Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 58, 3 November 1887, Page 2

Local and General News

We hare received Russell's Monthly Time Table for November. The Palmerston crioketera have begun to hold .meetings for the formation of clubs. We have received Typo for October. As usual it is full of valuable information for the trade. Mr Grace, in response to a requisition, has deeided to stand for the Palmerston Mayoralty. The programme of the Sports to be held in Palmerston on the 9th inst. appears elsewhere. The Borough Council will meet this evening at the usual hour and place. A considerable amount of business will be laid before the councillors. The manager of the Palmerston North Tannery and Fellmongery Company advertises the company are buyers of wool in any quantity at the highest rates. Joe Thompson, the leviathan book maker, reckons that over L2.000.000 is distributed in connection with sporting in Australia during ft period of twelve months. Foxton wants to be made a Borough. We believe that with an energetic Mayor and intelligent Councillors, the port of Foxton would be vastly improved, and its splendid river accommodation turned to some account. A Gisborne lawyer's bill of costs for L6.300 has been settled for L1 ,600 ! A contemporary asks : — What would be thought of a grocer or a draper who sent in a heavy bill and then consented to take one-fourth of the amount claimed P According to an Auckland special Major Atkinson offered Sir R. Stout a seat in the Legislative Council, with the portfolio of Attorney General. Sir E. Stout, wMle thanking Major Atkinson for the offer, declined it from a feeling of loyalty to his late colleagues. We remind our readers that the talented Greenwood family will appear in the Town Hall to-night, ' when we hope to see a crowded house. The fame of these musical artists has travelled far, and wherever they have played large and fashionable audiences have greeted them. They play here one night only. Tickets for the entertainment may be obtained at Mr Carthew'fl. The Mataura Standard understands that Mr Greenhaigb, a new arrival from the old country, has taken an interest in the Mataura Falls Paper Mill. Mr Greenhnigh is reported to be a thoroughly practical paper-maker, and is capable of j turning out a variety of qualities, so that we may now look for something better in the way of paper manufacture than New Zealand haa jet seen. A eorresp- ndent from Masfrrton renting that diphtheria is prevalent in the tiutt district, sends us (N. Z. Times) the following recipe, which he has found Tery efficacious in his own ease: — ••■ One pint of vinegar, a large handful of sage leaves, a cupful ef honey. Boil and simmer for 20 minutes, strnin, nni when cold add a I urge leaspoonful of cayenne pepper. Take a tablespoon fal erery quarter of an hour if the case is n bnd one far about five doses; then afterwards one dose every hour till cured.

