Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 55, 5 November 1891, Page 2

Local and General News

The Borough Council will meet this evening, There will be mass in St Bridget's next Sunday at 8 n.m. The Taonui-Colyton sports on Monday nest will be a great success. The bicycle race and Firemen's competition, will be new features in the Feilding Sports on Boxing day. We have to thank the District Manager of the Eailway Department for a copy of the timetable for the current month. The Feilding Athletic Sports committee have decided not to allow men to train on the Oval on Sundays. All offenders will he proceeded against for j trespass. A number oE competitors who will take part in the military tournament at Hutt Park, Wellington, on Saturday and Monday, passed through by the mail tram yesterday afternoon. The volume of statutes passed last session of Parliament is to band, and notwithstanding that our roprosoutativos "did nothing" the book is of larger dimensions than tha four immediately proceeding it. Business men arc complaining that the paper of the new telegraph forms, issued by the Pepartment, is so porous that when press copies are taken the ink "runs" so as to make the writing illegible. A worlding took place at AU Saints Church, Pahnerston North, on Monday, the contracting parties being Mr G, lj. E. Scolt, surveyor, and Mrs Palmerston, relict of the late Mr H. S. Palmorston. The Eey Mr Eaikes was the officiating minister, — Standard. The severe economy practised by the Government is making itself felt among the industrial classes of Victoria already, Hundreds of tradesmen have been thrown out of employment by the sudden stoppage of Government expenditure, and if the present state of affairs continues the number must necessarily increase. Complaints have been made lo us thit the carcases of dead sheep are left lying on the Spur road and in paddocks along the road. The odour arising from the nuisance prevents children going to school, and in one case a drauah'. horse was seen to" turn his head aside with disgust." Thoro was only a moderate attendance at the Foresters Hall on Tuesday night, no doubt owing to the weather being showery during the day, to hear Mr Knott recite Tennyson's poem " Enoch Ardou." Tho Eov Mr Harris was in the chair. Tho rccitor camo with a good reputation, and this he fully sustained in his lucid rendition, seeming to have grasped the spirit of the poem. During tho progress of tho piece Mr Dixon sang " Tho ship that nevor returned " and " Saved," and a choir sang " The Bolls."' A wish was expressed by those present that Mr Knott should agajn gfj'B the recitation, to which Mr Knott" repljod that unless it would be on next Friday ni^ht ho did not expect to visit this district again for two years, ho being now

The Stab's advice to people with la grippe : eat oranges. General Booth is meeting with enthusiastic receptions in Dunedin. Monday next being a general holiday the banks and all business places will be closed. At the District Court held at Palmerston North, Mr Baker, a solicitor, was fined £5 for alleged contempt of Court. The Banks will be closed on Thursday next, being show day of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association. On Tuesday, 20th October, 1100 registered letters passed through the Melbourne Post Office addressed " Tattersall," Sydney. To-day is the "fifth of November" and no doubt tlic.boys will bo about tliis evening burning crackers and things in memory of the unfortunate Guy Fawkes. The machinery of Nelson Bros. freez« ing works at Woodville, was run for the first time on Tuesday. Tho works are now ready for starting operations. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Warnings for northerly gales hold good at all places. Mineral springs, extending oyer from ten to twelyo acres of land, have been discovered at Makuri, in tho Forty-milo Bush. A sample will be sent to Wellington for analysis. The Foxton slander case, Fraser v. Imrie, concluded at Palmerston North on Tuesday morning, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages, £50, and costs. The Presbyterian Synod at Dunedin has pnssed resolutions expressing the warmest interest in the philanthropic labors and objects of General Booth and wishing him snecess iv his present mission. The postmaster desires us to remind those persons, who, while taking adyanfcage of the low rates of postage on trade accounts, persist in adding footnotes and remarks in the nature of personal correspondence. All such are charged to the addressee at double letter rate. .* Yesterday Mrs Duncan had one of her hands hurt very seriously. She was engaged tying up a calf, when the animal suddenly moved, with the result that the top joint of one finger was torn off, and another finger was badly crushed. Dr Johnston was sent for and has done all that was possible to afford relief. A largo consignment of young trout Will arrive here to-morrow consigned to Mr Saorwill from, the Wairarapa Acclimatisation Society's fish ponds. A portion will be sent up to Mr Buchanan to be liberated in the stream near Beaconsfield, and a second portion will be sent up" to Mr Downes, to be released in the upper part of the Oroua river. The Oroua river now being well stocked with trout quite, a number of local men have taken to the " gentle craft " but a groat drawback has been that the necessary tackle has not been available. . That deficiency has now been supplied by Messrs H. I. Jones and Co., of Wanganui, who intimato by advertisement that they can supply complete outfits at the lowest prices. Yesterday at the B.M. Court before Messrs G. Kirton and J. C. Thompson, J.P.s, Mrs George Galbraith was charged with, being of unsound mind. The evidence of Drs Johnston and Sorley, showed she was suffering from religious mania. Tho evidence of the husbaud, John Gould, and Ilenry Curran was also taken, and Mrs Galbraith was committed to the asylum, Wellington, accordingly, At the meeting of the Dunedin Anglican Synod, a paper by Mr James Allen was read in which he -dealt with Church work and practically recommended adopting some plau on the lines of the Salvation Army. A paper was also read on female franchise. Both Bishop Julius and Bishop Neville declared themselyes in favour of grantins the franchise, but are opposed to allowing women to act on vestries, &c. The Athlone correspondent of the Express states that tho funeral of the late Mr Joseph Burke, Clerk of the Crown of Eoscommon, was carried out without tlie usual religious ceremonies, as, Mr Burke having been a Freemason, the parish priest, who was waited on by a deputation of relatives and influential friends of the deceased gentleman, declined to attend the funeral without the sanction of the bishop, Dr. Giltooly, and that a telegram was then sent to Dr. Gillooly requesting his sanction, but no reply was received. Dr Chiappoh states that he has frequently noticed in patients, apparently very far from death, an extraordinary opening of the eyelids, so much so as to giye the eyes the appearance of protruding from their orbits, whichho considers an invariable sign that death will occur within 24 hours. In some cases, where only one eye is wide open while the other remains normal, death will not follow quite so rapidjy, but will take place inside of 72 ho'irs, there not being the slightest chance for recovery after these symptoms set in, however remote final dissolution may seem to bo. Chiappoh says he is utterly nt a loss for an explanation of this death symptom, but ascribes it to a diseased state of the sympathetic nerve.