Local and General Hews

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 48, 20 October 1891, Page 2

Local and General Hews

A younff nian nantoi Jamas Baron, of Mahous (Oftroavu), shot iu'msolf on Saturday afternoon,

The report that Mr Balfour takes the leadership of the House of Commons is confirmed. An active volcano has risen from the bed of the sea on the coast oi Pantellaria Island, 60 miles south-west of Sicily. Theanember.s of .the Mangaone Cricket ■Cltib areirequested-tb' meet, this evenihg, in the Mangaone Public Hall. Mr John Stevens will give an address on the advantages ' of co-operation at Cheltenham, to-morrow evening, in the schoolhouse. The annual general meeting in connection with the Feilding Athletic Sports, /will be held at the Assembly Booms this evening at eight; o'clock. „ It is rumoured in London that" Sir Henry Parke's, Premier of New South Wales, will MicCeed Sir" Saul Samuel as AgentiGeneral for that colony. Mr Peter Bartholomew and his family, left; on Saturday for their new home at Levin. ' A number of relations and friends were at the Railway Station to wish them good bye. -..••; The Rev C. H. Spurgeon continues to improve. in health, and will shortly leave on a visit to Mentone, in France, which is frequently visited by invalids owing • to the mildness of its, climate. - . Two children named. Heney were poisoned at Gisborne through .eating the; leaves of a native plant known as ran-^ gipra or pukUpuku. The? younges^ a^ boy of four, has recovered; but the other, a girl of seven, is in a very- critical con-: dition. '•• Constantine Asborgan, a young man in New York who has been a millionaire twice, and ! is"nbw; derkiiig|foi' I'O dollars : a week, is in luck again. ?. An? utfcle.in Alexandria has died and left him a third of his fortune. /Cpnstantinesajrs he will take care of this one. ""■ "-'-"■"''' Wm., Senders, late second officer of the Si?. Tainui,- pleaded guilty at the Christ* .church Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday morningj to smuggling 41 boxes of cigars while on board the steamer at liyttelton on the stli October- . -He was fined £50. with £3 10s costs. The money was paid. During the^storm on Sunday afternoon a hprseman was trayelliuig. qn^jihe Apiti road when a tree, with a barrel three feet in diameter, fell immediately behind his horse, so; closely, that the animals tail was touched. The roar of the wind in the bush was soloud that the rider scarcely heard the crash. . ' \ The Privy Council has had laid fully before it the Imperial Act under which; -the conviction of the Rev Dr McLeod in Sydney was obtained, on which he y^as sentenced to three years' imprisonment for bigamy was quashed, and the Council expresses the opinion that no jurisdiction lies; where bigamy was committed in a foreign country. The Woodville Examiner reports a case where a Constable arrestedla henchman of an M.H.R. The henchman defied the Constable, and said he would '! report" the latter to the M..H31. The Constable Sid his duty and arrested the henchman, -who duly reported flic fact_ to .the M-Hl, wb^lskMs^aii^y bound, reported totllg«^Qg; er) or someone else J<fi*E!!BtLonty and demanded the dismissal, "of the Constable. This is very lovely, and exhibits the true inwardness of a Liberal Government. On Saturday Captain Stevens, of the Salvation Army, received a telegram from Wellington to the effect that Wel-lington-Manawatu • Railway Company would issue return tickets, single fares Longburn to Wellington, on the occasion of the visit of General Booth. This concession would haye come with a better grace, had it been made less reluctantly. Anyone desirous of going to Wellington, who are not members of the Army, can do so at the rates quoted above by applying for an order from Captain Stevens, the local officer of the. Army. . As the storm on Sunday afternoon approached Feilding the scene was magnificent. The heavy masses of rain clouds, which came rolling along oyer the bills before, the hsrd N.W. gale, were met by the southerly wind which had prevailed during the day. _ On the impact of the two currents of air the clouds were piled up into huge masses of the most grotesque description, which rocked and swivied about in a manner that was awe-inspir-ing. At length the stronger gale asserted its superiority and the storm burst on us in all its fury of wind and rain. We learn that two men, named respectively Coyle and Johnson, have started from New York with the intention of searching for General Gordon whonVffiey assert to be not dead but held m captiyity. • Coyle "who has seryed in the British Army in Egypt " says he will disguise himself as a native and enter Kartoum, or lose his head in the attempt. Johnson hasn't said what he intends to do. If these two "cranks " hope Stanley or anyone else, will fit out an expedition to go after them, they will be vastly disappointed. Nothing can be more delightful than these cool and silent gardens in the BiW" mer in Ispahan. The thick foliage keeps out the sun, and' the deep green of the short clover refreshes the eye. Tea in a garden, with pipes and fruit, is a pleasant way of spending a warm afternoon. Unfortunately the Persian or Armiman usually looks on a fruit garden morely as a good place to get drurik in, and the frequent sounds of music and singing sho.w the passers-by that this ide,a, is boiug earned out. Dr Wills in <? Modern Persia." The Armenean is a thrifty fellow, and plants wiili a kind of willo-w, on either side of tho small ditch wMcli runs down the side' or centre of the streets. Cool and pretty as the .. streets look from the unaccustomed masses of foliage, one soon finds out that one is io a Christian yillage. Sheep and oxen are slaughtered all down the principal streetsin thomost ■•ptfolfc-maßutjr ; f."'!;-^ Satui:4ay- l -. n lKht especially, drunkards are common, while swarms of loafers leau with their backs against the wall basking in the early sun or sprawl in the shado during the heat. Dr Wills, in." Modern Persia." The Hawera Star publishes a paragraph containing a recipe for cows suffering from " milk fever" or tlie " drop": — " One teaspoonfull of aconite in half a pint of water or gruel." This recipe is said to hare been handed in by Mr W. J. Barrow, of To RoU, who. has always found it to be an unfailing remedy. We are informed (hat this subject cannot be kept too prominently before tho public, as many a valuablo animal might be saved if owners of such stock would but keep, (his useful remedy by them — es« pecially when living a distance in the country. is inexpensive, and certain in its effec^.

