The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, MAT 25, 1886. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 148, 25 May 1886, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, MAT 25, 1886. Local and General News

Sir Julius Yogel will deliver his Financial Statement in the House to-night at7.30.p.m. Tbe poundkeeper notifies that a roan gelding is impounded at the Borough i pound. We are glad to see that Mr PagetJones who has been ~Hi tor some time, has now almost completely recovered.' Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day-Warnings tt» expect strong easterly wind after 12 hours have been sent to all stations. Mr Goodbehere intimates that the allotment of sections of the Feilding Small Farm Association will take place on Saturday uext at the Foresters' Hall at 2 p.m. A lady with her head bandaged in a handkerchief rushes into a dentist's office and exclaims ' Doctor, I can't stand it any longer. These false tepth you made cause me the most terrible agony!' 'W*l' madame, what would you hare ? I could not imitate nature any better.' i If our Highland Chief of the Baziar waxworks had been in Palmerston yester- [ day he could hare earned '• itood monei" ' for the highland fling, aa there waa no- ' body there to beal him although the dancing of Mr A Cameron was very \ good. 1 The Timaru Herald states that 52 acres of reserved lnnd at Pnreora. thrown »>p«n for-application in three l«U attracted 43 intending purchasers, and the excitement called back to memory the old days ef the land fever. The deposits amounted in the aggregate to over £10,000. The latest evidence of progress in Palmerston is a project for an opera house to be erected by a company, o\>posite the Club hotel, to front the Square. We understand Mr Isherwood is the projector and are assured he has the most liberal offers of support from men of means in Wellington as well as Palmerston, Gold. — It may be of interest to those who are interested in mining to know - that in the Smithsonian Institution at i Washington, the capital of the United States, is the small nugget of gold, a I little larger than a pea, that first met the eyes of James Marshal in the saw*mill raceway at Sacramento, and was the be* , ginning of those discoveries in California that have added nearly 1,500,000,f00d015. in gold te the world's stock of precious metals. ! On last Friday night a grey mare was taken out of her owner' s — Messes Brennau and Marshall — paddock, by some person and ridden some distance up i country. The mare was missed on Saturday morning and her absence was notified to Constable Meehan. On Sunday morning she was found some distance up the Kimbolton road. Two white ' cotton pocket handkerchiefs were on her i neck. Her skin was cut and lacerated i in places, as if she had been driven ! against a barbed wire fence. Altogether she showed th..t she had beon subjected to the most brutal ill-usage. Wo hope the offender will be detected and brought to justice, for a case of more wanton [ brutality has seldom come under our ■ notice. Three of the lady compositors who contested last week nt Austin and Stone's Museum, Boston, for the type-setting championship, beat the best record of the men's contest of the previous week as follows:— Miss Kenny's score leads the champion Graham's score of 24.000 ems by 95<> ems Mrs White bpat him by 650 . ems, and Miss Francis by 475 ems. Miss L. J. Kenny i . a native of West Newbury, Mass , Mrs White, of New Hampl shire, and Miss Francis, of Maine. -Pilot I The following good story has reached * us, and our informant youehos for its accuracy : — A few days ago. a local butcher was attempting to mike out his ■ half-yearly balanoe sheet, but, after nuin . eroua attempts he had to give up in dis gust. He went to the shop door, and asked a passer by, who was a stranger, 'if he was any good at figures/ The stranger hesitatod a moment and replied. 'Yes; I think I oan do something ai . figures. WiiyP' Butcher -{Because I'm puzzled over my balance sheet. I ean'i • get it right. Do you mind helping me P * Stranger: ' Oh, yes ; I'll do what I can.' ' They entered the shop, and after about half an hour's hard work, the balance sheet was brought right. The grateful shopman asked the stranger how much he was in hi* debt, and received the reply .« Nothing wiiate c.. I haresointiines (xen in difficulties wiih figure* myself. Good day ' And with that the stranger departed. The shopman, pointing to the receding figure of his benefactor, asked i an acquaintance who tho stranger was, and was dumfoundad ac the reply— 'why that's Major Atkinson.' — -Exchange.

