Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 83, 12 January 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

Max O'Kell is about to visit tho colony on a lecturing tour. The E.M. Court will sit to-morrow. The list of civil cases is unusually long. The Payne Family will pay a return yisit to Foilding on Wednesday, February 24th. Over 2000 bales of wool have already been forwarded from Feilding Station this season. The Feil'.ling agent of the New Zealand Insurance Company has sent us a copy of their almanac for tho current year. ThoMauawntu Standard says it i.sstated the Into Mr John Manson's property in the Palinorslou district will be sold shortly. We have to thank Mr G. Anyon for a complimentary ticket for the Wesleyan Sunday School Concert, at Birmingham, on tho 13ih instant. 444U»ons nre made to day to Messrs Freeman ly. Jackson and Co.'s sale at Feilding on Thursday next. It will be observed that there is a good line of 1,600 Lincoln eyres. Mr Stanley, the African explorer, will lecture in Palmerston to-morrow night. He will be unable to visit Feilding owing lo the fact that the term of his visit to New Zealand is limited to six weeks. Tho race privilege? of the Foxton ! liacini; Club will bo sold at Foston on Thursday next by Messrs Thynne, Linton and Co., auctioneers. For other particulars see advertisement. Wo notice that our contemporary the Egmojjt Settler is now bemg published three tunes a VQok. We congratulate our contemporary uud x/ish it all tho success it doscrvos as an ouorgctic and well edited journal.

Mr Gladstone is said to bo llic best Jij)guist in tho British House o? Com* mons. lie speaks ancient Latin and Greek, liss a good Irn.owlcdtfc of Hebrew, nnd an iutimntc kuowied^o of French. Italian. Spanish, Greek (tnodcrnj, asd German.

'{he J?ii]inei'stqn Eifles have sent achal leng,e to fira p. ffis^dly match with the Manchester. Iti^les ,on th^ iustant, eleven men a side, jeithev qu th,e I^liue^ston or Feildmg range. If the Manchester Itijjfls acpept, a team wijl be selected by a match committee to b.e appointed on the 14th instant.

We have to acknowledge receipt from Captain Coombes, of the Salyation Army, of an exceedingly well printed pictorial almanac.

The death rate from influenza in Auckland is very low. Not one case of the malady occurred during the six months prior to December 18lh, and since that date there have been only six deaths.

Some of our settlers are congratulating themselyes that under the new system of a tax on the land they are escaping altogether. So far so good, but they are apparently forgetting that the Income Tax will soon capture them in its meshes.

Captain Edwin telegraphs :— Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day — Barometer further fall at nil places north of Napier, Taupo. and New Plymouih; further fall, but rising within 12 hours at all other places.

The marriage of Mr Norman Crabb to Miss Polly 8011, both of Halcombe, took place at the residence of the bride's father, Mr Alex. Bell, on Thursday the 7th instant. The Rev. H. M. Murray officiated. We wish the newly-married couple every happiness.

We are glad to announce that the Rev W. Hani?, who was soverely hurt by being thrown from his horse a few day? ago, is making steady progress towards complete recovery, although he 18 not jet able to leave his bed.

TheMakino Post Office has been placed under the temporary charge of Mr Penberthy, pending completion of arrangements at the (store. The Taonuil Post Office is under the charge of Mr Walter Bailey, until the appointment of a sue* cessor.

The strongest supply of artesian water yet struck in New South Wales is that from No. 3 bore on Lessin-jton run, in the Bourke district. The yield is about 6,000,000 gallons a day. The water was struck at a depth of 1070 feet, and is now flowing eight feet above the bore.

A correspondent writes to us as follows : — The platform and ladder of the Fire Brigade are a source of danger to enterprising youths of three years and upwards. We fear an accident to one of the these while performing their nightly monkey tricks there. It would be wise to lay that ladder down,

Mr Lnrcomb, architect, of Palmerston Norlli, has been instructed to prepare plans for the hotel which Mr Wollermun intends erecting here. The building, which is to be a two storied one, will hayc 152 Ft, frontage with a deptli of 38ft. A billiard room and sample room will also be attached to the hotel.

