Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 136, 9 May 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

Mr Ellery Gilbert, pianoforte tuner, will be in Feilding on the 13th instant. Ml* Carthew received to-day his usual monthly case of books and periodicals. Mr S. Powell, of Wanganui, has been appointed starter for the Hawkes Bay Jockey Club. The attractions offerred to sportsmen at Apiti are pigs and pigeons. Both are rolling fat. There is an increase of 12,047 in the population between the Hutt and the liangitikei Rivers, according to the census. Otir local Mrs Malaprop, who is not built on the Lady Meßefch pattern, complains that " She cannot add a cupid to her statue." A convenient office has been erected by Mr W. Watts, builder, for Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co. in connection with their sale yards at Warwick street. A meeting of officers of volunteer corps in the Wanganui district will be held in the Drill Hall, Wanganui, on Wednesday next, to consider a reply to Lieut.-Col. Stapp's farewell address. The Manchester Rifles will probably be represented by Captain Pleasants and Lieutenant Kirton. A rifle match will probably be arrangei to be fired between teams chosen from the Manchester Rifles and Civilians, as soon as Captain Pleasants 1 for the Rifles, and Mr J. 0. Morey for the Civilians, settle preliminaries and choose teams for the contest. Mr Jens Jensen, who Was for some years in business here as a farrier and blacksmith, has commenced business at Bunnythorpe as a firewood cutter. He has an engine in full work and will advertise his prices in the course of a few days. The grass seed sowing in the Maugaono district is just about finished, and a good many of the paddocks, especially the Spur road, are already lookiug green and beautiful. Fencing, also, is going on apace, nearly all the settlers being very busy at it. The rapid progress of Palmerston is alike creditable to the resoursos of the district and to the energy of the settlors. Where in the old day.", not so many years iigo either, the Paitnerstonmns wore contout with the homely one storey ed building, now nothing less thau three storeys are considered worthy of even passiug comment. The Roman Catholic Church, with its beautiful steeple and spire, is also an ornament to thfl plae«.

Captain Edwin telegraphs:— Weatkei forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to dayWarnings for northerly gales have been Bent to all places. - • ■ In the. ease of W. Jones v. M. McGratb, hearcl at Palmerston on Thursday last/ a verdict was given for defendant, on the ground that defendant was inebriated and incapable of transacting business wEen the negotiations were completed. The case arose out of the sale of the Awahuri Hotel. With the most commendable generosity Mr T. Lowes, of Birmingham, has very kindly presented to Mr Anyon a section of land, building site, an behalf of the Wesley an body, for the election of a church. Numerous other friends and outsiders have promised donations towards the building fund. The first Senior Cup match of the season was played at Morton this afternoon, between teams representing the Marton and Feilding football clubs. It will be remembered the last defeat the Feilding seniors received, was at the hands of the Martou team three seasons ago, and the sumo may be repeated to-day — but we doubt it. It will be seen by the notice which appears elsewhere, that Miss Hannah Roach, who for so many years ably filled the position of assistant teacher at the Feilding State School, was married in the Eoman Catholic Church, at Bulls, on Tuesday last to Mr Gregory Mullins. Every one in Feilding will join with us in wishing the bride and bridegroom every happiness and many years of a prosperous future. A discovery has bfen made near the bridge of St. Angelo, Rome, in the c »urse of the works for the embankment of the Tiber. A column has been found bearing an inscription commemorating the games held every 100 years to celebrate the foundation of the city. The ode written for the occasion by Horace is also in« scribed on the pillar. [ Owing to the insufficiency of ace otnI rr ddation m the Mangaone schoolhouse, the committee have found it necessary to convert the teacher's residence into an extra schoolroom, into which the Ist standard and infant classes have been removei. Mr Densham, the master, has, in consequence, taken up his residence on his farm near by. A tire test for wool is recommended by the Lnnct. After separating the warp From the wool, hold .vacb. to a ftame. No threads can be traced in the ash of wo- 1. which burns to a s-haceless mass or ceases to blaze if removed from the fire before combustion is complete. Cotton, now* ever, continues to burn steudily, and the shape of the thread is retained in the ash. Try it. In the Nilgins, a well known planter lias introduced a rival to tea and coffee in the Bnzilian tree Gruarana. The tree produces a Fruit about tlie size of a wal nut, containing five or six seeds. Th." seeds are roasted, mixed with water, and dried. Before being used they require grinding, vrhi ; n they fall into a kia;i of powder. The active principle is an alkaloid, identical with thai found m tea aud coffee ; but there is as much of it in Guarana as there is in tea. The effect? are similar to those of tea or coffee. A petition has been lodged at the Residents Magistrate's Court, Palmerston North, against the election of the Feilding Licrfns : n<» Committee, ani the Locsil Option poll. The iocuineut was deposited by Mr J. C. Thompson, and bears the signatures of W. Watts and John Gould, as candidates, aud W. Brandt, H Christensen, and J. Hicks, as electors, and J. 0. Thompson, J.P., us witness to the .signatures. The objection of the peti lion ere is to the votes exercised by agents for absentees. It was reported not long since in the Times that a consignment of tea from Ceylon, recently sold at Mine ; nX L'uie was, in the opinion of experts, the fin pst tea ever grown. It was ultimately sold for no less a sum than 87s a pound ! and again changed hands at £5 10s — a price never before approached in the ten trade. Bravo, Ceylon! ifonour to th>raenvry nf Hie botanists in India, whose labour and discoveries more than half a century ago, rendered such things possible To prevent the paint on iron or woml from scaling off when exposed to ilio weather, first thoroughly wash the parrs I<> he painted and then brush over the surface with hot linseed oil. By foJ. lowing this method, (.'specially with iron articles, no scaling of the paint will occur. In cases where the articles to bo painted are small and can be readily heated, it is better to heat them and plunge them into the oil. The thin liquid oil nlien hot enters into the poreß of the metal, absorbs the mois (are, and the paint then np.ilieri so firml y adheres that frost, rain, or air cannot effect a separation. Our Mangaone correspondent writes : — " Some of the roads in the Mangaone district are begming to require the services of a roadman. The Taonui and Spur roads have both a good many rather bad holes in them, and the cutting on the latter road is in a very bad state, the water-table is completely filled up, so that in wet weather the surface water runs across the road, and ia gradually washing the metal down into Mr Millen's paddock. The Warden, Mr Pearoe, is indefatigable in the performance of hi 9 duties, and he will add to the high opinion in which he is held by his fellow settlers if he will give these things his attention."