Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 62, 25 November 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Wahanui has decided to stand for the Western Maori electorate. There will be a dance after the performance in the Public Hall on Monday j , night. j On Saturday next Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. will hold a sale of stock at Ashurst. Typhus fever is prevalent at Maxwellton near Wnnganui. It is stud to be due to the milk. The Commercial Hotel, Palmorston, advertises for a respectable person to take charge of children. Sir William and Lady Fox are now in Taranaki, and are the guests of Mr A. F. Halcombe, at Urenui. Owing to the hitrh price of cuttle, the master butchers of Dunedin have resolved to raise the price of beef. A good wool washer is advertised for by Alfred Howes, at the works of Messrs MacMillan and Hunt, Awahun. The Secretary of the Otaki Racing Club requests us to intimate nominations for the Otaki Races will close on Saturday the 27th inst. at 9 p.m. It is currently reported in Canterbury that since his conviction Thomas Hall has freely admitted his guilt in the attempt on his wife's lite.

A reward of 5* is offered for the recovery of some lost turkeys. Mr Newman will have a grand display of fireworks in Palmerston on. Monday next. To-dny We publish, as an inset, a musical notice from .VJes.>rs H. Collier and Co., of Wangauui. Captain Edwin Telegraphs to-day: — Warnings for easterly galea and rain have been repeated to all places north of Napier and New I'lyrnouth. Stevens and Gorton's, sale to-day was very well, attended. The biddinsc was moderately brisk. A full report will appear in an early issue. We learn from the Marlborough Express that Mr Charles Bed wood is: applying for a patent for the cure of scale, American leech, grape, and cabbage blights. The Dunedin Star is very severe on certain City Councillors who gorged themselves with peaches and whiskey, and i then tried to saddle the expense on the ratepayers. . The Clyde bound for Sydney, and the Alort for the Seuth, both timber laden, got away from the Foxtou -wharf last Thursday. The Clyde has been bar bound for nearly a month, and the Alert, which has only been a week or so, was fortunate in getting off on. the same tide. Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded that Inspection Parade will be held on Friday night at 6.30 and Judging Distance Parade on Saturday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon instead of half past seven in the morning as previously announced. This change has been made to suit the convenience of country members. Mr Little, Manager for Mr Pharazyi*, of Makino, sent away this morning 325 sheep by train for the Wellington Meat Export Company to prepare and ship for England on account of Mr Pharazyn. This is the second lot sent this season and there are more to follow. Owing to the bad weather on Tuesday night preventing a good attendance at the Public Hall, there was no performance. Mr Willmott announces to-day that his talented company will appear again on Monday night when we hope he will have better luck. The company is really a good one, well deserving of liberal support by the public. The real cause of the trouble in the Auckland Lunatic Asylum was the command of Doctor Oremonini that all the other servants of the institution should touch their hats to him at all times and seasons. Naturally his fellow employees were disinclined to indulge him in his snobbishness. Gladstone to Eossa — ' Are you there, Moriantee ? ' Eossa to Gladstone— ' I am Gladstone, ayict. ' Gladstone — ' Don't blow up London yet awhile, O'Donovan darling. Be decent. Give us a month.' Rossa — ' For your sake, old chap, I'll do it. ' (To the dynamite factory ) — ' Aisy , bvos, aisy, I've granted a respoite. — NW York Journal. We have to acknowledge receipt of the railway timetable to come into operation on and after Wednesday, the Ist of December. It is a little more intricate than usual, but by careful study, we believe commercial travellers and other experts may get to understand it by about the time a new one is invented. The ordinary public we do not advise to make the attempt, or certain failure, and possible lunacy may follow. The Bulls Horticultural Show was a wonderful success, considering the very boisterous weather, the display of roses being exceptionally good. The collections of pot plants were numerous and wellgrown. The collections of potatoes were very fine, but the show of vegetables was not equal to previous years. The boquets were very much larger collections than previous years, and of great beauty. The competition in all classes was very keen. Mrs Orchard's display of fancy needlework and paintings were very beautiful. The Hall was crowded from the door.fi opening. A celebrated lawyer, who was also well-known for the monumental repulsiveness of his features, once attacked the prisoner at the bar with great bitterness. The judge advised him several times t» use moderation, but the lawyer • continued his tiraHo: "The wretch bears his character' in his face — any one may reud it, Why, he's the ugliest man 3 ever knew." •• Counselor." again interrupted the judge, "you are forgetting yourself."