Local aad General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 21, 30 July 1885, Page 2

Local aad General News

Next Saturday Messrs Halcombe and Sherwill will have a sale of fruit trees and ornamental shrubs.

There was a small fire in Wellington on Tuesday evening, Messrs Hena and Qensens' woodware shop in Willis street was damaged to the extent of £500.

We have to thank Mr T. B. Chamberlain for a complementary ticket for the tea and social meeting which will be held at the Foresters' Hall to-morrow evening.

It is rumoured that litigation against the Borough Council will be the outcome of an accident, recently reported in these columns, which occurred on the Makino road.

An exchange says: — The debt of the United States has gone in 20 years down from £540,000,000 to £300,000,000. This doesn't look as if Protection was altogether a failure.

A newspaper correspondent writing from Afghanistan, says that the Afghans eat onions as the Americans do apples. We don't wonder that England is trying to back out.

Messrs Dargaville, Hislop, and G. F. Eichardson have ratted from the Government, Mr Dargaville wants to be Minister of Mines, in fact he would accept any portfolio, but — it is the "but" which stands in his way.

The local paper says that the largest nugget that has. yet come to light on the Kuinara goldfield was found in what is known as the Frenchman's claim when they were washing up recently. Its weight is 7ozs. 12dwta.

We notice by the Star that in Auckland, persons who call for tenders for any piece of work, send to the journal which advertises the fact, the amount of each tender received with the name of the tenderer. This looks open and above board.

It will be of interest to sportsmen and others to learn that the shooting season for the Manawatu and Oroua districts, which opened on Ist March last, will close on 31st August next, according to Government Gazette dated Feb. 12th.

Messrs Halcombe and SherwilTs next stock sale will take place on Thursday next, the 6th prox. The list of entries received up to this day appear in our advertising columns. Additions will be made day by day as new entries come to hand.

We are glad to observe that the gross returns of the Wanganui section of railway are looking up again. For the four weeks ending June 30th, the receipts were £4938 1 1$ 4d, as against the corresponding period last year which amounted to £4920 17s 9d.

We learn from the Waipawa Mail that the mail coaches, instead of going right through to Woodville in one day, will now break the journey and stop atEketahuna for the night. This has been necessitated by the wretched state of the FortyMile Bush road.

Mr Bailey, of Parnell, has been accidentally poisoned. He took carbolic acid by mistake while under the influence of liquor. Mr Bailey must feel obliged to the agent of the Press Association in Auckland for wiring the news of his habits all over the colony.

The Auckland Bell remarks that in a few years hence the province of Auckland it is expected, will be in a position to expert apples, and thus obviate, the large importations of .that fruit that has, for: years past, costs us so much, money that could be saved us were our fruit, industry adequately pushed to success.*

In the last issue of Our Country Home is the following advice : " Wefeelsure we ar.i right when we advise farmers; in planting for next- season's campaign, arrange for. a full amount ' of . labour. Practice rigid economy'- at all -possible points, but let it be economy of the'eoonomical sort. Remember that "^ere is that which withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty." . On the farm this may well be appliefl *to the it< m of labour. All farm profit comes directly from work well done, and done at the right time.".

Recruit drill for the Manchester Rifles will be held this evening.

Mr A. McMinn is said to be about to start a newspaper at Waitara.

The direct mail for Europe per Eimu taka will close to- morrow at 7 p.m.

In Auckland recently a man named George Frederick Masters was sentenced to six mouths imprisonment for kissing a girl against her will.

A St. Louis man has in Yen ted a reversible shirt. This piece of information will be hailed with unbounded joy by the young and early swimmer.

A petrified baby was recently diseorered in Texas, and cur lately married editor is wondering ' hotr the blamed thing kept qaiet long enough to get petrified.'

A Troy lawyer sires as a reason for not foing to Europe this summer that a rich client of his has just died and he is afraid the heirs will vet the property.

Prince Bismarck is a regular subscriber to the London Times, for the reason, as he says, that he wants to read daily the same matter perused by the British nobility.

We hare seen two photographs of groups taken at Woodyear's circus when playing at Sura in Fiji recently. One is of the band alone, and the other is of a number of Europeans and natives, together with the staff of the circus. In both pictures Mr John Curreen, wellknown here, and who is leader of the circus band, forms a distinct object.

There are thousands of tons of " stuff" at ths Thames which by analysis should yield 7750z5. of sllrer and 3ozs. of pure gold to the ton. Taking the silver at 5s per ounce this gives nearly £197 per ton. To this must be added the 3ozs. of gold; worth about £12. Tlie Lqi Monte process of stneltiug bids fair to " feet the Thames on fire," and thus achieve the impossible.

The Eev. C. H. Spurgeon has created great excitement by an article in the Monthly Review of 27th June, in which he narrates in detail the circumstances attending the death of the late Justice Williams and the disclosures brought out in Jefferies case. He makes these examples from high official life the basis of a full flavoured denunciation of English morality.

Attention is again culled to the Roire* to be held in the Forest ere' Hall tomorrow evening. After the tea, which takes placo at six o'clock, a number of instrumental and vocal selections including songs, solos, duetts, Ac, will be given, together with numerous reading.* and recitations. An original comic sketch will also be introduced by two local amateurs.

The following are the names of th** Manawatu County Football team who are to play Wanganui on Saturday. FulUback, Luxford; half-backs, A. 8. Baker and E. Templar ; quarter-backs, Halcombe, Thompson and Saywell ; forwards, -Fas. Moffat, Stallard, Salmon, Milton, Andrews, B. Smith, Belfit, E. W. Seeker and Booth; captained by Thompson.

Professor Sample, the horse-tamer, is no* in Hcngler's Grand Cirque, London, where he is demonstrating how nicely horses can be driven with tin cans tied to their tails and fireworks exploding at their very hoofs. In London the Prolessor's price for tuition is fire guineas instead of two. The onlr complaint pupils have to make, so far, is that (her* is to much oratory and too little horsetaming.

A sample of flax dressed by a process, the invention of Mr Lindsay Caldwell, «f Makine, has been left at our office by that gentleman. Mr Caldwell claims that all gum has been removed from the fibre. As the impottsibilitv of doing this by any of the modes hitherto tried has been the great stumbling block in the past of the development of the flax industry. We hope Mr OaldweU'u discovery will bear the test of the severest experimental trials.

Professor Vambery, at the Society of Arts, London, on May 1, read a paper on Herat, of which in 1869, he had spoken as the gate of India. Herat, he mentioned, was a place of great importance in many respects; it was a jewel that had been coveted by every conqueror, as it was still coveted to-day. The inhabitants hated the Afghans and Persians, and their loftiest idea had always been the independence of Herat. To the present day, paid M. Vambery, Herat was the traditional highway to India.

A foldier of Pondicherry was accustomed to give treats to an elephant every time he received his pay, and having one day become intoxicated, and being pursued by the gnard, be took refuge ■nder the elephant, and there fell asleep. The guard in vain attempted to drag him from his asylum, as the elephant defended him with his trunk. On awaking, however, the soldier became dreadfnlly alarmed at finding himself under >uch an enormous creature. The elephant, perceiving his fears, immediately caressed him with his trunk.