Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 104, 1 March 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

It is stated by the Standard that there will be se^en applications for publican's licenses at the sitting of the Palmerston North Licensing Committee in June next. The Harvest Thanksgiving service in the Church of England on Sunday night was well attended. The interior of the building was tastefully decorated with fruit and flowers. The programme of the half-holiday celebration to-morrow is published to-day. It will be seen therefrom that no efforts have been spared by the promoters to make the affair a brilliant success. An alleged " tourist " has been victimis- j ing the hotelkeepers in a northern township. This is reversing the order of things if the statements of some of the bonajlde globe trotters are to be believed. As Mr Jennins, of Awahuri, was unharnessing his horse on Saturday, by some means the horse got his blinkers off and bolted towards the river. Coming to the bank — one side of which was fenced — the horse jumped on a terrace half way down, the trap going right over into the river. Fortunately the horse escaped without iniury, but the trap sustained some slight damages. A serious accident occurred on Saturday night, by which James Campbell, office boy at Cobbe and Darragh's, sustained concussion of the brain. Campbell and another youth were riding a horse up Manchester street, when the horse shied and threw both boys, Campbell sustaining the injury as stated above, rendering him unconscious until Sunday forenoon. The sufferer is progressing favorably under the care of Dr Sorley. In last Thursday's Gazette it is announced that a bonus of £1 per ton will be paid on Hie production of the first 500 tons of pig iron of marketable quality manufactured in the colony after February from magnetic or titaniferous iron sand or iron ore, "U the material, fuel, and fluxes being the production of New Zealand. A bonus of £1 per ton will aiso be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of suit, exclusively either by the evaporation ot salt or from rock mined in the colony. Complaints are continually being made of vehicles being driven after dark in the streets of the borough without side lights, and one ease has been brought und'-r our notice whore au accident nearly resulted from this cause. We are reminded of the advice given by a correspondent in our columns some years ago : when a vehicle without the proper lights, or a reckless horseman is approaching at nighr, a match suddenly lighted in the face of the horse will certainly avert any danger to the footpassenger. Ladies who do not carry matches should suddenly open a para«ol or drop a white handkerchief, when the same happy results will be attained. The Amy Yaughau Company playod to a crowded housfl last night. Tho pioco was entitled " Littlo Hill and tho ship Amazon '' and proved one of the most amusing that has ever been presented to a Foilding audience for a long time. Some of the ladies wore troubled with slight colds, which militated somewhat against the sweetness of their .singing, but their acting and dancing provod aniplo compensation for this. Mr Harry Cowan as "Dnggrnss" and Mr Wluto as '-Dame IJ.it Ley" wero very auiiifiing and created much laughter and iippkuso. " Tho Midshipi/iito " was ploasantly sun;,' by Little May Mogridgo and obtainm! an encore. The Spanish dance by Miss V.iughan ami Miss Daisy Thornton was VOi'.V clover, and Wfis r)ncor<;d. The Pantomime which followed was woll up to the mark and oxcitod perfect vniivx of laughter aud applause. The performance will bo repeated this oyeumg.