— Paris Figaro We seem (says Truth) to have got one torpedo-boat, at any rate, which is a phenomenon in specd — for the present. This vessel, which has just been built by Messrs Thornycroft, <hd an experimental run the other day from Portsmouth to Bournemouth pier, a distance of thirtysix miles. On the run out, with a good tide, she did the first twenty-four miles in an hour, and the whole distance in an hour and thirt.y«eight minutes. The return journey, against the tide and with a strong head-wind, was done in an hour and fifty- six minutes. For a sea- trip this beats anything hitherto accomplished. On the Rubject of the coming 1 declaration of bonus by the Government Insurance Department, referred to in our issue of yesterday, VlrLuckie, the Com* misf>ioner. informs us that a cable message from the London actuaries is expected during the current month stating the amount of oash surplus for division. 5o soon as that is received the fact will be duly notified. It should, in fairness, be pointed out that the bonus would have been ascertained long ere this time but for the wise provision of oar Legislature, according to which the valuation is made by eminent actuaries in England. Private offices are valued by their own actuaries, and it is contended that there is consequently uot such an independent check on the action of the Directors as is afforded by the practice of the Government Insurance Department. — N. Z. Times. Ambulance classes are doubtless yery fino institutions in their way, but in that branch of education as in others, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing A class of lady students had been careful (y taught how, by means of a tied htindker* chief, iv pad, ond a ruler io twist and so tighten the handkerchief, the blpeding of an artery in the arm or leg may be stopped. One of these ministering angels, going up for examination shortly afterwards. Mas asked :— " How would you proceed in the case of a person bleeding from a bad wound in theheadP" The answer enme pat, without a moment's hesitation :— " I would tie a handkerchief round the neck, apply a pad to the throat and, with a ruler inserted under the knoi at the back oF the neck, I would tighten j the handkerchief until the bleeding censed " Another promising member of , the same class, being asked to describe the circulation of the blood replied :— '• The blood goes down one leg and up the other."— Press.

The new railway time table beats the ' famous American fifteen puzzle. The , number of animated debates which have been held, are already bearing disastrous fruits. Friendships of years standing have been disrupted, while seyeral prominent Good Templars have threatened to take to drink. Even the dogs have j. started howling m a most dismal manner, no doubt sharing the mental agony of their masters.' Something will have to be done or there: will be a revolution in the land. Mr Gladstone has written in reply to the note of of the Bulgarian deputies ap« pealing for his assistance against the ag« gression of Russia, Mr Gladstone states that he entertains the hope that the Czar will maintain the noble policy adopted by his father with regard to Bulgaria. He further remarks that he has not at« tempted hitherto to interfere in any crisis which has arisen, because he is confident that the Marquis of Salisbury, in the course which he pursued in relation to the matter, faithfully represents the sentiment of the people of England. The New Plymouth Harbour Board has evidently gained (P) the confidence of tke Bank of New Zealand, as at the last meeting of the board, n resolution was carried, " That the Chairman be authorised to arrange with the Bank for an overdraft of £600 and give as security the Board's cement at Motorua." A lively sort of a position that for a Harbor Board to be placed in — better send the tiement up to the manager, and ask him to put it in the strong room for a little while. An inventor, Mr R. M. Marchant, has, says Truth at last perfected an engine in which the steam is returned to the boiler and, so to say, used over and over again. The saving in coal thus to be effected is calculated at 80 per cent. , Besides saving coal, however, this invention will upset a pet theory of the engineering fraternity, who have always considered this problem as impossible t© solve, as perpetual motion. A Sydney paper thus discourses: — Long years of Government extravagance have taught itie N.Z. people how to get revenue out of most things —even other people's misfortunes. Bankruptcy is a fine art in the Britain of the South, «nd after . a good many attempts, the Government have learned how to make it pay. Last year there was 1870 bankrupts in the colony, and the fees paid into tho Treasury under the new Act came to £18,526. The Government puid for managing and winding up the estates £9,917, and of course, pocketed the odd £8,6"9. The sum wasn't much, but it was on the light side of the ledger, and it was no doubt comforting. Meanwhile the creditors got on an average three shillings and a farthing in the pound. Let us hope they were comforted too.