Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 31, 22 August 1885, Page 2

Local and General News

A grandson of the Earl of Cork died at Queenstown on the 11th instant.

Mass will be celebrated m the Catholic Church, Feilding, to-morrow at 11 a.m.

To-day Messrs Halcombe and Sher■will are holding a sale of sundries, including cutlery and jewellery.

Messrs Stevens and Gorton will hold a stock sale next Tuesday to which several important additions are made to-day.

Thynne Linton aud Co's next stock sale will be held ia Foxton tax Thursday the 27th instant.

F. B. Jackson's next stock sale will be held on Friday next at Waverley.

A meeting of the Committee of the Poultry and Produce Show will be held on Tuesday uext.

The usual monthly meeting of the Feilding Masonic Lodge will be held on Monday evening.

Now that Councillor Eade has been appointed a member of the Cemetery Committee, something will be done towards putting the approaches in better order.

Mr Syensden's new advertisement of his recently acquired splendid stock of boots and shoes of all descriptions will appear in our next issue.

A meeting of sawmillers and others interested in the timber trade is being held as we go to press. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue.

The Manchester Rifles paraded for Government Inspection on Thursday evening. There was a good muster. The annual meeting of the corps will be held shortly, the date, of which will be duly advertised.

A very ghastly joke was perpetrated at the last meeting of the Borough Council, when one Councillor said the present Cemetery Committee were a sleepy lot, and another followed by saying they well represented constituents who would only awaken at the Day of Judgement.

Mr Lyne is determined to bring the Borough Council round to bis way of thinking as to the desirableness of a road to his business premises, if persistence will do anything. The quickest way for him to get the job done is to enter the Council as a member next election.

Labouchere in Truth says: — "After reading the last Blue Book upon the Afghan frontier question, I am strongly inclined to think that the less we tay about arbitration the better it will be for us. It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that Captain Yale was mainly to blame for the Peni-deh incident. The Afghani had pushed forward into country they never Had even elaimed. and again and again General Komaroff suggested some sort .of modut vivendi, whilst Captain Yale seems to hare regarded it •■ hi> mission to render this impossible."

The Borough Council hasdeterinined t) at the roadman shall send in a written report on the work he has done each day to the Public Works Committee, and that such reports be read at each meeting of the Council. It is to be hoped that these reports may not furnish matter for objectless debate. Any way, this compilation will be a task to the roadman which might well be spared him, as well as a waste of much valuable stationery. Surely the Publio Works Committee can correctly estimate the roadman's work.

On the resignation of Major Scully, Inspector Bullea, formerly of Chrjuteburch, will be appointed to this district. We (Napier Telegraph) understand lie will arrive hera on the 24th in »tnat. It is said that when he left Christchurch the most of the hctelkeepers kept free houses for an hour in token of their gratification at his departure. 4 ▼«ry different mark of esteem will be 'hewn here when Major Scully takes off the uniform ia which he has grown gray, and which he has worn with so much honor to himself for so many years.

An important notice over the signatureof William Summers appears in another column. Mr Summers will continue to carry on the business formerly carried on by him and his late lamented partner, Joseph Mayhew, the said business being conducted as heretofore under the name and style of Summers and Mayhew. All acounts due to said firm are to be paid to Mr Summers, and all accounts owing by said firm will be pud by him. As we understand the business will in future be conducted in the joint interest of Mr Summers and the widow of Mr Mayhew, we need scarcely express the hope that they will meet with the liberal support of their numerous customers and friends.

It is not as generally understood as it should be that oysters hare medicianl qualities of a high order. They are not only nutritious but wholesome, especially is eases of indigestion. It i* said " there is bo elementary substance, not even excepting bread, that dees not produce indigestion under certain circumstances; but oysters never/' Oyster juice promotes digestion. By taking •rsters daiij, indigestioßi^Mtpposed to be afnort incur* ablr, has Wea<ured]^t»^fiust they are to be regardfld^M «ne*t the most -healthful articles of food kn»wn t# man. Invalid* who have found all other kinds of food disagree with them frequently d.ifteover in the oyster tbe required ailiment. Raw oysters are highly recommended for hoarseness. Many of the leading vocalists use them regularly before concerts aad operas ;' but their strongest recom mendatibnis the remarkably wholesome influence exe:te4 upon tut digestire organs.

