Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 33, 28 August 1888, Page 2

Local and General News

* We have to request that those interested will give their earnest attention to our notice over leader, in connection with outstanding accounts. We have received No. 27 of Hansard. A most elegaut and tasteful brides' cake was on view at Mr Pollock's to-day. We understand the wedding will take place this week. It is reported that the exppnse to which The Times has been put in defending the libel cnse brought against it hv O'Donnell amounts to between £30,000 and £40,000. j The Woodville Examiner has discovered that under Mr Maxwell's management it seems to be the policy to make the railway journeys as slow and as uncomfortible as posbible.

Messrs Pringle Bros, will open their new shop, in Fergusson street, on Friday next, and a reference to our wanted column will show that everyone is invited to go and see the show of meat. , | The question which is now exercising • the minds of Feildiug jokera is "Can a man legally marry his widow's niece ?" This we understand was put to two candidates for the House in Nelson, neither of whom could answer it. Three brothers, who wen* onvicted at Liverpool on August 10th of selling inde* cetit photograph.*, were sentenced lo two y ears' imprisonment, with haro labour, a .d to find su.eties to be of good beliavi* '. our f>>r seven years. Tue severity of the ! sentence is generally commented upon J and upproved. i A very curiou* geographical distribu« i tion of certain virtues and vices has bw»-n ' : mooted by a scientist. Intemperance is I mostly found above latitude 48<lpg.. am* ( atory aberrations south of the forty»fifth. j financial extra vngunce in large sen ports, i industrial thrift in pastoral highland re* '■ gions. j A physician of Philadelphia an<il}Z?d a black japaned hnt-band worn by a patient suffering from headache, and found it coniainud three grains of one of the lead salts. From ttiis cause he concludes that many headaches are often due to the absorption of the lead in the hutband. The magic lantern entertainment held in the Wesleyan Chapel on Friday night, was a decided success. The Eev. Mr Tinslev was an amusing and interestinglecturer, while Mr Patten who manipulated the lantern, presented many entirely new and startling pictures to the delighted audience. The building was crowded and the affair has resulted well financially. A lesson to advertisers ! In Wellington last week the Evening Press had to sue a defaulter for a quarter's advertising. Defendant denied his liability, as he had intended to advertise for one quarter? However, he did not give notice in writing, and consequently the Court, not believing his story, made him pay his printer. Two local graziers, who have tried dosing lambs affected with lungworm with gum leaves, report the result satisfactory. The lambs are penned a few hours until hungry, and boughs of bluegum are thrown in, when they eat the leaves, and eucalyptus oil is believed to permeate the system and disagree with the lungworm. — Hawera Star. It will be seen from the report of the meeting, which appears in another column, that a strong cricket club has been formed of which Mr Sherwill has been elected captain, and Mr Wnghtson secretary and treasurer. Efforts will be made to obtain the use of the paddocks adjoining the Denbigh Hotel from Messrs Stevens and Gorton for practice and play. Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co. are selling their noted lever watches, chronographs and chronometers at extraordinary low prices. They are clearing off £10,000 worth prior to the issue of their new catalogue with the i-evised lists of prices. The list of watches with their prices will be found in our advertising columns, and are well worth perusal by anyone wanting a good time-keeper. A London correspondent writes that Sir Julius Yogel has decided to remain in England up to the end of the present year. So far, he says, I <lo not think he has done much towards floating a com pany for the publication of his proposed " Picturesque Atlas of t'i« Pacific." Sir Julius is in better health now than he as been f>r some time. He is able to get abo it with ttie aid of two sticks. A strike of prie.its is horrifying Roman rCiuh> lies in the Argentine Republic. The Government ha».e i>i led an order lowering the fees for masses, marriages, burials, and other ecdesiast.cul functions, the priest s determined to resist such an encroachment on tneir privilages, and refused to officiate- So all the churches were closed, and not a bell was to i>e heard, as if the whole country were under an edict. Apropos of auctioneering, it is reassuring to see the extent of improvement now being carried out by the Messrs Baker Bros, at their offices, Lambton Quay. It argues well in favor of the stability of business in this line. Thej' have cut away an immense space i.ut of the solid rock in the rear of their premises and are building a very large auction mart thereon. Thi < y >ung firm should be encouraged in their plucky venture, and. we have no doubt but they will succeed. — Wellington Herald. To ensure success in grafting work bear in mind the following rules laid down by all good authorities : — l. Use a sharp saw and knife. 2. Graft stone fruits early. 3. Tie well alt whip and saddle grafts. 4. Cover over well with the wax or clay all exposed wood, 5. Do not split the stock too far. 6. Pay attention to all we have advised. 7- Make the inner bark of stock and coin always even, and not the outside. Do not set the graft quite down to the shoulder ; but leave a little of the white wood above the stock. This will cause the stock to iieal over at once : for new wood makes from the white wood above the graft ; and runs over the stock in a short time, and makes a perfect union. More failures are due to the neglect ot this point than people imagine. Nearly the whole of the great weatth of the late Hugh M'Calmont, who died in October last, leaving £3,122,000 in porsonal estate, was left in trust to accumulate tor .-even years after the testator's death, if his grand nephew. Mr Harry Leslie Blundell M'Calmont, be ttoen Jiving, the trust fund which, with accumulation and reinvestment of income, will by that time probably amount to nearly £4,000,000, will pass to him, al. though the exact moment, on the 9th of October, 1894. at which the trustees will be warranted in transferring the money, it might perhaps be very difficult, in the i event of disputed succession, to determine. If Mr H. L. B- M'Calmont should not live to succeed to his uncle's property it was left by the will for division amongst Mr Hugh M'Calmont, Mr Hugh Barkhe Blundell M'Calmont, and Mr Barklie Cairns M'l'wlmonfc in equal shares. Mr Hugh Bark lie Blundell M'Calmont died at The Spa, Tunbridge Wells, last month: — St. Jam< s Gnzette. Mr S. J, Thompson, of the Eed House, Feilding, has been appointed sole agent m Feilding for the "scrub exterminator." It is not a machine to be worked by steam or by horse power, neither is it a tool of any sort to be worked by the hands of man, as might be supposed, but a chemical preparation, which, when applied to scrub, briar, gorse, docks, sorrel, etc.. destroys the same. The manufacturers, who are a Melbourne firm, have receiyed numerous testimonials from : farmers, gardeners, and nurserymen, tes- i tifying to its destructive qualities, and ! highly recommending it to agriculturists and horticulturists. Mr Thompson is now opening up a consignment, and will be willing to give information to persons wishing to test the " scrub ex terminator," — Advt. '