Mr Lockyear of Kiwitea has left at this office two splendid potatoes grown at his place One of them turns the soales at 3| and the other at -lbs. Plucky girls at Marahau (Nelson) challenge Kiwaka cricketers to play a game of cricket, they provide a dinner, an-l wind up with a dance. Who would not be a Riwaka cricketer ? The sale of furniture and effects at the | residence ot Mr Lewers on Saturday was well attended and the prices realised good. Owing to the length of the catalogue the sale had to be continued today. * Good morning, Mr Brown. How do you find yourself to-day?' ' Thanks, quite well.. But why call me Brown? VI y name's Green.' 4 Beg pardon, a thousand times. But, you see I'm" colorblind.' A juror asked to be excused on the ground of deafness. The judge asked the juryman if ht had heard the charge. "Yes, your Honour, but I'll be hanged if I could make head or tail of it !" He was excused. «• That's a very stupid brute of yours, J<hn," said a sinister to one of his parishioners, a peat-dealer, who drove his merchandise from door to door in a small cart drawn by a donkey j " I never see you but the creature is braying." " Eh, sir," said the peat-dealer, "ye ken the hearts warm when frien's meets." An American wrote when Queensland attempted to annex New Guinea — "England has stolen another island. The place is very inaccessible that England would not try to steal. She would annex perdition itself had she not already acquired a right to it by colonisation." The Paltoerston Caledonian Society is to be congratulated on having secured the services of so efficient and courteous a secretary as Mr "_?* Mowlem;, and" we desire specially to thank . that gen^mant for Bis kindness to our representative yesterday, and.the readinesp he displayedto give hittt all necessary information. Once there was hired man who was constantly astonishing ?h_s7 employer, a farmer, by doing strange and usejcpected things. One day the farmer went* into, the barn and found this man had hanged himself. Looking at the dangling body a few minutes, he exclaimed — ' What on earth will that fellow do next ?' According to the Medicalahstract, the discovery has been made in Columbia of a shrub wi>ich exudes a juice having so powerful an effect in arresting the flow of blood that large veins may be cut by a knife and smeared with it without causing hemorrhaged The' plant is called "aliza"by the natives, and "aliesa!" by the niggers. The following testimonial was given to a servaut ggirt—l t— "This is to certify that the bearer has been in my service one year, less . eleven months. During this time I found her to be diligent at the front door, temperate at her work, atten tive to herself,' prompt at excuses, amiable townrds young gentlemen, faithful to her sweethearts, and honest when everything was safe under lock and key." Washington has struck a new craz;* which is said to be excessively " Kngli-h." The young unmarried worn n of that city have taken to wearing a specially designed garter on the left leg. It is a supplementary affair aud is never taken off, day or night for, one year. The superstition attached to it is that before the exp: ration of tliat time the wearer will have secured a husband. Amusing stories of Mr W. S. Gilbert are numerous enough, but an am-cdote now goin' tlie rounds, and illiist ntin ; the popular playwright's well.known tailing of positivity. has, w» believe, not yet appeared in -print. Mr Gilbert iwho does not pretend to know a note of music) wai« with Mr Fred. Clay, listening to a baud. Mr Gilbert declared they were playing ono of .Straus*'* waltzes. Mr Clay contradicted. Mr Gilbert insisted, but Mr Clay replied, * Well, I ought to know considering that I wrote it myself.' 4 Oh, no, you didn't, Clay,' retorted Mr Gilbert, * you may have written some* '. thing very like it, but not that.' A Sydney paper says "Such is thp infamy of the British lawyer-pension system that Lord Halsbury (Hardinge G iff ard), who was Lord Chancellor of the late Tory Ministry, and only held that post during the law aiid Upner House holidays, now gets £5000 a year for the rest of his natural life. Should he live to be 80 he will have drawn, in consider* ation of his siz months' services, for which he was paid, £150,000! Lord Brougham was Lord Chancellor for 2 years, lived for 38 years after Ins appointment, and drew his pension money £23'»,000 screwed -out of the- toil and sweat and sorrow and sufferings of Rnglish millions. After all, we think there really must be a hell." There are several millions with insufficient food in a country where a man for doing nothing for six months gets £5000 a year for life.