The Hon. Robert Stout's lecture on the Resurrection of Christ will be read at the Lyceum to-morrow evening.

Another social gathering will be held at the Foresters' Hall next week, of which particulars will be advertised.

The larrikins were so troublesome at the Salvation Army Barracks last night that Constable Meehan had to be sent for.

We are sorry to hear that Mr James Hastie, of the Feilding Hotel, has been slightly indisposed for some days.

Tenders for felling twenty acres of light bush are called for by Mr James Laing, Ashhurst road.

Weather permitting, the Makino Brass Band will perform on the Square this evening.

A report of the Kiwitea Eoad Board meeting which was proceeding as we went to press, will appear in our next issue.

We understand that the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, at the request of creditors, has consented to take ulterior measures in the matter of the bankruptcy of Jeremiah Corkery.

Disastrous result of a share. A Matterton man named Peterson, who had been in the kabit of wearing a long beard, recently shared it off. He caught cold and died from the effect.

The Gazette notifies the appointment of Major Butts, Wellington, to be lieuton ant-colon»l in the New Zealand Militia ; also as commandant of the Wellington district.

The Bev. A. 0. Lawry, of Marton, -will preach in the Wealeyan Church to-mor-row, morning and evening. As Mr Lawry is an able and earnest speaker, and a large audience may be anticipated.

The ordinary meeting of the Choral Society -which which was to have been held on Monday next, has been postponed as the Faust Family will perform that night.

As a funeral procession was passing along the street on Tuesday last, a very small child was told by its mother that we should all have to be taken away like that some day. Reason had evidently begun to dawn upon the infantile mind, for the little one at once put the puzzling query, "Yes, mamma, but who will bury the last person that dies ?"

The usual fortnightly meeting of the local Court of Foresters' was held at the Foresters Hall last Wednesday evening. After transacting some necessary business the meeting was adjourned as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Mr Joseph Mayhew, who was a popular member of the Order.

The date of opening the first section of the Wellington-Manawatu Railway has been fixed for Monday, 14th September, on and after which date trains will run regularly to and fro between the city and Paremate. Mr Saunders expects to complete his ballasting contract within a fortnight from the present time

The Medical World reports a case, now uder observation, in which the patent'! hair— which had become prematurely grey — is slowly returning to its orijinul colour under the internal adminittrattoß of phoiphorised cod liver oil. The world had previously noted similar restorations under the same treatmeat.—[There are plenty of men who would sooner carry the grey hairs than •ake the oil.]

Baron Mollwo, a Bussian exile, has just arrived in Wellington and intends to deliver a lecture on Nihilism. As Baron Mollwo has been connected with the movement since its commencement, it should prove an interesting lecture, and attract a large audience. As Nihilism has always been accompanied by treason and assassination the " Baron" ought to be put in a wild beast show. As " Baron" is not a Bussian title we should not be surprised to learn that his credentials were — not to put too fine a point upon it — artificial.

Mr Forbes, jeweller, of the Avenue, has just completed a very handsome pair of surer candlesticks for Mr Humphries, of the firm of Shepperd and Humphries, settlers, of Turakiua. The bases of the candlesticks are made from the hoofs of a favourite grey mare, "Little Nell." The shoes are composed of silver, and weigh 16 ounces ; the nails 2 ounces. The candlesticks are 11 inches high, and contain 30 ounces of silver. In the front of the hoofs is a very handsome inscription to the memory of " Little Nell-" The workmanship is beautiful executed, being frosted and burnished. We understand that the owner is so well pleased with the workmanship that he has giving Mr Forbes the tail of " Little Nell" to mount. The Jewish papers comment with in terest on the claim made by the Ameer of Afghanistan to be regarded as the rnler of the descendants of the Jews. But it is pointed out the Afghan pretensions are based not on their descent from the lost tea tribes, bat from the two tribes which were carried off to Babylon, whereas the ten tribes went into eaptivitj in Auyria. This gives hope to an AngleIsraelite (says the " Pall Mall Budget") who writes to point oat that the Ameer's proclamation still leaves the ten tribes unaccounted for, and to assert his een< fiction that we Britishers are the only genaioe children of the len* missing tribes. In that ease we are brothers of the Afghans, and onr alliance becomes a family compact, a reunion of Israel en the slopes of the Hindoo JCoosh.