Local aud General JMey/s

Feilding Star, 12 November 1891, Page 2

Local aud General JMey/s

_.. — _^_ . _ Major Nownll and Colouol Hume aro b^th down with la grippe A number of natives from Uorotunga aro now paying a visit to 'their Mauds nt Aorangi. La grippe continues to find vjetiius, and Constable Tuoho'y has been laid up for several days. A .mpcliqg of the Cciniiniltec of the HoVticulturai Society will be held on Saturday night at Mr Gooibehere's office.

There/are still people, who hope to find gold in the Tararua ranges, 'and a prospecting, party hive-— they fancy— l gotr the colour, /■ , ' •''■-. "The jockey, P. Bell, who was" injured while riding Lawder at- Porirua races on Monday, died in Wellington Hospital on Tuesday. The prospectus of a new evening paper with a capital of £12,000,. has been issued • in Wellington. It will be run in the .Liberal and labor interest. A large number of people drove or rode to the Palmerston Show to-day, and the trains were crowded. Feilding was almost deserted and the business people might easily haye taken a holiday and gone too. The damage to the barque Castor, which caught fire at Napier a few days ago, prove„d to be much greater than was at first 'supposed.. It- will probably amount to £10,000, ' including damage to the cargo. We are glad lo learn that the handicapping made by Mr Henry for the Canterbury Jockey Club gave great satisfaction, and Mr Henry has received congratulations from all sides. . A Melbourne paper slates that a Mrs Carter, a widow, of Don street, Bendigo, has drawn Malvolio in Adams' £100,00 0 consultation on the Melbourne Cup. As the svreep was fully subscribed the prize is worth £20,000.' The many friends of Mr Brebner, formerly stotionmnster at Feilding, will re- , gret to learn that he suffered a nasty accident some time ago, by which his foot was crushed, and he is now compelled to use crutches. We trust soon to hear of his complete recovery. The Appeal Conrt at Wellington on .Friday dismissed the appeal of the Picturesque Atlas Company in their case against Harbottle, the Court unanimously holding that the contract contemplated delivery as* a series, and not of the whole work together. Captain Edwin.' telegraphs ;■+- Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9a.m. to-day — Telegrams to expect falling barometer and strong easterly winds have been sent to places north ofthe Thames" and Manukau, and to expect frost to most places southward of Blenheim and Nelson. . ~ r The Ministers afc Woodville have apologised to the Knights of Labor for failing to obey all their behests, and have promised riot to offend again. Tho : Premier also promised that if tho nominated chamber persisted in defying the expressed wish of the people (that is the E.0.D.) the Legislative Council will have to go. This is very satisfactory. The Pall Mall Gazette gives the foi : lowing cure for influenza: " Ammoniated tincture of quinine, Joz. Essence of peppermint, Joz ; Bromide of Ammonium |oz; Spirit of sweet nitre, \oz\. Simple syrup (made by boiling lib lump sugar ■in half a pint of water) loz. Shake the i mixture occasionally . until all the bromide is dissolved: Take a teaspoonful in two tablospoonfuls of cold water every hour until relieved." ' Cherrett's Buildings in tho Square had a narrow escape trom destruction by fire yesterday afternoon. Shortly before 2 o'clock the alarm was given and with ■ the assistance of, the Fire Brigade the lire was got under. It appears it origi nated through a lighted match being in* advertantly dropped among some kapock with tvliich a lad employed by M r Montague was stuffing pillows. Aeon -siderable quantity of kapock and other materials was destroyed — Timed. Tho Truck Act, passed last session, is likely — as anticipated— to cause. a deal of trouble iv this and other districts of the North Island where bushfolling contracts are going on. On several large estates, we aro informed, the owners have already giyen notice that they cannot for tho future either provide or go security for stores as heretofore. The consequence is that the men are in dire straits haying neither money nor credit to obtain provisions whilst carrying out their contracts. — Chronicle. The Napier News soys: — We may look forward to an influx of people from Victoria very shortly. As the now available lands of this colony begiu to be rapidly settled, and the Public Works are pushed on ; with trade reviving ; the harvests to be gathered in ; fausft to be foiled, and a general air of prcsp^ifcy making itself felt from one end of New Zea'and to tlie other, the people now in the other colonies who were too anxious ;, to get away from this country, but who have repented their rashness in /sack cloth and ashes, will fly back, and be thankful.