand linen has now been commenced I jn the Hillside workshops, sear Dunedtn ; and it is found that the wheels can there be made actually at a less cost than has hitherto been paid for the imported article, while the quality is much superior. The Makino Boiling; Down Factory has been working only half time tins season as yet, owing chiefly to the difficulty in obtaining a sufficient quantity of sheep. T*-day, however, and hence forward for the next three or four months the factory will be in full swing, which will at least be indirectly good aews to numerous householders.