Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 76, 30 December 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The banks will be closed on Saturday and Monday. A new advertisement appears to-day from Mr Bush, of Fergusson street. A new advertisement from Messrs Reid and Gray will appear in our next issue. The Feilding Star will not be published on Saturday next, New Year's Day. Tho diggers at Teetulpa are doing fairly well. The bank has purchased 773 ounces for one week. It is expected there will be 4000 men under arms at Easter at the Taranaki encampment. Mr Baker, clerk to the court, Feilding has been appointed to hold the same office at Foxton, con j ointly. The name of William Powell, of Auckland, has been removed from the Commission of the Peace. Mr W. G. Haybittle has issued to his customers a very handsome Pictorial almanack for 1887.

Women in Holland act aa apothecaries, j watchmakers, clerks in the post office, in railroad offices, and as telegraphers. The men drink beer, smoke, nurse the babies, and have a high old time. An old 65th pensioner, named Jeremiah Healey, committed suicide at New Plymouth on Monday last. At the inquest a verdict of temporary insanity was returned. We regret to learn that a case of J measles has appeared on the Ashurst road. We understand the family in which the sickness appears hus only recently arrived in the district from Greymouth. The Wanganui Herald has heard on very good authority, that a change in the railway timetable in the direction suggested by Mr Hankey when the Hon Mr Richardson was here, will be carried into effect in a very short time. The Napier Telegraph will be issued in its old form to-day. As it is only ten days since the destruction by fire of the offices and printing plant, Mr Knowles, the proprietor, has maintained his character for energy and enterprise. A letter appears to-day from a correspondent who signs himself " one in the mud." It should prove interesting to those who caused the failure of the proposal to raise a loan to assist in erecting a bridge at Aorangi. j M. Mnunce Ifornhnrdt, the son of Mdme. Sarah Berr.hnrdt, the actress, fought a duel with swords at Paris, with M. Langlois, nn artist, who exhibited a painting etiricat urine Mdme: Bernhardt. iVI. Langlois was wounded. In a previous issue we mentioned that Mr Lachlan McLean, of Cromwell, Otago, had been injured by an entire horse. The bites were more serious than anticipated, and the injured limb had to be amputated near the shoulder. The Napier Telegraph suggests that Major Garner should form another volunteer corps, consisting of those who have filed their schedules during the year. They might be known as the Hawke's Bay Engineers, or the Free Selectors' Brigade. Train services for the Palmerston Caledonian Sports on New Year's Day are published elsewhere. A special tram will leave Feilding at 10.20 a.m. and the ordinary train at 11.35 a.m. for Palmerston. Returu train, will leave Palmerston at 5.50 p.m. A small half-bred Shetland pony mare has been lost from the Kiwitea, and one pound reward is offered to any person who will leave the same at the stables of Mr Morphy, Feildiug, or the store of Mr Church, Kiwitoa. The pony had a bridle rein round its neck when missed. Although onr local hotels all did splendid business on Boxiag Day, yet there was no drunkenness. The only peraons who showed signs of intoxication were throe youths hailing from tho Empire City, who were inclined to be nois} r at the railway station. The foolish lads were put in the train quietly, and they were seen no more. Another instance has come under our notice where an intending settler, of considerable private means, will probably select Palmorston as his future home in the colony. The reason he assigns is, that the Palmerston people pull together when the common interests of the place are affected, while in Feiidiug they pull against each other. A writer on poultry says that one essential to success is to keep the fowls at work. He continues :— " Hens that have free range and pick up a large share of their living by their own exertions are seldom sick, and they generally lay well." There is food for reflection here ; but before you put it in practice gentle reader, prepare for an internecine strife with your neighbour of t'oiher side of the fence. It is rather a curious thing that during the late fire the contents of nearly all the so-catled fire«proof safes were more or less damaged, the only maker's safe that seems to have »;tood the test of the devouring element was "John Tann." This information has been given to us (Napier News) by a sufferer from the fire, who>e loss weuld have been much greater had his books and papers not been in the above makers safes. Rapid milking is an advantage, says the Live Stock Journal, if it is done without hurting or irritating tlte cow ami she is milked clean. If not milked in a reasonable time the cow refuses " to give down." If made to feel comfort abh», she just stands and " pours out" the milk. The rapid milker hns the advantage. How long ought it to tnke t > a cow P Ordinarily about six minutes. A good milker, with good cows, having no impediment; in the way of rapid milking ought to milk over eight, while others can milk twelve in an hour, " R.S." inquires the value of bran as an egg»producing feed for hens. I have used it for over two years, und can find nothing to equal