The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1888. Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 44, 20 September 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1888. Local and General News

« The Tongariro left Capetown for New ' Zealand on the 14th inst. J The s.s. Doric arrived at Hobart on ' Tuesday and left yesterday for Auckland i with 194 passengers. A meeting of the Library Committee ■ will be held at. the Borough Council ; chambers this evening. I Sir William Fox will leave for Mcli bourne, at the end of next month, to attend the International Temperance Conference. Mr Bullen, late Inspector of Police of ' the Hawke's Bay district, has obtained an : appointment in the Property Tax Department at Wellington. A glove match was arranged in Christchurch on Tuesday night, between Laing and Ellis for £25 a- side, to take place : within three weeks. Bear-Admiral Fairfax will visit Wellington about December in the Orlando, 1 .accompanied by two other war vessels on the Australian station. The Maori haka troupe will leave for Melbourne early in October. There are : ten men and ten women in the company. The trip will last twelve months. The use of the Scotch tawse in State i schools is objected to on the grounds of ! that instrument of punishment being sectarian, with a flavor of Calvinism. Mr Meadows, representing a London produce firm, who was expected here some days ago, will visit this district and Hawkes Bay on his return from Auckland. The mail tram from Wellington was half an hour late yesterday. .The cause: pf the delay was the new engines on the Manawatu- Welhugton section refusing to run up to time. A card appears over leader to-day from Messrs Knowlos and Hervey, commission ageuts and sharebrokers, of Wellington. It will be seen that this firm is prepared to negotiate mortgages on freehold securities at low rates of interest, and to undertake the sale of properties in town and country. In Belgium there is a veterinary surgeon who tames the wickedest noree or any horse difficult to shoe. He pours on a cloth a quarter of an ounce of an essence made from the distillation of parsley. The horse becomes immediately quiet, gentle as a lamb. The roots and leaves of parsley enjoy the reputation of possessing medicinal qualities of a calmingcharacter, Parsley seeds, when distilled, yield a camphor that intoxicates like haschich. A party of gentlemen (say» the Taranaki Herald) who drove to Panhaka for a trip on Sunday, state that the meeting which was being held there was a pretty numerously attended one, there being, it was estimated, fully 1000 in the settlment on that day, drawn from the Kiangas up ' and down the coast. The. two .Maori bakers, who have ovens at the settlement, were turning out 3000 buns on Sunday to be eaten at the feast, they have already made a large stock of bread. Tie settlement also boasts of a tonsonal artist and several storekeepers, and the natives are ' apparently endeavoring to imitate a European town as much aa possible. .

"A Shearing has commenced in this district. Captain Edwin telegraphs at 9 a.m. to-duy :~Barometer further rise everywhere. A Canterbury sheepfarmer tried to " earmark* an earthquake. It is said he "had the shakes" at the time. A meeting of those interested in the Mangaone. « ricket Club will be held in the sehoolro in oh Saturday evening at eight o'clock. The rumor that the headquarters ofthe Bank of Nbw Zealand were to be shifted to Wellington, was started merely to annoy the Auckland people. " Things are looking up," remarked a local business man this morning. , "Three or four weddings, besides a lot of men j drunk yesterday. The depression is on the wane." The match to be played on Saturday between the football teams of Marton and Feilding will be the concluding one of the season, and, as the match will be a well fought "battle from beginning to finish, it should be worth seeing. We are pleased to notice that the ale turned out by Messrs Wrightson and Wright ia gaining a good reputation outside the district, and to-day that firm forwarded a consignment to a client at Wanganui. A Blenheim telegram dated Tuesday says there is no special news from Mahakipawa. Reports are coming in of gold indications in every direction. It was rumoured that gold had been found in the Whakaka Range close to Blenheim. There will be on view, at Eade and Venn's furniture warehouse, to-morrow and Saturday, a grand display of draw-ing-room furniture, made to the order of an Awahuri resident. The workmanship and good taste displayed by the maker are very creditable. Says last night's Herald : — If the farmers had only known a little earlier, they would have gone largely for wheat this season. The prospects in fact are quite exciting, and many even at this late penod are thinking of sowing. Where the land is favourable, a crop of wheat at present prices would pay better than any other. The subject is agitating the farmers along the coast. A despatch, dated London, August 10, says there is deep concern over the destruction of crops by the recent rain*, and cold weather. Meetings of landlords and tenants are being held to consider the situation, and the conclusion reached is that English farmers must abandon wheat-raising ; that the uncei tain climate, coupled with foreign competition, renders it impossible to make wheat pay as a crop. The marriage is announcod to-day of Mr Wm. F. Mcßeth, sixth son of Mr John F. Mcßeth, of Dunsmaue, to Miss Maria Howie, youngest daughter of Mr W. Howie, of Rangitikei. The ceremony took place yesterday at the Bonny Glen Church, and the happy couple arrived at Feilding by the mail train in the afternoon, and at once drove up to the Kiwitea, where they will permanently reside. We wish the bride and bridegroom many long years of prosperity and happiness. At a meeting of parishioners, held in Wanganui on Tuesday night, the Rev. Mr Tuder is reported to have said the indebtedness of St. John's parish, Feilding, was £432. We have been requested to state this was an error, as the amount is now only £'356, and is being paid off in yearly instalments of £25. At the meeting referred to a vote of -tie-confidence in the present incumbent was passed by 15 voten to 9. As it is estimated there are 2000 members of the Church of England in Wanganui, the meeting could hardly be called a representative one. A most remarkable case was heard in the Dublin L:w Courts recently. A man named D"<>ley claimed to be entitled to an interest for life in a certain property belonging to his dead wife, on the ground that she had issue born alive. Her relatives disputed this, alleging that the woman gave birth to two still-born children. The husband, on the other hand, called the doctor to prove thatafter the delivery of the last child it gave one gasp of respiration and died a minute afterwards. The jury accordingly found for the husband. According to a Parisian paper, a laun« dry-man in the vicinit? of Paris had discovered a very ingenious method of cleaning linen without soap. He uses no soap, nor lye, nor chlorine, but replaces these substances by boiled potatoes, with which he rubs the linen. This curious process, it appears, is much superibr to those hitherto employed, and the worst soiled cotton, linen, or silk cleaned by the method are made whiter than they could be by •be use of an alkali. Besides, the method has the advantage that brushes can be dispensed with, and will water be used. At St. John's Church, Feilding, yesterday, Mr Carr, manager for Messrs Freeman B. Jackson and Co. here, was married to Miss Margaret Liddle, second daughter of Major Liddle, of Awahuri. In the afternoon the bride and bridegroom left by train en route for Nelson, where they will spend the honeymoon. There was a great crowd of friends of both -parties assembled on the railway platform, and the showers of rice thrown were very heayy. Although Mr Carr has not been long in Feilding, yet he has made a host of friends whose only hope is that he and his wife will enjoy a long life of wedded happiness. Telegraph poles are preserved in Nor* way by making an augur hole, about an inch in diameter, in each post, about two feet from the ground, and pointing down at a small angle till the centre of the j stick is reached. From four to five ounces of sulphate of copper, in coarsely I powered crystals, is inserted, and the i opening is stopped with a ping, which I projects so thnt it can be pulled out to ' admit of replacing the charge eyery three { or four months. The chemical is grad* j ually absorbed bj the wood, which is t said to perme'te to the very top of the j pole, the whole outside surface assuming ! a greenish tint, due to the presence of ! copper in the pores. This simple means': of preservation suggests the application of the same mireriul to otber purposes than telegrapii poles.