Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 157, 4 August 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ We have received No. 20 of Hansard from the Government printer. We have to acknowledge receipt of Russell's monthly timetable for August. Tbe Manchester Road Board met this affernoon. A report of the business done will appear in our next issue. The appointment of Captain Bray and Fireman Carthew, of the Feilding Pire Brigade, as Fire Inspectors under the provisions of " The Muncipal Corporations Act, 1886," is notified to-day. The many friends of Mr Lambert will be glad to learn that he has had a cablegram from' Mrs Lambert, who went Home for surgical advice, to the effect that she has been most successfully treated, and will return to this colony by the s.s. Tongariro. Great interest was taken in the erection of the frame of the bell tower yesterday. At one time we thought there would be an accident to report but, fortunately, the contractor had anticipated every adverse contingency and nothing resulted although there was a slip whioh might lav? men serious.

The Coptic arrived in Auckland yes* terday. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 9 a.m. to-day: — Warnings for gules and rain have been sent to all places. We regret to learn that diphtheria is again prevalent in New Plymouth, and fears are entertained several of the cases will prove fatal. On dit lhat ACr Larnach will return to his place in the House in a day or two, and that he intends to give M? Hobbs a " bit of his mind " insonneclion with that gentleman's recent question. There is some talk, says a Taranaki exchange, of a match being arranged be tween Ellis and L>iing, both of Wanganm, but nothing definite has been arranged. The former, who in the last few months, has vron two fights at Christchurch, is now in Wanganui visiting his relatives. The art of happiness is to extract the good wherever it may be found, to make it uppermost in the mind, to emphasise every blessing, to pay your printer, to ■welcome every joy, and to take delight in witnessing the happiness of others, and in addiug to it whenever it is possible. Counsel (to witness) : '•Do you know anything about the character of the previous witness, Mrs Kelly ? Is he conw sidered a good man ?" Mrs Kelly : " A good mon, is it ? Mike Finnegin, bad cess to him, a good mon ! Faith, he is not ! Conn Kelly can lick him wid wan band !" If all that be stated is correct, a blow is intended to be struck at the chemists by the Medical Act Amendment Bill, which is to be introduced by the Colonial Secretary. At present it is customary for persons with scalds or barns, toothache or other common complaints, to at once rush to the nearest chemist for relief ; but it appears that in the proposed measure a clause has been introduced which makes it an offence for a chemist to prescribe. Omaha Hotel Man—" You are a wonderfully lucky bouiface ; just think ! You have kept a hotel at .■••ararotfa for five seasons aud never had a scnndal yet. " Saratoga Hotel Vian-"No luck about it. It's good manjinerm'nt " " Manage ment !" " Yo.s si; 1 . 1 never allow m.y. clerks to give a man his wife's letters, «r a woman her hu- band's ietters," — Otntiha World. ' ! A Losing Joke.— A prominent physicinn of i/ittsburg said jokingly to a lady patient who whs complaining of her continued ill-health, nnd of his inability to cure her, "Try Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters!" The lady took it in earnest, and used the Bitters, from which she obtained permanent health. She now laughs at the doctor for his joke, but he is not so well pleased with it, as it cost him a good patient. — Harnsburg Patriot. The San Francisco correspondent of the New Zealand Herald states :— ' The Etruria has just crossed the Atlantic in six days one hour and fifty five minutes. The Aurania takes eight days and upward, so you have here alone a loss of two days in the through transportation of your mails. The Etruria covered 503 miles in 24 hours, and averaged 470 miles per di«m for six consecutive days, maintaming a speed of almost 20 miles per hour throughout the whole voyage. " We (Iron) recommend the following exercise as a means of warming the body during the severest weather, within a few moments :— Stand erect, with shoulders well back, raise the head, and then inflate (he lungs by a slow inspiration throug h the nose. Keep the bre.ath for ten seconds or longer ; and then expel the .air from the lungs through the month. Repeated a few times when one. feels chilly, this exercise soon brings warmth to the whole body, including the hands and feet. The following touching paragraph is from the Patea County Pre6B : —Verily the life of the Journalist is not all " beer and skittles." If events, are not chronicled there t s a general howl, if events are chronicled there's a special howler. The question to be considered is whether the general or the special howl is the one to suppress. We believe in quieting the general howl and letting the special howl go on howling ; it is more amusing and less exciting though it may not be quite as profitable. A parliamentary story is being told that is characteristic of the methods by which Mr Parnell manages to control his followers in the House of Commons. One of the best known of them, so far as vituperation is concerned, made a fiery speech lately, by order, no doubt, of his chief, and, meeting Mr Parnell immediately aferwards iv the lobby, greeted him familiarly with, "Did I do that well, Parnell ?" The leader of the Irish party drew back haughtily with the rebuke, " Mr Parnell, sir, if you please." Mr Jellicoe has applied for a habeas corpus in the case of Charles Henry now undergoing a term of imprisonment in Wellington, for an infringement of the Bankruptcy laws. The application was made upon the grounds that the prisoner was now detained without the authority of law ; that the warrant does not show who jurisdiction was granted to, or that the Court had jurisdiction in the bankruptcy of Henry ; that tho warrant does not define the prison in which the prisoner ie to be confined. His Honour granted a rule returnable on Wednesday, the 7th August, at 10 o'clock. Mr E. G-. Wright has forwarded to the Ohristchurch Press the following important extract from a letter from Messrs Stevenhagen and Co., London: — Since our mutual friend, Mr Kummerer, gave you his opinion on fine wools, things have altered materially. There have been great changes in fashion and machinery. The class of fleece washed, short-grown wool, which was once all the go, is now totally neglected. Wools like XE (in diamond), even if they got back to their old style, would not command such pnoes in relation to others as they used to in former times. The wool winch is in fayor, and likely to remain so, is a fine, elastic combing wool — it need not be too long ; and if with the help of your fine sheep, assisted by the good soil and good climate of New Zealand, you, can produce a wool of medium length (if rather more than medium length it would be better), fine, i sound, aud elastic, you will have the ! article which is required. You must shear in the grease, as greasy wools command the best competition. Fleece washed wools have from year to year become worse of sale, and are a drug in the market. We wrote years ago to the late Mr O. K. Cox to the same effect, that Mudgee was not the country to produce combing wool, but New Zealand is." Advkhtistng Cheats. — It has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article, and then run it into some advertisement, that we avoid all such cheats, and simply call attenation to the merits of Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters in as plain honest terms as possible, to induce people to give them one trial ,as no one who knows their value will ever use anything else. — Providence ' Advertiser.