it, if used as I do. I moisten it with boiling water, and *ndd n small quantity of grense of some des - cription, and feed warm all they will eat once a day. If I find that it loosens them I add a sponful of charcoal to every quart of bran. Be careful and do not wet it too much, and l»e sure to have your water boiling. — Chicken Herder, in Country Gentleman. '• Puff" in the Press says :— There's one comfort ! Edwin's got his hrad right at "last ! He's gm»n us some de- . cent weather, Hnd the sun shinci alike on the rich and poor, tlie idle and industrious ! Yes he deserves great credit for the excellent arrangements he hns made these holidays ! That heavy rain on Sunday night, with such a day ns Monday to follow, was really a stroke of genius.' Oh, Edwin does very well if he's left alone and allowed to fix things in his own old nautical fashion ! It's when these scientific beggars begin interfering that he gets nasty and turns on all the dirty weather he's got in stock ! He's a varmint then, and no mistake ! After the eruption of Tarnwera, in June last, it was feared that the grass lands on the East Coast settlements which were covered with <he scattered debris of Tarawera Mountain and the bed of Kotornnhana Lake, would be destroyed for a long time to come. These fears have been falsified by the result. On several occasions we have pointed out that the grass lands appear to have been benefited by the topdressing of volcanic dust, and a correspondent, writing from Maketu, on the 10th instant, says : — '• The grass is better all along this eoasi, especially here at Matata. than I have seen it at this time any other year. All the cattle are rolling in fat. The Te Puke can be seen from here quite green. The clover is growing so fast that the cattle cannot keep it down."*— Auckland Herald.

The Frisco mail closbs here, at 7- 15 I p.m. to-morrow (Friday). Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — Warnings for gales and much rain have been sent to all stations. Service." will be held in St. Bridget's Church next Saturday, (New Year's Day,) at 1 1 o'clock. A cow was knocked over by the Wellington train to-day. Its hind legs were broken. In Adelaide a passenger in quarantine from the German steamship Preussen, is suffering from small pox. Mr George Fisher, M.H.R., was in Feilding on Tuesday, He was driven up by Mr West, the Mayor of Palmerston. Entries for Messrs Stevens and Gorton's Palmerston sale on January 6th are published to-day. Further entries are solicited. The comic operetta of " Patience" will be produced in the Public Hall Feilding on Thursday and Friday "the '2oth and 21st January 1887. On Tuesday evening a chimney took fire at Dr Johnston's private residence. The flames were promptly- extinguished before any damage was done. Another large fire took place in Auckland yesterday morning. About £4&00 worth of property was destroyed. Of course the origin of the fire is a mystery. The Endymion Hotel has changed hands and Mr Falloon is now the proprietor. Mr Falloon is a most popular host, and we wish him every success at Awahuri. We are glad to learn that Mr J. W. Eade is making sure progress towards recoyery. He is still in Wellington, but he hopes to be back in Feilding in a few weeks. The Eiwitea Eoad Board publishes a notice that the Board intends to raise a loan under the Loans to Local Bodies Act. According to tlin New Zealand Time* the Commission of the Peace i«tounders go a thorough purging in the direction, already taken by Mr Tole in Auckland, There are justices and justices, and it is high time something was done to remove some of the blunders made by someone or other in the past, where appointments altogether unsuitable have been made. ' Mr 8. Abrahams had a misfortune at the Awahnri races on Tuesday which must certainly have marred his pleasure, as it swamped up the whole of his profits from the totalizator. It appears that in one race lie by accident paid out, £5 notes instead of £1 notes to winners of dividends, and of course was not able to trace the persons to wkom he had paid them. — Times. A very clever (japture was effected by Constable Meehaai on Monday last. A man named Robert Martin, who was " wanted " at Timaru on a charge of deserting his wife and nine children in 1884, had been working on various parts of this coast for a good many months. Ho was an mt erestod spectator at the Feilding Sports, hut in some way the attention of the Cmstable was attracted to him, and as his description agreed with that in the Police Gazette, the man was arrested and rei landed to Wanganui. The Referee o a the subject of clashing of race days, says — " All over the colony there are meetings of more of less impor- { tance on Boxing- and New Year's Days, which, of course, as close holidays, are bound to be appropriated by the caterers for the ainusuiuent loving public, and move than eyer since the totalisator came into force, has there been a plethora of racing on those days. If the Conference of the Metropolian. clubs had properly carried out its functions it would, have gone into the question of clashing of dates and would have endeavored to devise some reinedv for the existing 1 affairs. But nothing tv;is done, and we fear that if the present cut throat policy of some clubs is persisted m thR Legislature will be moyed to step in and sweep away the totalisator. Then good bye to a good many suburban racing clubs.