Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 2301, 9 August 1887, Page 2

Local and General News

The B.M. Court will be held in Feilding on Thursday next. '- i; ! A man named Patrick Duffy, was brought before Mr J. C Thompson, J.P., yesterday, and fined da or 24 hours' imprisonment for being drunk in the streets. On Saturday last a house on the Feild-injj-Stoney Creek road; the property of Mr Thomas Manson, was destroyed by fire. The building was insured in the National for £150. A meeting of electors mterested'in the return of Mr Macarthur as member for Manawatu, was held in Mr Sherwell's office on Saturday night and a strong committee was elected. : ■;:.• A girl named Violet Kelso, a domestic; servant at the Lyttelton Hotel, Christchurch, was found lying in her room on Saturday night in a dying condition, with a newly-born dead child by her side. She died shortly after. We have received their : Share Beport and Investors Guide for August from Messrs W. J. Hunt and Ce., of Wellington. We learn from it the share marketbar been more active during the past month, and bank shares have been* in greater demand. A New Zealander, who has just returned from a visit to Palestine, said : — " Solomon was wise, and full of riches, but he would have been thought more of if he had introduced the Roads and Bridges Construction Act in his time." Very likely. The shop at the " Other House" has been considerably altered and improved, and specially fitted up for the business of Mr Col ville, boot manufacturer. The .fittings include a bench, at which two workmen are now busily engaged executing orders. Twenty years ago missionaries of the English Presbyterian Church found an opening in the city of Chmchew. Nine years ago commodious mission premises were erected, and how an earnest native congregation have chosen a Chinaman to be their pastor. Another mistake by Beuter! It was not the "Rev. Dr Wright, secretary of the Bible Society, who disappeared in Sydney, and a few days afterwards turned up again. It was Dr Wright's son, Mr David McGee Wright, a youth of 19 years of age, who was missing. Mr F. Tram, of the Cash Exchange, announces by advortißement in another column that he is now holding a clearing sale of winter goods, and quotes great bargains for cash. He also announces that he has made arrangements forgetting all fencing wire direct from Home, . which he will offer at exceptionally low rates. '

Parades of the Manchester Rifles will be held on dates mentioned in advertisement to-day. .Dr W. GL Grace has declined to join Vernon's team of English cricketers which is to visit Australia. . Captain Edwin telegraphs to«day. — Warnings for gales and rain within from 10 to 16 hours have been sent to all places. The Ball Committee of the Manchester Rifles will meet to-morrow night to arrange preliminary -business. We understand they have determined to make the event : ,->■ A number of candidates for Parliamentary -honors are in favor of abolishing Education Boards, and Waste Lands Boards. They will change their views' probably after the elections. - ; . . A womany named Elizabeth Pawson, is to be proceeded against in Wellington, under the Cemeteries Act, for allowing the body of a child to be buried in her back yard. The sulphur deposits at. Matala are being vigorously worked, and ten natives are employed in punting it down the river. Twenty-fire or thirty tons a week are being taken out for shipment to Auckland. An old settler named Daniel Peck, who arrived in Wellington by the ship Gath- : erine Stewart Forbes on 11th June, 1841, died at Wellington on the 4th August, and leaves 104 children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren; aged, 77 years. Mrs Martha Rick man, aged 64 years, has been arrested for wholesale poisoning in the County of Lamblbw, Toronto, Canada. During the past ten years she has poiaoned her husband, eldest son, somanriaw, and his eighteen months' old girl and her daughter-in-law. Her latest cute was that of her sister-in-law. The total nominal capital of the new companies brought out daring last year was £70,938,200. In 1885 the total was only £20,377,350; so that there was the amazing increase of £60,560.850. Of this nominal capital £52,881,001 was actually offered by the public (including the holdings of the promoters.) In our report of the last meeting of the Manchester Rifles in mentioning the retirement of Sergeant Nicholas we omitted, to state that he had held the rank of Color-Sergeant since the formation of the corps, and in consequence of his resigning each non-commissioned officer receives a step in rank. Color-Sergeant Bilderbeck is now the senior non-commissioned officer. According to Truth it is rumored that the editor of the Evening Press is likely to soon take up his residence in London, and enter upon the work of Magazine literature. There is no doubt that' Mr Wakefield is a brilliant writer, though not a successful editor, and ; his fluent' and pungent pen would be amply rewarded m the great centre of literary activity. The additions made in Mr Keen's shop were made none tbo soon if we may judge by the new advertisement which appears to-day on our first page. The new stock arrived yesterday and was opened up and marked at prices .which Mr Seen claims will defy competition. He thinks competition is the soul of business and is determined to keep down his prices against all the men in the country. We understand the handicapppr* for the Captain's prize, of the Manchester Rifles, will be nominated at the next meeting of the Council.. It. will be remembered that this money prize was offered about two years ago to be competed for, by two squads selected from the corps, in bayonet exercise, but as a difficulty was experienced in getting the men together for practice that idea had to be abandoned. W. Murphy, the light weight champion boxer of the Colony, writes from Dunedin that he has made marches .with Burgess, a local pugilist of good reputation, for £50 a side, and with J. Faddes, of Port Chilmerx, for £25 a side. Faddes weighs list 61b, and has got to train down to list. Murphy thinks he will beat Burgess pretty easily, but remarks that he "has his work cut but*' with Faddes, on account of the latter'? weight. He meets Burgess to: morrow night and Fades next week.— N.Z. Times, The Promenade Concert held on Saturday evening in the Public Hall, by the Makino Band, was not so well patronised by the public as the occasion deserved. There was another meeting of citizens which, no doubt, was a counter-attraction. The weather also was threatening and unsettled which kept a good many poople at home. The programme was an attractive one and tWpieces were all beautifully rendered. We hope the members of the band will continue in their efforts to make thisdescriptipnof concert popular. The coal beds of China are five times as. large as those of all Europe, while gold, iflver, lead, tin, copper, iron, marble and petroleum are all found in the greatest abundance. Owing to the pre* judice of the people, the mines .have: never been worked to any extent, it being the popmlar belief in China that if these mines are opened thousands of demons and spirits - imprisoned in the earth would come forth and fill the country with war and suffering. ; : It is claimed that by a new process white wood can be made so tough as to require a cold chisel to split it. -The result is obtained by steaming the wood and submitting it to end pressure, technically " upsetting" it. thus cbmpressing the cells and fibres into one compact mass. It is the opinion of those who have experimented with the; process that: wood can be compressed aeventy»five per j cent., and that some timber which is now 1 considered unfit for use in such work as ' carriage building could be made valuable ! by this meant. v r - j Beef tea as ordinarily prepared is o f , little nutritive value ; but if the white of" an egg be mixed with a cupof beef tea and heated to about 160" degrees^FahV ■■ renheit the value of the beef tea is greatly enhanced. Again, if mihc«d raw beef be just covered with very weak h ydrochlprio acid (four* drops ■ of , acid to j one pint of water) and" left to macerate for the night, the liquid strained off and - squeezed out of the flesh by wringing in a cloth contains no much syntonia jat to make it highly nutritions when neutralised ; such a liquid w}U remain;: dear after boiling to remove the above raw flavour.-^-London Lancet. The following items are from our Foxtou contemporary :— On dit, that another call will shortly be made on the shareholders in the Manawatu Co-oper-ative Steam Shipping Company.— The Board received an "eyeopener" from the Provincial Di*tric' Auditor, who He- , dined to certify to the balance sheet for , the reason that the amount of LlO 10s, : chnrced in the accounts as paid to mem« ■ bers " for attending meetings,'' would require tp be refunded. It is remarked that this charge had been paid for six | years, and that was the first occasion on ; which it had been challenged, j

The New Zealand Loan and Merca- - tile Agency Company have received the following from their London office, dated the 6th inst : — Tallow — Fine quality has declined 6d per cwt. since last -report. Other quotations are unchanged; < "Can you tell me, sir, whether this is the Christian at Work ?", inquired, a stranger mildly. "No sir; blank those blankety blank blacksmiths to blank. Yoh will find the editor of the* Christian at Work two flights down stairs, back =room?