The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1886. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 113, 4 March 1886, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1886. Local and General News

The census will be taken on the 28th of this month. C-ptaio Edwin telegraphs — Telegrams to expect a very cold sight have been sent to all stations. People cannot get married in Bavaria unless their rates and taxes are all paid up. Owing to pressure on our space a quantity of reading matter is unavoidably held over. Mr Svendsen has just opened up a selection of new goods consisting of the latest and most fashionable makes of ladies' and gentlemen's boots and shoes. As one of the results of yesterday's show, it is probable that the pomologists of Feilding will challenge those of Rangitikei to an apple show, for a sum ot money a side to be arnm^ad by a committee. A hairdressing saloon has been opened by Mr John Porter in the premises next to Mr Cottrell's general store, Manchester street. Mr Porter is an experienced man in the business and ought to do well in Feilding. All the latest articles in perfumery, hairbrushes, &c, &c, will be kept on hand. Mr Ri Halkett Lord, formerly of Napier, is now the editor of " The Bookmart," published in Jersey City, New Jersey. " The Bookmart" is a monthly magazine of literary and library intelligence, a medium for the purchase and sale of books. The 10 miles walking match, for £10 a side, at the Oval on Tuesday last, between J. Rouse and J. Clark, was won by the latter ped. Clark gave his opponeut a start of one mile, overhauled him in the 6th mile, and won the race easily by 40 yards. The race occupied 1 hour 40 mm. Mr J. Smith, of Feilding, and Mr Brown, a visitor to the town, acted as judges. About 50 persons were present to witness the match. The moderation in drinking practised by their American visitors tells heavily on the profits of the great hotels in London and other cities frequented by them. One proprietor felt that he had good cause for complaint when Mr Mackey engaged an expensive suite of rooms for six weeks, and yet drank only 3s 6d worth of wine daring the time. In connection with putting an export duty on timber, a contemporary says : — Victoria did the same thing with red gum some years ago, putting an export duty on the timber, the result was the loss of the export trade to India and elsewhere, the killing of the industry, and financial ruin to Echuca, a town of about the same size as Napier. Wo (Advocate) are indebted to the courtesy of M r S. H. Drew, secretary of the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society, for the following copy of a letter which he has received from Mr G. S. Cooper, Under- Secretary : — "Shooting regulations will be gazetted next week fixing lime for native game from the Ist of April instead of Ist ot March, aa applied for in yoar letter." The consecration of the Roman Catholic Church, Feilding, will be celebrated on Sunday, the 14th inst. Bishop Redwood will preach the opening sermon. High mass will be held at 11 o'clock a.m., at which members of the priesthood residing in the district will assist. Arrangements are being made for special excursion trains to run to Feilding on that day. The Otago Daily Times states that there has been a loss on the late Industrial Exhibition of £10.000 The receipts having only amounted to £6000 while the expenses were £16.000. Upon making enquiries of Sir Julius Yogel to-day, he informed us that the accounts have not yet been made up, so that it is impossible io say what the loss is, if any. — Post. The proprietor of Daw's Livery and Bait Stables publishes to-day a new advertisement to which we specially direct the attention of the travelling public whether they require his services for pleasure or business. He has made an innovation which will be a great boon to persons arriving by train during the winter months in having a suitable covered conveyance to meet them by which they can be conveyed to any part of the town. We (Manawatu Herald) learn that Mr C. B. Izard has definitely decided to contest the election for the Foxton seat once more, and from the knowledge gained by the last election we should say the issue will again he between this gentleman and the present member, Mr Wilson. There can be little doubt the contest for this seat will be a keen one, and the " knowledge gained" by both gentleman will — no doubt — steer them clear of the shoals and quicksands which so nearly wrecked the sitting member, and did spoil Mr Izard's election. An Italian resident of Mosstown named Gaetano Mnre has succeeded in getting nn oil »md extr-ict fr>m the berries of the tawa. which he claims to have a high value as a specific for outward application in rheumatic affection*!. The oil is also claimed to be a first class non-gumming lubricant, evpeciull.v su-ta le f r bearing-: and spindles where a high speed is maintained. Mr Gaetano Mare was for many years in Italy employed in the olive oil trade, and says the tawa berry is far richer in oil than is the olive, an** that as a lubricant the tawa oil is .superior to oliye.— Herald.

