The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1887. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 77, 4 January 1887, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1887. Local and General News

The Borough. Council will meet next Thursday evening. Full rehearsal of "Patience" on Thursday evening at eight o'clock. The Rev. Father Kirk, of Wanganui, waa a visitor te Feilding yesterduy. Mr S. Tansley has been appointed Kegistrar of Electors for the Foxtou district. The performance of " Patience" will be held on Friday and Saturday the 21st and 22nd instants. The Borough Council invites applications from persons willing to undertake the collection of the dog tax within tho Borough during the current year. The amount of property tax payments respecting which the Commissioner hail. up to yestorday received advices, make a total so far of £171.UU0. The Manchester Itifles will parade for Government inspection on Friday evening at 6.30. Members are requested to note that punctuality is now compulsory. We understand that the programme of the Feildmg Easter races will be drawn up at a meeting to be called by the Secretary, Mr F. Roe, some time next week. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day — Wind between JN T -W. and SE. at all places during next 12 to 16 hours Barometer — verjr little movement during next 15 to 16 hours. The Superintendent of Telegraphs invites tenders lor 1000 twenty-fiye feet, and 100 thirty-five feet telegraph poles. Tenders to be sent in not later than the 10th of January. While there is so much dry grass at the sides of the streets, we would recommend caution in throwing down lighted matches. As wooden buildings and fences are now as dry as tinder a serious conflagration may be easily started. We learn from the Wellington Times that — A crickfit match, bootmakers v. printers, took place on Friday, and was won on the first innings by the latter, who scored 90 as against the bootmakers' 75. But, in the convolutions of time the bootmakers will beat the printers at last. Seyeral " professional" burglars have now settled in Auckland. They appear to find the climate delightful, while the residences and outhouses of the towns people and settlers are admirably adapted for the profitable and safe pursuit of their adventurous business, in which little or no capita] is required. The strength of the New Zealand Volunteer force on\ December 31, 1886, was as follows : — Cavalry, 594; mounted in« fantry, 140 ; naval artiliery, I; 35 1; artillery, 872 ; engineers, 175 ; rifles, 5520 ; cadets, 1704- Total, 10,366. The pro* vmcial districts most strongly represented are Dunedin, 1944 ; Canterbury, 1741 ; Auckland, 1441. We regret to learn that Mr Harry Greenwood, who distinguished himself so much at the last Feilding sports meeting, met with a bit of bad luck when fishing outsida the Wanganui bar on Friday last. He buried a large fishhook so deep into his left hand that his father, who was in the boat at the time, had to cut out tho hook with a penknife. The Jane Douglas performed a " fastest on record" on her last trip. She arrived at Foxton on Wednesday, and discharged and loaded at once, getting away on the same tide. On arrival at Welling, ton at midnight the vessel was at once unloaded, and left again for Foxton, where she arrived after an absence of just 24 hours. — Manawatu Herald. As there appears to be some misapprehension on the subject we quote the following from the Dog Registration Act, clause 12: — "In any proceedings under this Act the proof of due registration, or that any dog is under tho age of six months, or has not been kept for a period of fourteen days by the owner thereof shall in each case be on the defendant." An ano ent set of bagpipes were played at the Caledonian Society's sports, at Wellington, on Saturday by Mr J. JVTcJ. Pattersoji, who lives at Brancspcth, in North Wiiirarap-.. These pipes, it appears, were played by Mr Patterson's grandfather at Waterloo. They are nonvery old, and have been patched up on* siderably, but they are in good order still, : and M>- Patterson's manipulation of them i showed that they are as capable of producing good music as thty were when < played at Waterloo,

Dr Hector is at present laid up with ■ a broken collar bone. Direct mail for England will close here on Wednesday the 12th instant at 7.15 p.m. The 'Frisco mail may be expected iv Feildmg about Monday, the 10th instant. A lad named McKeague was injured, on Friday last, by a horse attached to a dray, bolting. His wounds were dressed ! by Dr Johnston and he is now doing well. The Onmaru Mail states that it is .VTr Ballance's intention to take possession of the TLurow run, the are* of which is i 30,0 0 acres and to have it cut up into smaller pastoral area's. At the Lower Valley (Wairarapa) Races on Boxing Day, a £22 dividend was paid out on a hack race won by Ins, beating 9 others. The big event was won by Girin, Rata 2, Mangle filly 3. Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. will hold a sale of stock at Feilding on Thursday the 13th instant. The catalogue appears elsewhere. Further entries are solicited. This firm will also hold a sale of sundries, poultry, bacon, &c , on Saturday next at their sale rooms, Kimboltou road. We regret to learn that the sawmill of Messrs Warne and Beard, Ashurst, was completely destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. We understand the property was only partially insured. The profoundost sympathy has been expressed with Messrs Warne and Beard who are well-known and respected m Feilding. Some misunderstanding arose lost night m connection with the rehearsal of " Patience." We stated in our last issue that such would take place, but it appears we were in error, as the full rehearsal will not be held until Thursday next. Several young ladies were put to the inconvenience of coming in from the country ' needlessly, and to them we express our regrets. The Manawatu Herald says :— A Foxton hotelkeeper had some beer sent up from Wellington by train, the charge for a barrel amounting to 9s 6d, as against 3s by steamer. It is quite unnecessary to remark that the consignment was the first, and will most certainly prove the last, by that route. A priz e fight between a man with one arm and another with one eye took place near Coshington, in Leicestershire. The fight lasted one hou* and twenty minutes. The one eyed man had his eye so damaged that at last he could not see, and the one-armed man, who was also severely punished, was declared the victor. The stakes were £10. We learn from a private source thnt Father McManus is highly pleased with the Grey district and its residents. He is in the enjoyment of excellent health, and although his duties nre necessarily very arduous, yet he finds no difficulty in carrying them out to the satisfaction of his flock. The Rt-verend Father is deservedly popular on all sides. John Roberts, jun., champion biiliardplayer has just performed a remarkable feat. In the course of a match with Mitchell, in which he gave the latter 4000 points in i 2,000, and a severe beating to boot, he compiled an all-round break of 534, the best on record. This is the second tune Roberts has surpassed 500 in a single innings, unai led by tha spot* stroke ; but no otlier player has ever come within nieasureable distance of this figure. Mr George Chainey, a popular.American lecturer, now on a visit to Australia, thus refers to the Melbourne Cup Cay : — '' There is a dark background to the picture of 100,000 on a racecourse gazing at the rushing horses as one man, many other thousands hanging with breathle-s suspense on the telegraph reports. Two million pounds gambled nway ! what does nil i his tell of seerpf shame, p'iin, desolation, mildness, nn<l despair? Enough money wasted t-J dot tin' deserts with artesian wells, cause the wilderness to blossom ns a rose, and to quench the blust furnaces from which the hot winds come." The following are the breeds that do not sit. They lay eggs entirely white in color; The Houdans, Leghorn-, Back Spanish, Hamburgs. Polish, Minorcas, and Andalusmns. The best table fowls for quality of flesh, without regard to market appearance, are the games, Houdans, Langshan9, Dorkings, Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, and Brahmas. The most persistent sitters are the Cochins. Brahmas, Wynndottes, and Dominicks. The fowls that can be most easily confined are the Brahmas, Cochins Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, and Dorkings. The fowls that require high fences in order to closely confine thorn are the Hamburgs. the Leghorns, Black Spanish, Andalusians, Game's, and Hou« dans. The above is intended to classify each breed in proper order, though it is not given as entirely correct. A method of preventing incrustation of boilers that is iittle used though quite common in Germany, is as follows : — The feed water is forced through one of the usual feed contrivances into the steam dome in which it is mixed by a jet ot steam entering concentrically, in order that it may, during the mixing, be cast violently against the cover of the dome. , The effect of this movement is that all the water receives the full temperature of the surrounding steam. By this sudden heating, air and carbonic acid are withdrawn from the water, and not only the carbonate of lime but tho sulphate of lime and magnesium are ex* tracted, and the precipitate occasioned is periodically removed. As many of our readers (says the Post) may be interested in learning what has become of A. L Levy, formerly J.P. and Secretary of the 'iood Templar Alliance whose disappearance caused such a commotion some months ago, we quote from the Melbourne Age of a recent date the following reference to that gentleman ; — " Metropolitan Licensing Court — Temporary license granted to Alfred L. Levy of the London Hotel; Port Melbourne, for Chair of Music Bazzar in the Ex* hibition." It will no doubt startle peo« pie in Wellington to learn that a former pillar of the temperance cause has been guilty of such terrible backsliding to take to hotelkeeping, but that neverthless appears to be the Fact.