Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 40, 1 October 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

♦ The Woodville Examiner will appear as a daily on Monday next. The Customs Revenue for last month is £136,811, against .£155,331. Many a man i 3 his own worst enemy but doesn't realise it uutil he. tries to shave himself. — Puck, We have to thank Mr E. B. Pearce, land agent, Palmerston North, for a copy of his property list for September. The English Rugby football team which visited the Cape won 19 matches and took £7500 gate money. The annual examination of children attending the Feilding State School will be held on the 13th and 14th instant. Mr Benson left for England last night. He will probably return in April next year. We wish him a pleasant voyage. Property Tax is to be payable this year on 26th November ; if over £15. then part on that date and balance on 4th February, 1892. Tital statistics for the Borough of \ Feilding for the quarter ended 30th September are : — Births, 31 ; deaths, 7 ; marriages, 6. The South British Insurance Company's balance sheep for the year ending tlie 3 Is 1 August shows a credit balance of £3,0 566. The body of James Pilbrow, drowned at the mouth of the Bakaia, on Monday morning, was found in the afternoon off Ninety-mile Beach, in the vicinity of Southbridge. Christie Murray, in an article in the Contemporary Review, says that New Zealanders are superior to Australians in culture, loyalty, and racial traditions. The twin-screw steamer Teutonic, belonging to the White Star line, has made a record on the passage from New York to Queenstown. The time occupied on the voyage was five days seventeen hours. The United Evangelical Church Council held a meeting at Auckland on Tuesday night to consider the adviaableness of Christian men taking an interest in politics. The opinion was expressed that they should do so, but no resolution was passed. The Governor, Lady Onslow, family, and suite arrived at Chnstchurch on Tuesday morning, and have taken the residence of the, late Hon J. Robinson. The 3overnor entertains the officers of the Volunteers at dinner on the 7th October. At high water on Tuesday night the Stormbird was safely got off the sandbank at the mouth of the Wangauui river, after a narrow escape of serious damage against the breakwater, owing to a steel warp coming home when hove on to pull the ship into the channel. By the last trip of the Tekapo a lot of disgusted New Zealanders returned from Zeehan. They give a deplorable account of the silver mines, and state that over 1200 men are destitute, with no chance of getting away. There is great poverty, and no work, and, worst of all, no Government to plague and intimidate. The following team has been selected to represent Palmerston in the final Cup match with Feilding next Saturday : — Full-back, Luxford ; Three-quarters, Speed, Newth, and Jewell ; Halves, Duncan, Isherwood, and Stallard ; Forwards, Oliphant, Mowlem, Manning, Matheson, flanna, Carroll, Peterson, and Weston. Emergency — Rakena. The following, which might with advantage be accepted as a wrinkle by medical men, is vouched for by a contemporary : — A Wairarapa farmer, having laid poisoned wheat for rabbits, was much annoyed by several of his fowls partaking of it, two or three having died. Noticing others showing symptoms of poisoning, he determined upon an experiment. Catching the fowls, he slit their crops, washed them out thoroughly, filled them with bread and milk, and then sewed them up, and it is said the fowls are now perfectly healthy. The Advocate's Wellington correspondent says : — The Government do not intend to run any candidates for the Waikato seat. It is said that they feel that as Mr Bryce has taken the censure passed upon him so much to heart, it would not be gracious on their part to keep out Mr Mr Lake, the candidate whom he is supporting. On the other hand, it is contended that they would have no chance of putting a man in for the seat. — It is understood that the Government will support Mr Saiidford, the nominee of the Liberal Association for the Chnstchurch seat. <iran^ Winrlow display now on nt J. B Hamilton 'p. I lie very latest craz** in wviish si 1 1 • £ luvly nsw Millinery. Hundreds of the ino.-Nt fiisl;iofuible straw shuprs to ehoo.se from. Wonted all tlie Ladies in Feilding and district to com^ nnd see tiiis chnrmiriK display of .New Spring Millinery. — Advt.

Borough Council to-night. The Hon. Mr Ballance went up by train to-day. Mr Alex. McDonald is erecting a large dwelling house, says the Manawatu Herald, on his property at Shannon. As the attendance of cricketers at the meeting railed for Tuesday last was so pmall the meeting fell through. Mr C. J. Toxward, the well-known Wellington architect, dropped dead iv the street, near his residence, last night. The public are asking when the penny postage will come into force. There has been no official notification on the subject so far. A meeting of members of the Manches ter Eifles was held in the barracks last evening when there was a good attendance. It was decided to arrange shooting competitors, and a match between Bachelors y. Benedicts will probably be the outcome. A certain New South Wales M,P. is keen at retort, but sometimes, aays the Bulletin, he strikes a snag. To him Victor Daley once said: "John, when you die, pleaseleave me your skull." " Want to travel on my brains? promptly enquired John. •• No," said the gentle Daley, " 1 want it for a spittoon." A large number assembled at the railway station to meet Mr Fish, M.H.R., on his arrival in Duuedin on Tuesday. The reception was of a somewhat mixed nature. In the course of his remarks, Mr Fish said he was glad to see so many ladies present as a protest against the insultß he had received in defence of their interests. We notice that Mr Trimble intends holding a large clearing-out sale at the rooms adjoining his auction mart, on Saturday next. The goods having been removed there for convenience of sale. As this is the balance of a country storekeeper's stock, and there is no reserve, we expect to see a large number of buyers at the sale. Fattening cattle on potatoes is not very common, but that it is resorted (o some--times is shown by t he followin? paragraph in a recent issue of the M arl borough Ex* press :— As there ara plenty of potatoes going to waste in this district, it may be ns well for the growers to know that Mr H. Reeves, of Sprint: Cieek, h;is utilised them, with hay, for fattening cattle. A con killed by Mi Cheeseuhtn yesterdny. fattened in this way, weighed 9501b5, which all will allow is not by auy means a bad weight. Another instance of the trouble caused by the late strike in Wellington has been brought to light. A man appeared betore the Benevolpnt Trustees stating that he had been 28 years in Wellington, and was now almost destitute. He owed 14 weeks* rent, and was the father of a large family, who were badly off for clothes. In answer to the chairman, the applicant stated that previous to the strike he was earning 7s a day on the wharf, tie could give no definite answer as to why he went out on strike beyond the fact that he Followed the' rest of the Union. The Trustees decided to grunt the man rations, infima'ing that they could not assist him in the way of paying off back rent.