Captain Edwin Telegraphs to-daj :— Warnings for gales and rain after from 10 to 16 hours have been sent to all place* south of Napier and N&ir PlymoK'h. Mr Marchant, Chief Surveyor, has been visiting the Small Farm Settlements in this district, and expressed himself as highly pleased with the progress they are making He made special allusion to the work done at the Birmingham Settle ment. He left by train this morning for Wanganui. We learn that diphtheria has again made its appearance in Bulls, but as yet it is confined to a couple of oases. From former exDerience of this dreaded complaint, anxiety on the part of parents has been aroused. It is to be hoped that the visitation will not be attended with abnormal mortality which had to be recorded last time. Notwithstanding preliminar? experiments and heavy legal and other expenses, the dividends from the Mount Morgan mine, Queensland, up to the present time have been at the rate of £200,000 per annum, with a large balance on hand to meet expenses. It is authoritatively stated that when the new appliances get to work dividends will be paid to the extent of £1,000,000 per annum. Heavy Rnmmercial failures are the order of the day. At Invercargill Mr J. T. Martin, the welUknown brewer, has filed with|liabilities amounting to £4,1036 15s, against which he shows assets to the extent of £45,762. or a surplus of £4726 6s. Among the secured liabilities is is L17.100 to the Union Bank. In Danedin we notice the filing of one Edward McGlashan, gentleman, whose liabilities, L1319, are almost mude up of sums due to limited liability companies of which the debtor was a shareholder. A high-toned Yankee once asserted that the whole of the British Isles couid be put in the corner of an American turnip field. He perhaps exaggerated, but if a statement . which comes from Louisiana be true, there is certainly a farm across the Atlantic which would swallow a goodly portion of Scotland. It is the south-east corner of Louisiana, and it is said to be the largest known. It runs 160 miles north and south. The im mense tract is difided in convenient pastures, with stations or ranches every six miles. The fencing aleno cost nearly LIO.OOO. The Master of the Hawks scandal, says a London paper, is not to be allowed to rest. Mr Ban bury and Mr Brad* laugh have their eyes on this remarkable sinecure, and the Secretary or the Treasury will have to answer a series of ques» tions of a very searching character. The allegation is that of the sum of £965 paid «ut of the Consolidated Fund for the total expenses of an office now abol» ished, se far as work goes,, the Master's salary was £391, and the remaining £574 was intended to defray the wages of keepers and the food of birds. But there are no keepers and no hawks at at the present day, and the Master ab sorbs the whole £965. Where there is a reason to suspect the character of the water supply, a useful test is that by means of a permanganate of potash. Drop a crystal or two of this substance into a tumbler of water. After the fluid has become of a light; pink colour add a very little of the solution to the suspected water. If the suspected water remains pink, and the colour dissolves well throughout the fluid, tho probability is that it is free from organic impurities. It, on the con trar>, the pink colour disappears, the water should be reacted as dangerous for drinking purposes. To-day's . N. Z. Times says:— lt^ is rumoured that the Opposition meeting has been postponed until Sir Julius Voxel ha« had time to studj the tables appended to the Budget, and that the caucus may be held to day. It is freely asserted that the Opposition will not be able to score more than 37 to 40 votes against the Ministerial policy as set forth in the Financial Statement. — Mi Joyce has given notice to ask the Government, if it is contemplated by the Financial Statement, delivered on Tuesday to dispense with the services of Mr Max well, the; General Manager of Railway'i who is now on a trip to £ur»pe ? We learn that two gentlemen in this city, Messrs Tindalland Bond, employes of. Messrs Thompson, Shaunon, and Co., have met with a wonderful piece of good luck in connection with the Melbourne Cup. The gentlemen in question were fortunate enoughfto draw Silyermine in Adam's consultation (which is held in Melbourne) on the raee, the prizes of which are LSOOO, L2OOO, and LIOOO. In order to come out with something in hand they laid off L3OOO to L2OO against the horse. As will be seen from our cable message, Silvermine ran second, and consequently the fortunate pair win L2200. As things have turned out, they have won L2OO more by the hor»e finishing second than if be had won the race. Such good fortune is rarely experienced.—N. Z. Times. Those ladies who are fond oi novelties, who are delighted to see the latest fashions, and who admire the beautiful at any time, should, without doubt, visit the showroom at Te Aro House, Wellington. The "lonic" and " Kimutaka," mail steamers, brought us several cases of the latest outcomes of fashion in ladies' and girls' untrimmed straw hats. There is an immense variety of plain, fancy, and speckled straws, while the shapes are all the rage in the fashionable circles of Paris and London, and mav be seen in profusion at Te Aro House, Wellington. We do not think that any house in the city can show anything at all to equal our millinery or millinery requisites for style, elegance, and value, aud we would advise every lady m Wellington before deciding on purchasing to see our new summer fashions at Te Aro House, Wellington. We would extend a cordial invitation to one and all to walk through our warehouse, and visit the milißery department. Our assistants will be only too happy to show all the novelties received up to date, and no one will be pressed to buy at To Aro House, Wellington. Oub imported millinery bonnets and trimmed hats are the creme de la creme of Parisian and London fashions, and need only to be seen to be at once admired and purchased at Te Aro House, Wellington. . ' The order department is under the management of a practised and efficient milliner, second to none in the city. All orders will be executed in finished style and elegance at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. . ■ Ottr Eefreshment Boom on the premises open daily during business howrp will be found to be a wonderful convenience by visitors from the country to Te Aro House, Wellington. . All goods purchased at Te Aro House will, if so desired, be Bent to tho Wei' lwgton Railway Station free oi oxpe'twe.