There will be a sitting of Justices at the R.M. Court to-morrovr. Inspector Vereker-Bindon is examining the Awahuri school to-dny. ! The new music warehouse of Messrs Collier and Co., in the Avenue, Wan^aaui, is very highly spoken of in the Herald Cobbe and Darragh have received' a small assortment of very pretty Flannelettes, which are well worthy of attention. We are pleaaed to learn from the local ' paper that Nature has " ordained" Pahiatua. -> Messrs Baker and Cc. have purchased, for breeding purposes, the thorough bred ' mare Fugitive, by Anteros (imported) out of Sludge. Mr Armstrong, teller of the Feildmg ! Branch of the Bank of Australasia, left for Auckland yesterday morning for a i fortnight's hohday. | Mr Hudow who bought Mr Ward's | farm on the Awahuri road, is building a ' new residence for himself, as the old one ' < was in a bad position and quite unsuit- | able. Two very neat and serviceable looking lamp posts hare been put up at the rail* way station. The lamps will not only give good light on the platform but also on the npproaches to the station. A letter received in town (says the Wanganui Herald) by the last mail states that Dudley Eyre was doing the grand properly in Frisco, and that he expressed himself as being very glad to see anybody from Wanganui, The members of the Christ's Church (Wanganui) choir have gone back to work. They thought it would be too much altogether for them and the Newcastle miners to be out on strike at the same time. We think so too. Charles Henry, Esq., our one time fellow citizen, is in a fair way to receive punishment, but has apparently not yet been arrested in Sydney. How like to a spider's wed is that law which catches the little fly and lets the wasp and hornet break through. The Premier stated in the House that it will be necessary to employ an expert to have control of the invoices passing through the Customs Department. There had always been considerable leakage, but now that the tar ff was higher the step would be all the more necessary. The meeting of persons interested in the Horticultural Society on Saturday night was not well attended owing to other attractions. A second meeting will be called at no distant date when it is expected the President and Vice-president and other officers will put in an appears ance, and take a lively interest in the pre codings.