« I-m the' i pr<»f=read«K tti -- The Auckland Star, referring to the bankruptcy question says :— The real remedy for the gigantic evil which every ..one deplores isriu?: the^hand»- of -whole-* sale houses. If they were less eager to push business, more cautious in giving credit,; and more loyal in -support to retailers who are doing sound trade! we should hare fewer , bankruptcies. ■ In order-to bring this wholesome change about it is not necessary to await .the slow movements of a paternal Government. v A Melbourne paper says:— A horrible crime was committed near Green Creek, about 25 miles from the Croydon gold--field. A man named Sherwood went into the bush, leaving his wife and s man named Travers. On his return he found that his wife had been literally roasted alive, and that Travers had cleared out, taking a large sura of money with him. The women stated that Travers forced and kept her on the fire. She has since died. Travers was arrested at Croydon. As showing the durability of the Natr lye silver pine, we may mention that Dr Lemon has now on view in his office a piece of the abive named timber, part of a telegraph pole, which has been 14 years in the ground, and i* still quite sound, and as hard as a stone. He has also a piece of a log of the' same species of timber, which has been unearthed, hay« ing lain under ground, to judge by the age of the birch trees growing over it, for upwards ot 100 years." specimen is also perfectly sound, and is capable of receiving a beautiful polish. Both pieces come from Hokitika, whence the Department is n»w getting its telephone poles of silver pines. The Auckland Bell of the 3rd instant has the following startling paragraph :-rThere are dark rumours in the commercial world of Auckland. Some half-a-dozen prominent firms are reported to be on the verge of tumbling, and all sorts of shifts and device* are being resorted to to stave off the dreaded and apparently inevitable collapse. We do not mention names, because it would be unfair to do so on mere rumour, but the fact that; these things are being talked aHoul; is very significant. It looks as if times were going to be worse before they are ; better. A few weeks ago we recorded that the teacher at the Awahuri School, Mr'Cboke, had obtained the Board's sanction to alter the date of the winter holidays ;. at his school, to enable him to go to Chnstchurch to be examined m practical chemistryby Professor Bickerton. We now; learn that he was entirely successful in that . examination. It appeared it was necessary for him , to attend a special course of instruction in that subject at Canterbury College in order to comply with the regulations of the University, although he is a practical chemist. With that view he also undertook some work of a more advanced character. Having passed the practical examination he is now qualified to attend the November University examination for a C certificate According to a recent .bulletin of the United State* FislC Commission, mos« quitoes ire a deadly enemy t« young lirook trout.' kn observer states that in June. 1882, while sitting by the Tumi* cine Creek, in Gunnison Valley, Colors » dq, where the 'water was dear and shallow, be saw *> number of newly hatched mountain brook trout swimmi ng about. When One of these came to the surface of the water, a mosquito would fly at him and drive his trunk into the little creature's brains. When the mosquito flew away the little fi«h turned over dead. In the course of half : an hour the observer saw some twenty troul killed in this way. The locality Wai near 'the snow live, and the water cold. It is possible that- other infant fish may be killed by the same harpy, ; Said one man to another (or if he did hot say it, he meant it, which comes to the same thing) " Did you ever see^anything more ridiculously cheap than those tweed suits at 16s 6d, 18s 6d, and 20s now going off at To Aro House, Wellington?", . ■■ . , ..... :'■■ -.[ ■ ..;>■.■>.:.:■ ■ Did you ever see anything hko the bargains in sac and Pagit coats for 7s 6d and 10s 6d, each. It tempts one to buy whether you want it or not, Fancy; too, a choice of good, durable tweed, trousers -from 3a 6d to 6s 6d, and your pick of tweed- trousers and vests from 6s 6d, to 10s 6d at Te Aio House, Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Wellington. As for pilot and. Tweed overcoats, where can you see anything to equal them at 12s 6d, Ids, 17s 6d and 20s each ? No wonder such a roaring trade is now 1 being done in the Clothing Department at Te Aro House, Wellington. . ! Have you seen the strong .Harvard shirts and the durable Crimean shirts for one shilling, each, the white, dress shirts at half-a-erovon each, the flannel under- ; shirts at 2s lid each, the strong military socks at 8d per pair. All these and V number of other articles equally Cheap; now selling rapidly at the. Wholesale; Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro! House, Wellington.; .. > '„ .- ; . { If you have hot, O man, it is time you; did. Come at 'once and secure some of these bargains. If unable to come, send; , your wife, who will, doubtless, make far ; better purchases than you would yourself! at Te Aro House, Wellington, j All goods purchased at Te Aro House i will, if so desired, be sent to the Wei-! lington Bailway Station free of expense. •