Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 90, 28 January 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

To-day is the birthday of H. M. Stanley, the great African explorer. He was born in 1841. A meeting of the shareholders of the Mftngaone Public Hall Company, limited, will be held in the Hall, Colyton, on on Thurday, February 4th, 1892. The powers of Governors of the Provinces in Russia have been increased in order to prevent the spread of Nihilism during the existence of the famine. Fifteen hundred cabmen in Paris have petitioned Parliament for a loan 0f. 400,000 francs with which to purchase cabs. They promise to repay a tenth of the loan annually. The Key. Mr Wright, Presbyterian Minister at Palmerston, is to be pre« seated with a purse of 60 sovereigns as a token of the esteem in which he is held by his congregation. The Foxton Eacing Club cleared by their meeting on the 22nd instant. A meeting of the committee will be held on Monday next (says the Manawatu Herald) to consider a programme for the autumn hack meeting. As a cure for nose- bleeding the family latchkey dropped down tbe patient's back is about played out. According to Dr Lusk, a common garden clothes peg pushed down over the cartilaginous part of the nose is now the proper caper. Notice is given to-day that an election for one member to represent Euahihe ward on the Kiwitea Eoad Board will be held on Saturday, February 13. Nominations must be handed to the Eeturning Officer, Mr Goodbehere, on the 3rd February. s The Melbourne Standard has the following sarcastic reference to a railway mishap in Tasmania: — " A carriage of a train between Plobart .and Launceston got derailed, and if the passengers hadn't dismounted and signalled to the guard to stop there might have been an accident." Samuel Pinder, a farmer at Meanee, was drowned in the Tutaekuri at Woodthorpe (Hawkes Bay) on Monday night. The river was in flood, and his companion refused to swim across, but Pinder, anxious to get home, made the attempt and was drowned. The body has been recovered. The new wool-press, patented by Mr Wilhelm, of Beaconsneld, has met with considerable success, and orders for a number to be completed for next season have already been taken. In this neighborhood Mr Elkington, Mr Godfrey, Mr Oldershaw, Mr Benson, Mr Corpe, and Mr Eeid have them in use, and are well satisfied. Pursuant to arrangement, Pontifical High Eequiem Mass fur the repose of the soul of the late Cardinal Manning was celebrated at St Mary's Cathedral, Wellington, on Tuesday morning last. The celebrant was Archbishop Redwood, who, it may be mentioned, had himself been consecrated by the late Cardinal. There was a full congregation, and there were no loss than 46 priests present. A skilful operation lias been performed by Dr Wilkins, of Auckland, on a little child, he having replaced an eyelid which was destroyed through the child falling on a red-hot camp oven. The doctor transferred a piece of skin from the child's right arm, from which he made a new lid. The mother says the operation has been a complete success, and that the little patient can now use the lid quite as well as the other, opening and shutting the eye easily. The High School, Palmerston North, of which Mr Kenneth Wilson, M. A. Cambridge, is tbe head master, is now established on a firm basis. It will be seen that by the advertisement which we publish to-day that in the meantime only a limited number of boarders can be received, but Mr Wilson has informed us that he is now erecting premises speedily for boarders, which will be ready for their reception in about a fortnight's lime. The Chairman of the J?ah jatua County Council, Mr Bolton, and the members of that body and of the Manchester High- , way Board, are entitled to the gratitude of the public for the liberal way in which tbe uj.itter of tho Qorgo tolls has been settled botsroon them. Mr Bolton was, of coursoj the originator of ,tho moyeineut for the much-needed reduction, and pushed it on to a successful issue. The j result is a great boon to the settlors on both sidos of the range, who thus find the cost of driving stock much lessoned. — Woodvillo Examiner. Cobbe njjd Darragh haye purchased a big lot of wholesale samples of towels, umbrellas, carpets, corsets, underskirts, punts, and hosiery. These goods have been bought at a big discount off regular i prices, and will bo sold cheap for cash. ' — Advt.

