The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 1885. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 65, 10 November 1885, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 1885. Local and General News

A slight shock of earthquake was felt here on Saturday afternoon at 6.20. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — Warnings for easterly gales and rain. There will be a sitting of the R. M, Court here to-morrow. Mr J. H. Stevens, postmaster, retimed from hit holiday laat night. Mr S. J. Thompson was a visitor to \ Feilding yesterday. He left by the early tram this morning for Auckland. i Some very successful photographic views of the march ef the. funeral procession on Sunday, were taken by Mr G. W. Fowles by the instantaneous process. Our reports of the Manchester Road Beard meeting and the opening of the Juvenile Court of Foresters will appear in our next issue. To-day we publish the advertisement of Dt 8 peer's private dispensary, Auckland. The notice is %n interesting one and worthy ef careful perusal. At the last day's races ef the V. J.C.'b Spring meeting, held on Saturday last at Flemington, Trenton won another race — the Canterbury Plate, 2£ miles — beating Nordenf eldt, after a desperate race, by a short neck. / A boy in one of the public snools, while engaged in defining words a few days since, made a mistake that was not a mistake. He said: A demagogue is a vessel that holds beer, wine, gin, whisky, or any other kind of intoxicating liquor. " Suppose," said an examiner to a student in engineering, " jou had built an engine yourself, performed every part of the work without assistant, and kuew that it was in complete order, but when put on the road the pump would not draw water, what would you doP" "I should look' into the tank and ascertain if there was aay water to draw/ replied the student. At Ghent a curious case is being tried. A woodman sometime since called attention to a man hanging from a tree, cut him down, and sold the rope at one and a half franc an inch to a number ef people who believed in its talismanic power. X ! now appears that the suicide had shot himself, and the woodman, willing to earn an honest penny strung him up. The buyers have brought as action to recover their money on account of fraud. New Zealand Times says : — A cook employed by Mr J. Mclntosh of Family Hotel Lower Hutt sued him at the Resident Magistrate Court recently for wages due. The landlord put in a contra account for £20 5s 3d, on accounts of drinks supplied. Mr Fitzherbert, who appeared for plaintiff, contended that as the drinks we not supplied with meals they could not be charged for. Mr Wardell took the same view of the matter, and gave judgment for the full amount olauned by plaintiff, with costs. In a first- class compartment of tha 8.10 p.m. Duu*din txpres*, a testy old gentleman was sitting next to a younc fellow who seemed to be in high spirits over something, and who besmied the time first by whistling and then by humming softly to himself. The old gentle* man was evidently annoyed, and became irritable. At last when bis neighbor burst out with, " I would I were a bird," the old gentleman could forbear no louiger and exclaimed excitedly, " 1 wish you were, young man. Would'n't. I wring your neck !" Doctor Aufrecht has written to a Jewish paper to recommend the *rnetic« of washing 1 the hands before eating, as a most valuable safeguard' against con* tagious diseases. The doctor says that scrupulous cleanliness of the hand is, he is firmly versaaded a certain means of prevention* particularly in the ease of children, who so often take their food in their hands. The Jews have again this year enjoyed a wonderful immunity from the ravages of cholera. Can it arise from their habit of cleansing the hands before i meals, which is one of their most argent commands? At all events, such a practice is to be highly commended from more peiats than ope. — * Truth.' A gentleman scientifically inclined captured a spider, and by a carefull estimate made by means of actually weighing, it, and then confining it in a cage, he found it ate four times its weight for its breakfast, nearly nine times its weight for dinner, thirteen tunes its weight for supper, finishing up with an ounce, and at 3 p.m. when be was released ran off in search of food. At this rate a man weighing 16Olbe would require the whole of a fat steer for breakfast; the dose repeated, with the addition of half-a-dozen well-fattened sheep for dinner ; and two bullocks, eight sheep, and four' hogs for supper; and then, as a lunch before going to his club, ' he would indulge in about four 'barrels of fresh fish! ; „ ' ..W.. -'