Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 110, 15 March 1892, Page 2

Local and General News

.* • There will be mass m St Bridget's next Sunday at 8 a.m. Typhoid fevor is spreading among the Moaiis in the Bay of Plenty. Great preparations have been made for the Wellincton Prohibition Demonstration in the Opera House to-night. The Hon Richard Seddon has visited every part of New Zealand from North Cape to Invercargill— except Feilding. The Hawkes Bay Herald says Danevirke is the moat drunken place for its size in the colony. Mr Frank Gay will run a coach to the Sandon Races on Thursday, leaving the Empire Hotel at 8 a.m. Mr George Fisher, M.H.R., is of the opinion that the Trades and Labor Council will prove the downfall of the Ballance administration. It is expected that the Government will introduce a Loan Bill next session, nominally for the purpose of roadmakmg to the new settlements. The Fisk Jubilee Singers will pay a visit to Feildmg shortly. The troupe has been reorganised. They are at present in Australia. Mr Ellis, for some time sub-editor of the New Zealand Mail, published in Wellington, has been appointed editor and manager of the Mercury, published in Marton. On Saturday Mr Steve Bellye sent us from his farm in the Wanganui Harbour Board Block, some really good apples and peaches, three of the latter weighing 24£ ounces. We understand that advantage is to be taken of the Cash Exchange being empty to hold a monster social in aid of an organ fund for the Primitive Methodist Church. A " drunk " was arrested on Saturday and baiied out. The case was called yesterday morning, and the offender was fined 5s and costs. Mr Haybittle, J.P., occupied the bench. We learn from Mr Trimble that he in* tends holding his next stock sale at Cheltenham, on Saturday, the 26th inst, an advertisement in connection with which will appear m our next issue. Mr W. F. Russell, who has for the last 27 years been manager of the Bank of NOW Zealand at Wanganui, has been transferred to Lyttelton. He "Will leave Wanganui some time this week. Tenders are invited by Mr Alfred Dick, of Glen Warlock, Birmingham, tor the erection one hundred chains of bat* ton swing»fence. Specifications^ may be seen at Mr Lowes Hotol ßirmingham. We learn from the Wanganui Herald that Sergent- Major McMillan and C Burnett proceeded to Nukumaru yesterday in search of the remains of those of the troops who fell there during the war. Messrs H. I. Jones and Son, booksellers, Wanganui, having discovered that letters have been stolen from their post office box request correspondents to repeat any letters which have not had attention. Captain Edwin telegraphs: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to- day — Warnings for easterly gales have been sent to all places northward of east Cape, Taupo, and New Plymouth, and for northerly gales hold good elsewhere. Notices in connection with the appointment of dog tax collector for the Manchester Road District are published to-day. It will be seen that Mr J. H. Ashworth is the collector, and his house on theSpurroad the Registry Office. Our reporter in his account of Mr Carthew's new residence, published last issue, accidentally omitted to state that the plumber's work in connection with the premises was well and faithfully done by Mr James Fraser, plumber and tinsmith of this town. Cure for a cold, (on record since 1450. -Put your feet in hot water as high as your thighs ; wrappe your head up in flannelle as low as your eyes : take a quart of rum'd gruelle when in bed as a dose ; with a number four dippe well tallow your nose. Information has been received that the Grand Lodge of New Brunswich has extended its fraternal recognition to the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. The Grand Lodge of New Brunswick was established in 1877, and it exercises juris* diction over 36 lodges. Mr Alfred Smith, accountant at the Wellington branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been selected as Mr W. FRussell's successor at Wanganui. Som? years ago Mr Smith was under Mr Eussell at the Wanganui branch, and since that time he has served at Bulls, Timaru, and Wellington. Buddhist to Theosophist: "Why so sad, sweet dreamer, and why that look of doubt?" Theosophist: "Well, my bud in heaven, I haye just teen listening to a professing Christian who is a local preacher, a sunday school teacher, and an organiser of tea love feasts ; he spoke of three persons, and of each one ho said eyil things. He made me sick." A bilious correspondent in the Harbor Board sends us the following dreadful riddle and its answer. " Supposing the [ Hon. Dick Seddon keeps on travelling all over the country, and being banquetted everywhere, what disease is he likely to get? The reply is "Foot and mouth," which is atrocious. Not long ago (says a Home paper) a learned bacteriologist in Berlin discovered, classed, and catalogued 17 distinct and individual microbes which might obtain lodgement in the mouth of an infected person, and so spread the contagion in a kiss. There is also infection in the chalice ! The disclosure is made by a clergyman who has had opportunities for investigation. A trained hospital nurse of wide experience has told him that a lady well* known to her has contracted cancer in the lip from receiying holy communion from a chalice of which a person suffering from cancer in the tongue had previously partaken. Messrs Thompson Bros., have struck a splendid &ow of artesian water on their property at Kairauga. After going down a considerable distance without any result, they decided to put on another seven feet of piping, and before this was driven down the water spouted up bringing up quantities of gravel with it. In connection with artesian supply we are informed that on Mr E. O. E. Corey's property at Taonui a flow is obtained from a well only eighteen inches deep. It was noticed that the grass in the spot was always green, and on trial water was struck at the depth stated, — Manawatu Times,