A biewery is about to"be started on the Bangitikei lino. The Hon W. E. Gladstone receives £200 for eyery article he writes. Sheepfarniers are enquiring when the wool sales are going to be held. This is a good sign. . It is officially notified in the Gazette that the name of Mangaone Post Office has been changed to Colytbn. The Kaiapoi Woollen ' Company have declared a further dividend of 3i per cent making a total dividend for: the financial year just closing, of 8 per cent. Captain Edwin telegraphs:— Weather forecast for 24 hoars from 9 a.m. to-day* — Warnings for northerly gales and rain have been sent to all places. . ■ .It is said that a settler near Pahiatua clears £100 a year out of his bees. It is lucky for him. the bees don't know this, or they would sp out on strike. Despite the riyalry of German shipping companies the quantity of cargo conveyed to Zanzibar by British vessels has doubled during the last six months. The idea of having encampments at the large ports which the volunteers, .may some day have to defend, was first -suggested by the writer, of Volunteer Items in the Feilding Stab. :Ohristy Murray, who has bankrupted says he. has no 'assets. Had Sir Walter Scott no.. better-, answer than thi^ to the demiiidsjof his creditors, the world would not Have been blessed with theWaveiiy Novels.. Wfefare" : pleased to learn 'that Messrs Cbbbe and Darrngh ..have made suitable, and | appropriate acknowledgements to. tliose persons who discovered and extinguished the fire on their' n^w. premises a few ; days ago. ' « Mr John W. Hall, who has been Town Cle^k at Greymoufch for 25 years past,andj one of the oldest residents in the district, died somewhat suddenly-on Saturday morning, although he had been ailing for soiiie time past. : i)r Grace, M.L.C.} contradicts the rumor tb at the Primate is about, to resign on account of a. weaTchearfcand advancing years. .He says Bishop Hadfield is physically quite fit for his work, and ihtellectu'allyas able aseyer._ Messrs Cobbe and Darragh desire us to state that they ar.e^npw movingantotheir new premises, opposite the Bank of Australasia, where they will 1 regularly coni■mence business on .Thursday. "Tbe win"dows will be dressed, on - Saturday 'night. Mr D. Downes, of Kimboltpn Road, and ; a Mend .fi-om Wellington, Mr Izard, were fishing, in the. Oroua River a few days ago arid had good' sporfc. In a few hours they took' from 12". to 16 pounds weights They used the spinning minnow. The Premier has in formed ;the Ha wke's Bay racing aulhorites that it was never intended that the \\ per cent Stamp Duty should be added to the 10 per c.e:it com^ mission, charged on totalisator investments, and that the Government will take into consideration the .actionjaai^Jiiise Mr Stevens, has now decided to extend his visits, and will give addres3e3 at the Kiwitea schoolhouse on Thursday, and at Mr Lowe's, Birmingham, on Friday. Last Friday, at Altiurst, Mr Stevens had a very successful meeting, and obtained* eubscribers.for about £300 worth of shares in the West Coast Farmers' Co-operatiye Association. ' On Thursday evening next Miss Tre-hair-Osborne and her talented company of singers and musicians will appear in the Assembly Rooms. It is rarely 4lie privilege . of residents in this district to listen to such singing as will be heard from, this company of vocalists,, all ofwhom have voices of a high order. We shall publish the programme of the concert in onr next issue. • . A number of valuable sheep were imported by the R.M.S. Doric from London recently. The sheep comprise Lincolns, Southdowns, Hampshire Downs, Shropshire Downs, and Cotswolds. Twenty of them are consigned to Mr John JSayner, the well known sheep breeaer of the Wairarapa, seventeen to the Australian Land Uo., eleven to Mr Purvis -Russell of Napier, and four to Mr Wilson of Waverley. His Worship the. Mayor, Mr W. G. Haybittle, telegraphed this morning to the-Railway Commissioners, Wellington, on behalf the Captain of the Salvation Army, asking that the mail train on Friday next be delayed at the Feilding railway station platform for ten minutes to give General Booth an opportunity of addressing the Array and public. In reply the Commissioners state they could not delay the trains as requested. The mysterious disease in sheep, which is playing havoc among our flocks, re■quires immediate investigation by experts. Its ravages are seriously affecting our sheepfarmers, and it is to be hoped a remedy will speedily be found. Mr A. Stewart considers that it may be due to the presence pf ergot pr some noxious weed in oar pastures, It is also stated that the disease is anthrax or " Cumberlaud.disease," which M. Pasteur's experiments have proved can be coped with by inoculation. — Manawatu Times. We request the attention of our readers to a replace advertisement from Mr -W. G. Haybittle, of Fer^usson street.