Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 147, 4 June 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

« Typo for May is to hand. It is the most interesting number -yet published. c ■ General Booth will visit New Zealand ! at the end of the current year. Mr A. T. bard," proprietor of the-Marl-borough Press, published at Picton, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The man Floyd, charged with the murder of Veitch at Wairoa South, Auckland, ia to be examined as to his sanity. Lord Eandolph Churchill is on a gold prospecting expedition in Africa. The Rothchilds are said to be finding the tucker. At the last meeting of the Wauganui Harbor Board Board it was resolyed : — That Mr Bray be instructed to prepare an estimate of the cost of constructing the Pohangina Boad. Air .Samuel Daw, the popular proprietor of the Feilditig- Birmingham line of coaches, informs us that he frequently 1 soessto-iti dispori g themselves on t!>e Kimbolton road. At ; a recent encampment the password was " Geelbng." A big Irishman 4'ind in cj on the wutch saw a man com"- forvvurd " Halt there 1" said he. and, bejabers, if yo don't ,my •JkyUnK I'll run this biijoaet t'roughye I" So he said Geeloug.

Maes will be celebrated in St. Bridget's Church on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The report of the concert in the Makino school arrived too late for publication today aud will appear in our next issue. This week Mr W. Bellve has turned out a couple of sets of really first-class Harness to the order of a local business man. ' " ' We understand that Mr James Bennett, the well-known storekeeper at Awahuri, contemplates selling his business to a Mr Michol, recently from the West Coast. ■ Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for westerly gales have .been eent to all places. . - According; to Monday's Wairarapa > Daily, a Mangahao settler was offered 15s a-head tlie other day for 200 fat sheep, und would not sell. Miss Yett Guilb'ert is the present rage in Paris. She is slim, haa greea eyes and auburn hair. She cannot sing and does not try to, but chants. Miss Guilbert is a norelty, and the town is correspondingly mad over her. No. less than 164 entries have been made for the next Melbourne Cup of 10,000 sovs, and included iamong the en* trants^are Cuirassier, Tirailleur- and Merrie England. For theCaulfield Cup there are Idl nominations, inclnding Tirailleur aiid Kenuta: The Wellington Post suggests that a stamp fee of £o os should be charged for every commission of a Justice of Peace, A better plan would be for the Government to publish a revised edition of "Johnston's Justice of 'the Peace," — and make it compulsory for each J.P. to puf • chaseone— and read it/ A new and attractive advertisement will appear in, Tuesday's issue from the Eed House. The enterprising proprietor, Mr S. J. Thompson, is sparing no efforts to meet th3 wants of his numerous patrons, and with this object m view he is now opening up some splendid lines in clothing, millinery, etc., suitable for the present season. In the course of conversation at Palmerston North last Saturday, when on his way to Wellington, Mr Ballance, ac- ' cording to the Standard, said the yernmeiit would not ask for a dissolution if the Upper House reject their measures, but will exercise their constitutional power of equalising the respective parties in that Chamber. It has been decided by the Government to tap the Waimarino Block by a road from the Parupara,PJver and along Man'gawhero Valley, so as to connect with the present dray road leading froin' Wanganui to Field's track. This proposed road, when completed, will not only open iip the Waimarino Block, but will also permit of produce being taken down via the Pipiriki road to Wanganui -from the Muriraotu plains. •' ! If the land .is ploughed deeply ' now and the sorrel turned under so • that ihe . roots are exposed to the frost, and , salt is scattered over the ground at the rate o£ one peck to cyery two rods square, the sorrel will be completely, killed. -No doubt more sorrel will appear from the seed in the eround, but if manure is put on and the land put in corn and kept well hoed the young plants will be easily killed. Sorrel in lawns and paths may be killed but by scattering salt over it. The grass will not be injured unless the salt is used too freely, but plenty of salt will destroy grass in the pathways. Here is a wrinkle in fruit-growing which I picked up recently, and, as it may prove of value, I give it gratis. I was visiting a friend's orchard, admiring his numerous and well ' selected trees, whenhe suddenly pointed, to a peach tree close to where I was standing and said : You will think that what I am going to tell you about that tree is a fairy tale but itVnot ; it's Ihe real truth. Some three years ago I had a tin of American peaches, which as you know, are boiled or parboiled before tinned; Well, these peaches were boiled a second .time in a pudding, and the stones were thrown out« side. ' Afew weeks afterwards I saw them beginning to open out and I immediately planted a few to see if they would grow. That tree is one of the three now in the orchard that, grew from the stones. — Taranaki News. The following , are the chief points in the proposed new -Electoral Bill. Eestricting the registration of each elector to one district. If he have property in one district and reside in another, he may select which district and which kind of qualification he chooses to be registered for. If a qualified elector neglect to yote at any election for his district, his name is to oe struck off the roll. ' General election days are to be declared public holddays. Should one of the candidates die during .the election, all proceedings in connection therewith are to become null, and a fresh start is to be made. Betting on an election is forbidden, under a penalty of £20. Any elector possessed of a i residental qualification is not to be de- ' barred from voting through absence from his district providing that he has spent six days, which need not be consecutive in the district during the half-year preceding the election." 'This shipment comprises in all over 600 pairs of the very best blankets it is possible to buy in the various qualities, and as we purchaso only from the best manufacturers, we get . them at the very lowest market prices, for easti, and will sell them correspondingly cheap, at Te Aro House, Wellington. In white blankets wecommence at the very low prices of six and elevenpence, and go upwards to the very best produced from the very best looms in the world. If you take the low quality, we can recommend it as astonishingly good for the money, and m all the intermediate and, higher qualities better value is not to be obtained go where yow will. It should, therefore, be a foregone conclusion that for these things you should yisit Te Aro House, Wellington.-