-. The Borough Council will meet this evening. Printed matter may be copied on any paper of an absorbent nature by dampening the surface with a weak solution of acetate of iron, and pressing in an ordinary copying press, i »ld writing may also be copied on unsized paper if wet with a solution of sulphate of iron mixed with a small solution of sugar syrup. A San Francisco paper, discussing " the ' oew American Juliet," says that "in the i balcony scrne, where she faints, she rolls down three steps and arrives on terra firm a with a thud." If she faints in the balcony scene, the new Juliet must be new indeed and must have edited Shakespeare in a striking fashion. — Globe. Here are a couple of curious advertisements from old newspapers, illustrative of bygone manners, bearing date 1786 : — " To be Sold, a Genteel Place at Court Salary £100 a-year Little or no attendance required, and is transferable at pleasure the same as Bank Stock.', " Martin Van Butchell, Surgeon Dentist, attends at his house, in Upper Mountstreet, Gtosvernor Square always from 10 till 4 ; open till dusk. Advice, Ll Is ; taking out tooth or stump, Lssa ; a whole row. L 42; upper row L 63; an entire set, £105. Natural teeth, LlO 10s each. Nc transplanting. No annual patients. N.B. — The money paid first.' Mark Twain's theory that French duelling is only dangerous to onlookers proved true the other day. Two boulevardiers M.M. Chesneau and Uhampigneulle, were settling a quarrel with swords when an excited stranger rushed between them, crying : " For heaven's sake, stop this murderous work !" He explained that his father, an emotional octogenarian, had seen the duel from a distance, and had such a shock that he burst a bloodvessel. Not wishing to kill the old man, the adversaries tossed their swords avide and shook hands when the stranger rushed back, exclaiming : '* Continue, gentlemen, my father is better." They declined. The following is translated from the Magence Tagblat as having occurred in America ; — A preacher in a small town in Michigan took leave ef his flock in the following address: — "My dearly beloved, our separation from each other is not particularly painful, and for three reasons — you do not love me ; you do n»t love one another ; and the Lord does not love you. If you loved me you would have paid my salary for the last two years. You do not love each other. If you had I would have had more marriage ceremonies to perform. And the Lord does not love you. otherwise He would have called many more of you to him, so that there would have been more funeral services." The congregation did not press him to stay. The reputation of Californiau news* papers for strict adherence to truth may confidently rest for the season on an incident just narrated by the San Francisco Alta. It tells of a small boy of Quincy, who went up the mountain side full of pleasure at the first fall of the snow. At the summit be slipped and rolled down the hill becoming the nucleus of a vast snowball which hopelessly imprisoned him. He was missed after several hours, and the searchers got on the track of the snowball and trailed it to where it had leaped from a cliff to a canon. Looking d.iwn they could see it lodged in the boughs of a tree. They finally got it. broke it open and found the boy inside, alive, but rather chilly. After reading this no surprie need be felt that the death-rate at Monteroy is 6 per 1000 One sunny Sabbath morning the late Bey. Samuel Hamilton found himself preaching to an attentive congregation at Kentucky town. It so happened that a tipsy man strayed like a black sheep into the fold ; but no one objected and things run smoothly enough. Presently a small dog entered at the open door and trotted down the aisle until it readied the front of the pulpit, when it set up a furious barking at tlie minister. The tipsy man, with the utmost gravity, arose and walked steadily down the aisle to where the dog was barking. Seizing the animal by the meek, he had held him up before the con grcgation for a moment, and then, shaking him furiously, he broke but with " Tree a preacher, wul you, you ill- bred pup." This was too much for Mr Hamilton. He could not restrain hi* laughter and he took his seat, not being able to dismiss his congregation. Gambling says an Exchange is carried on to an enormous extent in the city of Wellington. Booms in a very larj;e number of the hotels are devoted to the vice, aud clerks are Dightly to be seen throwing the bones for comparitively large sums of money, and losing more in a year than twice their salaries would cover. The billiard table in one hotel is I irrounded nightly by scares of young men, who keep up the interesting game Yankee grab till " the wee sma' hours ayant the twal" without let or hindrance. The police are aware of tbe extent to which gambling is carried on. but they rarely interfere. One publican is said to net about £30 per week from the percentage demanded from the turnover in his rooms. Commenting on the Hon. Mr Bichardson's gjcech at Bangiora, the Christchurch Press says:— "The necessity of following the example of some of the other colonies is, as we have seen, con* stantly held up to us as worthy of being followed. But the circumstances of most of these colonies are entirely different to onrs. Their past borrowing is not the great public burden which our borrowing is The charge of their public debt upon the general taxation is nothing compared with ours. The Victorian railways paid in 1884 all the interest on the debt of the colony except £292,856 ; the New South Wales railways, all except £220,511 ; the Queensland, all except £444,837 ; while the NewZealad railways only contributed £406,140 in 1884, leaving £1,293,624 interest on the public debt to be paid out of the general taxation of the country." The newspaper business is a good deal like that of mining; as much has probably been lost in it as has been made. Tot there is no enterprise into which men will more heedlessly rush. The wrecks are strewn along every shore. Almost every man thinks he knows how a newspaper should be managed, and advice to the editor is everywhere ready for him, without money and without price. The ideal — the perfect newspaper — is the one that discusses all current topics with fairness and ability — that publishes all the news from all quarters of the world — that every man or woman who reads at all can find in it what he or she wants to read — that is adapted to th>i p rl >r just as well as to tlie counting-ro ni — in short, it should mirror the events and thoughts of the day so that the read r could see th< m . 11 ;>nd . yet let the sha ow fall on the h m rible. Toward that id«al the pre- 8 s slowly stiuggling, and if the leaders in society will give it proper encouragement they can hasten that progress beyond their expectations. — Chicago Inter-Ocean.