A section of land at Colyton containing 22 acres was sold last week for £16 per acre. Mr C. H. Hiuman preached to a large congregation in the Gospel Hall on Sunday evening. The business people in Inglewood, near Tarauaki, have decided to keep half-holi-day on Thursdays. The condition of Mr McKelvie, of Raugitikei shows no signs of improvement, and hivS recovery is not anticipated. Captain Edwin telegraphs : — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day— Telegrams to expect strong easterly winds havo been sent to all places. Mr Archibald Williamson has a replace I advertisement in to-day, in which he notifies the arrival of his supply of autumn and winter cloths and tweeds. Tho scores made by recruits of the Manchester Rifles for Dr Charlton's medal, will be published on Thursday, also the handicaps for the second competition. Wo would draw attention to Mr Wm Trimble's sale of drapery, clothing, guns, cutlery, tweeds, etc., which takes place at his mart on Thursday next under bill of sale. The Palmerston School Committee refused to nominate a candidate for election to the Wanganui Education Board. This was either "a silent protest" against something, or pure " cussedness." We have been requested to mention that Mr Trimble's stock sale at Halcombe which was to have been held to-morrow, has been postponed until Wednesday the 9th inst, when there will be full yards. In the Salford County Court a man recovered £100 for the loss of an eye. The plaintiff was employed at a mineral water manufactory, when a bottle burst, a piece ot glass striking his eye. The local Fire Brigade team are diligently practising morning and night for the Fire Brigade demonstration to take 2nace shortly at Chnstchurch. On Monday morning last excellent work was done and there is now every probability of " our boys " pulling off some of the good things at the forthcoming demonstration. In our next issue an advertisement will appear from Mr Fred Keen, who will commence business oil his own account in a few days in premises attached to the Shamrock Boarding House, Fergusson street. As Mr Keen has hosts of friends and is well known as a thoroughly good workman, he is certain to be well patronised. Our readers will see by this issue that our local auctioneer, W. Trimble, (acting under instructions received from Mr J. P. Murphy), will offer for sale at Mrs Hastie's sample rooms on Friday and Saturday uext, a very large consignment of calico sheeting, Irish linen, clothing, cutlery etc, Mr Trimble informs us that there will be no reserve. Dr. Cartwright writes to the Woodville Examiner re dehorning rams:— " I keep a few sheep. I have been greatly annoyed at the rams fighting. Last month I picked out four out of seven rams with very large horns. I cut them off as close as I could to the head with a sharp saw. They have all done well. Did not lose a feed. I know it has completely stopped their 1 fighting. One pair of horns weighed 4^ I -pounds. Total weight of the four pairs, I 15| pounds." Tiie village apothecary was roused by a violent ring at the nighUbell just after midnight, Putting his head out of the window he asked : — " Whose there ? " •' Mo," answered a child's voice. " Well, what do you want?" "Our baby's got an awful stomach ache," was the reply, " aud mother wants three ha'p'orth of paregoric." " Oh, she does, eh ? Well, do you think I'm going to get up for three halfpence." " I dunno," piped the young one, " but I had to git up for nothin'." She got the paregoric. " If I ain't a good boy," said the erring youth to his father, " it's your own fault, You haven't brought me up right. Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined." "To some extent, my son," replied the father, reflectively, " you are right. You have not been bent sufficiently, but it is not entirely too late, even now." And he bent him across his knee in the good old way and inclined his right hand unto him powerfully several times, in about the same style as of old. — "Chicago Tribune," A. true Englishman's chief characteristics are a hatred of all oppression, a readiness to defend the weak, and a dogmatic determination to have his own way. He is generally rather selfish and impatient, and likes to be made a fuss of by his lady friends : is easily, " if judiciously, " led, but hates to be driven. A true Englishman generally affects to despise anything sentimental, yet he is capable of great self-sacrifice and sublime devotion. In short, he is a mass of con tradiction. He is one Jwhom we could not live without, whom we love dearly or else thoroughly despise ; yet his faults, like his good qualities, can generally be traced to home influences, as boy and The following extraordinary letter was received by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr Crowther : " Eemuera, 24th February, 1892. Dear Mr Mayor: I regrefc I cannot, except as a private colonist, take part in the State procession in honour of His Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Onslow, on their regretted departure this day from the colony of Naw Zealand, as the position in the procession accorded to the members of the House of Representatives is not correct. If you care to inform yourself on the matter you will find the order of colonial precedence laid down in Burkes Peerage, 1888, page 1726.— 1 am, &c, J M Shera."— N.Z. Herald. A curious instance is reported from Inaha. near Manaia, of the reproduction of a hoof on a sheep which had lost one hind-foot and fetlock joint, as well as an inch or more of the shank-bone above. The sheep in question is a wether hogget. Its leg was badly broken some six months ago, and, after three or four months' time, the hoof and lower half of the leg dropped off. Since then a small, solid hoof has formed, which the sheep uses when walking, and which proves an efficient protection of the end of the shank-bone. The only similar instance which we over heard of is the case of a Maori, the first joints of whose fingers had dropped off from leprosy, but newnails had grown on the second joints. This case was cited in an official report to the New Zealand Government, published about 18 months ago. — Dunedin Star.