Strange stones continne to be told in the Forty Mile Bush of the vagaries of the unemployed and how the Govern* ment are led into franking men from Otago and Canterbury to that district. As soon as the men arrive they go off on their own business, or to visit friends or relatives at the expense of the country. — Wairarapa Daily.

(Things one would rather have expressed differently.) Doctor: "How is the patient this morning?" Nurse: " Well, he has been wandering a good deal in his mind. Early this morning I heard him sny, ' What an old woman thatdocLor is?'- -and I think that was about the last really rational remark he made."— Punch.

From 100 to 120 men are waiting at Te Kuiti for the beginning of the work on the North Island Trunk Railway line. A correspondent of the Herald, writing from Ohaupo, complains that the starting of the Government works has absorbed the labour which would have been available at the harvest time, and that there is thus a scarcity of farm workers.

The regular onlookers at the mail train yesterday were all in anxious search for the face of Stanley, who sat in a smoking car. They altogether neglected hi 3 equally illustrious wife, " Dorothy Tennant," who watched with undisguised amusement from a carriage window the efforts of the people to see her husband. This lady, as the artist of the London poor lads, should have received an independent ovation from the people of New Zealand.

A new telegraph form will shortly come into use. It is of the same size as those winch were in vogue until some months ago. The counterfoil which is necessi- 1 tated by the abolition of the keeping of duplicate copies, is still retained, but tho main sheet is reduced in size, though quite large enough for thegeneral run of telegrams. The form is a great improvement upon the cumbrous sheets which have been inflicted upon the public of late.

Mr Ralph Steele, the baritone of the Payne Family, was married in Dunedin a few days ago to Miss Lizzie Payne, the eldest daughter of Mr James Payne, of Ballarat. The bride who wns given away by her father, was attended by Miss Maud Payne (her sister), and Miss Sauuders (also a member of the company). The best man was Mr W. J. Payne, the bride's brother. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. C. Oliyer, formerly of Wellington, at Trinity Wesleyan Church. — Post.

That is rather a good football story which comes to hand from one of the colliery districts of England where the Rugby gnme had been introduced. An enthusiast of the male order had got two teams of colliers together, and the ball, m the course of ttfe game, was driven over the wall into an adjoining field. The colliers went on scrummaging, and the enthusiast vainly endeavoured to stop the play. The colliers went on playing, and a short but pointed conversation ensued. " Here," snid the enthusiast, " the ball has gone into ihe adjoining field; you must wait till we set the ball." " Oil, never mind th' blooming ball. Let's go on with the game." Comment is needless.

That danger lurks in a kiss is a longestablished dogma, though very little believed in by the general public ; but the peril has hitherto been supposed to be confined to morals. A German professor has now discovered that the habit is dangerous from physical causes. He has counted and classified the bacteria in the human mouth, and found twenty-two distinct species. Some of these are sure to be taking the air, or promenading upon the lips at all times, even those most sacred to the interchange of tho emotions. The professor is too well acquainted with the weaknoss of human nature to suppose that this information will put kissing out of fashion, but he adjures those who are addicted to it to wear respirators. Good heavens !

The following extract is from the Lyttelton Times, dated 4th January, 1892:— "A trial of the Mercer noncanvas reaper and binder, ior which Messrs Reid and Gray are the sole agents ill New Zealand, was held in a forty-acre field of pats on Messrs Holmes Bros.' Bangor Estate' on Wednesday. There were about eighty farmers present to witness the trial. The oats stood fully six feet high, and the machine did such excellent work all day that the farmers present spoke most favorably of it, and Messrs Holmes Bros, endorsed these good Opinions by retaining the machine and ordering another of the same kind. The binder opened the pats without making a halt or mistake, tho special characteristic claimed for the Mercer being that, having no canvas to work, it is capable of dealing with heavy crops with perfect case and without choking. The crop operator upon at this trial is estimated to yield between" sevensy and eighty bushels per acre.'-'

There is one thing erery housewife should kuow, and ,tha,t i3— Hercules ijakius J?owJerjs the best. Why? It jg the chcapesjt bemuse it is the test jfoi* makipg Jbread, pa'§fcry, pakes, puddings, gpoaes, etc {a §d aud U tip.