Mr Ralph Heald is now building on his , section, in Derby street, a very handsome dwelling house. Mr Sweet gives notice that he intends to apply for a slaughter license on his section, No 9, Block XII, Pohangina. The dates of the next Wellington sales of the N.Z. L: M.A., Company are published to-day in the advt. oyer leader. A meeting of the Fire Brigade members will be held at the engine shed tomorrow evening to make arrangements for a concert. Captain Edwin telegraphs '.—Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day— Warnings for northerly gales and rain have been sent to all places southward of East Cape and Taupo. Messrs Stevens and Gorton held a very successful sale yesterday. The attendance was good. One lot of two tooth ewes brought 148, the rest about [.average. A detailed report will appear in our next issue. Mr 11. F. Jannings, grocer and general dealer, will open at The Keady Money Store, adjoining the chemists, Kimbolton Roadyon Saturday next, with a new and choice assortment of groceries, hardware, crockery, glassware, &c. At the Wellington Supreme Court on Tuesday, the charge of murder against Eaines was dismissed in order that a charge ot manslaughter be made against him. Accused was committed for trial on the latter charge. Our Apiti correspondent informed us yesterday that owing to the flooded condition of the Oroua nyer the mails were delayed between that settlement and Birmingham. The sooner the settlers in that line of road get the river bridged up there the better it will be for all parties. Many station-owners in Ne\v South Wales are glad to get rid of their sheep for a mere song. They arc cutting the throats of hundreds daily, as the rabbits have the place overrun, and now, as water has given way out back, they are coming into the river in millions, and will very soon have the frontage as bare as the back block. To-night, in the Assembly Booms, Mr Grattan Biggs will give his famous representation of " The Irish Detective," in which he will be supported by a most talented company of artists. The success Mr Biggs has met with on other parts of the coast has been phenomenal, and we expect he will be greeted with a bumper house this evening. As there will be a crush punctuality is particularly requuested. We are indebted to Mr Esteven Bellye, of the Harbor Board Block, for the information that shags are very destructive of the young trout in the Oroua river. As the number of young fish increases so do their enemies multiply, and Mr Bellve is of opinion that if the Acclimatisation Society paid a small reward for the heads of shags the society would find ifc advantageous, and a large increase in the number of fish would also result. An interesting discovery has been made during the draining operations now being carried out on the estate of Archdeacon Williams at Te Aute. In the deep excavation that has been made to drain the swamp into the Tuki Tuki, numbers of pouriri logs have been come across, showing, contrary to received opinion, that this tree used to grow at one period south of the thirty ninth degree of latitude.—Napier TelegraphThe following team has been selected to represent the Wellington Amateur Athletic Club at the New Zealand Championship Meeting, to be held in Christchurch on the sth and 6th February next:— N. Gurr, 100 yds, 250 yds, 440 yds, and a half mile ; B. Gore, 120 yds hurdles and high, jump; H. Batger, 120jds hurdles, 4-40 yds hurdles, and long jump; C. J. Cooper, one mile ; J. E. Hume, pole vaulting. Professor Anderson Stuart, of Sydney University, in the course of a paper before the Royal Society on" Swallowing," quoted a remarkable case which had come under his notice in Sydney, where Dr McCormick, in treating a patient suffering from cancer, removed the whole of the lower side of the neck and the upper wall of the mouth, so that the act of swallowine could be seen. The patient was still alive and doing well. It is considered the paper has thrown a flood of light on the treatment of diseases of the throat. On Saturday morning Mr J. B. Hamilton's first great annual clearing sale will commence in Feilding. Great preparations are being made to make this sale the great event of the day. The stecks to select from being so well known both to town and country resi* dents as one of the largest and best, assorted between Wellington and Wans ganui, while the extraordinary sweeping reductions that Mr Hamilton will allow on the balance of all summer goods should attract crowds of buyers to this favourite drapery emporium. An insetwill appear in Saturday's paper giving full details which will be well worth studying by the cash-purchasing public of Feilding. Thirty days from Sydney to London is manifestly very fast travelling, even in these days of the railway speed of steamers. A letter received from Marseilles states, however (says a Sydney contemporary), that the Polynesien landed in Marseilles newspapers from Western Australia 24 days old, and correspondence by that vessel was delivered in London from Adelaide, in 28 days, and from Sydney m 30 days. The Polynesien is now on her outward voyage to Sydney, and left Suez last Saturday. Her average speed homeward was 15.5 knots, and it is claimed that the sister ship, the Australian, did even better than the Poljnesien, beating her time to Marseilles by 20 hours. This is undoubtedly very smart work. Following the Polynesien from Marseilles this time the Messagenes Maritimes new steamers Armand liehic, and, if all be true, even greater things are expected of her. Look out for J. B. Hamilton's first great bargain sale commencing on Saturday next, when the whole of this wellknown fashionable drapery stock will be offered at sweeping reductions. Every article will be marked in plain figures -and goods will be sold for cash only. This sale will be the cheapest ever known in Feilding and will be a regular .shelfclearing sale, as all unsold summer goods will be clean slaughtered in price so as to sweep out the whole lot.— Advt.