Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 65, 2 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

Our Wanted column deserves attention to-day. An impounding notice appears to-day from the poundkeeper at Awahuri. Tbe ordinary price of totara in tbe Hutt, near Wellington, ib 15s per 100fett > Te Kooti is expected, according to tbe Napier News, to visit Petane on or about December 16th. .Mr Svendsen, bootmaker, has jus opened up a further consignment of ladies' boots and shoes. ' Tbe programme of the Palmerston Caledonian Sports is published in our columns to-day. Mr Ellery Gilbert is now in Feilding and wiii remain for some time He ia at present staying at tbe Foildmg Hotel. Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. will bold their next Feilding stock sale on Thursday tbe 9th inst. Further entries are invited. In order to facilitate the delivery of mails, a mail agent has been appointed to travel on tbe railway between Wellington and New Plymouth. He will do tbe sorting en route. Mr John Bishop, one of the bench hands at Messrs P. and J. Bartholomew's sawmills, sustained a painful injury to one of his legs on Tuesday last by tbe falling of a piece of heavy timber. , ; Tbe Makiuo cheese factory is now receiving 300 gallons of milk daily, and there is a probability that tbe present plant of the. Company will not be able to work up all the milk that will be offered in a month's time. Mr Davis bas bis time fully occupied in turning out sixteen cheeses daily. Tbe first shipment of tbo season was sent away this week. A writer in tbe Wanganui Herald blames Major Atkinson and Mr Samuels, of Taranaki, for our new and wonderful railway timetable. We tbmk this libel on the gallant Major is quite undeserved. It stands to reason that if Mr Richardson, the Minister for Public Works, cannot control or influence railway King Maxwell, the mere leader of a weak opposition would be unable to do so. On Wednesday the Bth instant Mr Albert Barnes will sell at his auction rooms, Wanganui, a farm at Halcombo containing 221 acres. There is a comfortable bouse on tbe land witb all the other necessary conveniences for a first class farm. The sale will be without reserve. Intending purchasers will note tbat market day rates will be charged by train on tbe day of the sale. The Lancet explains in a recent num« ber a new treatment for consumption, t»s injecting earbolised iodine into the lungs by menns of spray of the warm fluid. The deceased cavities of the lungs ar*' first localised by percussion ; then a fine tubular needle, having openings at the po nt and attachment to a proper syringe, is introduced between the ribs, and lhe weil-knnwn antiseptic qualities of combination are relied upon to effect the healing o the affected parts. It is used once a week. So far, the treatment is quite satisfactory. The Mail says : — The alteration in the railway time»table, though at first a little difficult to rememler, will prove to be of immense advantage to this (Patea) portion of the community. The settlers along this const by taking advantage of the New Zealand Government's Special Metropolitan ExpJess Train, can be wafted through space at the appalling rate of sixteen miles an hour, or rather more than double the rate at which a London costermontrer can induce his much abused Ass to transport bis peas and cabbapes into the daily market of tbe British Metropolis. In reference to the Campbell divorce suit, which, according to a recent telegram ib creating so much attention at Home, the World says : — " There will be an extraordinary bar, the present AttorI ney and Solicitor-General, and two exI Attorneys-General (Sir H. James and Sir i Charles Eussell) Sir James Parker Deane ! Q.0., D.C.TA ancl Mr Inderwicb, Q.C., being among tbe counsel engaged. Sir Henry James lends for tbe petitioner, Lord Colin Campbell. The co-respond-ents are four in number — a duke, who j has already appeared in tbe same charac- j • acter, but witb a different company ; a , general, almost as widely known in liter- . aturo and art as in military circles ; a j captain, in a most valuable public service; and a fashionable surgeon."

Napier is now tbe most prosperous town in New Zealand. The cricket match, Wellington v. Australia, was commenced yesterday. Wellington, in its first innings, scored 182 runs. We publish an " inset" to«day from Mr Asher, announcing a cheap drapery sale. We are compelled to bold over a j quantity of reading matter and advertise- j ments, owing to pressure on our space. . A notice in connection with tbe election , of a member to represent the Western Maori District, appears in another column to<day. The case of alleged murder against Thomas Hall is still proceeding. Most of the evidence given is a repetition of tbat elicited at the inquest. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day : — Warnings for gales have been sent to all places south of East Cape and Raglan. The editor of the Napier News calls Lord Bandolph Onurchill " a blatant political mountebank." Tbis is rough on Randolph. The Manawatu Snipping Company has lowered the freight on wool by ls 6d per bale from Foxton to Wellington. Mass will be colebrated in St. Bridget's Church on Sunday next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. A public meeting will be held in Foxton to-morrow for the purpose of considering matters relating to the late changes in the railway service. We learn from tbe Waipawa Mail that the village of Danevirke boasts of a Count, a Baron, and a Don. Tbis overwhelming influence of tbe " upper ten" is having its effect and the price oi paper collars is in tbe ascendant. A reserved carriage witb two occupants was attached to last night's train, while a first class carriage wa,s so overcrowded tbat ladies bad to sit on one another's knees or stand. Tbe wool from Feilding this season promises to exceed in weight and number of bales the quantity forwarded in any of the previous years. Dray loads are coming in every day from all parts of the j district, of whieh Feilding is tl>e centre. Tbe table of lovelv bouquets, at the show last night, wbicb tbe public looked forward to being purchasers of, were all stolen by children, larrikins, and ladies. Their dishonesty deprived the society in tbis respect of about £3. Mr Saxon, of Potatau farm, sent to Wellington this morning 200 fat sbeep to be frozen by the Gear Company, and tbe carcases sent to tbe Home market by direct steamer. This makes the third shipment from tbe same farm. The returns in all cases bave proved fairly remunerative. ' Ma,' be said, as he suddenly looked up from the book, ' how much do you «we the cook?' 'What a question! I believe there are three months' wages clue her.' ' Say, why don't you re» organize tbe kitchen ?' 'What do you m<>an. Robert P' ' Why, when pa and the other fellows get bold of a railroad they reorganize, and everybody gets left Let'K re- organize on Hannah, beat her out of $36 and whack on tbe boodle."